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Network routing and switching

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Application monitoring, video games dominate internet traffic in first half of 2020

  Increased focus on digital presence during lockdown likely to have prompted companies to invest more in ensuring and measuring application uptime and enhancing customer experience

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  BT takes Covid-19 hit but claims strong first quarter

  Comms provider warns of further impact from pandemic in future quarters as a result of insolvency, slower decision-making by larger customers and lower usage across businesses

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

  Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council services

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK rural full-fibre broadband network expanded further

  Over three million more homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK given the opportunity to get ultra-reliable, gigabit-ready, full-fibre broadband by mid-2020s

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  £400m full-fibre broadband expansion as Warburg Pincus, DTCP take control of Community Fibre

  Expansion of full-fibre network across London will deliver up to 10Gbps of broadband to a million households and businesses

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  US Cellular taps Nokia, Ericsson to build out 5G infrastructure

  Scandinavian comms tech suppliers on board to support US’s fourth largest telco’s journey to next-generation services

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  MainOne West African submarine cable implements Infinera to boost spectrum capacity

  Comms tech provider works with global operator to optimise performance on undersea cable serving as West African backbone network for Orange’s international connectivity in Africa

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Telekom Slovenije introduces 5G

  Slovenia’s leading telco unveils the first in a number of phases in its evolution towards next-gen communications

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Aryaka, Check Point announce global managed security partnership

  Cloud-first-managed wide area network provider and threat prevention specialist collaborate to produce integrated security and SD-WAN-as-a-service solution

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Verizon completes long-haul 800Gbps single-wavelength fibre data session

  US comms giant sends 800Gbps across long-distance fibre in preparation for significant increase in amount of data from enterprise and consumer 5G applications

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Masergy expands SD-WAN portfolio with SASE, added analytics

  With the addition of SD-WAN Secure, software-defined network and cloud platform claims to be the sole source of a single, unified SD-WAN solution

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  A1, Telstra tap Nokia to enhance 5G evolution and pilot network slicing

  Self-organising network software deployed to boost automation of leading Australian comms operator’s wide radio access networks as it continues its evolution towards 5G services

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Cloudflare apologises for major net outage

  Incident from network engineering team’s routine router configuration update work sees major outage on backbone leading to drops in internet services in Europe, US and Latin America

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Global business leaders comfortable if not fully prepared for large-scale shift to remote work

  Riverbed survey shows new technology investments are expected to enhance corporate performance and wellness as employees increasingly work from anywhere and employers adopt hybrid working models

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  More than 90% of UK’s fixed lines meet the challenges of working from home

  Study from network benchmarking firm Umlaut reveals that despite fears over whether UK networks could cope with mass remote working, only very few fixed-connection users faced limitations

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  NS1 closes $40m series D round to fund connected economy tech

  Multimillion-dollar funding round set to accelerate innovation in modern application and access network solutions that power the connected economy

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Warning over security holes in fake Cisco kit

  Two counterfeit Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches were only found after a software update caused them to stop working

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Huawei technology banned from UK national comms infrastructure

  After NCSC advice, and accepting billions in cost and a significant delay to 5G roll-out, UK government takes decision to remove so-called high-risk tech supplier’s 5G products from mobile network, and begins assessment of risk to fixed fibre nets

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  UK mobile operators warn removing Huawei tech would cost ‘low billions’ and take five years

  Vodafone and BT warn parliamentary committee of serious potential effects on cost, network service availability and 5G roll-out of removing Huawei tech from networks

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Nearly half of employed in UK worked remotely in April 2020

  Covid-19 drives upsurge in home working in UK, and of those who did some work remotely, around a third worked fewer hours than usual and the same percentage worked longer hours

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Orange, Nokia claim first successful trial of next-gen optical technology

  Next-generation optoelectronics technology designed to allow tripling of total transported capacity on long-haul links

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  SD-WAN goes mainstream in remote work surge but network visibility, security are concerns

  Survey reveals effect of Covid-19 in what is said to be an age of dynamic disruption, with full sight of traffic activity across much more distributed infrastructure a key priority

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Orange Wholesale unveils eSIM first for France

  Global telco ups the ante in French operator wholesale market by partnering with Prixtel to enable customers to download electronic SIM card to latest smartphones

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Three counts on Amdocs to support enterprise business expansion

  UK telco taps comms platforms and services technology provider to create modern solutions to challenge rivals and meet the evolving needs of UK businesses

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Optimised network infrastructure, visibility, experience management form next frontier in business

  Business leaders, C-suite and IT decision-makers must come together to ensure that they invest in the right infrastructure or they will face business failure, says Riverbed report

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Alibaba Cloud comes together with Aryaka for global, fully managed SD-WAN

  Cloud-first WAN company claims to provide Chinese cloud giant with superior application performance to enterprise customers worldwide

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Ford gets into gear with Vodafone 5G for future-proof electric vehicle production

  Global automotive giant gains funding to implement and develop the potential of 5G in electric vehicle manufacturing processes in particular as regards cross-site connectivity

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Huawei gets green light for UK development centre

  Chinese telecoms equipment provider sets out plans to build an optoelectronics R&D and manufacturing centre in the heart of Silicon Fen

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  95% of North American CIOs report remote work issues during lockdown

  Employee password lockouts and inability to access on-premise applications were among the top challenges faced by CIOs in keeping remote workers up and running during lockdown

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Enterprises in rural Wales to gain added fibre as voucher scheme doubles in value

  Vouchers subsidise the cost for rural homes and businesses to install next-generation, gigabit-capable broadband

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Nokia takes O-RAN leap with 5G AirScale Cloud commercialisation

  RAN product designed to help operators generate revenue from 5G services, enable flexible end-to-end network slicing and meet IoT technology and business requirements

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Home workers report concerns regarding network capacity shortages

  With networks becoming an increasingly critical part of business operations, network intelligence platform provider finds 65% of networking professionals felt extremely or somewhat concerned about their organisation’s network capacity during ...

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Nokia claims US live C-band network demo first

  Ahead of the expected US spectrum auction in December 2020, Nokia completes first successful US-based 5G trial in C-band

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Cisco makes statement of intent for ‘new normal’ networking priorities

  Networking technology giant adds new capabilities across its intent-based networking portfolio to give customers greater control, security, insights to drive better digital experiences.

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  UK network resilience improves during Covid-19 lockdown

  UK’s fixed networks handling increased traffic well since lockdown, but customer experience is somewhat affected, especially when connected via Wi-Fi, on several days starting 20 March 2020

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  New Zealand schools to get Wi-Fi 6 in connectivity boost

  More than 2,000 schools across New Zealand will be among the first in the country to enjoy the improved coverage and access speeds of Wi-Fi 6

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  UK government to investigate water and energy networks to deliver nationwide gigabit broadband

  Existing utility pipelines to be examined as way to accelerate national fibre infrastructure roll-out, but critics voice concern about broadband strategy fixating on fibre

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  South Korea takes global 5G leadership

  Initial Omdia market assessment shows home of Samsung as the world’s powerhouse for establishing and commercialising 5G networks

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Gamgee and QuantWiFi announce managed Wi-Fi strategic partnership

  Network technology providers Gamgee and QuantWiFi team up to develop solutions ensuring Wi-Fi for a growing number of consumers whose network experience has become more crucial than ever

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Global enterprise WLAN market dips in first quarter of 2020

  Consumer market buoyed but Covid-19 lockdowns blow headwind into enterprise sector for worldwide wireless local area network market for the first quarter of 2020

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  UK employees complain of lacking tools to work at home effectively

  Even though employees expect to continue working remotely for the foreseeable future, a significant proportion of teleworkers lack access to the required technological equipment

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Qualcomm aims to tap into Wi-Fi 6E with ‘world’s most advanced’ mobile wireless portfolio

  Hot on the heels of FCC action described as milestone and watershed moment for innovation that will supercharge connectivity, wireless processor giant aims to cash in on new wireless standard

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Cisco eyes up ThousandEyes purchase

  Networking giant says acquisition of internet and cloud intelligence platform provider will enhance its network performance and monitoring capabilities across the enterprise and into the cloud

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Rancho Water turns tap on Extreme connectivity for critical water delivery

  US public utility uses secure and resilient wired and wireless network systems to power 45,000 service connections across 100,000 acres

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Global consortium launches ‘transformative’ subsea cable for African connectivity

  2Africa, one of the world’s largest subsea projects, will connect 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Openreach taps Nokia to extend full-fibre network capacity

  Deal covers essential equipment to extend Gigabit fibre access network across UK

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Coronavirus: How MyIX is keeping Malaysians connected

  Malaysia’s MyIX internet exchange has been classed as critical national infrastructure, with member telcos adding more capacity to meet the surge in demand for internet services

• May 20, 2020 20 May'20

  Nokia, KDDI trial fully virtualised 5G cloud RAN

  Finnish comms tech supplier Nokia adds to portfolio of customers trailing its cloud RAN solutions in deal with leading Japanese operator KDDI, including Nokia AirScale

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  Multiple network outages costing enterprise businesses millions of pounds a year

  More than half of IT decision-makers and network managers globally say they have had four or more network outages lasting more than 30 minutes, costing between £250,000 and £5m in downtime