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Deutsche Telekom to Launch Blockchain-As-A-Service Marketplace

From 2020, Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary, ‘Internet of Values’. “Please actively come various types of assets and therefore
T-Systems, will offer its new German forward with your application ideas for have an impact in many sectors, including
Blockchain Ecosystem (GBE) product this important technological development. land, shares, patents, contracts, art, health
to business customers. Enterprises and Together we can pave the way for the data, passport information, financial
SMEs will be able to map a product’s entire Internet of Values,” he commented. “And transactions and supply chains. “The
value chain, from raw materials to delivery, best of all, companies no longer have to possibilities are almost unlimited,” he
using blockchain. T-Systems says this rely on central platform providers of major said. The German Blockchain Ecosystem
will make customers’ operations faster, marketplaces. On the contrary. Our German supports common Distributed Ledger
and more cost-effective and transparent. Blockchain Ecosystem provides support Technology (DLT) protocols and integrates
Businesses will also be able to trade, to companies who want to manage their major cloud providers including the Open
manage and invoice goods and services business models decentrally.” Al Saleh Telekom Cloud.
directly. “Detours via countless service said blockchain could be used to manage
providers will become a thing of the past,”
T-Systems said in a statement. “Blockchain
knits together otherwise separate
systems for production, services, trade
and payment. This significantly reduces
fragmentation along the value chain.”
The first product on the marketplace will
be the Validator-as-a-Service solution,
which allows cross-company processes
to be checked and processed via a
blockchain infrastructure. Adel Al Saleh,
CEO, T-Systems, said, “The initial hype
around blockchain has blown over. Today,
no one doubts that this technology can
open up new, decentralized business
models.” He added that blockchain could
expand the Internet of Things to the

Sunrise Hits 3.67Gbps Downlink Speed on C-Band

Using 100MHz of C-Band spectrum, broadband internet connections, offering large bandwidth (80-100MHz/operator) is
the test was performed in Sunrise’s more choice and convenience to people the foundation of 5G commercial success,”
live commercial network with Huawei in Switzerland cities and villages,” a Xu Weizhong, Vice President of Huawei’s
equipment. Achieving the 3.67Gbps statement from Huawei said. Huawei Wireless Product Line, said earlier this
downlink speed broke the partners’ has previously called C-band (4 – 8 GHz) year. He added, “Combined with 32T32R
previous best of 2GBps. Sunrise provides “the global golden spectrum of 5G”. The and even 64T64R-based Massive MIMO
5G coverage in more than 262 cities and vendor says its multi-user, multiple input, technology, it can reduce the cost per bit by
villages throughout Switzerland. “The multiple output (MU-MIMO) technology 10 times, increase user experience by 10
continuous improvement of 5G network substantially increases 5G capacity without times, and push MBB [mobile broadband]
quality and performance will bring about additional spectrum and power resource to new heights.”
more and more service innovations with requirements. “We believe that continuous

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