Data Center Networking,Wan Technologies
prnewswire | August 11, 2023
ACL Digital has joined forces with Lekha Wireless, an expert in access technologies such as 5G NR, LTE, WiMAX, MANET SDR, and more. This collaboration aims to provide cutting-edge wireless connectivity solutions, specifically targeting 5G business opportunities in the Telecom and enterprise verticals. Together, they will focus on meeting customers' needs by fulfilling their 5G NR and 4G RAN requirements. The partnership will pave the way for innovative and tailor-made 5G and 4G solutions, designed to exceed customer expectations.
Lekha Wireless boasts a skilled Research and Development team that excels in creating new, and customizing existing access technologies to suit specific applications and network structures. Their expertise spans both software and hardware engineering, revolutionizing the world of connectivity. Collaborating closely with systems integrators and operators, Lekha Wireless transforms visionary concepts into tangible products, overseeing the entire journey from ideation to production and implementation.
For the past decade, ACL Digital has been providing customers with System Integration and Professional Services (SI/PS). Now, to capitalize on the possibilities presented by 5G and forthcoming opportunities, ACL Digital is joining forces with its partners to deliver tailored solutions that will empower customers with digital transformation capabilities. This alliance is viewed as a strategic move, enabling ACL Digital to deliver comprehensive engineering solutions and exceptional customer support.
Lekha Wireless' 5G and 4G RAN offerings will bolster the system integration and professional services already provided by ACL Digital. This partnership promises to empower businesses with the latest advancements in wireless technology and pave the way for transformative 5G solutions in the industry.
About ACL Digital
ACL Digital, an ALTEN Group Company, is a digital product innovation and engineering leader. We help our clients design and build innovative products (AI, Cloud, and Mobile ready), content and commerce-driven platforms, and connected, converged digital experiences for the modern world through a design-led Digital Transformation framework.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, ACL Digital is a leader in design-led digital experience, innovation, enterprise modernization, and product engineering services converging to Technology, Media & Telecom. The company has a workforce of 54,100+ spread across more than 30+ countries.
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Mobile Infrastructure,Network Management
5G, Wireless, Wifi, Computer networking, WAN ,LAN, MAN | August 18, 2023
Pivotal Commware, global leader in 5G mmWave infrastructure products, announces the closing of a $102 million Series D round led by Gates Frontier and Tracker Capital. Joining them as co-leads in the round are funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group, LLC, and Blue Investment Group. Among Pivotal’s existing investors, Verizon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, Thermo Companies, DIG Investment XV AB and Lux Capital also participated.
Pivotal products, applications and services deliver solutions for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) households to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) at a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and with fast time-to-revenue. By re-directing mmWave signals beyond line-of-sight, Pivotal’s Pivot 5G repeaters extend the wireless coverage area of radio access networks (RANs).
“As data demand grows, a country’s economic success and social development will require widespread access to the Internet, and mmWave is foundational to bring this about,” said Glenn Lurie, Pivotal Board Member, and former President & CEO of AT&T Mobility. “Verizon’s leadership in 5G and mmWave in particular has positioned both Verizon and Pivotal for sustained success.”
“Pivotal is contributing to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) around the world getting their fair share of the broadband market, valued at $100 billion in the US alone,” said Dr. Shaygan Kheradpir, senior advisor to Tracker Capital and the Technology-Telecom team lead at Cerberus Capital Management. “We think Pivotal will be a leading light among future telecom infrastructure providers.”
“Customer demand for data continues to climb and that increased customer demand will benefit from the higher capacity found at mmWave frequencies,” said Brian Deutsch, CEO of Pivotal Commware. “We are delighted to have investors like Gates Frontier, Tracker Capital, and Verizon who share our vision for the future of our crucial and rapidly expanding industry.”
“The number of mmWave CPEs deployed for FWA will triple in four years. Heck, it will almost double in the next 12 months,” commented Joe Madden, Chief Analyst at Mobile Experts Inc. “The technology has been proven over the past two years, and now the operators are stepping on the accelerator.”
The new capital raised will provide the opportunity to invest aggressively in Pivotal Turnkey to drive mmWave FWA coverage for MNOs. Capital and cash flow from operations will also be used to develop next generation software and hardware products and solutions. Citigroup acted as exclusive placement agent to Pivotal Commware.
About Pivotal Commware, Inc.
Pivotal Commware created the world’s first mmWave product ecosystem dedicated to extending the Wireless Edge and coverage area of radio access networks (RANs): WaveScape® network planning tool for optimizing the placement of network elements, Pivot 5G network repeaters for navigating signals around obstacles, Echo 5G subscriber repeaters for penetrating signals indoors through window glass, and Intelligent Beam Management System platform for managing and optimizing the repeater network. Pivotal repeaters use its patented antenna technology, Holographic Beam Forming® for lowest cost, size, weight, and power consumption (C-SWaP). Pivotal Turnkey Services is an end-to-end solution for planning and deploying fixed wireless access (FWA) for Mobile Network Operators. The company is privately held and headquartered in Bothell, Washington.
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Data Center Networking,Network Infrastructure
prnewswire | August 02, 2023
OpNet, Italy's first 5G standalone network operator, is partnering with Sandvine to maximize its network performance and improve customer satisfaction as a first step toward offering B2B internet services with strict service level agreements (SLAs).
Resulting from the spin-off of Linkem's Retail branch and its subsequent merger with Tiscali, OpNet is the Italian 5G Wholesale Operator, covering more than 70% of the population with its own structure. OpNet offers a complete and integrated range of advanced connectivity services: 5G Private Network, Point-to-Point and UBB solutions, wireless and also wired, with service profiles for Consumer, SOHO, Business, Enterprise and Verticals markets.
With its commercial deployments of 5G radio spectrum over fixed wireless, OpNet moved to a wholesale business model, rolling out private networks and vertical applications across industrial logistics management, industrial security, and smart-city construction.
"By becoming a wholesaler of FWA and optical fiber solutions, as well as radio connections and 5G private networks, we can open our network to 'everyone,' namely the several thousand smaller companies, firms, and branch offices that lack the digital services needed to compete," said OpNet CTO Cosimo Buccella.
The move to a 5G wholesale model, combined with the rapid increase in online video content made popular during the pandemic, strained the limits of OpNet's fixed wireless network.
"The increasingly dynamic nature of both our network and the applications meant we could no longer rely on manual finetuning to optimize the network," said Buccella. "We needed to know which applications were having the greatest impact on network resources, and how that translated in terms of the application quality of experience our wholesale customers were delivering to their end users."
To address the need for traffic analysis and network optimization, OpNet enlisted Sandvine and its ActiveLogic solution to provide traffic classification and QoE analyses.
"By providing more visibility into complex network traffic, we help provide a better understanding of how customers are benefiting from the increased speed and capacity of 5G," said Sandvine Chief Solutions Officer Samir Marwaha. "This insight can help drive automation, improve customer satisfaction, and it can eventually help OpNet deliver SLA-driven B2B services built around guarantees for uplink and downlink services."
"We rapidly relieved on-site congestion and improved customer satisfaction, without any change to KPIs," said Buccella. "In fact, we've seen the amazing result that no more calls have come into the contact center about buffering of video or other QoE issues. The results prove we made the right choice as we orient ourselves to the wholesale market, where we will be a point of reference for multiple stakeholders that will want easy access to increasingly complex connectivity solutions that will close the digital divide and advance services that will help Italy fuel its economy."
About Sandvine
Sandvine's App QoE portfolio helps customers analyze, optimize, and monetize application experiences using contextual machine learning-based insights and real-time actions. Market-leading classification of more than 95% of traffic across mobile and fixed networks by user, application, device, and location significantly enhances interactions between users and applications.
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Network Infrastructure,Wireless
prnewswire | July 25, 2023
Airties, a leading supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions for service providers globally, today announced that Telecentro has deployed its portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi software and services to cable and fiber broadband subscribers across Argentina.
Telecentro currently offers one of the nation's fastest internet services, along with TV, entertainment and telephony services to consumers and businesses. Telecentro has also now deployed Airties' Smart Wi-Fi SaaS offering, which includes Airties Edge smart Wi-Fi software for gateways; Airties Cloud, a Wi-Fi management platform and a customized version of Airties' companion app; as well as Wi-Fi 6 mesh extenders.
"At Telecentro, we take immense pride in our track record of being the first to introduce dual-band Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi 6 in the country. Now, following our goal to provide the best experience, we continue investing in next-generation home Wi-Fi," said Juan Luna, CTIO of Telecentro. "After a thorough evaluation, we selected Airties as our strategic supplier because consumers today expect the best possible connectivity right down to the device. Great coverage and seamless Wi-Fi experience is key. Together, we look forward to bringing advanced Wi-Fi capabilities to our customers."
"Telecentro is well-known for their pioneering spirit and being the first operator in South America to introduce gigabit Internet services to consumers," said Guillaume van Gaver, Co-CEO of Airties. "As a market leader focused on continuous innovation, we are proud that Telecentro selected Airties' portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi software and services to bring a new class of home Wi-Fi to Argentinians throughout their vast network."
Airties' unique hybrid cloud-edge architecture leverages both the embedded intelligence in customer premises equipment (CPE) and the cloud to maximize responsiveness and performance. Airties Edge, smart Wi-Fi software for Telecentro's gateways/routers, intelligently directs consumers' devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, game consoles, IoT, smart home devices, etc.) to the best available Wi-Fi access point and frequency band based on real-time network conditions. The software, based on industry-standard Wi-Fi EasyMesh™, turns existing home gateways/modems into an intelligent Wi-Fi mesh access point, improving the quality and stability of connectivity within the home.
Airties Cloud monitors and orchestrates Wi-Fi across homes, optimizing Telecentro's broadband gateways and mesh extenders in real-time to ensure a better quality of experience for consumers, while providing insights on connected devices. Airties' app is a customizable companion app that allows consumers to visualize and intuitively manage their home connectivity, control who has access to the network via parental and guest controls and provides step-by-step guidance for customers to self-install Wi-Fi mesh extenders.
Airties has also been recognized with many prestigious industry awards for its innovative work serving broadband operators, including: "Best Home Wi-Fi Solution Award" from Broadband World Forum; "Best Wi-Fi Service Provider Solution" and "Best Home Wi-Fi Product" awards from Wi-Fi NOW; "Best-In Home Wi-Fi Network" award from Wireless Broadband Alliance; "Best Broadband Customer Experience" from Cable & Satellite International; and many others.
About Airties
Airties is a leading provider of managed Wi-Fi solutions to operators around the globe. The Smart Wi-Fi portfolio from Airties includes Airties Edge, smart Wi-Fi software for gateways; Airties Cloud, a cloud-based management platform and its companion app, Airties Vision; and Wi-Fi mesh extenders. Operators turn to Airties for the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of their customers' broadband experience. Airties' customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Singtel, Sky, Telia, Telstra, Vodafone, and many others.
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