Cisco and it's partners aim to create a UK government funded complete end-to-end rural 5G testbed system for trials of new wireless and networking technologies, spectrum sharing, new applications and services with a focus on testing and demonstrating approaches for ensuring that 5G connectivity is accessible and affordable in hard-to-reach rural areas.
Mobile operator Orange Slovakia has chosen the Cisco's ASR 5000 Series elastic evolved packet core for its recently launched 4G long-term evolution (LTE) network. With Cisco solution, Orange Slovakia aims to transform its architecture and seamlessly migrate mobile data traffic from existing 2G and 3G networks.
Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA) has signed network expansion and upgrade agreements worth US $1.2 billion with five technology companies: Huawei, Nokia, NEC, Cisco, and Alcatel Lucent. The agreements aim to enhance Zain KSA’s customer experience and to improve and expand Zain’s network capacity, coverage and speed.
NTT DOCOMO announced that it has completed proof-of-concept (PoC) trials verifying the feasibility of network functions virtualization (NFV) while working separately with Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and NEC. The company has been collaborating with the three vendors on this feasibility verification since November 2013.
London, UK & Oslo, Norway - November 11th, 2013 - Cloudberry, the leader in small cells as a managed service, today announced that their new managed service offering, which makes small cells affordable for any operator, is running 100 percent on Cisco.
Cisco plans to acquire U.K. based Ubiquisys, a provider of 3G and 4G LTE small-cell technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $310 million in cash and retention-based incentives to acquire the entire business and operations of Ubiquisys.
Nokia Siemens Networks, Cisco and Harris Corporation have completed the initial section of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program phase 3 LTE Demonstration Network Test Plan.
Dale Boehm, Cisco Product Marketing Manager, MITG, talks about benefits and differentiators of Cisco V2oLTE solution -- a comprehensive solution that provides continuity between IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and circuit-switched domains.
Mobile operators and their suppliers face major challenges in improving the mobile broadband user experience, given the current lack of intelligence at device or application level. Most operators are limited to network-centric metrics for coverage and connectivity, and there is no consensus on best practices for user-centric mobile analytics.
UAE telecommunications service provider du is deploying a nationwide mobile broadband network and has selected Cisco's mobile Internet solution to deliver high-speed 4G LTE mobile data services to its customers. du will use the Cisco ASR 5000 Series as its mobile Internet evolved packet core (EPC) platform to provide greater network performance and intelligence.
Mark Kummer, VP, Service Provideri Operations for Cisco Canada comments on Bell Mobilityi selecting the Cisco ASR 5000 Series Mobile multimedia core platform to deliver 4G and LTEi mobile services in its
Cisco IBSG experts discuss an interesting new business model that can help create significant incremental value for service providers with the successful implementation of a "Service Provider Push"