Network infrastructure is expanding into multiple cloud platforms. While the cloud promises ease of use and appears to be increasing in popularity among developers, engineers and companies, a migration to the cloud is not a simple flip of a switch. An expansion to multiple...
IP/Optical convergence has been looked at as a critical piece of network providers' IP network modernization strategy
The enterprise network was once the hive of business activity with the goal of providing workers with quick, low-latency access to business applications. The residential network would then...
“Anything as a service” is by no means a new idea. From Microsoft Office to Netflix to Uber, consumers are happy to access software, entertainment, transportation and more on demand rather than owning those things outright.
To seize the 5G opportunity and achieve faster time to value, communications...
Fiber optic internet is here to stay. All the underground conduits run across continents, cities and data centers will remain fiber. All the pipes that connect the major points of access to the thousands of distribution points are now fiber and will remain so...
We’re in the midst of a media revolution. Seemingly every content publisher in existence is launching their own digital distribution platform. As a result, many content publishers are finding themselves involved in something new: A direct relationship with the consumer. To nurture and secure...
Like so many industries, businesses that supply high-speed connectivity to business and residential customers worldwide were forced to navigate through a global pandemic and lingering economic uncertainty. But despite that dreary backdrop, wireless broadband service provider operators finished 2021 more optimistic about their prospects...
Americans received 80 billion unwanted robocalls over the past 12 months. While it is difficult for consumers to wrap their heads around such a gaudy number, the reality is that following a brief dip during the COVID-19 lockdown, unwanted calls increased by 6% in...
Ask in the abstract, and most operators will say they favor opening up closed technologies. More participants brings more innovation, competitive pricing pressure, what could be bad? Well, more players can also mean more complexity, more complicated interdependencies, more opportunity for something to go...
With the convergence of the pandemic-led shift to a more remote workforce, ever-increasing amounts of data being transmitted over telecom networks including financial transactions, and expansion of 5G networks and connected devices, telecommunications companies and service providers are facing heightened risk of potential attacks...
In a 2020 survey conducted by Morning Consult, 700 business technology decision-makers weighed in on the topic of 5G, with most agreeing it will create new opportunities for their company (80%), their industry (79%) and their role (79%). Seven in 10 believe 5G will...
As companies increasingly start to build and run their own 5G networks, there is much talk about open standards in cellular radio access networks (RAN). The rise of the Open RAN standard allows vendor interoperability along with virtualized RAN on open, cloud-native hardware, both at...
For the last four decades, the wireless industry has been on its quest for enhancements in wireless networks and services. The RAN architecture has been opened in standardization for some time, but de facto interpretation and missing pieces have raised the stakes in the...
“Cloud is eating the world.” At least, that’s the big takeaway from the tech industry press these days. And that’s a good thing. For consumers, cloud means being able to access digital services whenever and wherever you choose, without having to worry about how...
5G is ushering in a new era of faster and more efficient telecommunications, enabling the expansion of other new technologies, from automated factories to extended reality and giving users more security and control over their networks. In essence, 5G is remaking the telecom industry...
The 5G hype has been a beating drum growing louder over the years, and across industries, the value it can bring is clear. Retailers and grocery stores are utilizing connected robots within warehouses to move and stack supplies. The energy industry has vehicles on-site...
Modern data centers interconnect with each other creating the distributed cloud ecosystem that is becoming the global platform to deliver applications and services. In this ever-flexible, rapidly growing webscale world, inflexible network operating systems and management architectures are a liability. The network needs to...
The telecommunication industry has undergone tremendous change over the last 30 years, starting from 1G, where the consumer had access to voice only. 5G is the fifth-generation wireless technology that brings to the table new features for consumers, such as low latency (responsiveness), wider...
If there’s one thing operators need to rapidly roll out 5G services, it’s the ability to see and manage data seamlessly across data silos
Mobile operators have found themselves in a tough spot with 5G. For many, their legacy subscriber data management systems can’t provide...
The most significant role of telecommunications companies is keeping people connected: keeping companies in touch with clients globally, keeping colleagues in sync while working from home, and keeping relatives in contact. During the COVID-19 crisis, this role has become even more evident and crucial....
The consumer smartphone market was the first market to be disrupted by 5G. Today, wireless providers, smartphone vendors, and app developers are already providing a wide variety of 5G-based products and services, and beginning to make the easily available, super-fast personal connectivity promised in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered numerous truths about everyday life that were previously not given a second thought. An unlikely focal point of the pandemic has been broadband access. When stay-at-home orders were enforced globally, technology came to the rescue — but not for...
Digital transformation continues to be a mission-critical objective and key result (OKR) for Communications Services Providers (CSPs) to increase revenues and remain relevant. We’ve witnessed how the macro-economic environment can change nearly instantaneously, and how CSPs must be able to pivot, mobilize and adapt...
The release of the latest iPhones is always an occasion for excitement, and this week’s announcement is no exception. Prior to release, Apple’s new mobile devices were rumored to support the Wi-Fi 6E standard, a harbinger of transformative change we can expect in what...
The role of mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) is becoming more prominent with the ongoing 5G explosion, IoT boom and e-SIM adoption
The growth across the mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) industry is accelerating with the advancing technology around 5G and IoT. Current trends represent...
