Displaying items by tag: 5G Core

Swedish telco Telia, equipment vendor Nokia and the Finnish Defence Forces have conducted what they claim is the world’s first seamless 5G standalone slice handover between multiple countries in a live network.

Telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson and Kiwi mobile operator One New Zealand have inked a five-year agreement to modernise the telco’s core network so it can deploy advanced 5G capabilities.

East Kentucky Network company Appalachian Wireless has picked telecommunications company Ericsson to modernise its network to a container-based dual-mode 5G core network for standalone as well as deliver radio access network solutions.

Casa Systems, a provider of physical and cloud-native infrastructure technology solutions for mobile, cable and fixed networks, announced that they have been awarded a multi-year purchase contract from Verizon.

Nokia announced that its Core networking products have been selected by Orange to help the operator deliver new advanced 5G services and stronger and more reliable network performance in France and other European countries.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, ANZ Manager, Gigamon: New technology always brings a host of worries about its negative potential, and 5G is no different. Although there are many legitimate 5G security concerns to address and discuss, it’s worth first clarifying the false claim that 5G causes health problems.

TPG Telecom and Ericsson have completed the virtualisation of TPG’s core network and a new partnership to deploy its 5G Core for standalone 5G networks. 

Google Cloud and Nokia have announced a global, strategic partnership aimed at jointly developing cloud-native 5G Core solutions for communications service providers and enterprise customers.

The Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms, put in place just after the Turnbull Government was toppled in 2018, have hit Huawei Australia hard, with the company losing 900 direct jobs, more than 1500 sub-contracting jobs and $100 million in R&D in Australia, the company claims in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry.

Swedish telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson has signed a deal with Belgium's biggest mobile provider Proximus to provide the latter with 5G core equipment and also modernising its existing 4G core.

Nokia has been selected by Taiwan Mobile (TWM) as the sole supplier of its 5G network in a three-year framework deal worth approximately 400 million euros.

Swedish equipment manufacturer Ericsson and British telecommunications provider BT have signed a deal to deploy Ericsson’s dual-mode evolved packet core and 5G core - a fully container-based, cloud native mobile packet core for 4G, 5G non-standalone and 5G standalone services - as a single fully integrated core.

Ericsson has been selected by Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom to provide the 5G platform to support its future 5G network, with the deployment of a non-standalone (NSA) New Radio (NR) network on mid and high-frequency bands.

The three main mobile telecommunications carriers in India, spooked by the US ban on Huawei and ZTE, have indicated that they may not use equipment from the two main Chinese telecoms companies for the core component of their 5G networks.