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LTE IoT market is expected to register a healthy CAGR of over 28% during the forecast period, accordig to ResearchAndMarkets. The growth of connected devices and the need for unique and defined network qualities are fueling the growth of the LTE IoT market.
Huawei has belatedly fixed an embarrassing vulnerability in a USB connectivity dongle, spotted by Trustwave, after The Register intervened. When infosec firm Trustwave's Spiderlabs division took a closer look at the stick last year, its researchers found a security blunder that affects macOS users: the USB stick acts as a storage drive that includes software to install to manage the dongle.
This week, a Trustwave security researcher disclosed a privilege escalation flaw in Huawei's USB LTE dongles. Huawei LTE driver autoruns with maximum permissions.
Despite the impact of COVID-19, momentum for enhancements to LTE and 5G standards continue with additional releases from the Third Generation Partnership Project. 5G Americas announced the publication of a white paper providing an update on the newest 3GPP releases launching the next chapter of 5G standardization and beyond.
Private LTE/5G infrastructure is any 3GPP-based LTE and/or 5G network deployed for a specific enterprise/industrial customer that provides dedicated access. Private LTE/5G infrastructure carries traffic native to a specific organization, with no shared resources in use by any third-party entities.
As of December 2020, there were 229 million 5G subscriptions globally, which represents an astonishing 66 percent increase over last quarter - and is expected to reach 236 million globally by the end of 2020. Of those projections, 506 million 4G LTE connections will come from North America and 406 million will come from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Viavi Solutions announced enhancements to the VIAVI OneAdvisor-800 all-in-one tool to streamline cell site maintenance of 5G and 4G technologies. With the addition of 5G NR and 4G LTE signal analyzer functionality to the award-winning OneAdvisor-800, field technicians can efficiently deploy, integrate and troubleshoot today's multi-technology networks with a single instrument.
Zyxel Communications announced the receipt of OnGo certification for its high-power LTE7485-S905 4G LTE-A outdoor router by the CBRS Alliance. For service providers, OnGo certification brings interoperability to multi-vendor, large-scale deployments, thus enabling best-of-breed solutions at competitive costs.
Spirent Communications announced its extensive work with Rakuten Mobile in support of the operator's current LTE services, planned 5G Non-Standalone and Standalone rollout in Japan for its world-first fully virtualized cloud native mobile network. Rakuten Mobile required groundbreaking testing capabilities to assure the performance of new services and selected Spirent Landslide for core network testing.
To resolve such issues, Amnimo is developing the Edge Gateway, which is optimized for IIoT. The objective is to equip the Edge Gateway with LTE communication features that can be used in a wide variety of industries; in particular, to develop an optimal design for use in surveillance-camera systems. Amnimo Edge Gateway characteristics Wide operating temperature range and power voltage range.