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Canon Launches Two New RF Lenses, Including The World’s Longest Focal Length AF Lens For Mirrorless Cameras

Canon Europe announces the launch of two new super-telephoto lenses, the RF 800mm F5.6L IS USM and the RF 1200mm F8L IS USM. Pushing the boundaries of the RF lens range, these lenses set new standards for the category, with extreme magnification that offers unrivalled shooting of distant subjects. With a staggering 800mm and 1200mm focal lengths – the world’s longest AF focal length lens for mirrorless cameras¹ – these lenses have an intelligent design, achieving incredible optical performance and portability. Featuring an impressive Optical Image Stabilizer and wide apertures, these premium L-series RF lenses support a diverse range of photographers, from sport and wildlife to news gathering and surveillance – giving them kit that captures the action from far away, under exceptional circumstances and in extraordinary detail.

NEC Awarded “Requirements Compliant Ribbon” for 5G massive MIMO Open RAN Radio Units for Latest Published TIP Requirements 2.0

NEC Corporation has been awarded its second ribbon from the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), this time for complying with the requirements for TIP’s OpenRAN RU Technical Requirements Document 2.0. This updated, comprehensive list of technical requirements for Open RAN is built on the valuable work from the operator signatories of the Open RAN MoU Group (European telecom operators Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone), and others.

Advancing IoT Open Standards, EMQ Becomes OASIS Open’s Newest Foundational Sponsor

OASIS Open, the international open source and standards consortium, announced that EMQ, an open-source Internet of Things data infrastructure software provider, is its newest Foundational Sponsor. EMQ joins IBM at the Foundational Sponsor level, supporting the mission of OASIS at the highest level.

The leading provider of open source software for IoT, EMQ, joined OASIS in 2020 to help advance the OASIS standard for the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Protocol, the most commonly used messaging protocol for IoT. EMQ’s support is critical in advancing the development and adoption of open standards and helps enable OASIS to fulfill its mission. To learn more about the development of MQTT specifications and the IoT messaging and EMQ’s work on them, p********** this blog post on EMQ’s website.

DOCOMO Opens vRAN Verification Facility to Global Mobile Operators

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced that it has begun allowing overseas mobile operators to access its Shared Open Lab environment, located in DOCOMO’s R&D Center in Yokosuka, Japan, to verify their virtualized radio access networks (vRAN), effective immediately. The lab is one of the initiatives of the New window5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREC) project under which DOCOMO and 13 leading global vendors* are working to develop truly flexible Open RAN capable of incorporating interoperable equipment of multiple vendors.

Rakuten Symphony Agrees To Acquire Leading Us-based Cloud Technology Company Robin.io To Deliver Highly Integrated Telco-cloud For Mobile

Rakuten Symphony, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire leading Silicon Valley-based cloud technology start-up, Robin.io. The addition of Robin.io’s multi-cloud mobility, hyper automation and orchestration capabilities to the Rakuten Symphony portfolio allows the creation of highly efficient, consistent high performance cloud infrastructure and operations, from edge to central data center