The global market for switches and routers remains firmly dominated by a single vendor, according to the latest analysis from Synergy Research. Cisco commands roughly 51% of the overall market. Its dominance is especially pronounced in enterprise routers, where it holds about 63% share. Cisco also controls more than half of the Ethernet switching market … Read more

The US is experiencing a pronounced improvement in 5G performance as major carriers roll out newly acquired mid-band spectrum. Recent findings from Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence show notable gains in download speeds and overall network quality nationwide. T-Mobile remains the market leader, capitalizing on additional 2.5 GHz spectrum acquired in Auction 108. The carrier’s median 5G … Read more

Intel Corp is stepping back from the TV system-on-chip (SoC) market after struggling to compete with established rivals. According to an IHS market tracker report covering the first half of 2011, Intel’s share of the TV SoC market fell to just 2%, while MStar Semiconductor held approximately 39%. As a result, the Google partner plans … Read more

TIM (Telecom Italia) has opened one of the first OTIC (Open Test and Integration Center) laboratories in Europe. The new European OTIC Lab is hosted at TIM Group’s Innovation Laboratories in Turin and has been endorsed by the O-RAN Alliance. Founded in 2018 by a global group of network operators, the O-RAN Alliance aims to … Read more

A new study by Nokia and research firm Omdia finds that 5G technologies could contribute up to $3.3 trillion to Latin America’s economy by 2035. The report, titled “Why 5G in Latin America?”, also forecasts an associated boost in productivity of roughly $9 trillion, while acknowledging uncertainty around the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The authors note … Read more

Marianna Tamborini, Head of Smart Living Marketing at Swisscom, led a session at Telecoms Tech World about the obstacles to bringing smart living solutions to the mass market and practical ways to overcome them. She noted that while smart living products are becoming more common in the United States—largely driven by automated home security systems—the … Read more

New guidance has been issued by the government’s advertising regulator requiring internet service providers to substantiate claims that customers can browse the web at “maximum speeds.” The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), which works alongside the Advertising Standards Agency, published a Help Note outlining what ISPs must include when advertising top speeds. Under the new … Read more

(c)iStock.com/mapichai Over the past year, communications service providers (CSPs) have faced growing pressure to adopt new approaches, listen more closely to customers, and deliver outstanding customer experiences worldwide. As customer-centric demand rises, 2016 brings a set of fresh challenges that CSPs must address to remain competitive and profitable amid rapid technological and commercial change. Below … Read more

Google depends on the internet like few other companies. Starting as a search engine, it now powers some of the world’s most-used services—such as YouTube and Gmail—and has also launched its own high-speed internet offering known as Google Fiber. Because its business benefits when more people are online, Google has pursued multiple initiatives to expand … Read more

The UK Government has abandoned plans to compel internet service providers to carry out widescale surveillance of their customers. When Theresa May served as Home Secretary during a period of heightened national-security concern and a spate of terror attacks, several ministers and security agencies pushed for broader collection of communications data to help prevent future … Read more