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Network & Infrastructure
DT sees bright future for Access 4.0 project after Linux Foundation swap
DT says the Linux Foundation is well equipped to support former ONF network disaggregation initiatives.
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Network & Infrastructure
ONF using smarts to solve 5G power problems
Operator-led consortium showcases first results of SMaRT 5G project.
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FutureNet World: Orange puts case for collaboration and the telco cloud
Group CTO cites need for ‘horizontal’ platform, elimination of silos. Calls on more operators to join Project Sylva initiative. Telus counterpart calls 5G NSA one of industry’s “biggest travesties”, with all complicit.
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i14y Lab sets multi-operator collab as ‘highest priority’ for 2023
Open RAN testing at Berlin lab to be underpinned by Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica collaboration.
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Reliance Jio joins DT on network disaggregation journey
Wider rollout planned for Germany as DT CTO appeals for more partners on fixed network disaggregation. Signs of the operator’s Access 4.0 vision becoming a reality?
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Telefónica flags fixed access evolution with Open Broadband project
Operator aims to change the fixed access ‘paradigm’, with a new open ecosystem and architecture. Group “going further” on disaggregation. Brazil targeted first for deployment.
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Elsewhere in BT Technology: open source on the wishlist
Calls for greater open source collaboration, BT breaking technology silos with ‘speed-dating’, persistent Emotet threat flagged.
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Network & Infrastructure
Deutsche Telekom’s bumpy journey to software telco: Part I
Choi highlights importance of end-to-end service orchestration and automation… but accuses some open-source industry bodies of work duplication and low ambition. Resistance to disaggregation from established vendors still a problem… but promise of new business models, lower TCO, and faster time-to-market convince DT that software journey is necessary.
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Network & Infrastructure
Telefónica adds data centre capacity for edge services
Ten sites are to be opened in the next two years, focused on enabling edge services across Spain. Telefonica’s data centre partners may be waiting in wings to fuel further investment.
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Network & Infrastructure
Safaricom to put network disaggregation into the wild
Kenyan operator to expand Vodafone’s Africa test-ground for open solutions. Project gearing is more towards core and backhaul than RAN. Scale and efficiency gains highlighted.
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Telefónicawatch roundup - May 2020
Developments from across Telefónica Group entities. TBS taps ST Engineering iDirect for further hub; former contect centre subsidiary Atento flags waning ties to Group; Group becomes inaugural member of GSMA’s 5G IoT for Manufacturing Forum.
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Telefónica to issue more RFIs for TIP transport scheme
Group rounding up new posse of open transport suppliers under the TIP flag. TIP spreading disaggregation wings to core network solutions.
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Deutsche Telekom joins industry frontline on open RAN push
Alliance between DT-backed O-RAN and TIP propels Group into vanguard of disrupting RAN supply chains. DT backs TIP-led Evenstar programme to lower RRH costs. Operator partners with Intel and VMware to develop open vRAN platform.
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Telefónica to trial 5G open RAN
New vendor pack picked for fresh, Europe-based 4G/5G testing round. Open RAN to meld with UNICA as network cloud/virtualisation efforts spread out. O-RAN Alliance enters picture. No word on timing for open RAN go-to-market.
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Vodafone on OpenRAN trail but tricky terrain ahead
Tenorio reaches TIP summit, appointed Chairman. Vodafone joins O-RAN Alliance. Stubborn open RAN resistance from large suppliers. Low-volume barrier for hardware newcomers. 5G OpenRAN critical to achieve scale.
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Products & Services
T-Mobile Poland deploys ‘lightweight’ EPC for FMS
NatCo achieves first “production rollout” of Open Mobile Evolved Core. TMPL stresses more control means more responsibility. Intel notes ‘open’ does not mean ‘free’.
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Deutsche Telekom welcomes Edgecore Networks commitment to the Open Networking Foundation
Deutsche Telekom (DT) welcomed greater commitment from Edgecore Networks to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), an operator-led network software consortium that counts DT as a “full” partner member (Deutsche Telekomwatch, #66).