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• UK telecoms chiefs summoned for crunch talks on broadband

  12-12-2017 19:50
  Executives asked to explain lack of investment in full-fibre networks
  
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• Huawei goes on a road-trip

  12-12-2017 18:54
  Networking vendor Huawei’s quest for global domination shows no sign of slowing in the run up to Christmas, with raids on Dublin and Cairo.
  There’s nothing Huawei likes more than photos of people in business attire, symbolically shaking hands or signing important-looking pieces of paper. Visits to Trinity College, Dublin and the Cairo ICT conference afforded rich pickings for the company photographer.
  A new research partnership with Trinity is, we’re told, emblematic of Huawei&
  
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• Open standards are key to increasing value from IoT value chain

  12-12-2017 15:00
  oneM2M white paper reveals how CSPs can boost LPWA revenues Sophia Antipolis, France, 12 December 2017: Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must adopt an open standards approach if they are to make the most of the revenue opportunities presented by Internet of Things (IoT) applications that use Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. A common IoT service layer will result in increased cost-effectiveness, improved scalability and greater confidence that today’s IoT deployments will be futur
  
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• Onfido launches global Identity Verification on Salesforce AppExchange to bring streamlined digital onboarding to banks

  12-12-2017 15:00
  Onfido’s new application for document and facial verification helps banks simplify digital onboarding and deliver customer-centric digital experiences. LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, December 12 2017: Global identity verification provider Onfido announced that it launched its remote onboarding platform on the Salesforce AppExchange. The first document and facial verification tool to partner with the world’s leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform, Onfido’s customer o
  
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• Atos wants to buy security vendor Gemalto for €4.3 billion

  12-12-2017 13:55
  Gemalto, which specialises in SIM-card technology among other things, has received an unsolicited take-over bid from French IT giant Atos.
  Atos is offering €46 per share, which is apparently a 42% premium on the Gemalto share price immediately before the bid was made. Despite it being unsolicited the bid is said to be ‘friendly’ (as opposed to hostile) because the two CEOs have had a nice, civilised chat about it.
  “On November 28, 2017 Atos submitted its Proposal, valid un
  
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• Huawei & China Mobile Propose First Cloud-Based BNG Interface Protocol

  12-12-2017 13:18
  SHENZHEN, China — Huawei and the China Mobile Research Institute have submitted a standards proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the first cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) interface protocol requirements. The proposed Control Plane and User Plane Separated Protocol (CUSP) requirements for cloud-based BNG interfaces were delivered at the 100th meeting of the IETF, the international organization responsible for developing Internet standards. The proposal mark
  
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• Huawei CloudFabric Solution Assists China Mobile’s MIGU

  12-12-2017 13:16
  Huawei announced that its CloudFabric Solution succeeded in helping China Mobile’s MIGU construct elastic, intelligent, and accurate converged data center (DC) IT resource pools, which are to be put into commercial use imminently.
  As the only subsidiary of China Mobile that runs audio and video services, MIGU is responsible for platform construction, service operation, content cooperation, and new product development of audio and video services. The continuous service expansion poses the f
  
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• Ericsson heralds Verizon 5G kit win

  12-12-2017 09:55
  Ericsson will be one of Verizon’s kit partners when it first dips its toe in the 5G water next year, and it wants us to know it.
  This is the sort of thing telecoms marketing departments have erotic dreams about. For years companies like Ericsson have been shoe-horning ‘5G’ into their press releases with often questionable justification. Now we’re on the cusp of some real, live 5G and Ericsson can legitimately lay claim to a piece of it. The only surprise is that it hasn&r
  
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• Huawei Wireless X Labs creates smart manufacturing research group

  12-12-2017 01:00
  Huawei Wireless X Labs has created the Wireless Connected Factory Special Interest Group (SIG) to bring together partners and collaborators in the field of smart industrial technology, smart manufacturing and robotics…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson wins 5G supply contract with Verizon

  12-12-2017 01:00
  Ericsson has won a contract to supply networking equipment to Verizon as part of the US firm's commercial 5G launch. Verizon will utilise the 5G commercial radio network and the core network in late 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Colt reduces latency on its London to Tokyo route to just 159 milliseconds

  12-12-2017 01:00
  UK based tech firm Colt Technology Services has announced that it has reduced latency levels on its Colt IQ Network between London and Tokyo to just 159 milliseconds.As part of its network optimisation scheme, Colt has invested in reducing latency levels between London and financial centres in Asia Pacific…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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