TECH : MOBILITY
Harnessing Cutting-Edge Technologies Wireless specialists and IT vendors alike are forming partnerships and coming to the table armed with telecom-focused o erings. Here are 10 mobility moves set to transform the market.
By Gina Narcisi
. CELONA’S PRIVATE G PORTFOLIO Private wireless provider Celona is going global with a portfolio of new private 5G offerings for the enterprise. The upstart recently unveiled a suite of indoor and outdoor 5G New Radio products for U.S. and global markets. The portfolio lets enterprises and “uncarpeted enterprises” quickly integrate private 5G capable of aggregate speeds of up to 750 Mbps with latency rates of 20 milliseconds or less within existing IT and wireless infrastructures. . CISCO, INTEL JOIN FORCES ON PRIVATE G ADOPTION Cisco Systems is collaborating with fellow tech giant Intel to accelerate engineering and adoption of Cisco Private 5G based on Intel technology. Via the terms of the partnership, Cisco and Intel will create reference architectures across various IoT industries, including manufacturing, supply chain and smart venues, to scale and expand Cisco’s Private 5G blueprint through its MSP partners. . CRADLEPOINT’S G NETWORK SLICING Ericsson-owned Cradlepoint’s 5G stand-alone network slicing offering allows enterprises to take advantage of end-to-end performance guarantees over 5G Wireless WANs, similar to the SLAs available with MPLS networks. 5G network slicing, according to the company, will entice more enterprises to adopt wireless as part of their critical WAN infrastructure for their increasingly demanding applications. . EDGEQ TEAMS WITH VODAFONE, DELL ON OPEN RAN OFFERING 5G systems-on-a-chip startup EdgeQ recently revealed a collaboration with mobile operator Vodafone and Dell Technologies. Together with EdgeQ, the three companies debuted an Open RAN-based, massive MIMO system. It contains a Dell PowerEdge XR11 server and an EdgeQ M-Series L1 accelerator that is capable of 5 Gbps of throughput, with the accelerator drawing less than 50 watts. The partnership between the three companies highlights the principles of a 5G Open RAN infrastructure offering on a standard server, an inline acceleration, a Radio Unit system, and a third- party Level 2/Level 3 software stack from collaborating companies. . GOOGLE CLOUD UNVEILS TELECOM PRODUCTS Google Cloud introduced three telecom products aimed at helping communication service providers (CSPs) address network transformation and monetization. Telecom Network Automation accelerates network and edge deployments through cloud-native automation based on Kubernetes and collaboration from Nephio, an open-source project Google Cloud founded in partnership with the Linux Foundation in 2022. Telecom Data Fabric, meanwhile, provides an automated data collection, normalization and correlation through an adapter framework. And Telecom Subscriber Insights is an AI-powered service that helps CSPs extract insight using various CSP- owned data sources to recommend actions and activate on multiple channels.
. IBM PARTNERS WITH NOKIA ON PRIVATE G IBM revealed an extension to its relationship with Nokia with plans for the two companies to offer a seamless, simplified private 5G managed service that will deliver private 5G offerings on IBM Cloud Satellite to enterprise customers. Nokia plans to integrate IBM’s Cloud Pak for Network Automation into the companies’ current joint offering. . JUNIPER PARTNERS WITH IBM, FURTHERS OPEN RAN PLANS Juniper Networks has expanded its collaboration with IBM by integrating IBM’s network automation capabilities with its own RAN optimization and Open RAN technology. The combination provides a unified RAN management platform to better allow communication service providers to monetize, optimize and scale their investments in next-generation networks and provide better experiences to mobile users. The goal of this offering is to provide end-to-end automation of secured 5G network slices. . MICROSOFT AZURE OPERATOR NEXUS READY PROGRAM Microsoft this year unveiled the public preview of Azure Operator Nexus, an expansion of the Azure Operator Distributed Services private preview. Azure Operator Nexus is a hybrid, carrier-grade cloud platform designed for the specific needs of the operator in running network functions such as packet core, virtualized radio access networks (vRAN), subscriber data management, and billing policy. The offering also includes Microsoft Services for security, life-cycle management, observability, DevOps and automation. . SAMSUNG LAUNCHES VRAN . Samsung has rolled out vRAN 3.0, the company’s software that helps operators improve how they deploy, manage and scale. The software now includes a focus on energy efficiency and performance optimization and has tools that increase bandwidth support of Massive MIMO radios, analyze hourly traffic patterns to optimize network conditions and automate networks to save on energy consumption. . QUALCOMM EXPANDS ON EXTENDED REALITY STRATEGIES Qualcomm has said that the company is seeing operator traction around the expansion of extended reality (XR). In fact, seven global operators, including T-Mobile and Vodafone, unveiled plans to use Snapdragon Spaces, the company’s open mixed-reality platform for developing augmented reality software using Qualcomm’s mobile hardware technologies, to expand their own XR strategies. The operators are helping to define Snapdragon Spaces device requirements and compatibility, which will let customers do things like wirelessly tether smartphones and smart glasses. ■
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