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Networking hardware

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  BT moves to strip Huawei kit from EE’s network

  Telco will remove Huawei’s networking equipment from the core of EE’s 4G mobile network

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  As commercial 5G nears, small cells generate interest

  Interest in small cells as an element of commercial 5G mobile networks is growing, particularly in countries with supportive regulatory environments. Meanwhile, a UK trial of wholesale small cell infrastructure has kicked off in London

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”

  Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  HPE shows off first fruits of $4bn edge computing investment

  Tech supplier has beefed up its Edgeline portfolio with new hardware and software offerings to make it easier to manage edge devices, applications and data

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

  Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to ...

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  AWS cloud network architecture could put users at heightened risk of disruption, study claims

  A comparison study of AWS, Google and Microsoft's network architectures reveals stark differences in how they process user traffic, ThousandEyes report shows

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Robots deliver savings for Dutch postal service PostNL

  Dutch delivery company PostNL is reaping huge efficiency savings by using robotic technology to automate time-consuming administrative tasks

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  NGA secures £22m for Bristol-Newport fibre link

  Ultrafast wholesale network builder Nextgenaccess has been awarded funding from the National Digital Infrastructure Fund to improve connectivity in South Wales

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions

  With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Access to full-fibre broadband continues to expand under Vodafone-CityFibre partnership

  Customers in three more towns and cities will soon be able to access ultrafast fibre-to-the-premises broadband service

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud and Intel team up on IoT

  The Joint Edge Computing Platform lets enterprises train AI models at the edge of a network to support real-time decision-making

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Rural areas will be among the first to get Vodafone 5G

  Parts of Cornwall and Cumbria will be among the first locations to get access to Vodafone’s 5G mobile network when it launches in 2019

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  HPE pins hopes on intelligent edge as hybrid strategy flattens

  HPE sees hybrid as the future of enterprise IT, but revenue has been affected by currency fluctuations and its intelligent edge business is growing quickly

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Brussels loans Nokia €500m to fund European 5G research

  European Investment Bank is loaning Nokia half a billion euros to accelerate 5G mobile network R&D

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  O2 tests Li-Fi transmission technology to enhance home networks

  Mobile operator O2 is testing the application of Li-Fi technology, using LED light bulbs to transmit data packets, to enhance consumer wireless networks