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More than 30 technology and telecom companies announced this week that they have formed a new alliance, the Open RAN Policy Coalition, that calls for open and interoperable 5G systems. The alliance promotes the adoption of open and interoperable Radio Access Network solutions - this includes 5G technology - in an effort to "Create innovation, spur competition and expand the supply chain for advanced wireless technologies."
The Czech Republic and the United States have signed a joint declaration Wednesday for cooperating on security of 5G technology. The Czech government office said the document was signed remotely by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The startling prediction came from Tobias Ellwood MP, chairman of the Defence Committee, as he presided over a hearing on 5G security and Huawei's involvement. "To put it in cruder terms, Russia is going to become more subservient to China." He added: "If Russia understands the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities or the back doors that China provides, it can be Russia continuing to do those cyber attacks at the behest of China."
Leading global technology solutions provider Avnet announced the availability of the Avnet XRF16 system-on-module, featuring the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ Radio Frequency System-on-Chip SoC Gen-2. The new module enhances Avnet's product offerings for developers working on applications that require next-generation 5G connectivity by accelerating valuable development and production time.
More than 30 technology and telecom firms unveiled an alliance Tuesday to press for "Open and interoperable" 5G wireless systems that eliminate the need for a single supplier. The new Open RAN Policy Coalition said an open-standards system with competitive bidding for various components in a "Radio access network" would avoid depending on any single technology supplier.
Post COVID-19, the 5G infrastructure market is estimated to grow from $12.6 billion in 2020 and projected to reach $44.9 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 28.97%, according to ResearchAndMarkets. The major factors driving the growth of the global 5G infrastructure market is the need for high data transfer speed with low latency, increasing adoption of IoT devices, rising implementation of automation technologies across the end-user industries, and exponential rise in data traffic.
Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced LoadCore 5G Core Testing software - and China Mobile Research Institute has selected LoadCore to validate performance using 5GC network equipment provided by major infrastructure vendors. Keysight's LoadCore 5GC Testing software simulates complex real-world subscriber models to enable mobile operators and network equipment manufacturers to qualify performance and reliability of voice and data transferred over 5GC networks.
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.
I'd like to thank everybody for joining us today for our webinar, "5G, the Olympics and Next Generation Security Challenges." Today, we are going to be hearing from a couple of experts in the arena: Russ Mohr who is an engineer and Apple Evangelist at MobileIron; and also Jerry Ray, who is a COO at SecureAge - he works in Tokyo quite a bit, so he will have some feet-on-the-ground information for us, which is great. Something to note about our agenda, clearly: The hook here is that we're going to use the Tokyo Summer Games as a jumping off point to discuss what's possible with 5G technology rolling out.