News and BusinessBASE event in Athens at the end of March brought together more than 300 delegates from entire “broadband value chain”. A new concept of broadband is on target to be achieved as the industry experiences an era of unparalleled change and challenge, and networks transform to meet the opportunities of 5G, “cloudification”, the Internet of […]
News and BusinessNew eight-year supply commitment to address growing demand for bandwidth. CommScope and OFS have announced the extension of their long-term fibre partnership. As both companies invest in capacity to address the strong demand for more bandwidth, they have entered into a new eight-year partnership to help ensure the availability of OFS optical fibre supply to […]
News and BusinessAs the new year gets underway, Delta Partners’ Darren Tan, Senior director of the Intelligence Unit at consulting and investment company Delta Partners, has announced the company’s predictions for the digital IT and communications sectors. Digital challenges will continue to drive operators to transform. Traditional revenue pools will continue to recede as operators’ digital initiatives […]
News and BusinessHowever, security, lack of skills and connectivity must be addressed to ensure the successful deployment of IoT. The Internet of Things – IoT – has become the leading technology for digital transformation and is the number one priority for 92 per cent of organisations, according to global research findings published today by Inmarsat, a provider […]
News and BusinessDutch research organisation TNO has launched in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) a new guide to “Dealing Securely with the Internet of Things”. The guide gives insights and information about implementing equipment and processes that may be considered to relate to IoT, as well as support to structure this process and to […]
News and BusinessCommercialisation of narrowband IoT technology is widening growth opportunities, finds Frost & Sullivan’s Digital Transformation team. Growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, as evidenced by increasing launches, investments and partnerships, will accelerate in 2017 with the commercialisation of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). This cellular communications technology uses licensed spectrum and offers a standardised low-power, […]
News and BusinessHIG Capital, a global private equity investment firm with over €20 billion of equity capital under management, has announced that it has sold UK-based fibre-maker Fibercore to Humanetics Innovative Solutions,a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Fibercore, based in Southampton, UK, is a developer of specialty optical fiber […]
Applications and ResearchSemtech, a developer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has announced that its award-winning LoRa devices and wireless RF technology are being deployed by Eleven-x, a software developer for wireless telecommunications, for the first carrier-grade IoT network rollout throughout Canada. The Eleven-x LPWAN uses Semtech’s LoRa technology to offer a long-range wireless network at lower investment […]
News and BusinessAT&T and IBM are working together to help businesses accelerate their Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives. The two companies will combine their strengths in cognitive computing and global connectivity to create open standards-based tools on the IBM Cloud to enable developers to more quickly build and implement a wide variety of IoT solutions. Open standards-based […]