Small Cell Forum Unveils Blueprint for Network Virtualization to Support Enterprise, IoT and 5G
Operator and Vendor Body Announces Release 8, aimed at helping industry expedite widespread deployment of virtualized network services
Barcelona Supercomputing Center forms strategic collaboration agreement with the OpenFog Consortium
Liaison aimed to accelerate development of fog computing technology and proofs of concept
ZTE wins Best Wireless Broadband Innovation award for Pre5G massive MIMO
London, 20 October 2016 – ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for mobile Internet, today announced that it has won the Best Wireless Broadband Innovation award for its Pre5G massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) technology at Broadband World Forum in London.
Small Cell Forum calls upon telecoms regulators to enable rapid deployment of dense HetNets for 5G
Industry body lobbies for globally consistent and supportive regulation for small cells
Small Cell Forum Operator and Vendor Members Collaborate to Combat 5G Fragmentation
Members including AT&T, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and Vodafone collaborate to lay foundations for next generation networks, targeting industry harmonization
Quortus to showcase deployable mobile edge computing platform and 5G-aligned MEC demonstration at MEC Congress
Healthcare PoC features 5G network slicing, CUPS, SDN; enterprise service delivery platform enables presence-based services, local offload and IoT-style connectivity
20th September 2016, Camberley, UK – At this week’s Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Congress in Munich, Quortus will showcase a broad range of its MEC capabilities, including a deployable platform for enterprise applications, and a ground-breaking proof-of-concept (PoC) that includes innovative 5G-aligned features.
In the ETSI MEC
Small Cell Forum Announces New Board and Members to Support Path to 5G
New members, including Samsung, Corning and ZTE to join Forum’s new work programs including the deployment of hyperdense networks and digital enterprise
London, 20th September 2016 – Small Cell Forum (SCF) has welcomed 18 new members from across the wireless and Internet ecosystems, further expanding the organisation’s breadth of expertise, and strengthening its work in laying the groundwork for robust and interoperable 5G networks.
The new members are: Access Technologies (Alphabet), Alpha
Argela demonstrates dynamically programmable end-to-end network slicing for 5G on M-CORD
Orchestrated network slicing using Argela’s ProgRAN and RAN-triggered core network slicing technologies is demonstrated on Argela M-CORD, the first operational M-CORD outside ON.Lab.
Sunnyvale, CA – August 15, 2016 Argela announced success of a Proof of Concept (PoC) programmable network slicing technology for 5G networks on its M-CORD reference platform. Argela’s M-CORD is the first operational rack outside ON.Lab.
Argela’s 5G slicing technology PoC enables the virtual partitioning of both
Deutsche Telekom calls on Broadband Forum members to “Collaborate on ‘true convergence’ of mobile and fixed networks to unlock full potential of 5G”
More collaboration among standards bodies and open source communities will be needed in order to achieve this, according to operator
Berlin, Germany. July 27, 2016: As the Broadband Forum held its quarterly meeting in Berlin, Deutsche Telekom’s 5G Executive Program Manager Antje Williams called for true convergence between fixed and mobile networks so that a seamless experience could be delivered to consumers.
Access-agnostic networks are a vital component in realizing the full potential of 5
Small Cell Forum’s nFAPI will make virtualized HetNet a reality
London Tuesday 5 July 2016 – A multivendor, virtualized and future-proof HetNet – this is the vision that mobile operators have for their next generation deployments, and many want to move towards that ahead of 5G standards.
Small Cell Forum’s newly published Release 7 provides a critical enabler of that vision – a set of interfaces that will lay the foundations of an open, virtualized HetNet.
The Forum has extended one of its most successful specifications, the Functional API (FAPI) multi-ve