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Even as Starlink pushes toward a commercial launch of its fixed broadband satellite service, its parent company, SpaceX, is also pursuing a plan to connect Starlinks network to trucks, planes, ships and other types of relatively large moving vehicles. Starlinks mobile-facing interests were outlined in an application for blanket-licensed Earth Stations in Motion, or ESIMs, filed on March 5 with the FCC. SpaceX believes authorization for a "new class of ground-based components" that would expand...

Under new deal, Telenor will tap into CSGs cloud-based digital wholesale platform to simplify and streamline operations.

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/9/2021 PHILADELPHIA – Comcast today announced that the company has rolled out the nations largest landline voice implementation of STIR/SHAKEN-based Verified Caller ID feature in an effort to help protect the companys Xfinity Voice, Comcast Business Voice, and Business VoiceEdge Select customers from illegal robocall calls and caller ID spoofing. These customers will now display a Verified [V] label in the caller ID...

Going to the M&A well a second time in 2021, DZS has acquired RIFT, a provider of network orchestration and automation software. DZS will now look to deploy the technology to a global installed base of some 20 million mobile and fixed broadband products. RIFT and its open source "RIFT.ware" offering gives DZS an overarching software-defined network and software orchestration automaton tool that can be offered as a standalone product or in tandem with DZSs fixed and mobile networking products. R...

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US chipmaker said 90% of its 2021 supply has already been ordered by customers, but its CEO says there is no reason to panic.

Agreement focused on trial of a smart curbside management system from Cox2M designed to reduce downtown traffic congestion.

Says full rollout could support a scaled deployment of multi-gigabit speeds.

From a broad point of view, next-generation access network activity slowed for many cable operators in 2020 as they focused on splitting nodes and adding capacity to existing network gear to keep up with the traffic surge fueled by the pandemic. However, Comcast said its work around network virtualization and the use of new AI and machine learning techniques that optimize and enhance the performance of the access network accelerated over the past year. "We have not slowed down anything … We h...

News Analysis Robert Clark 3/3/2021 Asia-Pacific operators are leading the world in the transition to next-generation PON, analysts say. They are being driven by their huge installed base and the growing demands on existing networks, but are also attracted by widening PON use cases and long-term strategic planning, experts told the Light Reading Next-Gen Broadband APAC event conference. "What were seeing now in the region is a very strong shift an...