Telecoms

Worldwide telecom capex – the sum of wireless and wireline/other telecom carrier investments – fell 8% last year, says Dell’Oro Group, as telecom equipment revenues tanked. “With some of the larger fibre and 5G builds now in the past, the different risk profiles across the carrier spectrum become more pronounced,” said Dell’Oro vp Stefan Pongratz, “while some operators prefer a ...

Colorado-based Advanced Energy has announced a half-brick dc-dc converter capable of delivering 1.3kW at 28V – a continuous current of 46.5A. Called ADH1300-48S28, it is aimed at telecom wireless base stations and other equipment with RF power amplifiers. Input range is 36 to 75Vdc, the output is adjustable across 14 to 33Vdc, and efficiency peaks at 95.5% to keep heat ...

Worldwide telecom equipment revenues across the six telecom programs tracked at Dell’Oro Group—Broadband Access, Microwave & Optical Transport, Mobile Core Network (MCN), Radio Access Network (RAN), and SP Router & Switch—declined 16% year-over-year (Y/Y) in 2Q24, recording a fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit contractions. Helping to explain the abysmal results are excess inventory, weaker demand in China, challenging 5G comparisons, ...

Radio Access Network (RAN) market conditions remain challenging, says Dell’Oro, with global RAN revenues declining at a double-digit rate year-over-year for a fourth consecutive quarter. At the same time, pockets of the market are performing better, with three out of the six tracked regions growing, up from one region in 1Q 2024. “Even if the RAN market is still down ...

Japanese telco NTT has used machine learning to develop AI which predicts damage to outdoor communications infrastructure during disasters such as earthquakes or deluges. Resolution is as fine as individual telegraph poles. “This technology allows for accurate disaster prediction by building a model that learns disaster patterns from facility data that the NTT Group has inspected and repaired [after] past ...

Last year, telecom equipment sales across Broadband Access, Microwave & Optical Transport, Mobile Core Network (MCN), Radio Access Network (RAN), and SP Router & Switch declined 5% YoY, reports Dell’Oro. The  telecom equipment market dropped a fifth in the North America region, underpinned by weak activity in both RAN and Broadband Access. If North America is excluded, worldwide sales revenue ...

Worldwide spending on telecommunication and pay TV services will reach $1.55 trillion in 2023, an increase of 3.0% over 2022, according to IDC with inflation being the primary driver. The geographic regions seeing above-average forecast revisions are the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America. This is mainly a consequence of hyperinflation happening in countries such as Turkey, Uganda, ...

The government has announced a telecoms lab to be based in Solihull. “The first of its kind in the country, the lab will act as a secure research facility bringing together telecom operators, suppliers and academics to research and test ways of boosting the security, resilience and performance of the UK’s mobile networks,” according to the Department for Digital, Culture, ...

The UK has been elected to the governing council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency which coordinates the global allocation of spectrum and oversees the network of orbiting satellites. The UK received the second highest number of votes in the Western Europe group, securing 151 votes out of a possible 179. The ITU was established  in 1865 ...

Flex Power Modules has created an eighth brick intermediate bus dc-dc converter series that can deliver 600 to 800W continuously along with up to 1,100W for up to a second. The high peak is for running CPUs such as Intel’s Ice Lakein datacom and data center applications. Called BMR492, it “delivers a power level that was previously only made possible in ...