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FIRA WIRE DAY 3: China Mobile, Saudi Telecom, SK Telecom, Huawei
MWC 2019, Day Three: Small Cell Forum; APIs for open RAN; China Mobile drives 5G interoperability; Saudi tags Nokia; Huawei and two MoUs; SK Telecom wins GLOMO. Read more…
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TIP kicks off Year 3 with more disaggregated optical specs
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) – the cross-industry community spearheaded by Facebook to develop open-source telecoms gear – has kicked off its third annual summit in London with some key announcements involving disaggregated cell site Read more…
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Vodafone trials TIP’s Voyager optical “white box” on live network
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) says that Vodafone has successfully completed a live network trial in Spain with the Facebook-designed Voyager optical “white box” as part of its work with TIP. An increased demand for Read more…
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Qualcomm chips in on Facebook’s Terragraph fixed-wireless tech
Qualcomm announced that it will supply chipsets to Facebook’s Terragraph technology and help develop a multi-node 60-GHz wireless system designed to provide fiber-like connectivity for dense urban areas. Terragraph – which is being developed under Read more…
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KT builds a new AI platform that’s for internal use only
ITEM: South Korean incumbent telco KT has announced the development of a new AI platform – but unlike rival operators, KT is applying its AI internally rather than externally. On Wednesday, KT announced it had Read more…
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TIP’s plan to make telco networks open-source is going well, thanks
ITEM: Last week’s TIP Summit – the annual gathering of the Facebook-led open-source Telecom Infra Project – unleashed a slew of announcements covering a lot of bases, from optical transport and power solutions for micro Read more…
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Facebook teams with Deutsche Telekom for TIP mmWave project
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has launched the Millimeter Wave Networks Project Group, co-chaired by Deutsche Telekom and Facebook, to address the growing demand for mmWave bandwidth in dense, highly-populated cities. The group’s ultimate goal Read more…
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MWC17: TIP gets bigger, announces Voyager trials, and more
Facebook’s Telecom Infra Project (TIP) announced several updates at MWC17, from new members and startup investments to trials of its open-source DWDM white-box transponder and progress of its OpenCellular project. According to a blog post Read more…
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MWC17 FIRA WIRE, DAY 2: Sailfish China, humanitarian big data, Cavium joins TIP
MWC17 news from Fira Gran Via, Day 2: Sailfish China Consortium, humanitarian big data, scalable hetnet solution, Cavium joins TIP Jolla launches Sailfish China consortium Jolla, developer of the open mobile operating system Sailfish OS, Read more…
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SK Telecom and Facebook launch first TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Center
SK Telecom and Facebook have announced the launch of the first TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Center to give telecoms tech innovation a swift kick in the pants. The TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Center will be established in Read more…