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The two colossus of the ICT sector presented in Barcelona their new technology aimed to improve phone network coverage with a reduction of consumes and a better energy efficiency. The name of this new solutions is Extended Coverage Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (EC-EGPRS).

Some of the news that have been presented are Power Efficiency Operation (PEO) and extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) that could lead the way to the realization of devices with an autonomy that can be measured in terms of years and a greater bandwidth than the one allowed by GSM/GPRS networks. These technologies converge into the world of Internet of Things, which experiences a growing number of applications requiring high autonomy and wide geographical coverage.

At WMC Nokia and MediaTek will demo the new infrastructure by combining an EC-GPRS Nokia radio statio (Nokia Multiradio 10) with a mobile station equipped with a MediaTek modem and related software protocol.

Lenovo presented some news at the Mobile World Congress concerning the consumer sphere: two new convertible laptops (Yoga 510 and Yoga 710), the 2-in-1 MIIX 310 tablet and tablets of the the TAB3 series with screen dimensions of 7, 8 and 10 inches.

The two new convertibles of the Yoga family and the MIIX 310 tablet come with Windows 10 installed. Regarding dimensions and hardware characteristics, we find 11, 14 and 15 inches screens, Intel m5 and i7 processors and SSD units up to 256GBytes. Both AMD and nVidia video cards are optionally available. Screen resolution is FullHD and batteries guarantee autonomy in the order of 8 hours, with weights under 2Kg.

HP Enterprise (HPE) recently announced two new important collaborations in order to expand its presence in the telecommunications world. Swisscom and Telecom Personal (a branch of Telecom Italia) will be the new partners for hardware and solutions provisions.

Swisscom will use a number of technologies by HPE to allow a centralized network infrastructures management, thus offering on-demand service and speeding up their implementation with a cut on costs too. Amongst the solutions that will be used, we can find HPE Virtual Service Router, HPE Service DIrector and HPE Technology Service. The partnership with Telecom Personal will be oriented on the enhancement of the 4G/LTE network to satisfy the ever growing traffic required by mobile users both from a quantitative and from a qualitative perspective.

While at Mobile World Congress, VMware renews its commitment in the field of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) by announcing new solutions and its strategic management for the future, in addition to the VMware Ready NFV certification for partners.

VMware announces that MetTel and Transatel (two important companies in the telcom market segment) are now part of the list of companies that adopts the NFV platform, while now vRealize solutions can a better and more simplified control of operations about NFV management and troubleshooting.
For those partners that would like to migrate towards the VMware platform, a certification plan called VMware Ready NFV is now available. This plan allows to certify NFV capabilities in a VMware environment (further information about vCloud NFV Platform here).