Tag: BT

April 25, 2023

A significant public sector deal, a cybersecurity partnership, a new data center, and a new edge IX: BT has won a major public sector contract in Scotland. They have been awarded the Scottish WAN contract by NHS National Services Scotland. […]

March 28, 2023

UK-based BT Group has further expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collaborate on IoT industry solutions, cloud networking propositions, and 5G edge computing services for UK enterprise customers. It said the deal “targets” a $500 million revenue […]

February 17, 2023

Private 5G networks are widely viewed as the next big revenue driver for operators as enterprises increasingly understand the value of 5G-enabled solutions. Within BT, these capabilities reside in the Division X part of the organization which was designed to […]

January 30, 2023

U.K. operator BT and Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) announced they will test delivering mobile coverage using a new antenna technology, designed to be mounted on a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) aircraft. The new antenna technology would deliver 4G and 5G from […]

December 20, 2022

U.K. telecom group BT said it tested C-RAN technology in the city of Leeds, with the aim of boosting its 5G offering in the future. BT noted that C-RAN technology could be installed in the future as individual street works […]

October 7, 2022

The cloud networking company neutrality.one has won over a new network operator to its SDN platform. Batelco will be using their infrastructure to better serve enterprise customers by leveraging N1’s private network reach. N1 offers SD-WAN gased connectivity to 180 […]

August 11, 2022

Five interesting items from four continents to keep pace with: AMS-IX and irix have plans for an Internet Exchange in Malaysia. The new IX will leverage AMS-IX’s IXaaS platform and will be located on the island of Borneo in Kuching, […]

June 30, 2022

Teamwork everywhere, with four bits of news of companies working together to put the pieces together: Nokia and BT are working together on next-generation IP networking, expanding on the companies’ longstanding collaboration. BT will be testing Nokia’s new FP5 silicon. […]

May 18, 2022

U.K. carrier BT announced a trial of a new hyper-sensitive quantum antenna technology using “excited atomic states”, which could boost the capability of next-generation 5G and IoT networks. The operator noted that the Atomic Radio Frequency (RF) receiver technology represents […]

September 24, 2021

U.K. telco BT Group has selected Oracle Communications Cloud Native Converged Policy Management to optimize its network resources and bring new 5G offerings to market. In a release, Oracle noted that the solution will enable BT to test and implement […]

May 14, 2021

U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, has doubled its 5G footprint in the recent fiscal year, with its next-generation offering currently available in 160 towns and cities across the country, BT said in its earnings statement. BT also […]

March 5, 2021

When software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology first hit the scene a few years ago, service providers were concerned the technology would cannibalize their profitable MPLS businesses. And that has been true, to a certain extent. But, according to the […]

March 1, 2021

Nevion, a Sony Group Company and award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today BT Media and Broadcast has implemented VideoIPath orchestration and SDN control software to upgrade the control of its central video exchange service, FacilityLine. FacilityLine is […]

November 18, 2020

Expansions, upgrades, and deployments by international network operators across multiple continents to keep an eye on: Telia Carrier’s ongoing US network expansion has taken it to the Silicon Prairie. Yesterday the international network operator added a new DWDM route between […]

May 9, 2019

U.K. carrier EE will be launching 5G services imminently, its parent company BT said in a financial release. BT said EE is on track to launch 5G technology in 16 cities across the U.K. with a range of device partners. […]

January 28, 2019

UK-based BT has announced it has become the first overseas telecoms operator to secure nationwide telecommunications licenses in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has awarded a nationwide domestic IP-VPN license and a nationwide domestic ISP license to […]

November 12, 2018

U.K .telecom operator EE, part of BT Group, announced that nine 5G trial sites are now live across East London. “Deploying this brand new layer of our EE mobile network is far from straightforward, and this trial has helped us […]

October 25, 2018

ATLANTA—After a slow start, the cable industry knows it needs to jump into virtualization with both feet, but the question for some time has been how? To that end, CableLabs has started a new project called the Access Network Virtualization […]

June 14, 2018

SD-WAN is really seen a really good enabler for them because they can deploy underlay and overlay, to use some SD-WAN terminology. With their underlay, which is the multiple networks that they have out there today, they don’t have a […]

May 11, 2018

There’s a lot of buzz about artificial intelligence being a game-changer for the telecom industry, but machine learning is paving the way in the short-term. BT’s Neil McRae, chief architect, said there are elements of artificial intelligence in today’s machine […]