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• A light display to celebrate the opening of the Northern line extension

  14-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Later this month there will be a light installation will project route of the Nothern line extension into the sky and illuminate the stations and buildings along the way with visual projections.
  It’s all to mark the opening of the London Underground line extension.
  The display, Line of Light is a large-scale light installation created by Projection Teknik which uses a daisy-chain of high-density beams to paint the route of the tunnels onto the sky and buildings along the route will be illu
  
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• London Underground to resume the Night Tube next month – partially

  14-10-2021 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London Underground has confirmed that the Night Tube will resume service from Saturday 27th November, but only on the Central and Victoria lines initially.
  These two lines were chosen to resume the service as they were the busiest lines on the overnight service when it was provided before the pandemic lockdown. TfL said that the remaining Night Tube lines, the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines and the London Overground will return as soon as possible after that.The Night Tube was suspended
  
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• Inmarsat backs up IoT push with commercial study

  14-10-2021 14:41
  
  Businesses worldwide will allocate the biggest slice of their IT budget to Internet of Things (IoT) services in the next few years, according to new research published by Inmarsat.
  That’s great news for the UK satellite operator, which is pushing its own IoT capabilities pretty hard at the moment. It released the results of the study just days after signing its latest IoT deal, but more on that later.
  According to Inmarsat’s report, ‘Industrial IoT in the Time of Covid-19,&rsqu
  
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• KDDI and SoftBank add Nokia to shared 5G RAN ticket

  14-10-2021 14:36
  
  Nokia has secured itself a piece of the action in the shared 5G radio network being rolled out by Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank.
  The telcos announced plans to deploy a shared network, or a Multi-Operator Radio Access Network (MORAN), in June, using equipment from Ericsson and other vendors. We now know that Nokia is one of those other vendors.
  Like Ericsson, Nokia said it will install a MORAN, which allows the operators to share the RAN while keeping their core networks separate. Base stations
  
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• Going inside the Annunciation Marble Arch

  14-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tucked away on a side street near Marble Arch is a solidly built brick church from the outside, that’s a richly decorated church on the inside — the Annunciation Marble Arch.
  Originally built as the Quebec Chapel in 1787 by Lord Portman, who owned a large amount of land in the area, the church was substantially rebuilt in the 1850s.
  In 1894 the church site was bought by the parish from the Portman Estates, as part of a never carried out plan to buy up the entire block that the church
  
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• Accedian, Bain & Company, Colt, Rostelecom and Telia participate in TM Forum's Pilot of Inclusion and Diversity Score to Drive Top Talent to Telecoms

  14-10-2021 12:43
  
  The Inclusion and Diversity Score (IDS) aims to create a single, universal index which can be used to measure the inclusive culture of the industry, providing a benchmark for change London, UK, Digital Transformation World Series (DTWS) – 14th October 2021 — TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, has successfully completed an alpha trial of a new Inclusion and Diversity Score (IDS) - a single, universal index, believed to be the...Sou
  
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• Emtelle continues to strengthen its FTTX industry position with two new senior management appointments

  14-10-2021 12:29
  
  Hawick, Scotland, 14 October 2021 - Emtelle, the leading global manufacturer of blown fibre cable, and ducted network solutions has announced two new strategic appointments to its senior management team as it continues to strengthen its position within the Fibre-To-The-X (FTTX) industry. Emtelle has appointed Kerry Anderson as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and William Auld as Group Supply Chain Director. Anderson is a Chartered Accountant and has a wealth of experience in senior finance...
  
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• Adtran makes its mmWave FWA move

  14-10-2021 10:34
  
  There are increasing signs that millimetre wave might finally become useful with Adtran joining the race to apply it to fixed wireless access.
  The new MetNet mmWave mesh wireless access and backhaul solution makes use of the 60 GHz band to provide high-bandwidth wireless connectivity in areas where it’s not practical to use fixed-line. One of the benefits of using the 60 GHz band is that it’s unlicensed, unlike lower frequency mmWave bands, which means Adtran is able to avoid the clu
  
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• Silicon Valley Tech Start-up consortium will accelerate Edge monetisation

  14-10-2021 09:00
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 14, 2021: A new partnership between Robin.io, Blue Arcus and KloudSpot will combine the technologies needed to enable end-to-end 4G and 5G services and provide the much needed platform to accelerate the deployment of 5G and Edge applications. The solutions will half the time-to-market and operating costs for evolving digital businesses at the Edge. The unique consortium will bring together essential capabilities such as location aware, Artificial Intelligence (AI
  
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• Hokusai – British Museum fills a room with rare Japanese drawings

  14-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the first time since they were made around 200 years ago, a set of exceptionally rare drawings from the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai have gone on public display.
  Hokusai is considered by many to be Japan’s greatest artist, if for most of us as the often unknown artist behind the “great wave”, and has been recognised internationally since the Japonisme era of the 1870s, two decades after his death. During his 70-year career, he produced some 3,000 colour prints, illust
  
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• NTT aims for carbon neutrality by 2040

  14-10-2021 02:00
  NTT Group has announced plans to increased use of renewable energy and lower energy consumption with an aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
  Revealed as part of an environment and energy vision called &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nothing doing ear...yet

  14-10-2021 02:00
  Challenger consumer technology company Nothing, famed for the transparent earbud called Ear, has signalled its intention to move the brand into new product categories by raising $50M from strategic and private investors…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia and Orange commit to use refurbished equipment for network infrastructure

  14-10-2021 02:00
  Orange and Nokia have signed a joint commitment to increase the use of refurbished network equipment in telecom infrastructure. The partnership is aimed at generating a reduction in carbon emissions by refurbishing existing equipment rather than manufacturing new. Nokia will offer the refurbished equipment to all of Orange&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New landmark diversity and cultural inclusiveness index launched

  14-10-2021 02:00
  TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, has successfully completed an alpha trial of a new Inclusion and Diversity Score (IDS) - a single, universal index, believed to be the first in the world to measure both diversity and cultural inclusiveness, providing a benchmark for real change.The successful trial of IDS is a significant step towards TM Forum’s vision to make the tech communications industry a world leader in diversity, equality, an
  
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• BT launches transformational new security platform, Eagle-i, to predict and prevent cyber attacks

  14-10-2021 02:00
  Business and public sector bodies continue to face an exponential growth in the volume and complexity of cyber attacks, with new research from BT identifying a more than 50% increase in malware traffic over the last 6 months. Alongside a global shortage of skilled security professionals…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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