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 same time, Nokia is impeccable in its neutrality and showing its commitment to cross-platform. This is exactly the right strategy because enterprise end-users, telcos and the cloud providers themselves all want choice and diversity in this market. Undoubtedly, Nokia has some market power here as one of the leading arguably
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 digital transformation across 5G and broadband services. DZS Cloud End-to-End Orchestration and Automation (E2EO), based on the award-winning RIFT.ware solution recently acquired by DZS, is a carrier-grade, cloud native platform that will simplify and automate the deployment of any slice and any service on any cloud, including brownfield discovery of existing virtual applications. The powerful DZS Cloud platform will enable the marquee Canadian communications provider to deliver agile and au
Nokia and Google Cloud partner to develop new, cloud-based 5G radio solutions
The two companies will develop 5G solutions combining Nokia s Radio Access Network (RAN), Open RAN, and Cloud RAN, with Google s 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 solutions. The two companies will collaborate on joint solutions combining Nokia s Radio Access Network (RAN), Open RAN, Cloud RAN (vRAN) and edge cloud technologies, with Google s edge computing platform and applications ecosystem. The collaboration will lead to the development of solutions and use cases to solve key 5G scenarios for businesses worldwide.
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 entrants, and private and enterprise buildouts that we believe will transform numerous industries, said Eric Stonestrom, president and CEO of Airspan, in a release.
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 the new Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI service plan on January 29, 2021, the number of applications for the service plan has grown considerably, surpassing 3 million on March 9, 2021. Applications for the one-year free campaign will close on April 7, 2021 1.
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