CommsWire daily newsletter - 5 July 2021

UK Government looking to diversify 5G supply chain The UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has setup Future RAN, an open competition that will allocate £30M of R&D funding to projects that support the UK Government's 5G supply chain diversification strategy.

Handover with Buffering for Distributed Mobility Management

Centralized mobility management (CMM) is widely used in current mobile network technologies. One problem related to CMM is a single point of failure. In this paper, we propose a distributed mobility management (DMM) solution with handover operations for SDN-enabled mobile networks.

CommsWire - 22 March 2018

ACCC Report Competition drives greater value, price drops for mobile users: ACCC Mobile voice minutes rose by 7 billion in the 12 months to the end of the 2016-2017 financial year. And, competition has benefited consumers with price drops and better value for money, according to the ACCC.

CommsWire - 16 May 2017

Telstra to offer services in one integrated intelligent platform Telstra is offering its Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Virtualisation capabilities, cloud platform and data centres, and global and Australian networks, in one integrated and intelligent platform that provides network-as-a-service.

CommsWire - 10 November 2016

NZ's Commerce Commission wants Chorus copper lines capacity upgrade NZ regulator, The Commerce Commission, has made a draft decision that the country?s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, should upgrade its copper lines capacity to benefit retail telcos and consumers.

CommsWire - 10 March 2016

Cisco introduces first DNA building bricks; Local universities tap device location for student services; Alcatel Australia grows 70% in vital Q4 holiday period - #3 in Australia; Kantar: iOS grows in China, but slowly; Huawei gains ground; Dropmysite rebrands to Dropsuite - targets rapid global expansion; NZ?s Southern Cross Hospitals select Palo Alto to secure the network; Samsung S7 is sublime ? first looks.

CommsWire - 9 March 2016

Telstra and Cisco promised 'redefined customer experience' with SDN; Kogan goes all ?Hulk Hogan? on 28 day billing periods; ACCC investigation: Vaya telco responds; Enterprise Cloud - privacy and security remain top concerns; Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise signs Integrated Products as newest OZ distie; Jennifer Kyriakakis talks Matrixx, telcos, Telstra, tech and International Women?s Day.; D-Link Launches Extreme Streaming Education Campaign.

Software Defined Networking ? Shaping up for the next disruptive step?

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) removes the limitations of current network infrastructures by separating the control plane from the data forwarding plane. Networks can be managed more cost-effectively and autonomously through centralising decision-making and programmability.This opens up markets for infrastructure providers to provision and offer network resources on-demand to multiple tenants and for service providers to develop and deploy their services on shared infrastructure resources...

CommsWire - 11 November 2015

Competition watchdog delays decision on ihail authorisation; Upstart company disrupts historic WAN operations; Motorola revamps its Australian Public Safety Innovation Centre; Global Chatsim wins an Angels? Choice 2015 Award at Dublin Web Summit; Host Analytics, Inside Info launch Sydney data centre; Fact Check: Ericsson and Cisco Systems Partnership; Wireless charging ? three players and no standard yet.

CommsWire - 7 October 2015

Telstra the new Wi-Fi bandwidth bully; TPPA: No mention of any downside for Australia; The ACMA, Internet providers cooperating to combat cybercrime; NextDC housing Worldox Cloud in Australia; CSE, Alcatel-Lucent team up on distribution; AT&T, Brocade come together on Network on Demand Platform; Tait locates Asia Pacific HQ in Sydney.