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Some have claimed the Trump administration's concerns have more to do with losing the 5G arms race than anything else, but ostensibly its chief worries have been chalked up to security, with the US government claiming Huawei's 5G kit could be backdoored by Beijing. For its part, earlier this year, the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport labelled Huawei as a "High-risk" vendor over its perceived ties to the Chinese government, and issued strong new rules prohibiting carriers from using the firm's equipment within the core 5G network.
Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, launched Intelsat CellBackhaul, an end-to-end managed service that helps Mobile Network Operators provide cost-efficient and rapid 4G and 5G broadband coverage to Americans everywhere, including those living, working and traveling in rural areas of the United States. With Intelsat CellBackhaul as part of their network planning strategy, MNOs of any size can cost-effectively offer mobile broadband coverage to these areas - connecting more subscribers, land areas, roadways and IoT devices.
Cisco, Altiostar, an innovator in open virtual RAN technology, and World Wide Technology, a market-leading $12 billion technology solution provider, announced the companies are working together on an Open vRAN blueprint that will accelerate the deployment of 4G/5G OpenRAN solutions in service provider networks. The combined solution will help service providers deploy fully integrated open, cloud-based virtualized RAN solutions based on technologies created by Cisco and Altiostar and that will be brought to market using the sales, integration and deployment capabilities of WWT. "Innovation in mobile networking and open virtualized RAN is continuing at a rapid pace," said Bob Everson, Senior Director of 5G Architecture, Cisco.
A report released Thursday by Positive Technologies explains how and why existing 4G and new 5G networks can be hurt by Denial-of-Service attacks in particular. Specifically, the company looked at 4G and 5G networks using Diameter signaling protocol, a method for coordinating data among different Internet Protocol network elements.
Several potentially serious vulnerabilities have been discovered in some of the industrial 4G routers made by Phoenix Contact, a Germany-based provider of industrial automation, connectivity and interface solutions. TC CLOUD CLIENT devices provide an industrial VPN gateway for remote maintenance via a 4G network.
Radisys, a global leader of open telecom solutions, announced the deployment of the Radisys Engage portfolio of digital engagement and AI-based real-time media applications on Open Network Edge Services Software, an open source multi-access edge compute platform initiative led by Intel to accelerate innovation and unique experiences on 4G/LTE and 5G networks. Radisys' Engage advanced real-time media applications are available on the OpenNESS platform, enabling new digital experiences.
The impersonation attack - named "IMPersonation Attacks in 4G NeTworks" - exploits the mutual authentication method used by the mobile phone and the network's base station to verify their respective identities to manipulate data packets in transit. The man-in-the-middle attack allows a hacker to impersonate a user towards the network and vice versa.
Enea launched the Enea Unified Data Manager, a hardware-agnostic, cloud-native network function for 4G and 5G data management. The software performs the 3GPP functions of Unified Data Management in 5G networks and interoperates with any Home Subscriber Server in 4G. The solution is a critical component in multi-vendor and multi-generation network architectures.
Inseego, a 5G and intelligent IoT device-to-cloud solutions pioneer, announced that its Skyus DS and DS2 4G LTE devices have been certified for use with VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, enabling...
Mavenir, a US headquartered Network Software Provider, and the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native vendor for CSPs, has announced the launch and availability of its fully virtualized 4G/5G...