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Nokia’s Bell Labs escalates 6G standardization work in India
Nokia is looking at India to drive its 6G standardization efforts by increasing its investments in Bell Labs’ local presence. Read more…
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The 6G vision is quickly forming – but it seems oddly familiar
The 6G vision is already taking shape even as 5G roll out, but so far seems very ‘more of the same’ with some extra buzzwords thrown in. Read more…
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Nokia’s new PSE-3 crams even more capacity into fiber
Nokia has unveiled the PSE-3, the next generation of its Photonic Service Engine (PSE) family of super-coherent digital signal processors, which the company claims pushes optical network capacity to theoretical limits. The new Nokia PSE-3 is Read more…
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Vodafone will build an LTE network on the moon because why not?
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon Read more…
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HKA cable targets same subsea route as PLCN, Telstra backs both
The Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) consortium has announced plans to build a new subsea cable connecting Hong Kong and Los Angeles. The HKA consortium – whose major backers include China Telecom, China Unicom, Facebook, Tata Communications, Read more…
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It’s a WIVE! Nokia Bell Labs leads 5G project for verticals
An industry group led by Nokia Bell Labs has established a collaboration project called WIVE (WIreless for VErticals) that aims to help businesses in vertical industries take advantage of 5G and other advanced wireless technologies. Read more…
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Consortium to develop platform for cloud-native 5G systems
Nokia Bell Labs says it will spend the next two years leading a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, SMEs and European academic institutions to build a “next generation platform-as-a-service” (NGPaaS) for 5G apps Read more…
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Nokia and Facebook – yes, Facebook – claim record for subsea spectral efficiency
Nokia and Facebook claim they have set a new record for spectral efficiency on subsea cables whilst collaborating on field trials of new optical digital signal processing technologies over a 5,500 kilometer transatlantic subsea link. Read more…
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MWC17: The handset launches this week that prize innovation over marketing glam
At MWC17 this week, all eyes will naturally be on the latest handset launches by every major handset brand that isn’t named Apple. Away from the big guns, however, many smaller players will also be Read more…
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Nokia makes 5GTF connection, unveils plans for 4.9G gear
Nokia touted its pre-standard 5G chops on Monday by announcing that it had completed what it says is the world’s first connection based on the 5GTF (Verizon 5G Technology Forum) “pre-standard” draft spec for 5G, Read more…
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Nokia and nbn hit 8 Gbps over copper in XG-FAST lab trial
Nokia and Australia’s nbn say they have successfully completed a trial of XG-FAST – a Nokia Bell Labs-developed extension of Nokia’s commercially available G.fast technology – that achieved throughput speeds of 8 Gbps in the Read more…
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Nokia Bell Labs demos drone-installable wireless small cells
ITEM: Nokia Bell Labs has announced a new small cell product that is so easy to install a drone could do it – and made the point by actually having a drone install one at Read more…
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Bell Labs, DT achieve terabit speeds in optical fiber trial
Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the Technical University of Munich say they have achieved a 1-Tbps transmission rate over optical fiber with a new modulation technique they say extend the capability of optical Read more…
