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Networking and communication

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Intel, VMware broaden 5G collaboration across radio access network

  Leading software and chip companies embark on a pre-integrated software platform for virtualised RAN designed to reduce development cycles for communications service providers

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  ‘Inadequate’ broadband impacts bottom line for London’s SMEs

  Research reveals as many as 85% of small businesses in UK capital do not know how fast their broadband speed needs to be for their business to thrive, and only two-fifths were able to transition to a fully online business model after Covid-19 hit

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Centrica calls on Vodafone 5G tech to assist delivery of gas storage facility

  Gas supplier aims to address 1970s problems at Easington storage terminal with 21st century private 5G mobile network solution

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Virgin brings gigabit speeds to Glasgow, Leeds and Bradford

  Cable provider extends gigabit broadband footprint to more than 12 million homes with coverage in Scotland’s largest urban conurbation and West Yorkshire twin cities

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Extreme delivers secure access to virtual health services in Madrid

  Madrid Digital Telehealth Network expands access to essential health services to 1.5 million citizens, ensuring the safety of patients and staff

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Covid collapses secondary smartphone sales but trade-in values increase

  $225 million returned to US mobile device consumers in Q2 2020, down by 50% compared with the same quarter last year, however US consumers see 9% increase in the value of their older devices

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Nokia to set up robotics lab at Indian Institute of Science

  The Nokia Centre of Excellence for Networked Robotics will explore the use of drones, advanced communications and artificial intelligence in agriculture and industrial automation, among other applications

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  ‘Precipitous’ rise in network disruptions since March 2020

  Research finds that since lockdown, regional network availability and performance has differed between ISP and cloud networks, with cloud provider networks showing greater resilience

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Tata Communications unveils new secure digital experience

  Global digital ecosystem enabler Tata aims to allow businesses to adapt to the realities of enterprise transformation, workforce mobility and consumer experience in the new digital-first environment

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Liverpool scores win with 5G health and social care project

  Quality of Mersey is not strained in mobile health communications solutions, with a further £4.3m for 5G-based health and social care innovation to provide safe, free and accessible connectivity to services including health, social care and education

• 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

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Private equity leads Nordic IT sector consolidation

  Private equity firms and industrial giants are triggering mergers and acquisitions in the Nordic tech sector as investment slows amid the Covid-19 pandemic

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Edge server shipments set to double by 2024

  As business gets close to the edge, analyst predicts a ‘supercharged’ edge server market over the next five years driven by an associated boom in cloud services

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  BT launches drive to support UK SMEs

  Small Business Support Scheme will help country’s 5.8 million small businesses boost connectivity, cashflow and confidence following coronavirus pandemic

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Apple smashes sales in third quarter, outpaces rivals in growth

  iPhone SE and iPhone 11 sales contribute to record June quarter as Apple defies expectations in first true half of the year

• 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 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  VMware completes participation in UK contact-tracing app development

  The day after UK government announced that its long-awaited and controversial contact-tracing application would be available ‘shortly’, VMware revealed it has completed its role in the development

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  UK government announces further funding for tech innovators to seize 5G opportunities

  Next stage in national programme to pioneer new ways to take advantage of the potential of next-generation networks helping companies harness the power of 5G and boost economic productivity

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  UK contact-tracing app to be launched ‘shortly’ as Northern Ireland deploys service

  Launch imminent for long-awaited and controversial mobile application described as ‘cherry on the cake’ of UK’s Covid-19 test and trace strategy

• 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

  BASF partnership develops AI-powered smart mining

  A collaboration with IntelliSense.io is being used to power AI-based optimisation of mining processes

• 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 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  EE attains leadership in UK mobile network performance in first half of 2020

  As the way in which people use networks has dramatically changed over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, 5G is changing the game in UK mobile, research has found

• 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 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Enterprises experience ‘productivity tax’ as remote work environments set for long term

  Remote work productivity tracker shows employee productivity has dipped in certain regions and use cases since the advent of Covid-19, perhaps permanently

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Firms face remote working challenges as IT teams express concern about infrastructure

  Post-lockdown survey finds UK-based IT leaders lack confidence in their organisation’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis as Covid-19 dramatically accelerates cloud adoption

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Why supply chain visibility is key to APAC retailers

  Having complete visibility over the supply chain will enable retailers to tide over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and transform their 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

  Garmin may have paid hackers ransom, reports suggest

  Garmin’s services are coming back online, but the company remains tight-lipped about what exactly happened to it

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  O2 gains KPMG mandate to meet new demand for remote working

  O2 will provide connectivity tools to help support professional services provider’s operational activity

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Global telco 5G network infrastructure spending set to almost double in 2020

  Research firm finds investments in next-generation networks will reach just over one-fifth of total wireless infrastructure spend

• 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 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Ofcom to free up additional spectrum for wireless services

  Regulator takes steps to boost home network users who are now in their home offices and will be there for a considerable period of time

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

  New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers

• 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 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  Hybrid working becomes the new collaboration imperative

  New report reveals that ‘astutely’ navigating work practices, spaces and culture will help respond to crisis, redefine the purpose and reinvent the future of work

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Amdocs boosts 5G portfolio with Openet acquisition

  Deal will bring Openet’s open and network-centric technologies to Amdocs’ portfolio of more than 350 service provider customers worldwide

• 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 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  China doubles up on ‘new infrastructure’ investments

  China is shoring up investments in cloud computing, datacentres and the internet of things, among other areas, to ready itself for the post-Covid-19 world

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  UK government ignored civil service warning of no benefit in acquisition of OneWeb

  Civil service revealed to have taken the rare step of alerting government that $500m investment in troubled satellite company would bring no discernible benefit

• 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

  UK government moves forward on Shared Rural Network scheme

  UK government issues written statement supporting the deployment of 5G and extending 4G mobile coverage to hitherto badly served rural area

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Slack takes legal route against ‘weak, copycat’ Teams

  Microsoft could be set for another joust with the EU, as its rival, Slack, files an anti-competitive complaint

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Nokia launches first commercial enterprise 5G standalone private wireless networking

  New technology aims to provide ‘direct to 5G’ entry point for high-spec industrial use case validation and ecosystem development

• 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 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

  Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions