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Nokia has clearly been saving up all its major public cloud announcements in order to make one big splash: the Finnish vendor has unveiled partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure – all focusing on collaboration in the field of open and virtualized radio access networks (RAN) with private mobile networks for enterprise users as the first target market. As noted by Gabriel Brown, principal analyst at Heavy Reading, by announcing all three partnerships at the...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/16/2021 PLANO, Texas – DZS (Nasdaq: DZSI), a global leader of packet-based mobile transport, broadband access, network orchestration and cloud-native automation solutions, today announced that it is has been selected by world-leading communications technology company TELUS to provide end-to-end network service orchestration with slice management functions and software automation designed to accelerate and manage dig...

Nokia and Google Cloud partner to develop new, cloud-based 5G radio solutions The two companies will develop 5G solutions combining Nokias Radio Access Network (RAN), Open RAN, and Cloud RAN, with Googles edge computing platform Building on recent partnership announced in February, new collaboration between Nokia and Google Cloud will deliver additional 5G monetization opportunities for CSPs Nokia has today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to develop new, cloud-based 5G radio solution...

Airspan Networks announced it plans to become a public company again via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The transaction will give Airspan roughly $166 million in net proceeds. "This transaction is expected to help fund our growth plans and accelerate our vision of providing our customers with leading edge 5G networks. We are at the precipice of a significant capital-intensive upgrade as 5G deployments drive the future growth of existing mobile carriers, new market e...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/9/2021 TOKYO – Rakuten Mobile, Inc. today announced that the total cumulative number of applications for the Rakuten UN-LIMIT service plan launched on April 8, 2020, has surpassed 3 million, as of today March 9, 2021. Applications for the Rakuten UN-LIMIT service plan opened on March 3, 2020. By June 30, the number of applications surpassed 1 million, followed by 2 million on December 30. Since the announcement of t...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/9/2021 DALLAS – Whats the news? AT&T is expanding its portfolio of Managed Security Services through its alliance with Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) to make Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) a reality for enterprises. AT&T SASE with Fortinet is the first, global managed SASE solution at scale that unifies software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) with essential network security functions of the SASE framework and 24x7 ma...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/9/2021 WALTHAM, Mass. – Etisalat, one of the leading telecommunications operators in emerging markets – recognized by Ookla Speedtest as the worlds fastest mobile network in 2020 – has selected Netcracker Domain Orchestration solutions to complement its strategy of bringing new and innovative 5G services to market. This includes automation of 5G slicing within a multivendor, cloud-native 5G core environment and ac...

Miller had served as interim president and CEO since September 2020.

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...

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: SFR plans job cuts; device maker OPPO sees Europe as land of opportunity; Slovenias BeeIN eyes M2M. Telia and Ericsson have embarked on what they claim is the first trial of 5G carrier aggregation in the Nordics. Carrier aggregation lets mobile operators combine separate channels to increase bandwidth and provide faster speeds than could be achieved with just a single channel. The trial, which is taking place in Lillestrøm, a town near Oslo, enables Telia ...