Security News
In the 5G era, and a rapidly changing digital landscape, operators could broaden their security credentials with partners as they look to deliver on their desire to secure private networks. 45% of operators consider it extremely important to invest in security to achieve long-term enterprise revenue goals.
Thales is playing a key role in the end-to-end cloud-native mobile network, operated by Rakuten Mobile, a dynamic entrant into the Japanese market. Thales' eSIM technology also plays a key role in the development of Rakuten Mobile's innovative 4G and 5G smartphones.
Fujitsu is collaborating with the Telecom Infra Project OpenRAN Project Group to accelerate adoption of open radio access network infrastructure, helping service providers speed new 5G services to market at reduced costs. With commercial 5G deployments gaining momentum worldwide, an increasing number of network service providers are embracing Open RAN technologies to take advantage of greater component choice, reduced costs and improved network performance.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a new 5G software solution that adds fully integrated automated management to HPE's existing 5G portfolio. The solution includes HPE 5G Automated Assurance and a new 5G capability for HPE Service Director, which together simplify the management of 5G networks and reduce deployment risks through a zero-touch, closed-loop system.
To capitalize on that growth, and enable 5G to scale up to its potential, communication service providers are leveraging iconectiv TruOps Common Language to ensure that their physical and virtual infrastructure can support all of the new 5G services at scale. Now, iconectiv is bringing that expertise to our new partnership with the 5G Open Innovation Lab, which focuses on fueling the development of new capabilities and services that will transform the enterprise.
Huawei launched a series of 5G products and solutions oriented to "1+N" 5G target networks. Supercharged by innovation, these products and solutions will help promote multi-antenna technology to all bands and all scenarios to build leading 5G networks.
D-Link announces its latest private 5G network innovations, specifically designed for enterprises and SMBs, to address mounting critical IoT connectivity demands and drive new efficiencies in the current digital revolution known as Industry X.0. D-Link expands 5G to industrial IoT by offering 5G private networks to support massive IoT deployments and provide multi-gigabit speeds with virtually unlimited capacity for high bandwidth and low-latency services.
Cloudify recently announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Intel and Capgemini Engineering dedicated to streamlining transformation process of telcos and enterprises to public cloud based infrastructure using open source cloud native and DevOps based architecture - also known as an agile first approach. Cloudify's management and orchestration solution with its full integration to AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS - alongside its support to provision workloads and clusters on-premises such as AWS Outposts, or on Amazon EKS Anywhere - make it a great solution to support 5G network slicing use cases.
With four million subscribers today, Rakuten Mobile continues to advance and scale its network to support new demands driven by the growth of remote and mobile workers. With the implementation of Segment Routing over IPv6 and Cisco Routed Optical Networking, Rakuten Mobile plans to expand its capabilities to support enterprise customers with 5G and IoT services.
As 5G private networks roll out in the coming years, security may be a key issue for enterprises. A survey released at Mobile World Congress on Monday shows that major gaps persist in security capabilities among mobile operators.