In recent years, there’s been a lot of chatter around software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services. The SD-WAN tools and software market is, in fact, expected to hit the $4.6 billion mark by 2023, representing a growth rate of 34% CAGR according to a...
In the competition for customers’ business, communication service providers (CSPs) are emphasizing their commitment to customer service. In fact, an Ernst & Young survey discovered that 68% of global telecoms executives ranked customer experience management as a top strategic priority. And yet, once providers win...
July greetings from the Midwest and Davidson/ Charlotte/ Lake Norman, NC.
Pictured to the right is the World’s Largest Truckstop on I-80 between the Quad Cities and Des Moines (highly recommend the coffee). We’ve been traveling a lot by car over the last three weeks, and predict...
Imagine you’re shopping for furniture and using an Augmented Reality (AR) app on your mobile device to experience the products in your living room. Or your child is using a Virtual Reality (VR) headset to tour ancient ruins as part of their summer school...
One of the biggest challenges facing communication service providers (CSPs) is finding a way to monetize the huge investment required by 5G. That said, multiple interested parties are just as eager to cash in on capabilities the new technology could bring to enterprises. Some...
5G is extremely complex and has widespread impacts throughout the network. This introduces many challenges but also provides many new business opportunities. For instance, it will allow more devices to connect at faster speeds with lower latency than ever before. This will enable companies...
With the advent of 5G, signaling test at manufacturing is more important than ever
5G, the multi-faceted technology of the coming decade, is designed for use cases that go far beyond smartphones; it will prove to be one of the foundational pillars for many industry...
Huawei is one of the strongest and most successful wireless companies in the world today. So why is there so much push-back against them in the USA? I can tell you exactly where the problem started. The original mistake was made more than a...
BARCELONA--In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera", the brilliant Colombian novelist weaves a narrative of love, rejection, devotion, and ultimately reconciliation—decades after beginning (and then ending) their relationship, Fermina and Florentino find happiness together. But in the years between the start...
What will the internet look like going forward? I recently spoke with Jonathan Davidson, SVP and GM of Cisco Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group. He did a great job of clearing away the confusion and showing us exactly what Cisco’s technology means for connectivity going forward....
The pandemic gave us a glimpse at how cloud platforms and connectivity can come together to deliver ingenuity in how we connect — and we’re all eager to see how 5G and Edge computing will supercharge this opportunity. Imagine going from telehealth visits to...
Services of all kinds are today largely digital — customers expect it, and businesses have benefited from it, saving time and money and agilely expanding services. “As a service” is the new watchword for IT, security and web services, and telecom needs to adopt...
In 2021, positive forecasts of the Open RAN market start gaining ground in the industry. It is predicted that the total RAN market will reach 10% by 2025 compared to less than 1% today. Undoubtedly, Open RAN lab trials and live deployments help close...
This weekend sees the G7 meetings take place, which gives Britain a chance to stake its place in the world order post-Brexit. The recent agreement on corporate taxation - whether you agree with it or not - is a powerful indicator of how much...
Digitalization probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about concrete. But Thomas Concrete Group recognized that digital transformation through IoT enablement would be an important step to improve customer experience, and the company’s ability to scale. As we learned...
There is a burgeoning consensus that Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and wireless capabilities will combine to unlock standards-based, scalable, and highly flexible use cases. Resting on the foundation of open standards as defined in IEEE 802.1, TSN-based industrial networks will be able not only...
A major threat to efficiency across industries lies in mechanical downtime. When a machine stops running, it means the work stops, cutting into the time window that dictates a job’s success or failure. The negative impact of these disruptions is embodied by loss of...
As the volume of connected IoT devices increases, CSPs and enterprises both have a common goal: generate value from a vast amount of new IoT-enabled use cases. Combined with 5G’s enhanced speeds and low latency communications these two technologies will take center stage in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequality in our society — and how lack of Internet connectivity can exacerbate that divide. Across the country, as students were sent home to learn remotely and workers were asked to work from home, those without reliable access to...
Over the past year, telcos have been up against an acceleration of digital adoption that's been shaking up our industry over the past decade. The pace of change we've seen has only amplified underlying customer experience (CX) challenges, with leading brands in the sector...
By all accounts, 5G is off to a great start in 2021. Adoption has accelerated four times faster than previous LTE technology, resulting in 229 million 5G subscriptions worldwide as of December 2020. Yet even as users embrace the promise of 5G, the increasing...
In 2017, Kurt Busch was suddenly a man in a hurry. He had a lightbulb moment watching his youngest child talk with his iPad, and in that instant saw an opportunity to drive artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation into voice-activated systems and transform...
Fabio Belloni, co-founder and chief commercial officer at Quuppa, explores the relationship between RTLS and IoT in the manufacturing industry and how organisations can reap the benefits.
The market for Real Time Location System (RTLS) technologies is growing rapidly, with a wealth of new applications...
Cisco exec: 'The only thing faster than the Wi-Fi 6 network is the process of connecting to it'
The world’s first at-airport Wi-Fi 6 network using Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) OpenRoaming has been established at Brazil’s São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (GRU), providing secure and automatic connectivity...
