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• Natural History Museum previews Wildlife Photographer exhibition photos

  01-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Natural History Museum has revealed some of the shortlisted photos in the 57th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, ahead of them going on display in the museum next month.
  This year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition was the most competitive yet, attracting over 50,000 entries from photographers in 95 countries. Every entry was judged anonymously on its creativity, originality, and technical excellence by an international panel of industry experts.
  Among
  
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• How to translate IoT potential into real business

  01-09-2021 17:14
  
  This Vendor View is sponsored by BICS
  The concept of connected things has been with us since at least the 1980s, and the term Internet of Things (IoT) was invented at the turn of the century. However, it was only with recent advancements in communications technologies that IoT started to catch the imagination of the mainstream as a big business opportunity.
  Big numbers have been projected for the IoT market. According to the latest forecast from Ericsson (“Ericsson Mobility Report, Novembe
  
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• Tickets Alert: Sonic Ray across the Thames

  01-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Take a boat ride across the Thames following a laser beam that’s carrying music to the far shore. That’s the theory of this art installation that takes place through October and November, which might be really interesting, or might just be a return trip across the Thames in a boat.
  The art, Sonic Ray is by Jem Finer and Artangel and is said to project the sound of Longplayer, a centuries-long piece of music, through a beam of light across the Thames between two locations linked via a
  
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• Deepening O-RAN Alliance crisis stokes fear of global technology split

  01-09-2021 14:45
  
  Ericsson has joined its Nordic competitor to voice concern over the presence of American sanction targets in the OpenRAN industry group, casting further doubt over the future of the lauded technology.
  A couple of days after Nokia decided to suspend its technical activity with the O-RAN Alliance, in fear of American punishment over its engagement at the forum with companies recently put on the American “entity list”, Ericsson expressed similar concerns. First reported by Light Reading
  
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• Digital Interface Standards Working Group spearheads SATCOM industry initiative for development of open standard

  01-09-2021 14:25
  
  Group issues a rallying call to community to replace L-band IF, paving the way for interoperability, improved performance and costs Herndon, VA, September 1, 2021: The Digital Interface Standards Working Group (DIS), has invited the satellite communications (SATCOM) community to collaborate on the development of an open interoperability standard for the SATCOM industry. The standard will enable all manufacturers to build interoperable technologies that work in both open and closed network topolo
  
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• Verizon launches private edge compute platform with Microsoft, as promised

  01-09-2021 14:14
  
  Verizon is furthering its push into the private mobile networks space by making available a private mobile edge cloud computing solution to businesses.
  The US operator has teamed up with Microsoft to launch the snappily titled Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge cloud computing platform, as promised when it announced its partnership with the software giant last autumn. It is now able to offer business customers an on-premises, private edge compute solution that enables the ultra-low
  
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• Applications open for Australia’s sub-1 GHz 5G sale

  01-09-2021 13:30
  
  Australia has formally opened its sub-1 GHz 5G spectrum auction process and interested parties have three weeks to submit their applications for a contest that will take place before the end of the year.
  With the country still chasing its ‘Year of 5G’ dream, a buzz phrase it came up with in late 2020 that essentially covers its plans to carry out two spectrum auctions this year, the regulator needed to get its skates on with the second sale. It has 70 MHz of paired spectrum in the 85
  
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• Next-generation WDM technologies offer choices to meet rising bandwidth demands

  01-09-2021 13:13
  
  Transition to the cloud, smart city development, spreading deployment of the internet of things and the advent of 5G are converging on service providers and multiservice operators (MSOs) in a perfect storm. According to recent research, the world spent a combined 1.25 billion years online in 2020 alone. With 40 percent of the global population yet to connect to the internet, the demand for bandwidth will only continue to grow.
  Historically, the answer to the bandwidth crunch has been to lay more
  
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• Esperance Bridge opens at King’s Cross’s Coal Drops Yard

  01-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A red pedestrian bridge has opened over the Regents Canal linking Coal Drops Yard with the rest of the King’s Cross estate.
  It’s also just a few yards from the existing wide bridge, so seems possibly superfluous, but the existing bridge is occasionally shared with road vehicles, and the pavement space was getting busy at times, so a new pedestrian bridge was commissioned.It’s also a bridge with a couple of nods to local history.
  It sits pretty much on the same spot as an old ra
  
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• Iskratel to unveil ground-breaking Combo PON OLT at the FTTH Virtual Conference 2021

  01-09-2021 11:26
  
  The universal SI3000 Lumia C16 is the world’s first 16-port solution that enables operators to freely migrate their networks Kranj, 1 September 2021 – Network operators are free to choose their own path to next-generation PON broadband, following the launch of Iskratel’s ground-breaking Combo PON OLT that will be showcased at this year’s FTTH Virtual Conference 2021. The SI3000 Lumia C16 is a dual-nature OLT that enables operators to avoid an entire investment cycle with.
  
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• prpl Foundation Raises Ambition Thanks to Membership Contributions

  01-09-2021 10:58
  
  prpl Foundation to deliver a major release of prplWare, the Open-Source carrier-grade Broadband CPE Platform by end of year 2021 Wakefield, Massachusetts, 01 September, 2021 – With the impetus and significant funding from more heavyweight operators, prpl Foundation accelerates delivery of the first carrier-grade Open-Source stack for Broadband CPE, prplWare, for release by year-end. prplWare is an Open-Source stack that harmonizes Broadband CPE interfaces with Open Standard APIs, serving a
  
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• iD Mobile signs new, direct contract for MDS Global to deliver industry leading BSS

  01-09-2021 10:00
  
  Warrington, UK | 1 September 2021: MDS Global, a leading provider of BSS-as-a-Service, today announced that iD Mobile, one of the UK’s largest mobile virtual network operators, has signed a new, direct contract with the company to enable it to continue to leverage its flexible, real-time BSS. New to the market in 2015, iD Mobile became one of the fastest growing post-pay MVNOs in the UK and now has more than 1 million subscribers. iD...Source: RealWire
  
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• eBook: How to Enable More Voice and Data Connections Everywhere

  01-09-2021 10:00
  
  The need for connecting people, places, and things in rural geographies translates into significant opportunities for MNOs; opportunities to quickly enter new markets and address government regulatory pressures.
  Download this eBook to explore topics such as:Opportunities for Mobile Network Operators
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• The Stamford Street chapel facade

  01-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a Southwark street can be found a modern building with a totally overshadowed facade of a 200-year old chapel in front. The portico frontage is all that remains of the Stamford Street Unitarian Chapel, which was built 200 years ago in 1821, as a replacement for a chapel in Westminster that had been sold.The two congregations, of Southwark and Westminster merged and built a chapel on this location, however, just a few decades later the chapel nearly closed due to a lack of parishioners. But, i
  
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• What does a more connected Africa mean for the EMEA submarine cable industry?

  01-09-2021 02:00
  When people think of the globally increasing data demand, their minds are drawn to the more advanced markets in the world, like those in Europe and the US. However, digitalisation is also taking place rapidly in many of the less developed markets and this has necessitated the creation of numerous new submarine cable systems. For Africa, this growth has been meteoric in recent years, even prior to the coronavirus pandemic, with submarine investment in the region blossoming. But beyond simpl
  
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• Sparkle launches first green data centre in Greece

  01-09-2021 02:00
  Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announces the launch of Metamorfosis II, the first “green” data center in Greece and one of the largest and most advanced in Europe. With this addition, Sparkle now operates four open data centers in Greece:three in Athens - where the proprietary metropolitan fiber optic network is originated…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia suspends O-RAN Alliance activity to avoid US penalties

  01-09-2021 02:00
  Nokia, one of the first major vendors to join the O-RAN Alliance, has reportedly suspended its participation due to fears that ongoing activity alongside sanctioned Chinese companies in the group could see the Finnish vendor also face penalties.The O-RAN Alliance is a working group dedicated to creating specifications for open RAN technology, i.e., open radio access network architecture. Formed back in 2018 by AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DOCOMO and Orange, the group has grown
  
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