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Arm just completed it's closing statement. As mentioned in my summary yesterday, there are 3 (really 2 ) questions for the jury to answer: 1. Did Nuvia breach the #ALA)? 2. Did Qualcomm breach Nuvia ALA? 3. Are Qualcomm products with (Nuvia technology) covered under Qualcomm ALA? Arm reiterated their same arguments and addressed some of the issues Qualcomm had raised - Nuvia/Qualcomm needed Arm consent for acquisition - Breached confidentialality requirements of ALA by sharing it with QC - Bought Nuvia because of cost savings, not performance - Arm Technology includes Architecture Compliant Core (Remember my comments in the #blogs about it) - Many things Qualcomm mentioned are irrelevant (e.g. SoftBank ownership, CEO salaries etc .) My #TantraNotea #blog bit.ly/TA-Notes #qcomarm #licensing

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Doing more with less is what I have gotten into these days. I have seen BOM and demands coming to me/my team in TBs of storage and GBs of Memory and nearly half a dozen cores of 1-2Ghz. Today I am developing software for systems with less than 4MB of storage, 320KB of memory and two cores giving me 80Mz. Embedded systems and IOT were part of a magical world for me until few months ago. Simple things like back light of an LCD screen on a panel going off after few seconds, clock ticking away on the microwave, the beep when I turn on/off the fan or aircon, all were expected behaviour. Now that I am doing it myself, I am having the Chuck Nolan moment of having made his fire at that island. Coming from a time when 16Mz PC-AT using 640kb of memory and 1.44 even 360kb floppy disks was luxury, I see my current hardware is way superior to in early 90s. I used to juggle memory then through overlay files and TSRs, creating linked lists as and when I see need to store/purge data. INT21H was my thing for event driven coding. HiMem the one beyond 640kb I used it as RAMDisk which is like blazing fast drive. Brings back memories. The world of embedded systems hardware and the ecosystem has matured to a point where I am seeing otherwise heavy HTTPS, gRPC and Node.js implementation seen possible in such tiny bit of hardware. Host to Host API calls, is just few lines of code away. The capability of a platform like Espressif which gives BLE, WiFi with station and AP mode to coexist, it's ability to interface a ton of peripherals it's amazing. These have been around for years, I at times feel - where was I? Who knows, or one day AI systems which rely on blazing fast GPU hardware may even find its way into these tiny nano scale hardware. May be it already has also. #embeddedsystems #iot #domorewithless

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The surging demand for AI data centers will put a strain on underlying infrastructure. Infinera’s Russ Esmacher spoke to Next Gen Infrastructure about the huge need for solutions and tools to stay ahead of this curve of massive bandwidth growth. Watch now: #DataCenter #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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5G MBS (Multicast Broadcast service) is an emerging technology. 3gpp 5G NR Release 17 introduced many new and interesting concepts on 5G MBS. 5G MBS has great potential to solve a multitude of use cases ranging from V2X, time sensitive emergency alerts, location based services and many more. 3GPP introduced new DCI formats for 5G MBS for MTCH/PDSCH scheduling. DCI-Format-4-0, DCI-Format-4-1 and DCI-Format-4-2. DCI-4-0 is used for scheduling of PDSCH for broadcast or for multicast in RRC_INACTIVE state. DCI-4-1 and DCI-4-2 is used for scheduling of PDSCH for multicast only, in RRC_CONNECTED state. (Refer to 3gpp 38.21x, 38.331 Release 18 specs for details if you are interested). Unlike eMBMS in 4G LTE, where a new physical channel (PMCH) was introduced for broadcast/multicast, in 5G NR (thankfully!), the same PDSCH channel is also reused for MBS traffic. 

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Had an incredible time at the Qualcomm Product Security Summit 2024! Big thanks to Alex Gantman for organizing such an impressive lineup of speakers. As someone involved in product security, I found the presentations on Vulnerability Management by Nabanita Sen and Mukul Senapati from Qualcomm, and Security Patch Validation at Google by Lauren Stan and Day Truong, particularly insightful. Our team has been spending substantial efforts in these areas, and the insights gained will certainly help us in our ongoing projects. A standout moment for me was the workshop on code signing led by Daniel M. from Nvidia. Over the years, I've faced the challenges of code signing across different platforms and have been seriously considering developing a lightweight open-source code signing server. Larger enterprises typically address their code signing needs with internal tools or expensive external solutions, but for small to medium enterprises, it remains a significant challenge so that is some place for a disruption. This server could potentially support hardware HSMs(like YubiHSM) and sign a variety of software, including firmware files, PE32, deb, ipk, pip modules, as well as Android and iPhone apps. There's a definite need for a simple, open solution in this area, and this workshop definitely sparked some ideas!

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ISAC is being standardized in 3GPP Release 19. This release focuses on the initial steps of ISAC standardization, including use cases, requirements, and channel modeling. While Release 19 lays the foundation for ISAC, further advancements and detailed specifications are expected in subsequent releases, such as Release 20 and beyond. These future releases will likely delve deeper into specific technologies, protocols, and system designs to fully realize the potential of ISAC in #6G #networks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Given the potential benefits of ISAC in enhancing both communication and sensing capabilities in future 6G networks, what are the key challenges and technical hurdles that need to be addressed to ensure its successful implementation and widespread adoption? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is gaining widespread attention as a crucial technology for future wireless systems. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has regarded ISAC as one of the key potential technologies for the #6G mobile communication systems. Future 6G networks are expected to utilize wide-bandwidth radio signals, large-scale antenna arrays, and multiple network nodes to offer efficient sensing capabilities including detection, localization, tracking, activity recognition, and environmental reconstruction, which brings the ultimate vision of the interconnected, intelligent, and perceptive world into reality. Moreover, in future 6G wireless networks, ISAC will support higher data rates, enhanced communication reliability, and improved network coverage. ISAC provides substantial gains by combining communication and sensing functions into a unified framework. This integration results in increased spectrum and hardware utilization efficiency, collectively known as integration gain. More importantly, coordination gain is achieved through the mutual assistance of communication and sensing, enhancing overall system performance. ISAC allows the communication system to serve as a sensor, utilizing radio wave transmission, reflection, and scattering to perceive and understand the physical environment, thereby offering a broader range of new services. Additionally, high-precision localization, imaging, and environmental reconstruction can significantly improve communication performance by enabling more accurate predictive beamforming, faster link recovery, and reduced overhead for tracking channel state information (CSI). 🎯Follow us on Kaneshwaran Govindasamy & Global 5G Evolution 🎯Check out this month's conference #5g #monetization debate 👇🏽 🎯Click comment box subscribe our #youtube channel #5G

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“Make in India” strategy now adds “Make Silicon in India” - Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s time to lead the 'Silicon Diplomacy' has arrived. - “When the chips are down, you can bet on India… India is set to play a big role in driving the global semiconductor industry,” - PM Modi said the government has made special efforts to ensure it provides not just financial incentives (with central govt offer 50% financial support for setting up semiconductor manufacturing facilities) to companies investing in semiconductors, but also gives them ease of doing business. - With India’s electronics sector touching over $150 billion in revenue, the PM outlined a larger goal to grow this to $500 billion by 2030 - Actions are already taking place, Tata group to build First mega silicon manufacturing facility in Dholera, Gujarat in partnership with Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) with Indian engineers are already undergoing training by PSMC All the best #GOI for the full swung initiative , looking forward to see India’s contribution to Global semiconductor demands.

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Sustainability, or more specifically environmental sustainability in the telecom sector refers to its capacity to reduce ecological impacts both within the industry and across other sectors through its extensive connections. Both networks and devices are continually improving to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental effects throughout their lifecycle. End goal is to achieve Net-Zero Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The ITU-R framework for IMT-2030 (#6G) includes sustainability as one of the overarching design principles. Companies that form the 5G India Forum are committed to make ITU goals a reality. #MediaTek worked together closely with other member companies -  #Ericsson, #Nokia and other partners to publish a white paper on sustainability (https://lnkd.in/gq6Azf-C).  In this report, we discuss the role of every player in the telecom industry to make sustainability goals a reality. Devices need to work closely with networks to achieve sustainability goals. Such details and another exclusive report on sustainability from MediaTek here: https://lnkd.in/gR5mXGsg 5G India Forum would love to hear any thoughts that you may have around sustainable networks for the future!

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Thank you RaviKiran Gopalan for speaking with James E. Carroll and me on the latest about #AI in #Networking. Appreciate you appearing in the video gallery for our #AIinNetworking report. For those who are fans of Aira Technologies and the team there, we do mention Aira in the accompanying report. Watch Ravi speak and download our latest report "Pipe Dreams and AI Realities: Networking's Midlife Crisis": https://lnkd.in/g8iVgDPU

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"An eye-opener for some, with new insight for many” Discussing our newOpen RAN SMO and RIC report with Ruchi Verma, Sales Director Ericsson Software. Hear why Open RAN SMO and the RIC are hot topics right now. Is it suprising operators have different views on adoption and deployment? How does Ericsson respond to those views? Why is the report a useful resource for mobile network operators? Report download details in the comment below >>

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Excited to announce that CoRan Labs will be sharing the code of HEXAeBPF 🍯🐝 with the open-source community soon! HEXAeBPF, an eBPF-based 5G Core Solution built on eBPF, offers unmatched performance, scalability, and flexibility for your private 5G network needs. It provides maximum Uplink (UL) and Downlink (DL) Throughput, with a Control Plane (CP) based on SD Core and User Plane (UP) functionality is shifted to the kernel through eBPF Programs, enabling efficient data packet handling at the Datapath Layer. With a Cloud-Native Architecture and Service-Based Approach, HEXAeBPF allows you to configure custom Network Slices and is compatible with any RAN Stack. It offers additional features like Cloud-Native Load Balancer for 5G Edge, Cloud-Native Runtime Security, Real-Time Monitoring & Performance Statistics in User Plane, Continuous Profiling Solution, and Tracing & Profiling. For detailed overview, check out the product: https://lnkd.in/gZWPQFEG Link: https://lnkd.in/gtG5vcZm #ebpf #hexaebpf #5g #5gcore #ran #amf #smf #cloudnative #sba #networkslice #nms #Lfn #onf #oran #kernel #5gnr #eupf #bpf #lf #private5g #5gadvanced #6g #bpfchaining #bpftailcall #cups #telecom #maps #bpfskeleton #pfcp #n1 #n2 #n3 #n6 #n4 #packetprocessing #upf #userplane #kpi #3gpp #etsi #latency #datapath #xdp #far #pdr #qer #linuxfoundation #scaling #k8s #ebpfmaps #linuxrouting #controlplane #pdi #fd #lfx

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is really the battle of Open RAN lost? is the business case valid to build multiple Edge data centers to host the DU/CU ? will most operators embrace the " hassle" to have multiple vendors for their RAN networks, especially in the middle east where the operators mindset and culture is to limit the stakeholders as much as possible? is the lack of technically able service integrators the main hurdle in middle east service providers to embrace oRAN? #FOOD_FOR_THOUGHTS

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My Perspective on Intel’s Recent Challenges and Potential Acquisition by Qualcomm It’s becoming increasingly evident that Intel is facing challenges in maintaining its position in the highly competitive AI/ML market, and this could eventually lead to potential acquisition talks, with companies like Qualcomm being suggested as possible contenders. Key Observations: The most pressing issue is Intel’s seeming unpreparedness in responding to NVIDIA’s dominance in AI/ML advancements. While NVIDIA’s A100 and H100 product lines are receiving widespread attention and engagement, we hear far less about Intel’s Gaudi2 and Gaudi3 offerings. This disparity in visibility is concerning for Intel, as staying competitive in the AI/ML space is crucial for long-term viability. For instance, I’ve personally been contacted multiple times by NVIDIA’s customer engagement team regarding their proactive efforts to build long-term technical collaborations around CUDA-accelerated 5G/6G Open RAN and Digital Twin use cases. NVIDIA’s forward-thinking strategies are not only promising but are backed by actual product execution on the ground. Intel, on the other hand, needs to take similar bold steps by aligning its strategic vision with actionable product rollouts to stay relevant in this rapidly evolving field. Without this, their future could be shaped by competitive acquisitions rather than innovation. #intel #5g #6g #nvidia #aiml #artificialintelligence #ran #machinelearning #gpu

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How will the next wave of network technology reshape the telecom industry? 🤔 The recent Ericsson D-15 innovation center event shed light on exciting opportunities presented by evolving network capabilities. Sachin Katti, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network and Edge at Intel, shared some compelling thoughts on the shift towards open, cloud-based RANs and the potential of network APIs to unlock new revenue streams for telecom operators. 🗣️ From what I gather, these advancements are not only about enhancing connectivity but also about creating an agile network infrastructure that can adapt to emerging consumer demands and technological innovations. It’s exciting to think about how these changes could redefine how applications and networks interact. Find the idea of programmable networks opening up new possibilities quite intriguing. It makes me wonder about the future landscape of connectivity and how it will impact various industries. I'm curious to hear from you: How do you think programmable networks will influence the future of telecom and related sectors? What opportunities or challenges do you foresee? Feel free to share your thoughts! 💬 #D15 #TeamEricsson #5G #ProgrammableNetworks #NetworkAPIs #CloudRAN #Connectivity

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How will the next wave of network technology reshape the telecom industry? 🤔 The recent Ericsson D-15 innovation center event shed light on exciting opportunities presented by evolving network capabilities. Sachin Katti, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network and Edge at Intel, shared some compelling thoughts on the shift towards open, cloud-based RANs and the potential of network APIs to unlock new revenue streams for telecom operators. 🗣️ From what I gather, these advancements are not only about enhancing connectivity but also about creating an agile network infrastructure that can adapt to emerging consumer demands and technological innovations. It’s exciting to think about how these changes could redefine how applications and networks interact. Find the idea of programmable networks opening up new possibilities quite intriguing. It makes me wonder about the future landscape of connectivity and how it will impact various industries. I'm curious to hear from you: How do you think programmable networks will influence the future of telecom and related sectors? What opportunities or challenges do you foresee? Feel free to share your thoughts! 💬 #D15 #TeamEricsson #5G #ProgrammableNetworks #NetworkAPIs #CloudRAN #Connectivity

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An exciting 5G roadmap with disruptive potential -: Key points:- 5G as a Service (5GaaS) Deployment Model:- - Primary 5GaaS provider handles 5G SA core and RAN - Secondary provider deploys additional 5G RAN Spectrum Approach: 900 MHz and 3300 MHz for 5G SA:- - Enables direct upgrade to 5G SA without 4G - Combines coverage (900 MHz) and capacity (3300 MHz) Simultaneous Launch of 5G-Powered Fixed Wireless Access:- - Creates new revenue streams through integrated offerings - Expands reach into enterprise and SME markets Additionally, the plan envisions complementing these mid-band deployments with future mmWave rollouts to fully realize 5G's ultra-high-speed, low-latency potential, especially in dense urban areas. Although the transition may involve near-term challenges and considerable upfront costs, complex vendor management (it will operate on a shared revenue model), the proposed 5G strategy has the capability to help BSNL achieve its long-term strategic goals. This multi-faceted 5G roadmap presents an exciting opportunity to disrupt the current market dynamics and provide consumers with greater choice in 5G service providers. What are some thoughts on this strategic 5G approach and its potential impact on the telecom industry? #5G #5G-NSA #3GPP #TEC(https://www.tec.gov.in/)

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