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Networking hardware

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  US may cut off countries that use Huawei in 5G networks

  US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said America may scale back or cut military and diplomatic ties with countries that use Huawei equipment in national 5G networks

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  MWC 2019: O2 to launch 5G by Christmas

  Ahead of Mobile World Congress, operator O2 has revealed further details of how it is planning for the advent of 5G

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  MWC 2019: Huawei claims massive lead on 5G readiness

  At a pre-Mobile World Congress event in London, Huawei’s Ryan Ding shared details of the firm’s rapidly expanding 5G mobile portfolio, and laid into his competitors

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  MWC 2019: 5G in Europe driven by industrial automation, says Ericsson

  As Mobile World Congress 2019 nears, Sweden’s Ericsson has been expanding, and expounding upon, its plans for 5G mobile networks

• February 10, 2019 10 Feb'19

  Australia’s defence department keeps old PCs out of landfills

  Department has securely wiped data from used devices and kept 1,300 tonnes of e-waste out of landfills

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Cambridge launches urban data IoT project

  The city of Cambridge will use Telensa IoT sensors and a Microsoft Azure platform to better manage its urban data assets

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Hyper-converged infrastructure gains acceptance in APAC

  A top Nutanix executive claims that migrations to hyper-converged infrastructure in the region are under way, fuelled by growing interest in hybrid cloud

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Government to pump £70m into ‘designing out’ cyber threats

  Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund cash to be used for designing and developing more secure hardware in a bid to eradicate cyber threats

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Vodafone suspends use of Huawei hardware

  Vodafone’s UK CEO has said the operator will ‘pause’ its use of Huawei hardware for the foreseeable future

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  MPs challenge Huawei over spying allegations

  The chair of the cross-bench Science and Technology Committee has written to Huawei seeking answers over its activities in the UK

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Vodafone and O2 will ‘share’ 5G networks

  Vodafone and O2 have agreed non-binding heads of terms that will extend their 4G network-sharing agreement to 5G when it becomes available

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Digital Catapult explores LPWAN and IoT for industry

  A Connected Factory Demonstrator managed by the Digital Catapult is seeking input from LPWAN and internet of things specialists

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Dutch pharma firm Centrient switches out MPLS for Cato SD-WAN

  Centrient Pharmaceuticals, a Netherlands-based drug company, has switched out its global MPLS service in favour of a high-performance software-defined WAN from Cato Networks

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  First 5G smartphones may have massive price premium

  Android smartphone brands are already preparing to launch their first 5G handsets, but new technical requirements means they won’t be cheap to build, according to analysts at TrendForce

• December 31, 2018 31 Dec'18

  Top 10 network stories of 2018

  2018 was the year when software-defined networking, and more specifically software-defined WANs, took centre stage. We look back at a transformative year for the world of the network manager