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huawei Provides 2020 meeting Update
The big ideas unveiled at the conference were twofold. First, Huawei is promoting worldwide open standards as a counter to the likelihood that if it gets cut off from US-influenced technology, it may have to create its own, non-standard technology. Second, the company is promoting “F5G,” which is “fixed 5G,”… Read More »Blog
Microsoft Intends to Become The Alternative to Telecom Infrastructure with the Metaswitch Acquisition
Microsoft announced that it will acquire Metaswitch, a telecom core software company with deep expertise in IMS Core, automation, containers and cloud-native telecom systems. The acquisition will complement Microsoft’s previously-announced acquisition (April 2020) of packet core and IoT software specialist, Affirmed Networks. Microsoft is positioning itself to become a viable… Read More »Blog
Innovium’s TERALYNX 8 kicks off 112 Gbps SERDES Generation of Networking Products
112 Gbps is one of the most important building blocks for Ethernet Switching, and networking in general, for this decade and today Innovium announced a 25.6 Tbps ASIC based on the technology. 650 Group has been forecasting 112 Gbps in our reports for over three years and are excited to… Read More »Blog
Six Groups of Companies That Benefit From FCC’s Vote To Open Up 6 GHz
Today’s big news from the FCC is that it will open up 6 GHz to Wi-Fi and other unlicensed uses. The FCC authorizes “1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band (5.925–7.125 GHz) available for unlicensed use,” and further explains that it authorizes “standard-power devices in 850 megahertz in the 6… Read More »Blog
Microsoft Acquires Telecom Core Specialist Affirmed Networks
Microsoft announced that it had acquired privately-held Affirmed Networks today. This isn’t the first software/services based telecom acquisition it has made, with the 2011 acquisition of Skype being the most prominent one. Other competitors to Microsoft have made forays into the telecom market, including Facebook’s 2014 purchase of WhatsApp, Oracle’s 2013… Read More »Blog
Federated Wireless Announces 6 GHz AFC Service
Federated Wireless, a pioneer in the CBRS SAS market, just announced its plans for an AFC for the upcoming 6 GHz spectrum in the US market. The company expects that 6 GHz products and its AFC to be commercially available sometime in 2021, and potentially as early as late 2020. … Read More »Blog