Sintetiche riflessioni sulla evoluzione della tecnologia e dell’Industry A cura di Technology - Innovation T.I.TIM.TSC – Technological Scouting & Communication Numero 17 – 25 maggio 2018 L’Archivio delle Triggering News è a questo link NTT employs Orbital Angular Momentum multiplexing for 100G wireless At&T Airship, OpenStack da AT&T con Intel e SKT in Open Source Facebook e Qualcomm insieme per FWA con Wifi a 60 GHz nell'ultimo 200 metri ...progetto Facebook Terragraph Spain: Telefónica in 20m FTTH homes passed and 3.5m customers Ericsson pioneers machine learning network design for SoftBank OPPO demonstrates world’s first 5G video call with 3D images EE: Average UK Smart Home will have 50 connected devices by 2023 Digital Twin Technology Could Change How Networks Are Built and Monitored Una bella carrellata dall’ultimo TechCrunch Conference L'uomo polverizza l'auto autonoma sul giro secco Sky to create UK innovation centre Announcing the Netflix Research Website Continental invests in next-gen head-up display: Augmented Reality in the car The Pentagon is spending $1 billion to infuse the Army with robots Il fatturato del accesso Internet (“ISP”) di Comcast ha superato quello della Pay TV Like Verizon, AT&T's Cool With the Sprint T-Mobile Merger AT&T userà probabilmente Android TV nel suo prossimo servizio OTT Video premium JPMorgan Chase is doubling down on artificial intelligence. IBM Adding 1,800 Jobs in France for AI, Blockchain & Cloud 5G e Future Net NTT employs Orbital Angular Momentum multiplexing for 100G wireless Una nuova modulazione radio permetterà di andare ancora più veloci ... le promesse del 5G non si fermano The laboratory tests combined OAM multiplexing with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology and carried the signals a distance of 10m. NTT developed a transceiver operating in the 28 GHz band capable of OAM transmissionachieving large-capacity wireless transmission at a total bit rate of 100 Gbps. NTT believes the technology holds promise for achieving large-capacity wireless transmission at a 2 level about 100 times that of LTE and Wi-Fi and about 5 times that of current 5G. http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2018/1805e/180515a.html Source: https://www.convergedigest.com/2018/05/ntt-employs-orbital-angular-momentum.html At&T Airship, OpenStack da AT&T con Intel e SKT in Open Source avere un cloud "world class" è essenziale per poter lanciare la rete 5G e tutte le iniziative di automazione di rete e servizi e analytics e previsione che a AI. Poichè fare tutto da soli è troppo costoso, AT&T trova alleati attraverso iniziative OpenSource Newly launched, the AT&T Airship open infrastructure project aims to simplify site operation for cloud operators. The company is working with Intel Corporation, the OpenStack Foundation and Korean telecom provider SKT . “Simply put, Airship lets you build a cloud easier than ever before,” said Amy Wheelus, AT&T vice president of Cloud and Domain 2.0 Platform Integration, in a blog post announcing Airship. Another role for Airship will be to “fuel and accelerate” AT&T’s Network AI initiative, which the company previously described as a framework for a range of open source projects that the company has undertaken. The framework determines how the projects integrate with and support one another, the company said. Source: http://www.telecompetitor.com/att-airship-fueling-cloud-ai-initiatives-including-5g-core/ Facebook e Qualcomm insieme per FWA con Wifi a 60 GHz nell'ultimo 200 metri ...progetto Facebook Terragraph Dopo l’annuncio simile con Nokia. Non bisogna mai sottovalutare WiFi Qualcomm said today it will work with Facebook to support Facebook Terragraph technology, a high-speed wireless offering designed for urban areas that Facebook has likened to “fiber in the air.” Qualcomm said it will integrate Terragraph technology in its pre-802.11 ay Wi-Fi chipsets. Facebook and Qualcomm said they expect to begin trials of the integrated solution in mid-2019. The 802.11 ay standard aims to boost the performance of Wi-Fi technology and is one element of Facebook Terragraph technology. Facebook Terragraph Technology Terragraph technology is designed to operate in an unlicensed portion of the millimeter wave band at 60 GHz. It uses multi-point multi-hop wireless technology based on client and distribution nodes designed for installation on what Facebook calls “street furniture” such as lamp posts and streetlights. The idea, as Yael Maguire, Facebook vice president of connectivity, explains in a video posted on the Terragraph web page, is to use the infrastructure of the city to create a network that can support “a really dense deployment” of access nodes and to offer speeds comparable to what fiber can support at considerably lower cost. According to the Terragraph website, developers envision providing gigabit connectivity to single- or multi-family dwellings and 10 Gbps connectivity to apartment buildings and businesses and to support events. 3 Facebook Terragraph Nodes (Source: Facebook Code website) “Cities are the center of education and opportunities for jobs,” comments Maguire in the Terragraph video. “The trend is toward more and more urbanization.” He notes in the video that the technology will need a “rich ecosystem of partners,” including cities that will need to make infrastructure available to support the technology and internet service providers that would install the technology. A press release about the Facebook/ Qualcomm deal noted that Qualcomm has optimized its technology for use in outdoor backhaul applications by introducing enhancements such as a TDMA- based protocol, time synchronized nodes, channel bonding and a massive antenna array to optimize performance of its new chipset in urban areas. Facebook previously announced that Nokia would supply wireless passive optical network (WPON) technology for use with Terragraph. http://www.telecompetitor.com/facebook-partners-with-qualcomm-on-terragraph-fiber- Source: in-the-air-technology-aims-to-enable-gigabit-fixed-wireless/ Spain: Telefónica in 20m FTTH homes passed and 3.5m customers ci son voluti 6 anni per raggiungere questi risultati, abbastanza un unicum in Europa Spanish telco Telefónica has broken a new record by passing 20 million homes with FTTH – 70 per cent of all households in the country. The company – which claims to have the largest FTTH network in Europe – has completed the FTTH deployment in the country’s largest cities with 244,000km of cable and is now focussing on the medium and smaller cities, with plans to reach 25 million homes by 2020. After six years of FTTH deployment, Telefónica already has over 3.5 million customers, 58 per cent of its bandwidth clients with 2.2 million enjoying up to 600 Mbps speeds. The second FTTH operator is Orange with over 12 million homes with plans to reach 16 million by 2020. Vodafone has 10.3 million FTTH homes. Source: https://advanced-television.com/2018/05/22/spain-telefonica-in-20m-ftth-homes/ Ericsson pioneers machine learning network design for SoftBank Anche TIM è attiva sul tema SoftBank a leading mobile operator in Japan, has implemented an innovative method for radio access network design from Ericsson based on machine intelligence. The service groups cells in clusters and takes statistics from cell overlapping and potential to use carrier 4 aggregation between cells into account, thus reducing operational expenditure and improving network performance. Compared to traditional network design methods, it cut the lead time by 40 percent. Tags: AI https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2018/5/ericsson-pioneers-machine-learning- Source: network-design-for-softbank OPPO demonstrates world’s first 5G video call with 3D images In pratica una videoconferenza su 5G in formato 3D; interessante che i terminali siano prototipi di smartphone con chip pre-commerciali di Qualcomm e che venga da un giovane dragone cinese nel mondo degli smartphone come Oppo The team was able to reproduce a 3D portrait image on a remote receiver. The demo used colour and 3D depth information collected via a structured light 3D camera on an OPPO phone. This was transmitted via 5G NR (New Radio) terminal prototypes from Qualcomm Technologies and eventually displayed on a remote display screen. On a Skype call, for example, the 3D imaging would allow the caller’s perspective to change based on their position and angle. Source: https://5g.co.uk/news/first-5g-video-call-with-3d-images/4380/ Cloud, IoT, AI EE: Average UK Smart Home will have 50 connected devices by 2023 A proposito di massive IoT The average UK household will contain 50 connected devices by 2023 as the Smart Home sub- sector booms, according to Marc Allera, CEO of BT's Consumer Division. Speaking at a BT Consumer Group event in London on Tuesday, Allera said that the number of connected devices per household was set to increase 5-fold over the next five years, leaving numerous opportunities for telcos to capitalise on. BT's mobile subsidiary, EE, has identified the Smart Home sub-sector as a key market in which to grow its brand. Speaking at the same event, EE's managing director for Marketing, Max Taylor, announced that the company would be launching a new range of Smart Home products and services in June 2018. https://www.totaltele.com/500103/EE- Source: Average-UK-Smart-Home-will-have-50- connected-devices-by-2023 Digital Twin Technology Could Change How Networks Are Built and Monitored Tema affascinantissimo 5 Though it has yet to be realized at scale, digital twinning has tremendous potential beyond manufacturing and product development, where it’s primarily deployed today. “Over time, digital representations of virtually every aspect of our world will be connected dynamically with their real-world counterparts...City planners, digital marketers, healthcare professionals, and industrial planners will all benefit from this long-term shift to the integrated digital twin world.” In my view, there’s at least one more group that could easily be added to the list of people likely to benefit from digital twinning: networking professionals.