Celeno combines WiFi, Bluetooth and Doppler radio in one chip
Celeno Communications, an Israeli provider of WiFi technology, has launched a single chip for client devices combining WiFi 6/6E, BT/BLE (Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy) 5.2 and its own WiFi Doppler Radar.
The company claims this to be a world first, incorporating Doppler Radar to exploit variations in radio wave frequency to track an object’s location, sense its presence, or assess its motion, by using a single WiFi device.
Potential applications include counting the number of TV viewers for audience analysis and monetization, security monitoring, pre-emptive maintenance in factories, and posture recognition for elderly care and fall detection.
Twilio offers eSIM for consumer IoT
Cloud communications platform Twilio has expanded its IoT portfolio by offering its Super SIM as an eSIM Consumer Profile for IoT devices enabled for such connectivity.
This allows enterprises or operators to load Twilio’s multi-carrier Super SIM profile onto their devices over-the-air, in addition to eSIM profiles from other providers, and then switch between the different SIM profiles as needed.
eSIMs alone require integration with multiple carriers for each SIM profile, so that IoT deployers have to manage several carrier relationships and deal with varied bills and technical differences. Twilio’s Super SIM circumvents such issues by providing multiple subscriber identities on a single SIM and autonomously switching them, depending on the country the device is in.
Australia’s TPG first to adopt Nokia AVA AI on public cloud
Australian mobile operator TPG has become the first commercial adopter of Nokia AVA AI on public cloud, using a local instance of Microsoft Azure. This allows TPG to deploy and scale additional AI use cases to optimize coverage, capacity and performance, by detecting network anomalies with greater accuracy and reducing radio frequency optimization cycle times by 50%.
“Nokia’s AVA AI as a service utilizes artificial intelligence and analytics to help us maintain a first class, optimized service for our subscribers, helping us to predict and deal with issues before they occur,” said Declan O’Rourke, head of radio and device engineering at TPG.
China Mobile adds 16.5m subs in April
China Mobile, the world’s biggest operator by number of customers, added 16.5m 5G subscribers in April 2021, according to the carrier. This brought the total to 205.3m 5G subscribers by the end of the month, up almost five times from the 43.74m a year earlier and over 20% of the operator’s overall 939.6m customers.
Of the country’s other two carriers, China Unicom added 6.71m 5G subscribers during April to reach 98.56m, while China Telecom added 6.54m to scale 117.77m.
Amdocs expands OSS/BSS offerings from Azure cloud
Amdocs has expanded its partnership with Microsoft Azure, making its OSS/BSS software functions available from the Azure cloud.
In a statement, the telco software company said: “With Amdocs and Microsoft, service providers will be able to transform with cloud-native solutions and cloud services and deploy 5G networks in the cloud with Azure for Operators, automated by the Amdocs NEO service and network automation suite and monetised by Amdocs Charging.”