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Mobile World Congress Americas (MWCa) And AT&T Spark – All About 5G
We attended Mobile World Congress Americas (MWCa) in Los Angeles, CA this week, as well as the AT&T Spark event in San Francisco. Since 5G is launching first the US, these two events became the public events where significant 5G-related announcements happened. Verizon. Will launch 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)… Read More »Blog
ERicsson and Juniper Re-Partner To Pursue 5G; ECI also announced
Yesterday, Ericsson and Juniper announced plans to partner to tackle 5G transport challenges together. Additionally, Ericsson announced a partnership with optical transport company, ECI. The companies said that Ericsson’s Router 6000 product family will focus on fronthaul and backhaul and edge compute and will be complemented by Juniper MX, PTX and… Read More »Blog
Nokia Fixed Broadband Update From Tokyo
We attended the Nokia Fixed Broadband group analyst meeting in Tokyo last week and found that the company’s portfolio is expanding rapidly. The company’s view is that capital spending at its customers will be flat in future, and therefore the company is taking the approach to grow its portfolio beyond… Read More »Blog
f5 Agility Conference Wrap-Up
F5 kicked off its #F5Agility18 conference with over 1,300 attendees. The company’s themes was “Any app, anywhere,” and words repeated included “Automation” and “as a service.” The company is moving towards selling security as a standalone offering. Accompanying the show, there was a press release announcing Gi LAN traffic management… Read More »Blog
Arista Networks to Acquire Mojo Networks
Fast-growing Ethernet Switch vendor Arista Networks announced plans to acquire Mojo Networks, an Enterprise-class WLAN vendor today. The deal is expected to close in C3Q18. This deal douses hopes that Arista may buy other WLAN vendors, in our view. Mojo Networks is unique in the WLAN industry: (a) it has… Read More »Blog
Aerohive 802.11ax is Shipping
Back in late January 2018, Aerohive announced its 802.11ax product line. We have eagerly awaited for the company to ship and today, the company announced its first 802.11ax customer, Wellington College in the UK. The company claims it is first to ship 802.11ax to a European customer; we are not… Read More »Blog