They re dictating how to monitor networks, without fully understanding the impact on the sector
Matthew Hughes Fri 12 Mar 2021 // 11:32 UTC Share
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Introduced last year by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the UK s Telecommunications Security Bill aims to change how mobile and fixed-line communications systems are built and operated.
The bill is a recognition of the importance of comms networks to national security, and was largely spurred by the growing use of equipment from so-called high risk vendors, namely Huawei and ZTE.
But the reception from networks has been lukewarm. Although ISPs and mobile networks recognise the importance of ensuring the integrity of the nation s communications infrastructure, the devil very much lurks in the details. The wholesale overhaul proposed by the Telecoms Security Bill would result in high costs for operators, who would be forced to rip and replace existing equipment, potentially
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Over the past four years, there has been a lack of a consistent focus on cyber security and a lack of coordination between the different agencies in the US dealing with cyber security, not dissimilar to those that led to the forming of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the UK, combining departments in GCHQ with others such as CPNI into a single organisation.
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NEC develops customised Open RAN for O2
01 February 2021 | Melanie Mingas Telefonica UK s O2 has completed a successful Open RAN trial on its network with NEC and its partners Altiostar, GigaTera Communications and Supermicro, among others.
With a role that included end-to-end testing and interoperability verification, NEC helped to define a customised Open RAN architecture, optimised and adapted to the requirements of the O2 mobile network.
Taking on the role of system integrator during the trial, NEC coordinated the overall design of the system, which it said delivered a solid end-to-end solution .
It was also an opportunity for NEC to showcase its new Centre of Excellence, where the trial was conducted running via O2’s core network.
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Looking back to December 2019, the following 12 months were really supposed to establish 5G as a permanent fixture in global communications markets and realising the potential in the many use cases that 5G was intended to make good on. Prime examples were autonomous vehicles and telehealth.
But health issues of another kind have led to a year that, although not throwing a massive spanner in the works for 5G, have led development onto unintended path.