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Airspan Networks has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with and into New Beginnings Acquisition. These trends are expected to provide Airspan with an opportunity to take market share from the legacy network providers and enter new high growth market segments such as Private 5G and Fixed Wireless Access, which are addressable markets in the new telecom paradigm.
Housed in a 1.1mm-high package - making it the thinnest 1TB UFS offering available - the new product utilizes KIOXIA's BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and achieves sequential read speed of up to 2,050MB/sec and sequential write speed of up to 1,200MB/sec. Mobile devices are constantly evolving, and 5G networks are poised to deliver levels of speed, scale and complexities the likes of which have never been seen before.
The number of cities with 5G networks is now 1,336 globally, a 350 percent increase during the past year despite an ongoing global pandemic, Viavi Solutions reveals. As of January 2021, more than 30 percent of the world's countries now have 5G availability.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the HPE Open RAN Solution Stack to enable the commercial deployment of Open RAN at scale in global 5G networks. HPE service management and orchestration software supports telco networks from the core to the edge, reducing risk and allowing operators to seize the benefits of 5G. The HPE Open RAN Solution Stack also features the new HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus server Open RAN workload optimized server.
Keysight Technologies announced it has completed the acquisition of Sanjole. The acquisition of Sanjole supports Keysight's goal to deliver a comprehensive, innovative 5G solutions portfolio at the forefront of advancing communications technology.
The 5G security market size is projected to grow from $580 million in 2020 to $5.226 billion by 2026, at a compound annual growth rate of 44.3% during the forecast period, according to MarketsandMarkets. The major drivers for the 5G security market include rising security concerns in the 5G networks, increasing ransomware attacks on IoT devices, rising attacks on critical infrastructure, and increasing IoT connections paved way for mMTC with enhanced security requirement.
The report provides insights from across the 5G eco-system on the current status of 5G, illustrating the accelerated timetables from service providers in upgrading to 5G standalone with the new 5G Core, and revealing how 5G is driving new initiatives and sector engagements. 5G activity surged in 2020 with accelerated timetables from service providers to deliver 5G SA core deployments, following non-standalone's inability to really wow customers and deliver a solid new revenue proposition.
Inseego announced that its new Wavemaker PRO 5G indoor router has been certified for use in Europe, North America and Australia, with additional regulatory certifications pending for other international markets. "Our Wavemaker PRO 5G solutions are changing the way enterprise and SMB customers think about broadband access," said Inseego President Ashish Sharma.
5G networks could create about 4.5 million jobs in the US and add roughly $1.5 trillion to the country's GDP, according to BCG. The analysis shows that 5G will contribute to US GDP and employment growth by enabling of innovation that will transform all sectors of America's economy across cities and communities of all sizes. "Our analysis shows that the 5G economy's impact will be broad and deep, unlocking significant benefits across the US and enabling new use cases across all industries, including health care, education, and agriculture," said Enrique Duarte Melo, a BCG managing director and senior partner and lead author of this report.
Keysight Technologies announced Nemo Backpack Pro, an in-building measurement solution for benchmarking 5G new radio end-user quality of experience in enterprise facilities, airports, arenas and other indoor environments. Keysight's Nemo Backpack Pro allows users to measure in-building key performance indicators across multiple mobile operators' 5G networks simultaneously using up to eighteen measurement devices.