Ericsson is partnering with Juniper Networks and ECI Telecom to create an end-to-end optical transport solution for 4G and 5G traffic from cell sites all the way to network cores.
The news is notable because Ericsson formed a wide-ranging partnership with Cisco three years ago, but instead chose Juniper to help build out its optical transport platform. Cisco also does business in the optical transport space, but Juniper and Ericsson have worked with each over the past 18 years.
