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Welcome to the Netrality News Roundup!
We’ve selected key articles on the latest news, developments, innovations and revelations in the colocation data center industry.
Don’t miss our bi-weekly news roundups to learn what’s going on with colocation, edge computing, and the brave new world of hybrid cloud, 5G, IoT, artificial intelligence, smart cities, virtual reality, and other technologies at the edge!
June 3, 2020
Anne Morris, Light Reading
Liquid cooled sites are said to be silent, require zero maintenance, and can be 50% smaller and 30% lighter than standard active air conditioning units. “They offer operators and owners of base station sites significant savings and potentially longer basestation component life,” the vendor added.
June 2, 2020
Eric Weiss, MobileID World
June 1, 2020
Mike Dano, Light Reading
Oracle said it plans to sell 4G and 5G core network services to mobile operators starting later this year. The company said the offering would run inside Oracle’s cloud and would be available “as a service,” meaning operators will be able to pay only for what they need on a recurring basis; they will no longer have to purchase equipment under the “Mother’s Day rule,” whereby they must invest in enough equipment to handle their biggest traffic days. Instead, they can scale up and down as needed, paying only for what they use.
Oracle’s entry into the 5G core market comes as little surprise. The still-nascent versions of 5G mostly rely on 4G cores because standalone 5G isn’t widely available yet. But a number of operators – including all of the major operators in the US – are planning to deploy 5G standalone cores in the next year or so. This will give them much more flexibility than they have today using 4G cores.
Sue Marek, Light Reading
June 4, 2020
The overlap between the cloud companies and telecom players is steadily increasing. For mobile operators to deliver the speed and bandwidth 5G and edge computing require, they need to partner with public cloud providers. But when it comes to private networking, those same cloud providers may well become competitors. This type of coopetition will be a difficult balancing act but will ultimately give customers more choice
David Phelan, Forbes
June 10, 2020
Google Meet, Google’s video conferring platform, is looking to gain a competitive edge over Microsoft Teams and Zoom by adding noise canceling features to its video conferring. This is a feature Teams promised it would add in future updates, however, Google is the first to introduce it to its G Suite customers, with iOS and Android to follow. Google Meet is working to win and keep customers, both business and personal, as most people are utilizing video conferencing as a new standard for daily communication.
Serge Lachapelle, G Suite director of product management, has been working on video conferencing for 25 years, 13 of those at Google. As most of the company shifted to working from home, Lachapelle’s team got the go-ahead to deploy the de-noiser in Google Meet meetings.The Cloud De-Noiser as it’s called uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to manage what noises should be cancelled out, data, privacy, and user experiences.
