China’s IMT-2020 (5G) promotion group announced that it has completed the third phase of non-standalone (NSA) trials and reached the halfway point in standalone (SA) trials based on 3GPP’s Release 15 standards unveiled in June and December 2017.
Sparkle, the international services arm of TIM Group and among the top ten global operators, announced the expansion of its global IP backbone in Asia with a new point of presence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Opened in partnership with CMC Telecom, one of the country’s leading telecommunication service providers, the new PoP will serve one of the fastest growing IP markets in Asia, providing high performing IP Transit and Ethernet services to local ISPs and content providers.
Fully interconnected with Sparkle’s Tier 1-grade Global IP backbone Seabone, with access to the most important submarine cables connecting Asia to Europe – such as SEA-ME-WE 5 - the new PoP in Vietnam marks a further expansion of Sparkle’s reach across Asia, adding to the existing PoPs in Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur.
Furthermore, Sparkle launches a new multi-service PoP in Singapore. Located at Global Switch’s data center, one of the most important telecommunications and internet ecosystems in Asia, the new PoP is designed to serve both the local and the global IP markets, providing high performing IP Transit, DDos mitigation and virtual NAP services to operators, OTTs and content providers.
Leveraging on Global Switch’s access to all sub-sea cable systems landing in Singapore - including SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE-4 and SEA-ME-WE-5, of which Sparkle is a consortium member – the new PoP will provide top quality east and west bound low latency connectivity solutions on the submarine route connecting Asia to Europe. In particular, access to the new generation SEA-ME-WE 5, which is natively extended to Sparkle Sicily Hub consolidates Sparkle’s role as leading European doorway for the Asian market.
Fully interconnected with Sparkle’s Tier 1-grade Global IP backbone Seabone, the new PoP adds to Sparkle’s existing PoP at Singapore Equinix, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, confirming Sparkle’s commitment to expanding its IP Backbone in Asia.
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, released the industry's first large-capacity OTN cluster product supporting non-blocking electrical cross at the PT/EXPO COMM CHINA 2018.
Alibaba Group Holding disclosed its plans to establish a new subsidiary dedicated to chips with the aim of launching the first self-deployed AI interference chip in Q2 2019 capable of enabling autonomous driving, smart cities and logistics.
Three Platinum Members of Linux Foundation’s ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform), Vodafone, China Mobile and Huawei, have collaborated to demonstrate advanced ONAP orchestration capabilities for cross-operator multilayer VPN services.
ZTE, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet has released a Cloud Unified Data Repository (CUDR) solution to satisfy the requirements of 5G services and future network evolution.
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today unveiled its ZXR10 9900E series next-generation data center switches at PT EXPO CHINA in Beijing.
The early deployments of commercial 5G have kept increasing around the world after the first version of 5G standards was completed in June 2018.
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today officially launched its ZXMP M721 CX63A, a new compact metro edge E-OTN device for 5G network construction.
India’s Department of Telecommunications has formally announced that it is excluding Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE from participating in its 5G technology-based trials.
