Last week I attended the San Francisco Giants baseball team media day at Oracle Park, where the team unveiled its new brand campaign – “There’s Nothing Like It” — as a way of describing the unique experience baseball can bring.

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‘There’s Nothing Like It’: SF Giants now have a Wi-Fi 6E network to match its brand campaign

Nvidia Corp.‘s virtual GTC 2023 conference running this week has almost too many announcements to digest, and they go well beyond its signature graphics processing units. But after sifting through many pre-briefings for GTC 2023, here’s are what I think are the top five announcements, plus one honorable mention.

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Here are the top five announcements from Nvidia’s GTC event

High-performance network provider Arista Networks Inc. today announced new offerings that take it into the wide-area networking market.

The new offering, calledWAN Routing Systems, is actually a combination of several new networking offerings: an enterprise-class routing platform, carrier- and cloud-neutral internet transit capabilities and a new CloudVision service called Pathfinder to simplify and optimize enterprise WANs. As is the case with all Arista solutions, the WAN Routing System is based on Arista’s EOS operating system and CloudVision management portal.

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Arista moves into the wide-area network

MWC, the former Mobile World Congress, doesn’t get going until next week, but there has already been some interesting news in the red-hot topic of private cellular.

Late Thursday night, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced it’s acquiring the private cellular network provider Athonet for an undisclosed amount. The Vicenza, Italy-based company was founded in 2005 and offers a Citizens Broadband Radio Service-based mobile packet core, SIM cards and radios to set up and deploy a private cellular network quickly and easily.

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HPE acquires Athonet for private wireless network capabilities

Ahead of the MWC 2023 conference next week in Barcelona, Amazon Web Services today announced two new offerings to help telecommunications companies modernize their networks.

Years ago, the value chain for business services was clear. Telcos provided network services, software vendors offered applications, compute companies took care of servers and so on. The rise of cloud has blurred the lines and there is perhaps no industry that has been more disrupted than telecom. Over-the-top services, the cloud companies and other trends has relegated the telcos to being the “pipes” with little ability to differentiate one’s self.

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Amazon Web Services announces new offerings to help telcos jumpstart innovation