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Accenture | November 21, 2020

In an effort to bolster is 5G network capabilities, Accenture has acquired Arca, a Spanish engineering services company with a focus on network operations and business services. More specifically, with support from an integrated platform that automates network monitoring, Arca offers multidisciplinary services for network operations, including the engineering, designing, deployment and management of telecom infrastructure. For Accenture, the acquisition is expected to “reinf...

VentureBeat | February 02, 2020

Improving a device’s signal might be as simple as increasing the number of antennas within the said device, according to new research. A team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) claim they’ve managed to bolster connectivity with what they call RFocus, a software-controlled external “smart surface” that uses an array of more than 3,000 wireless antennas. Preliminary tests show that it’s able to boost average signal str...

ARN | March 09, 2020

Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia drew a €500 million (U.S.$561 million) loan last month to help it to accelerate development of 5G technology, its annual report shows. Nokia said that its R&D loan facility with the European Investment Bank (EIB), which has an average maturity of about five years after disbursement, was agreed in August 2018 and available until last month. It drew the loan on Feb. 24. The company's finances have been in focus since it halted dividend payments i...

Network Infrastructure

Spirent | June 04, 2021

Spirent Communications plc today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring automated 5G testing capabilities to communications service providers (CSPs) building 5G networks on AWS. Spirent’s market-first Landslide 5GC Automation Package is designed to help carriers to rapidly deploy 5G networks on AWS, significantly reducing operational costs, time, and resources compared to manual testing. By combining AWS’s Continuous Integration and Con...