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• Tickets Alert: Open weekend at the London Transport Museum’s overflow depot

  28-02-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Like most museums, the London Transport Museum can’t put everything it owns on display, so keeps a lot in storage, and a few times a year, that store is opened to the public.The depot, next to the railway in Acton houses a number of old tube trains, including a never used concept train, a lot of old trams and some buses — but also an enormous collection of old bits of equipment from the past 160 years of public transport from tiny documents right up to huge electricity transformers a
  
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• DoCoMo adds Ericsson and Keysight to 6G research group

  28-02-2023 18:43
  Japan’s NTT DoCoMo plans to expand its 6G experimental trials and has established two new partnerships to help it.
  The telco announced during Mobile World Congress this week that it will work with Swedish kit maker Ericsson and US-based test and measurement firm Keysight on some new areas of research.
  DoCoMo said its work with Ericsson centres on new 6G wireless interfaces for frequencies in the 6-15-GHz range, as well as the sub-TeraHertz band, which includes frequencies above100-GHz, and
  
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• One year into Kyivstar’s battle to keep Ukraine connected

  28-02-2023 18:39
  A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we spoke to Ukrainian operator Kyivstar about the ongoing challenges of keeping telecoms infrastructure functioning in a warzone.
  We first spoke to Volodymyr Lutchenko (pictured), CTO of Ukrainian operator Kyivstar back in September, when he painted a grim picture of the devastating toll the Russian invasion of Ukraine has had on the country’s critical infrastructure, as well as the dangerous work that goes into entering combat zones to repai
  
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• ZTE Hu Junjie: Flexible network slicing empowers future customized networks

  28-02-2023 17:49
  Hard slicing in transport network can meet SLA requirements of deterministic latency and high isolation. It connects wireless and core networks to compose end-to-end 5G network slices, provide differentiated customized network services, and facilitate diversified applications in the 5G eraBarcelona, Spain, 28 February 2023 – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions, today announced that Hu Junjie, General M
  
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• Time to Build 50G PON as the Foundation for 10Gpbs All-Optical Access

  28-02-2023 16:42
  In the digital era, fifth-generation fixed networks (F5G) represented by all-optical technologies such as 10G passive optical network (PON) have built a foundation for digital economy development.
  Looking into the next two to five years, the time has come for access networks to move from gigabit to 10Gbps. Booming new applications, such as generative AI, metaverse, AR/VR, and industrial Internet, require networks that feature higher bandwidth, lower latency, and higher reliability. This not only
  
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• James Bond photographs go on display

  28-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of photographs taken during the filming of James Bond movies has opened at the Leica Camera store just around the corner from Selfridges. The images on display capture classic moments with cast and crew, shining a light on the secret agent’s enduring legacy.Rather than putting descriptions next to each photo, which only encourages people to linger by the photo, they’ve printed a caption sheet you can carry around with you – which is a much better way of doing thin
  
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• Huawei’s 5.5G vision is what 5G should have been all along

  28-02-2023 15:18
  Chinese kit vendor Huawei has shared its wish list for what it calls 5.5G at Mobile World Congress 2023.
  Unfortunately, it does little more than emphasise the extent to which 5G in its current form has fallen short of expectations, and how much ground still needs to be made up.
  For Huawei, 5.5G represents a 10-fold improvement in performance over 5G in every department. That means 10 Gbps headline connection speeds, 10 times the number of IoT connections – which translates to 100 billion i
  
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• Luton Airport’s shuttle train, Luton DART opens next week

  28-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The delayed shuttle railway linking London Luton Airport to the nearby railway station is to partially open on 10th March 2023, the company has announced.The Luton DART is a new automated people mover connecting the airport terminal and the mainline railway at Luton Airport Parkway in just over three minutes.
  Although seriously delayed and over budget, they have now confirmed that it will open to passengers on Friday 10th March. It will initially be open for about four hours a day, with the serv
  
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• DT says Open RAN is mature enough for commercial rollout

  28-02-2023 12:34
  Deutsche Telekom plans to start commercial rollouts of Open RAN in Germany and further afield later this year, having decided that the technology is now sufficiently grown-up.
  We knew it was coming. Just last week the German incumbent noted that commercial deployment would come “soon” in a comment accompanying the latest statement of intent from the European telcos’ Open RAN club, of which Deutsche Telekom is a founder member. We didn’t know how soon though.
  And we still
  
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• Qualcomm lines up OEMs for satellite smartphones

  28-02-2023 12:25
  The trickle of satellite-capable smartphones looks set to become a flood if MWC is anything to go by.
  Just last Friday, heavy machinery maker Cat’s rugged device division announced the S75, a new handset produced by UK-based contract manufacturer Bullitt that includes two-way geostationary satellite comms courtesy of MediaTek’s 3GPP non-terrestrial network (NTN) chipset.
  At Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Monday, US chip maker Qualcomm announced no fewer than six handset makers have a
  
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• Reopening Arthur Street to pedestrians and cyclists

  28-02-2023 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the Bank tube station upgrade started, one of the main changes at the street was the closure of a road to allow a shaft to be dug down, but now that the main Bank station works are completed, the road can be reopened.
  Arthur Street highlighted over Google Map
  So a consultation has been launched by Transport for London (TfL) to decide how Arthur Street, next to London Bridge will reopen. The road is a short curved slope that’s an important link between the road that runs underneath Lon
  
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• Knole House – a day trip to an Archbishop’s Palace

  28-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Barely an hour from central London is one of the UK’s most important palaces, which is curiously not that well known. Considering its proximity to London, it hardly ever appears on lists of things to do, which is odd as it’s a very impressive building to visit. I’ve travelled for hours to visit interesting places, and there’s a palace practically on my doorstep. Whoops!This is the huge Knole House, a former archbishop’s palace, royal palace, and now aristocratic hom
  
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