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Oct 14, 2019

If you ask the average person what they know about 5G technology, the first thing that will pop into their head will likely be something to do with cellphone technology. And if you consider the 2019 rollout of 5G thus far, perhaps that wouldn’t be too far off the mark. The average Jane or Joe ...

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Oct 14, 2019

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told FOX Business that it will be another two to three years before mobile carriers roll out 5G technology. Carriers are focused on the technology needed to build consumer networks, he told Maria Bartiromo. When they begin to expand on enterprise 5G services, a “high-pe...

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Oct 14, 2019

As the pace of migration to the cloud increases, enterprise executives are looking to expert partners to effect digital transformation. It’s essential to make the right choice, which of course starts with knowing what to look for in your partner. When evaluating an SD-WAN service provider as p...

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Oct 11, 2019

The world is moving towards intelligent networks. Regardless of whether it is the core, the wireless, the data center, the LAN or the WAN, the need for networks to be well aware of the state of traffic they carry, and the nature of content that is being transported is becoming increasingly critical....

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Oct 11, 2019

The US market is leading the way in 5G.  Over the last 12 months, we have supported several of our US customers to deploy “first” 5G networks.  In addition, the first cloud native network functions have been introduced in real networks. US service providers are now preparing fo...

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Oct 10, 2019

Wireless carriers are fighting back against efforts to better map 5G wireless availability, worried that better data could deflate their 5G marketing hype. To hear wireless carriers tell it, 5G is just short of magic. As the faster network standard is quickly and broadly deployed, carriers say 5G wi...

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Oct 10, 2019

The rapidly changing cellular scenario globally has caused the market to witness a flurry of activity in recent years, causing the global 5G tester market to witness growth that has been above average and robust. With advancements in technology having a profound influence, according to Future Market...

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Oct 09, 2019

Far from a niche technology confined to academic forums, blockchain has slowly become a mainstream idea thanks to the growing popularity of cryptocurrency. When we explore blockchain itself, we’re looking at a technology that opens a wealth of opportunities not just for the mobile industry, bu...

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Oct 09, 2019

Back in summer Apple acquired the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business, with the chip-maker only serving Apple as far as smartphone modems are concerned. Even though it dominates the PC market, Intel didn’t manage to succeed in the smartphone chip segment, but now it is looking ...

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Oct 09, 2019

Indian enterprises are in the middle of an evolutionary leap. Though cloud computing created a foundation in the Indian market a long time ago, its impact is only being realized today, especially for the Indian SMEs and enterprises, who are moving their IT to the cloud. In fact, according to IDC, In...

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Oct 08, 2019

As data centers shift from multifiber push-on (MPO)-8 to MPO-12 and, eventually, MPO-24, the demand for more versatile fiber-optic testing equipment is intensifying. Data centers are also transitioning from 100G to 400G calls for carrier aggregation technologies that enhance the network broadband. T...

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Oct 08, 2019

5G has the potential to change the world, but with such lofty expectations also come great challenges. We all like to imagine a future powered by 5G — self-driving cars that communicate with the roads they travel on, connected factory devices that “talk” to each other, and informat...

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Oct 07, 2019

5G is being positioned as a “network of networks” that will encompass public and private components, licensed and unlicensed spectrum, and even expand beyond cellular, to satellite communications. But in reality, 5G will only be one component of the enterprise vertical technology stack, ...

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Oct 06, 2019

The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is not the privacy panacea that many have been advocating in recent months. If we are to listen to networking and cybersecurity experts, the protocol is somewhat useless and causes more problems than it fixes, and criticism has been mounting against DoH and those pr...

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Oct 03, 2019

In the recent report “The Network Highway of Tomorrow—Redefining Enterprise Networking,” the Economist Intelligence Unit explores how digital transformation is a major focus for all enterprises that want high-performing applications and ubiquitous connectivity, whether in their org...

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Oct 02, 2019

Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Inc. (ASSIA), the market-leading supplier of AI-driven broadband and Wi-Fi optimization software, announced ASSIA CEO and Chairman’s keynote speech on “Ergodic Spectrum Management (ESM)” at the IEEE 5G-World Forum on October 2nd in Dresden, G...

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Oct 02, 2019

Priority for the first 5G NR standards centered around eMBB (Enhanced Mobile Broadband), providing improved download and upload speeds, as well as moderately lower latency compared to 4G LTE. While eMBB specifications in 5G NR are beneficial for all rich media applications -- such as mobile augmente...

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Oct 02, 2019

For months now, Apple analysts have opined that the iPhone 11 cycle would be an off-year, and that many customers would hold off on upgrades to await the expected fall 2020 introduction of the first 5G iPhones. And the narrative could still play out that way. But what if 5G is a bust? That isn&rsquo...

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Sep 30, 2019

I was at Qualcomm recently and taken though the advancements in 5G, WiFi 6 and millimeter wave (mmWave). I also recently had a call with Ruckus, arguably the leader in large venue wireless. They’ve been deploying WiFi 6 technology in churches and sports venues and even though we don’t ye...

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Sep 30, 2019

Enterprise IT is quickly becoming a data-centric and widely distributed environment that includes the soon-to-be tens of billions of connected, intelligent devices. This will make up the internet of things (IoT) and generate petabytes of data, multiple public and hybrid clouds and modern application...

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Sep 29, 2019

Fifth-generation wireless is going to change American business in ways most people can't imagine. And the groundwork is being laid right now. At a recent investor conference, Ronan Dunne, the chief executive of Verizon (VZ - Get Report) Consumer Group, casually announced that 5G Home, its fixed ...

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Sep 26, 2019

Amazon is developing a wireless protocol that will fill the gap between short-range options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee and the longer-distance cellular networks – such as the emerging but complex 5G technology – and fuel the development of a wave of new Internet of Things (IoT) de...

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Sep 26, 2019

5G is rapidly rolling out in many countries throughout the world and is the latest evolution of mobile connectivity. A step up from the current 4G, it plans to be more reliable and faster than its predecessor – and it could impact the property industry in a few different ways. Telstra has enab...

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Sep 26, 2019

The smartphone market has been declining for quite some time and, as the old adage says, it will get worse before it gets better. Fortunately, a new report says that while sales will decrease further this year, the situation will begin to improve with smartphone shipments in 2020, and we can only im...

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Sep 25, 2019

Picture this: It is the year 2049. Cars drive themselves, online shopping parcels are delivered to consumers via drones, and travellers no longer need passports when they travel abroad. While some might find these scenarios hard to believe now, the global marketplace is in fact undergoing the early ...

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Sep 25, 2019

According to extremely detailed testing conducted by Signals Research Group of T-Mobile's 5G network in New York City, the operator and its vendor partner Ericsson have chosen to simultaneously schedule traffic over both the operator's LTE and 5G networks. "Per the [3GPP] Release 15 spe...

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Sep 25, 2019

Most organizations still conduct sales planning as a manual, once-per-year exercise, due to the painful and time-consuming nature of the process. Since this is traditionally viewed as a burdensome task, it’s common that once sales plans are set in motion, companies rarely go back to evaluate a...

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Sep 24, 2019

The struggle for global supremacy between the United States and China has come to rest on a single vital battlefield: advanced wireless telecommunication, or 5G. 5G telecommunication technology represents a revolution in how we will connect to the Internet, and everything else. Future wireless 5G ne...

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Sep 23, 2019

The heart of any continuous intelligence (CI) effort is having access to real-time data to make decisions based on events as they are happening. The plethora of smart sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) devices organizations use (or plan to use) in their CI efforts means large amounts of structured...

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Sep 23, 2019

For a technical subject, the rollout of 5G has captured the imaginations of pundits, politicians and others who sometimes incorrectly characterize it either as a race to some kind of technological finish line or as a looming threat to national security. While many of these commentators lack technica...

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Sep 22, 2019

Of all the technologies that are coming to affect gaming, 5G — which brings much faster wireless broadband speeds to smartphones and other devices on mobile networks — is one of the biggest. But it’s also in some ways unpredictable in terms of its impact. It could introduce more cl...

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Sep 19, 2019

Starting September 26, New Yorkers will finally get a taste of what Verizon's 5G service feels like. With New York on the list, that brings the grand total of cities with 5G to 11. If everything goes as planned, Verizon has the goal of making its 5G service available in more than 30 cities by th...

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Sep 19, 2019

5G, the fifth generation of wireless networks that will enable a wide range of new applications, from virtual reality to autonomous vehicles, has received is fair share of attention and hype. However, another technology will be arriving much more quickly to help fill the gap for enterprise organizat...

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Sep 18, 2019

The age of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is over. Electric cars are the future. The transition has just begun, but the move from ICE vehicles to Electric will happen sooner and more quickly than most people suspect. What are the factors that lead me to say this with such confidence? However, ...

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Sep 18, 2019

My role here at SAP is IoT Evangelist. It’s my job to go around and speak about how the Internet of Things is changing the way we live, work, and run our businesses. IoT Evangelist is a job title that didn’t exist 5 or 10 years ago – mainly because the Internet of Things wasn&rsquo...

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Sep 18, 2019

Security has been thought of in the same basic way for thousands of years: build strong perimeters that let the good guys in while keeping the bad guys out. Sure, our human ancestors dealt with things like armed invaders and the Trojan Horse, and today most of us run anti-virus software to protect o...

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Sep 18, 2019

Even before broadband was introduced, people started anticipating its revolutionary effects in the field of workplace collaboration. And broadband delivered too. Live video meetings, instant document sharing, webinars these may not appear to be extraordinary facilities today, but were not possible e...

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Sep 18, 2019

Spreadsheets are the most common tool used to manage data in sales organizations. In fact, more than 75% of companies rely on spreadsheets for their sales planning, forecasting, and sales compensation management. However, the business landscape is growing increasingly competitive—can tradition...

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Sep 17, 2019

5G has knocked on our door and the network technology has been touted as capable of changing the world as we know it. Industries, where productivity and efficiency are key, will feel a major impact, and as for consumers, there will be benefits beyond faster internet connections to smartphones. With ...

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Sep 17, 2019

The satellite industry is reaching a tipping point in the business model it uses to sell connectivity to mobile networks. As costs have tumbled, and technological advances have driven up bandwidth and quality, demand from mobile operators is rising. And increasingly, that demand is driven, not by re...

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Sep 17, 2019

5G is all the rage with wireless carriers these days, but as with everything new, there’s a lot of confusion and misinformation circulating. Let’s dig into what 5G is, and more importantly, what it isn’t. To start with, “5G” is not “5GHz”. 5GHz is one of the...

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Sep 16, 2019

For many B2B marketers, attracting and generating leads is often the primary goal. However, how to attract leads varies widely from company to company. While the inbound lead generation strategy should be unique to your firm, there are several best practices or do’s and don’ts for attrac...

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Sep 16, 2019

A business case for investment is, at its heart, simple — the return from the investment should be greater than the investment itself. But, as I showed in my book, The 5G Myth, with 5G that is far from guaranteed — there’s a danger of no return, just investment. Working out the inv...

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Sep 16, 2019

Rest assured, 5G is coming and it promises to be faster with less latency and better support for applications such as IoT than any of its predecessors.  It will be strikingly faster than 4G, and this will be particularly obvious when downloading or streaming media. On average, 4G has a maximum ...

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Sep 16, 2019

Judging from the enthusiastic reception of 5G technology by governments and industry, we are on the verge of a technological revolution. Initially introduced to help wireless networks cope with ever-increasing data traffic on their networks, 5G will (its proponents claim) lead to game-changing innov...

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Sep 16, 2019

n a recent testing, certified by Intel engineers, Metaswitch has demonstrated the Metaswitch Fusion Core User Plane Function (UPF) delivering superior 5G packet processing throughput when deployed within containers on standard server platforms leveraging Intel Xeon Gold 6254 scalable processors. Emp...

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Sep 14, 2019

In the last few years, Account-based Marketing has taken over as a better way to engage with modern B2B buyers. When sixty-nine percent of marketers say converting leads is their top priority, a winning ABM strategy requires sound alignment between the sales and marketing functions—and, as the...

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Sep 12, 2019

Masergy, a provider of Managed SD-WAN, Cloud Communications, and Managed Security solutions, recently announced the launching of Masergy AIOps, the integrated AI-based the digital assistant for the network, security, and application optimization. Masergy AIOps serves as a virtual engineer embedded i...

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Sep 12, 2019

Oh, you've heard? I think I heard you hearing, because everywhere I turn there's superficial, salty analysis saying how bad it is for the iPhone 11 not to have 5G. Wrong. It's the current 5G deployment that's bad. And by 5G I mean the real, next generation mmWave flavor. Not the &quo...

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Sep 11, 2019

Reports of a possible Apple AR headset first came to light in 2017, but gained traction this week thanks to reports of hints about such a product in the code of the company's latest version of iOS. Whether Apple actually releases such a product (headset? spectacles? goggles? glasses?) is unclear...

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Sep 11, 2019

5G is the biggest mobile tech story of the year. Major networks in the US, UK and Europe have launched 5G services, and you don’t have to be a hedge fund manager to afford them. But Apple has not joined in. It just announced its iPhone range for 2019/2020. There are three phones, the iPhone 11...

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Sep 11, 2019

The advent of 5G networks brings a wealth of new opportunities. Individuals will be able to access a whole range of services more easily, while businesses and governments will be able to use faster download speeds to deliver an entirely new level of service, using a multitude of increasingly interco...

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Sep 10, 2019

Sales forecasting is the map of estimated sales performance, revenue, and expenses that guide a sales organization in their planning processes. Having an accurate sales forecast is crucial to driving revenue, growth, and profitability. The most successful companies are consistently looking for ways ...

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Sep 10, 2019

However, with a regular commute time that consumes a couple of hours each day, I have shifted my focus to podcasts and audiobooks. One of my favorite podcasts is the Inside Sales Enablement series by Scott Santucci and Brian Lambert. In their last episode, they spent time reviewing their thoughts an...

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Sep 10, 2019

The majority of the time I only had access to two TV channels, three on a good weather day, and I vividly remember when I first saw a color television. At this time, products and services were limited, and buyer choices were almost non-existent. Fast-forward to 2019. Not only do I have access to hun...

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Sep 09, 2019

Pushback to technological revolutions sometimes arises in unexpected places. Case in point is the tiny island of Stronsay, off the north coast of Great Britain. Last year, the BBC installed one of the first 5G cellular systems in the U.K., bringing live BBC radio programming for the first time to an...

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Sep 09, 2019

Wireless technology plays a key role in today’s communications, and new forms of it will become central to emerging technologies including robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and new medical devices over the next five years. Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 10 wireless technology trends ...

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Sep 09, 2019

What do high-definition movie download speeds and utility pole attachment requests have in common? They’re both set to increase with the introduction and adoption of fifth-generation (5G) cellular communications technology. The 5G network rollout is underway. It is estimated that this latest c...

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Sep 09, 2019

The evolution of 5G New Radio continues with the ongoing 3GPP Release 16. As a key feature of the latest release, remote interference management offers a standardized solution which will automate mitigation of remote uplink interference at base stations. In our latest blog post, we take a technical ...

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Sep 06, 2019

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, has published Global 5G: Implications of a Transformational Technology, a white paper produced by Rysavy Research and 5G Americas technical experts that explores the intensifying role of wireless communications, th...

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Sep 05, 2019

5G and Industry 4.0 form a very powerful combination. Together, they can lift and shift the manufacturing sector to a much higher level of digitization, by maximizing the mobility, flexibility, and versatility of production. 5G in the industrial manufacturing context offers opportunities beyond fact...

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Sep 05, 2019

It’s not just speeds and feeds anymore, it's intelligent software, integrated security and automation that will drive the networks of the future. That about sums up the networking areas that Keerti Melkote, HPE's President, Intelligent Edge, thinks are ripe for innovation in the next f...

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Sep 04, 2019

Software is eating networking, and it’s about time. Software-defined networking, network virtualization, software-hardware disaggregation, and intent-based networking are creating a nimbler network for multicloud. They’re changing the experience of networking end users and making new ope...

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Sep 04, 2019

Our societies now rely on connected devices to an ever-increasing extent. Known more commonly as the Internet of Things (IoT), these connected devices – often with limited protection, easy physical access, and sometimes even insufficient updates – are becoming an increasingly attractive ...

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Sep 04, 2019

In part one of the blog we discussed about, the latest generation wide area networking (WAN) technology, SD-WAN. In part two of this blog Todd Kiehn, VP of product management at GTT, explains multiple factors from different horizons are driving IT teams to abandon a do-it-yourself approach and to re...

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Sep 03, 2019

For the second year in a row, Nintendo has launched a fantastic mini machine that’s just about perfect for playing games. And for the next year in a row, the business has burdened that system using a defect: wired controls with frustratingly cords. The SNES Classic features wires but in a worl...

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Sep 03, 2019

Software-defined networking may simplify network management, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to implement. “SDN isn’t something where you can just click on a switch and it works,” Proliance Surgeons CIO Curt Kwak tells HealthTech. “It requires a lot of planning an...

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Sep 03, 2019

One of the fastest growing enterprise networking technologies, SD-WAN can simplify network management and optimize connections to cloud services. Leased-line and MPLS connectivity can serve your head office well, but for small branch offices and remote workers using SaaS applications the public inte...

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Sep 02, 2019

As 5G emerges in the wireless market, the future of Wi-Fi is once again put into question by spectators who believe 5G is the ultimate service for both Internet and cellular connectivity. Yet, many overlook the clear developmental state of 5G that will inevitably run into capacity and coverage issue...

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Aug 30, 2019

Legacy wide area networks weren’t made for the cloud. Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are. They are faster, have many more networking capabilities and are easier to set up and administer. Secure SD-WANs are even better. They provide all of the networking benefits of SD-WAN plus enhanced securi...

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Aug 28, 2019

After years of hype about gigabit speeds that will let consumers download full-length movies in mere seconds, 5G is close to becoming a reality. Last year gave the industry a taste of 5G as Verizon launched a home broadband service using the next-gen wireless technology and AT&T brought 5G servi...

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Aug 28, 2019

With 91 percent of business leaders considering hybrid cloud to be the ideal IT model, investments in it are skyrocketing. Industries like manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare are heavily adopting the multi-workload environment approach with hopes to modernise their operations and impro...

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Aug 28, 2019

Achieving significant milestones in business start with a gut feeling, as one strongly believes in his idea, innovation happens. And in this fast-paced world, innovations or inventions come and go in the blink of the eye. Something that looked cool and new yesterday can become stale and outdated tod...

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Aug 27, 2019

The Government has announced plans to speed up the roll-out of 5G technology and improve mobile phone signals in rural areas as part of efforts to increase innovation across the UK. 5G networks have already begun to launch across parts of the country, with several mobile operators switching on their...

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Aug 27, 2019

5G is set to supercharge the growth of internet connected devices, which could give bad actors more openings to hack your business. But some experts believe that 5G will also bring significant benefits in the fight against cybercrime. The speed, capacity, and reliability of 5G networks will transfor...

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Aug 26, 2019

The past decade has seen a wave of disruptive entrepreneurship across sectors, thanks to factors like technology enhancements, pro-SME/MSME government policies, open international trade opportunities, and focus on skill development and vocational training. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Mo...

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Aug 26, 2019

After years of hype, 5G wireless networks are now live in cities across the United States. While it will take years for 5G coverage to become as ubiquitous as 4G LTE, the next generation of cellular technology promises to enable significant benefits in certain aspects of smart city deployments. 5G i...

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Aug 25, 2019

Wireless technology has evolved so fast since the turn of the century. 5G Technology of wireless network, better known as 5G, is now being rolled out in major cities worldwide. By 2024, an estimated 1.5 billion mobile users─which account for 42% of current global activity─will be using 5G Technology...

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Aug 25, 2019

Even though Brother International is a supplier of many  IT products, from machine tools to head-mounted displays to industrial sewing machines, it’s best known for printers. And in today’s world, those printers are no longer stand-alone devices, but components of the internet of th...

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Aug 22, 2019

We are in a changing business landscape. Irish businesses are migrating their applications to the cloud at a steady pace. By 2020 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud. Successful migration to the cloud requires a robust, flexible infrastructure, but with increasingly complex demands and ...

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Aug 22, 2019

Under a new agreement with state attorneys general, the nation’s largest wireless service providers cell carriers will soon deploy technologies to block and label robocalls for consumers. Josh Stein, attorney general of the State of North Carolina, announced the agreement today. The voluntary ...

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Aug 21, 2019

German automotive giant BMW has announced it will bring its global Induction Charging Pilot Program to the United States, where it will be trialled through 200 pilot program vehicles in the state of California. BMW’s global Induction Charging Pilot Program was first launched in Germany in 2018...

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Aug 21, 2019

Amazon’s Cloud-Computing Empire Faces Threat From Edge of the Network With so many mobile devices and sensors now connected to the internet — and relying on artificial intelligence — more people and companies need their computing power close to them. That’s going to hand a hu...

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Aug 21, 2019

5G will signify a monumental shift in communications, promising to be the first network to negotiate mobile and fixed networks, for man-to-man, man-to-machine, and machine-to-machine communications. The sheer amount of services and network complexity will require a step up of current network capabil...

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Aug 21, 2019

Today’s brands face numerous challenges. They need to create a customized, excellent experience for each and every customer worldwide. To do that, they need to create high-quality, on-target content. They need to create that content quickly, effectively, and for audiences who speak multiple la...

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Aug 20, 2019

Lace-up your sneakers and step up to the starting line: you’re ready to reach countless customers in new markets.  You’ve secured your spot in the Global Marketplace (whether by default or design).  But before you sprint away, take a good look around you. You are not alone in t...

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Aug 20, 2019

According to Vertel, the foundation of any digital transformation journey is likely to be a highly-scalable, secure and reliable network to integrate cloud-based technologies and be capable of managing vast amounts of data, accessed via an array of different devices and stakeholders at disparate loc...

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Aug 19, 2019

Flexible body-worn sensors that conform to the skin have great potential for monitoring patient health, conducting long-term studies, and giving consumers a way to track their exercise and overall health. Although there have been flexible sticker-like body monitors developed in the past, they have a...

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Aug 19, 2019

Companies are talking a lot about digital business transformation at the moment. We read about it everyday. It’s everywhere. According to Gartner: “Whether deploying digital technologies to improve workflows or to transform the entire business model, organisations must respond to the cha...

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Aug 18, 2019

If you want for the rapid pace of innovation in datacenter networking to continue, then you had better hope that the hyperscalers and major public cloud builders don’t run out of money. That is because it is their collective appetite for bandwidth is paying for the network ASIC, switch, and tr...

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Aug 18, 2019

For most enterprises, the journey to cloud and multi-cloud starts with applications and that generally means that architectural decisions begin in the data center. If multi-cloud was primarily about where application workloads are serviced, the journey might end in the same place. But multi-cloud is...

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Aug 15, 2019

5G has been nearly a decade in the making but has really dominated the mobile conversation in the last year or so. This isn’t surprising considering the potential benefits this new type of network will provide to organizations and users alike. However, just like with any new technological adva...

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Aug 14, 2019

What character appears in the most films and television programs? Dracula? God? Santa Claus?  All of those make the top ten list, but none is the correct answer. Satan (or The Devil) is a character is more than 840 projects – more than any other character. If you limit the list to mortals...

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Aug 14, 2019

This is the third in a series of articles on creating, maintaining, and optimizing great customer experiences in the context of mounting concerns about privacy and increasingly strict regulations governing data processing. We address topics such as consent strategies, the role of trust, the elements...

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Aug 13, 2019

There is a great shake-up coming to enterprise networks in the form of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G technologies — and the ripples will likely be felt for many years. 5G carrier-based wireless, which is at the first stages of rollout, promises incredible performance to mobile workers and the enterprise in g...

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Aug 13, 2019

Individuals utilizing AR and VR may get to data on train times while moving, holding conference calls with colleagues or playing PC games with friends in various areas around the globe, all in real-time. It’s set to change the manner in which we communicate and manage content. Augmented Realit...

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Aug 12, 2019

You’re in an open-plan office, a hotel room or an airport lounge and you fire up your laptop. The next step is typically to click on the name of a WiFi network, maybe enter a password, and, that’s it: you’re online. It’s simple — a completely unremarkable experience tha...

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Aug 12, 2019

Northgate Gonzalez Markets, a chain of grocery stores in southern California, was launching a fast-paced digital transformation initiative that required a complete revamp of its WAN infrastructure. Northgate was taking the bold step of eliminating its data center and moving around 500 servers’...

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Aug 11, 2019

Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR), a San Jose, California-based software-driven networking company, completed the acquisition of Aerohive Networks, (NYSE: HIVE), a Milpitas, CA-based developer and provider of cloud-managed networking solutions. According to a press release published in June, Ext...

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Aug 09, 2019

When organizations plan for digital transformation, there might be some discussion of bringing managed services, such as SD-WAN, into the mix. Many enterprises may have on-premise unified communications, but some vendors are pitching the possibility of running such services over software-defined, wi...

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Aug 09, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission has officially announced this week that 5G and the radio waves that come with it — while draped in controversy — are indeed safe for everyday use. 5G networks have only just begun hitting the market for smartphone users, and the buzz is substantial. ...

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Aug 07, 2019

Mobile phone users will get superfast 5G internet for no extra cost with Three and Vodafone, while those with EE can get free BT Sport as part of their contracts. The long-awaited fifth generation of mobile technology will eventually supercede 4G and promises to boost downloads and upload speeds, im...

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Aug 07, 2019

Despite increased attention on cybersecurity in the enterprise and at home, many popular wireless routers still lack basic security protections, according to a new report from Consumer Reports' Digital Lab initiative. The Digital Lab studied 29 routers (20 traditional and nine mesh) and evaluate...

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Aug 07, 2019

Verizon’s top executives are downplaying the near-term impact of 5G and framing expectations around a somewhat bifurcated strategy that discerns big cities from small towns. Unlike AT&T and T-Mobile US, Verizon is placing less emphasis on its nationwide 5G coverage plans and remains guarde...

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Aug 07, 2019

As early 5G deployments begin amid expectations that the next generation of wireless technology will be enterprise-led, Small Cell Forum has been exploring the intersection of 5G, small cell infrastructure and the internet of things. “It is widely accepted in the industry that small cells, bas...

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Aug 06, 2019

All four major U.S. carriers are officially in the 5G game. While AT&T appears to be leading the pack with the most cities deployed, it is clear that the entire 5G movement remains in its early stages. 5G has received some skepticism, but the carriers all have big 5G plans moving forward, and fo...

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Aug 06, 2019

Our planet is running out of stuff, even as it’s overrun with "trash." Companies and consumers are increasingly aware that we cannot continue with the current take-make-dispose economic model and are pushing for a transition to a new circular economy that redefines growth with a focu...

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Aug 05, 2019

The National Academy of Sciences planned a two-day summer workshop to address a high-stakes question: Could the development of next generation 5G wireless undermine the accuracy of information gathered by weather satellites? On July 16, less than a week before the scheduled start, the event was canc...

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Aug 05, 2019

Fifth-generation wireless networking, or 5G, is the latest advance in a series of mobile standards that propelled early generations of cellular calls, text messaging, and touch-screen smartphones. The network standard's speed and flexibility is poised to unlock new scenarios for the long-promise...

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Aug 05, 2019

5G is seeing its first limited runs in cities around the world. And when new network tech gets out of the lab and into the field, real-world testing reveals some of the surprises that have been hiding under the surface. There are at least five 5G hurdles that commonly crop up in work with operators,...

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Aug 04, 2019

Many mobile phone manufacturers and operators have adopted numerous methods to create their own products using 5G since the issuance of 5G licenses. Digital advertising, the PPT of the conference, the banner of the mobile phone store downstairs are few platforms are some of the widely publicized pro...

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Aug 04, 2019

Mobile 5G high-speed data networks are perhaps still a great deal of job in progress, but in some US towns, they have already begun rolling out. When researchers cross the 5G standard to see if it does not only provide flashlights but also improve safety, they find it still needs to be upgraded. A m...

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Aug 01, 2019

This question has troubled many IT managers, CTOs and Network Administrators in this era of digital transformation. Next Generation Network connectivity is a major cog in the wheel of digital transformation for organisations seeking to thrive in the digital economy. There is not a doubt that Wide Ar...

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Aug 01, 2019

Cisco this week celebrated the second anniversary of its purchase of SD-WAN vendor Viptela and reiterated its expectation that 2019 will see the technology change enterprise networks in major ways. In a blog outlining trends in the SD-WAN world, Anand Oswal, Cisco senior vice president, engineering,...

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Aug 01, 2019

Verizon this week launched 5G service in four additional U.S. cities - Washington DC, Atlanta, Detroit, and Indianapolis, joining Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Providence and St. Paul as Verizon’s first 5G mobility cities. Business customers and consumers can access the Verizon 5G Ultra Wideba...

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Jul 31, 2019

Fujitsu announced that it has begun delivery of 5G base station products, comprising of Central Unit (CU) and Radio Unit (RU), to NTT DOCOMO. The 5G CU products that Fujitsu has started delivering realize the 5G system through a proprietary software design from the company using software-defined rad...

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Jul 31, 2019

Tech UK – the tech trade body – and the Liverpool 5G Testbed, part of the UK government’s 5G Testbeds and Trials programme, have co-authored a report highlighting how 5G can support the ‘transformation of future healthcare applications and services. The demand for health and ...

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Jul 31, 2019

Following better-than-expected wireless results for T-Mobile US Inc. and AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. will be in focus on Thursday morning when the carrier reports second-quarter earnings. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expect that Verizon VZ, -2.40%  earned $1.20 a share in adjuste...

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Jul 30, 2019

Dedicated 5G campus networks, designed to meet the coverage, performance and security requirements of industrial users, are one of the most exciting -- and tangible -- advanced 5G use-cases under development. Part of the reason for this is that the private mobile network market in general is taking-...

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Jul 30, 2019

No, automation won't replace network engineers or take their jobs away. However, network automation could change their responsibilities. The word automation can refer to various different IT capabilities, but what is network automation specifically? Network automation involves automating network...

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Jul 30, 2019

Masergy launched a new line of products that bundle the company’s managed SD-WAN offerings with a slew of new security features that targets the growing security demands within the industry. Masergy’s latest offerings include three bundles. The company’s Unified Threat Management b...

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Jul 30, 2019

5G networks are the talk of the mobile world, with a few test markets already available in the US and the UK. The launch of 5G networks marks a sea change in greater global connectivity and a radical departure from the traditional network connectivity of the past. It also opens up a range of urgent ...

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Jul 29, 2019

The software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure market continues to expand at a global level, driven by changing customer requirements and increased spending. According to IDC, this market segment - housed within the enterprise networking space - will grow at a 30.8 per cent compound ...

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Jul 29, 2019

Some companies say they allocate more money to network security than they do to their networks overall. Even for those that don't hit that level of investment, most earmark a pretty respectable piece of their networking budget to security. So when someone claims a hot new technology like softwar...

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Jul 29, 2019

The long, winding, and sometimes bizarre saga of the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile began drawing to a close on Friday, as the Justice Department approved the transaction subject to significant conditions. The settlement resolves the government’s competitive concerns by facilitating the en...

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Jul 29, 2019

5G is coming. Well, more accurately, 5G is here, although much of that depends on specific carriers and handsets. It’s been one of the hottest tech topics since Y2K, and thankfully in a positive manner. Heralded as a disruptor, 5G is poised to revolutionize mobile communications. Learn what 5G...

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Jul 26, 2019

As mobile markets mature service providers of any kind (and enterprises) will be looking for ways to make wireless data delivery substantially more efficient. Wi-Fi is an obvious choice and is getting more attractive – especially with Wi-Fi 6 here today and 6 GHz coming up within a year or two...

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Jul 26, 2019

We all read the news, and often learn about the latest customer data breach at any given retail chain and how it impacts its reputation and business. It seems like every month there’s a newsworthy breach that impacts consumers. What the news outlets won’t tell you is that, last year alon...

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Jul 26, 2019

Three has announced its 5G pricing in the UK, and the good news is it won't cost you any more than its current "contract, SIM only and PAYG 4G mobile plans." That means it will be cheaper than EE, which charges a premium for its 5G contracts, and there are no speed caps - something Vod...

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Jul 25, 2019

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks could help increase data and communication requirements, resulting in a better user experience, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, 5G risks persist, and organizations ...

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Jul 24, 2019

Wireless technology plays a key role in today’s communications and its new forms will become central to emerging technologies including robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and new medical devices over the next five years, a new report by Gartner Inc said. The market research firm identified ...

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Jul 24, 2019

AT&T has perhaps one of the most developed 5G networks out there right now. With coverage in 20 cities and two 5G devices available, this 5G network seems like the best bet for consumers. AT&T, however, has only rolled out 5G service to its business customers. At some point, this network wil...

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Jul 24, 2019

Enterprise security today demands not just a next-generation firewall, but intrusion detection and endpoint monitoring. As businesses migrate to a hybrid computing model comprised of on-premises and cloud operations, a solution with baked-in security that can deliver these and other key features acr...

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Jul 23, 2019

The marketing sector can be a complicated place as new marketing tools and techniques are launched, almost on a weekly basis. Powered by The Drum Network, this regular column invites The Drum Network's members to demystify the marketing trade and offer expert insight and opinion on what is happe...

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Jul 23, 2019

No industry conference in 2019 would be complete without lengthy discussions on the business case for 5G, but while events in countries streaking ahead focus on early successes, in developing markets operators’ tones are far more muted. However, that has not stopped vendors actively promoting ...

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Jul 23, 2019

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks could help increase data and communication requirements, resulting in a better user experience, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, 5G risks persist, and organizations ...

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Jul 22, 2019

Verizon today announced the launch of Software-Defined Interconnect (SDI), a solution that works with Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™), offering organizations with a Private IP network direct connectivity to 115 International Business Exchange™ (IBX ®) data centers ...

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Jul 22, 2019

High-profile scandals aren’t typically good for the technology sector. Whether it’s diesel emissions, large data breaches, or cyber-attacks on mission-critical infrastructure, scandals can cripple a technology before it’s gotten even off the ground. Despite what recent headlines ma...

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Jul 21, 2019

You’ve heard about 5G, right? About how, with 5G, you’d be able to download a 1GB movie in 3 seconds? 5G is the latest network technology that’s not only expected to improve internet speed but also revolutionized technology as a whole. Until now, 5G used to exist only as a buzzword...

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Jul 21, 2019

The global debate has shifted beyond why we shouldn’t trust Chinese telecommunications company Huawei to why we can’t trust any equipment vendor. How can we trust US companies after the Edward Snowden disclosures? Doesn’t the US also spy? One way to look at mobile telecommunication...

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Jul 18, 2019

As carriers pilot fifth-generation cellular networks, or 5G, most discussions have swirled around the benefits for consumers and smartphones. But businesses can reap significant advantages, too, beginning with the introduction of fixed wireless 5G -- as a point-to-point broadband replacement -- and ...

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Jul 18, 2019

Verizon has launched their long-awaited first 5G-capable hotspot, the MiFi M1000 by Inseego. The M1000 will run customers $649.99 outright, or $499.99 with a 2-year contract. The 5G data service itself is also quite costly – 5G data is available with Verizon’s unlimited plan for $90 per ...

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Jul 17, 2019

As several of the world’s earliest next-generation cellular carriers have unveiled their peak 5G network speeds, others have relied on uncertain promises of “blazing fast” performance to set customer expectations. Today, crowdsourced network coverage service Opensignal actually dis...

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Jul 17, 2019

AT&T and Microsoft announced a multiyear partnership that will see AT&T move its non-network infrastructure computing needs to the Microsoft Azure cloud as it becomes a “cloud first” company. Aside from the 270K employees at AT&T that will now migrate to the Office 365 platfo...

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Jul 17, 2019

The global 5G race is rapidly heating up, with countries leading in technology battling to roll out their own 5G networks. Already we have seen South Korea announce the world’s first 5G network in April and also the world’s first commercialized set of 5G networks, beating the US by a mar...

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Jul 17, 2019

UTStarcom this week at Softbank World 2019 introduced the SyncRing XBC340 and SyncRing XBC341, the latest additions to its SyncRing family of network synchronization equipment. Designed to play the role of highly accurate boundary clocks in a PTP IEEE1588v2 network, the SyncRing XBC340 and XBC341 Et...

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Jul 17, 2019

Enterprises need one end-to-end network security solution that protects the entire attack surface from Cloud to IOT and from users to data. The MTN’s Managed Firewall Security   Solution does so by taking a more collaborative approach across the entire network infrastructure to enabl...

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Jul 16, 2019

One of the things that a lot of administrators seem to really like about Hyper-V is its relative simplicity, especially when compared to some of the competing hypervisors. Perhaps nowhere is this simplicity more evident than in Hyper-V’s support for virtual networking. Natively, Hyper-V’...

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Jul 16, 2019

Microsoft, Google and the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) are urging the FCC to allow co-channel spectrum sharing in the C-band. The proposal would allow fixed wireless operators to use the same spectrum band as incumbent users, who are comprised largely of satellite operator...

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Jul 16, 2019

In a proof-of-concept trial in a live network environment, Verizon and Ericsson have introduced cloud native, container based technology on the core of Verizon’s active network. This trial, the first container- based wireless EPC (Evolved Packet Core) technology deployment in a live network in...

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Jul 16, 2019

Three UK and Nokia have launched what they claim is the world’s first 5G-ready fully integrated cloud core network, in preparation for the rollout of 5G. This new 5G-ready core network, which sits in a virtual environment, offers increased security, flexibility and cost savings, allowing Three...

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Jul 15, 2019

It’s all over the internet that 5g is better then 4g LTE, but how much better is it in the real world? According to Opensignal’s crowdsourced data, it’s indeed a lot faster, but mainly in the US! They found that peak download speeds on 5G reach just past 1.8Gbps in the States versu...

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Jul 15, 2019

Orange Business Services and Cisco announced that they will work with customers to develop SD-LAN solutions in its Open Labs program. The Orange Open Labs provide a global mix of physical and virtual resources for innovation and development. This helps companies explore their future connectivity and...

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Jul 15, 2019

The buyer’s journey has changed in a way which leaves many sales and marketing teams struggling to find insight from within what we call the Dark Funnel. However, many technology companies are starting to build solutions to address the radical new way customers engage and buy today by collecti...

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Jul 15, 2019

The role of a Business Development Rep can be a daunting one. Knowing where to prioritize when you have over 1,000 accounts and knowing what content to reach out to them and engage them with can be an impossible task. But if you have the right intent data that can show you where the account is in th...

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Jul 15, 2019

Today, 5G wireless is getting so much attention in the media and the marketplace. It raises the question, which wireless carrier offers the best, fastest and most consistent 5G connection? So, let’s take a closer look at the current state of wireless technology and try to answer that question....

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Jul 15, 2019

ll the buzz around 5G makes it seem like the next must-have technology. However, because it requires a new phone and a top-tier unlimited plan, it can be hard to know when it makes sense to make the jump to 5G. While 5G still isn't ready for everyone, there are some people that will benefit from...

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Jul 13, 2019

The new speeds that 5G promises are game-changing. Mentions of 5G being 100 times faster than the current 4G technologies have opened up the ability for some incredible new technologies to spring to life. We’ve long had the conversation about how SD-WAN can significantly lower latency, and 5G ...

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Jul 12, 2019

With bold claims like powering self-driving cars and streaming virtual reality, the promise of 5G in Malaysia has captured the imaginations both tech-geeks and casual internet surfers alike. Moving past some of these futuristic claims, just the basic premise of 5G being twenty times faster than 4G a...

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Jul 11, 2019

Catchphrases catch on, at least in principle. Take the Internet of Things or IoT. It’s easy for people to understand what it is. The internet, but for things—at home, at work and in cars, factories, fields and mines. IoT is catching on, but why hasn’t it caught on farther, faster? ...

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Jul 11, 2019

ZTE considers that the co-evolution of 4G and 5G networks is a key issue as these two technologies will be sharing many resources and will be offering each other a strong support in the next decade. This is why, ZTE believe that it is essential for CSPs to modernize networks as 5G-oriented as possib...

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Jul 11, 2019

Networking expert Bjørn Jensen of WhyReboot is tired of hearing integrators rail on the "router-on-a-stick" scheme for home networks. "I've heard grumbles in our industry about how the router-on-a-stick method should NEVER be used because performance is better on the switch...

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Jul 11, 2019

Big Monitoring Fabric enables end-to-end visibility and security for applications based on their networking behavior for on-premises and public cloud deployments. Big Mon Analytics Node uses analytics for troubleshooting application performance, connectivity and oversubscriptions issues within the d...

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Jul 10, 2019

More expansion news for Peerless Network! The company announced today it is now offering Cloud PBX services for enterprises to easily manage telephone numbers, services, routing, configuration and inventory over a cloud-based IP network via one system. The Peerless Cloud PBX is a UCaaS model that af...

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Jul 10, 2019

Nintendo, a name synonymous with an Italian plumber and a misspent youth, made the headlines this week for a revelation about 5G, summing up exactly what is happening in the gaming industry and how it is set to evolve. Speaking at a shareholder meeting, Ko Shiota, general manager of platform technol...

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Jul 10, 2019

Businesses could find themselves repositioning wireless access points and even facing increased bandwidth demands as Wi-Fi 6 hits the market in the coming months, according to a white paper released today by the Wireless Broadband Alliance. Nevertheless, the news is mostly good for prospective busin...

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Jul 10, 2019

In some major cities across the country, 5G is already available, and soon, the rest of the world will be able to experience its impact. As 5G gets closer to becoming a reality, public safety officials are asking how this shift will impact modern policing. 5G enables low latency applications and pro...

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Jul 09, 2019

In our previous blog, we looked at how Cisco can help service providers (SPs) deliver high-quality 5G solutions to their enterprise customers. We now continue the story by focusing on two important 5G-network enablers: automation and orchestration. In the light of today’s changing market trend...

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Jul 09, 2019

In Opensignal’s latest analysis of 5G, we’ve looked at the maximum real-world speeds seen in eight countries which have launched 5G services. The maximum download speeds smart phone users see are much faster than the average speeds experienced by 5G users as we expected. The highest maxi...

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Jul 09, 2019

Carriers like to cover their ads with phrases that you would not know unless you had been following 5G news closely. 5G is using technology in more sophisticated ways that ever before and the bringing in much more technical phrases to explain its coverage and speed. These are some of the phrases you...

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Jul 09, 2019

The government has ambitious aspirations in respect of Britain’s digital connectivity, setting what it describes as “clear, ambitious targets for the availability of full fibre and 5G networks”. The aim is to connect 15 million premises to full-fibre by 2025, with coverage across a...

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Jul 09, 2019

Increasingly today, enterprises of all kinds are turning to software-defined networking (SDN). The versatility of multicloud, paired with the freedoms granted by unshackling from a single infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, has acted as enough of an incentive for enterprises to make the swi...

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Jul 08, 2019

TIM announced expansion of its 5G commercial service to Naples (at The Universiade Village), following its initial roll out in Rome and Turin. Within the year, TIM said its 5G network will arrive at another six major cities – Milan, Bologna, Verona, Florence, Matera and Bari. By 2021 TIM is ta...

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Jul 08, 2019

Over the past couple of periods, the idea of 5G networking promises to carry out a lot of things. Aside from lightning-fast download and upload capabilities, 5G are expected to be implemented in the manifestation of Internet of Things (IoT)—where everything around you ranging from printers, ai...

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Jul 08, 2019

The fifth generation of mobile network connectivity, or 5G as it is more commonly known, is at the very height of its own hype cycle. In short, the newest ultra-wide network promises to provide wider mobile Internet coverage, along with faster data download and upload speeds. Earlier predictions exp...

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Jul 08, 2019

Orange Business Services and Cisco add another piece to their partnership, developing joint innovation to help customers turn their local business network (LAN) into a more flexible and powerful SD-LAN, a "software-defined" LAN. Given the excellent results achieved with SD-WAN customers, O...

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Jul 08, 2019

Plans to make Wi-Fi industry standard for connected car technology within the EU have been dealt a blow after they were rejected by member states. As many as 21 member states have voted against the proposals, paving the way for 5G to have greater influence than might have been possible had the plans...

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Jul 08, 2019

Three key trends are driving the need for sales leaders to digitally transform their organizations. First, b-to-b buyers are conducting more of their purchase journey in the digital arena and demanding the same kind of frictionless and seamless customer experience they enjoy as consumers. Second, th...

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Jul 08, 2019

Subscription businesses that charge customers monthly for using their offerings are expanding rapidly in response to consumers’ and b-to-b buyers’ desire to try a product and walk away easily if they’re not achieving the expected value. However, the subscription-based business mode...

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Jul 08, 2019

EE recently launched the UK’s first 5G mobile broadband plans, enabling customers to create a 5G-powered Wi-Fi hotspot providing the fastest speeds, even in the busiest places. EE’s 5GEE WiFi service will give users access to 5G speeds and improved performance for those who need the very...

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Jul 05, 2019

Everyone acknowledges that SD-WAN(software-defined networking in a wide-area-network) can save money. More than half of IT leaders expect a 25-50% return on investment (ROI) from SD-WAN, but most people only talk about the savings gained from moving from moving MPLS circuits to IP or broadband circu...

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Jul 04, 2019

Samsung says that it is taking a multivendor approach to deploying 5G radio access networks. The vendor says that it has been focused on "open interfaces within radio access networks." This is designed to deliver services more efficiently to consumers and businesses. Following early succes...

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Jul 04, 2019

Critical to success in the workplace is not just the ability to do your job effectively, developing an extensive network can be critical to this. More often than not, most business opportunities and referrals will arise from these networks. But what happens if you don’t have an ‘in&rsquo...

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Jul 04, 2019

Today's software-defined WAN, or SD-WAN, offerings already use open source building blocks in their underlying architectures. The adoption of open source in SD-WAN occurred primarily because the SD-WAN market already accepted many underlying open source components, and vendors were focused on ti...

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Jul 03, 2019

Today’s headlines are bursting with promises of 5G — and now, even 6G is becoming part of the conversation. But the fact is, globally, 4G is still the name of the game and will be for quite some time, with 72 percent of networks expected to run on the fourth-generation cellular network t...

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Jul 03, 2019

The development of 5G network is now at its commercialization stage. There are some things we need to know about this new network. 5G smartphones can either support NSA (non-standalone) or SA (standalone) networking. As of now, the Huawei Mate 20 X 5G is the only dual-mode 5G mobile phone in the mar...

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Jul 03, 2019

In the first three generations of telecommunication services, data analytics and Big Data played a major role. With 4G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) got embedded into the services that telcos provided for customers and in services that vendors collectively provided for telcos. With the advent of 5G,...

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Jul 03, 2019

By 2050, 75% of the world’s population will live in urban areas that are increasingly connected and powered by smart technologies. APAC alone accounts for the largest share of spending in the Internet of Things (IoT) - the emerging technology that will take us closer to the smart cities of the...

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Jul 03, 2019

Worldwide, 2017 witnessed 178.1 billion of mobile app downloads. This number is projected to grow to 258.2 billion app downloads by 2022. On the business end, recent study highlights that on an average an enterprise has 464 custom applications deployed today. Enterprises of all sort is reaping maxim...

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Jul 03, 2019

While the internet gives us a useful tool at our disposal when it comes to business, interaction with friends and family, and a lot more, it also expands the approaches that criminals can take. People have been using the internet for nefarious activities since it was first created, and that won&rsqu...

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Jul 02, 2019

The satellite companies that are currently using vast stretches of midband spectrum in the US for TV services face challenges to releasing some of that spectrum for 5G. Despite increasingly heated debate around the issue, several FCC commissioners are promising that a resolution on the topic is immi...

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Jul 02, 2019

Network simulation offers an efficient, cost-effective way to analyze application and network performance, identify potential problems, understand the root cause, and assess alternative mitigation strategies. For best results, the analysis should leverage an at-scale, accurate model of the network a...

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Jul 02, 2019

It’s unclear when the emerging protocols for high-speed voice and data transmission are going to flip the switch, but it is apparent the industrial IoT marketplace won’t adopt a single solution. From farming to self-driving cars and smart cities, the choice of 5G or Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) wi...

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Jul 02, 2019

The shift to 5G means more speed but also potentially more costs and new hardware considerations. Here's how to handle the increased data traffic to come. 5G has the potential to radically change data storage and delivery--which means important changes to come at the enterprise level. With 5G ev...

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Jul 02, 2019

5G networks, and promises of revolutionary advancements in technology and ultra-fast mobile speeds, are on the way to markets across the globe. As countries like the US, China and South Korea lead the way to a full roll-out of 5G, India’s government and industry stakeholders are working in tan...

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Jul 01, 2019

As companies go through various seasons of their growth, IT is expected to be ready to respond at any given time. If the business expands, IT has to expand. If the business is moving to multi-site, IT has to respond with solutions. IT departments have must be ready to respond to anything but also ma...

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Jul 01, 2019

Ericsson and China Mobile demonstrated an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) prototype on an end-to-end, stand-alone 5G network at Mobile World Congress 2019 Shanghai. With the growing adoption of industry digitalization and improvements in industrial automation and intelligence, AGV is becoming increas...

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Jul 01, 2019

Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are growing at an incredibly fast pace. When you look at the benefits, it’s not hard to understand why.  The cost savings for MPLS, the flexibility for application performance, ease of management and the security benefits for branch offices make it an attra...

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Jun 30, 2019

5G will contribute almost 900 billion U.S. dollars to Asia’s economy over the next 15 years, said the Global System for Mobile Communications Alliance (GSMA) during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held from June 26 to 28 in Shanghai. The report, Asia Pacific edition of the GSMA’s Mobile ...

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Jun 28, 2019

We are at a pivotal time in the telecom industry as bandwidth demands driven by the 4th Industrial Revolution impact how service providers are building their next-generation networks. Traditional networks are extremely expensive, and they are not sustainable or scalable in a new era of connectivity ...

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Jun 28, 2019

We are proud to announce that Cisco was awarded the Chairman’s Awards for Advancement and Accessibility (Chairman’s AAA) for creating accessibility features for the blind on its 8800 Series Phones. The Chairman’s AAA is an FCC program recognizing products, services, standards and o...

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Jun 27, 2019

Everyone acknowledges that SD-WAN can save money. As the chart shows, more than half of IT leaders expect a 25-50% return on investment (ROI) from SD-WAN, but most people only talk about the savings gained from moving from moving MPLS circuits to IP or broadband circuits. While this transition does ...

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Jun 26, 2019

Like snowflakes in a snowstorm, snowflake networks look consistent when viewed from a distance, but show many differences upon close examination. A snowflake network will typically use slightly different hardware models, running different operating system versions, with different interconnection met...

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Jun 25, 2019

Last week the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) called on U.S. policymakers, wireless carriers and technology leaders to work together to ensure that United States economic and national security remains secure as wireless carriers roll out the 5G cellular networks. In a white paper ...

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Jun 25, 2019

As Mist Systems and Juniper Networks partners wait it out until a unified partner program is in place – reportedly within the year – Mist on Tuesday introduced a cloud-managed 802.11 (Wi-Fi 6) access point (AP), Mist Edge for distributed campus environments, and AI-driven support service...

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Jun 24, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will benefit network management and network monitoring going forward. And MSPs will need to know exactly how AI and machine learning will benefit them in order to use them effectively for customers. In-house enterprise IT management will look more an...

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Jun 24, 2019

No matter who your customer is or what you’re selling, it’s more likely than not that your customer will have to go through several steps before choosing to buy your product or service. Think about your own shopping habits: you don’t just buy the first thing you see. The first thin...

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Jun 24, 2019

It takes thoughtful work to scale an e-commerce store. I’m sure you’ve had a few growing pains of your own getting to the point where you are today. However, you’re reading this because you may not be content with where your conversions are at this precise moment. You may not even ...

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Jun 24, 2019

We’ve all heard the term “less is more”. And we’ve been told this applies for landing pages too. I.e. your forms should be short and only ask for only the bare minimum of required information if you want to convert. As an example, one of the main questions someone typically h...

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Jun 24, 2019

First things first… What does WiFi stand for? Well, no one really knows for sure. It does NOT stand for “Wireless Fidelity” as was reported in a news release back in the fall of 1997. Technically speaking, the term “WiFi” or “Wi-Fi” is a trademarked nicknam...

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Jun 23, 2019

Digital Summit, the largest conference series in the digital marketing industry, has invited Mehrguth to share his unique presentation, 5 Data-Validated Tactics to Increase the Experienced Marketer’s Qualified Lead Volume (…and 3 Tactics Guaranteed to Fail) with their audiences across t...

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Jun 21, 2019

Forget about cramming vocabulary: the best way to learn a language is by using decoding exercises. Translate a German sentence word-by-word into your native language – thus you will learn the word’s meaning as well as the language’s grammar. Decoding means to “decipher”...

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Jun 18, 2019

As market after market switches on 5G, we are at a truly momentous point in time. No previous generation of mobile technology has had the potential to drive economic growth to the extent that 5G promises. It goes beyond connecting people to fully realizing the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Fourth...

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Jun 13, 2019

Are you ready 5G network? It is coming soon and it will leave an impact on every inch of technology. If you thought 4 G was fast, 5 times can be several times faster than that, which means that you can finish movie and game downloads in a few seconds. Be prepared to get faster speeds of the internet...

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Jun 13, 2019

5G technology has been in development for a while now and it appears it’s finally ready to start being implemented in the UK. Mobile provider Three, has recently announced it will be rolling out the technology starting from next month. The question is, are businesses ready for this advanced ne...

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Jun 13, 2019

At Cisco Live this week, Cisco made several announcements aimed at reducing friction in collaboration. Users are no longer impressed with HD video and audio or mobile apps; today there is more interest in updates and enhancements that drive experience and engagement. For Cisco, that means making the...

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Jun 13, 2019

Perhaps more than in any other part of your network, a software-defined WAN strategy needs to be equal measures networking and security. By definition, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) interfaces with and runs across external, often public, networks, which could attract many threats. Additionally, the ...

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Jun 12, 2019

In the marvelous world of digital, enterprises are in a constant hunt for all the infinity stones – The Internet, The Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things and Software Defined Networks – to become invincible – Agile, Flexible, Fast and Software Defin...

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Jun 12, 2019

With each new year comes a new list of the world’s most successful companies. Many are instantly recognizable, from smartphone giants like Apple to software stalwarts like Microsoft. These companies understand the power of cloud computing technology in digitally transforming and reimagining th...

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Jun 12, 2019

According to Gartner, enterprise consumption of WAN bandwidth is increasing by up to 30% annually. It’s no wonder that enterprises are constantly evaluating their WAN-edge deployment options and looking for alternatives that will enable them to meet their networking and bandwidth needs without...

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Jun 12, 2019

“Until recently, most M2M and IoT services have largely relied on licensed cellular, wireline and satellite networks for their wide area connectivity requirements. Cellular networks, in particular, have enjoyed significant success in the arena. However, for many low bandwidth IoT applications,...

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Jun 12, 2019

We have seen hype about whether 5G cellular or Wi-Fi 6 will win in the enterprise, but the reality is that the two are largely complementary with an overlap for some use cases, which will make for an interesting competitive environment through the early 2020s.

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Jun 11, 2019

Champlain Cable, a manufacturer of high-performance insulated wire for automotive, commercial vehicle, Navy shipboard, industrial, and marine oil and gas markets, has selected FirstLight to upgrade its high-speed fiber Internet service and provide cloud solutions. With manufacturing plants in Colche...

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Jun 11, 2019

Following months of waiting for official approval and nearly three years of testing, China’s mobile industry can begin final preparations to introduce commercial 5G services after the regulator last week issued four licences. As expected, three permits went to the incumbent mobile operators, C...

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Jun 11, 2019

In the not-too-distant future, 5G could allow home broadband users to ditch wires altogether, opting to have the internet delivered wirelessly instead. Mobile network Three has confirmed it will launch its 5G network in August, with a package targeted at home users. The network plans to reach 25 UK ...

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Jun 11, 2019

Humans have come a long way in terms of technological development in every area of life. For transportation, we have developed airways and waterways vehicles and reduced the reliability of road vehicles (to some extent). In the healthcare sector, we now have machines that can operate the patient on ...

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Jun 11, 2019

Aerohive Networks , a leader in cloud-managed networking, unveiled two new innovations that further strengthen Aerohive’s cloud managed networking vision. Through extensive interviews with customers, partners and industry analysts, Aerohive has identified that the enterprise demands not just a...

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Jun 11, 2019

Cisco said on Tuesday that it is unifying its collaboration portfolio to simplify the experience for users and IT administrators. The networking giant said all its devices are now on the same operating system and that all of its apps now have improved interoperability. For instance, Cisco said Jabbe...

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Jun 10, 2019

Three UK has said it will begin its 5G rollout with a home broadband service in London but will offer both mobile and home broadband 5G services in 25 towns and cities across the country before the end of the year. The firm will become the third mobile network to launch their own 5G services after E...

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Jun 10, 2019

SK Telecom announced that it, together with Sinclair Broadcast Group and Harman International Industries, demonstrated next-generation TV broadcasting by combining ATSC 3.0-based broadcast network and SK Telecom’s 5G network. ATSC 3.0 is a suite of new broadcast TV transmission standards that ...

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Jun 10, 2019

South Korea recently became one of the world’s first country to start offering commercial 5G services. Now, due to strong demand for the latest gadgets and aggressive promotion strategy, it will reportedly have more than one million 5G mobile subscribers this week. For those who are unaware, S...

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Jun 09, 2019

Union Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that the government will be holding auction for spectrum, which includes airwaves that will be used to offer 5G or fifth-generation services, in the current calendar year. While some countries such as South Korea and the U.S. have begun rol...

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Jun 07, 2019

Organisers of The Essex Business Networking Group have announced that they will be holding their last event before the summer break this month.Sponsored by Haslers Chartered Accountants, West Essex Life Magazine and Lexus Woodford, the event regularly attracts hundreds of Essex’s leading profe...

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Jun 06, 2019

Pluribus Networks, the open networking and next generation software-defined networking (SDN) vendor, on Thursday announced the Freedom Series DC gateway router, a white-box, multitenant data center router optimized for public cloud interconnect. The Pluribus Freedom Series DC Gateway Router is a ful...

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Jun 06, 2019

Networking Hardware market report provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and new product development in the global Networking Hardware market. Featuring global and regional data and over top key players profiles, this report provides the ultimate guide to exploring opportunities in the ...

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Jun 06, 2019

After years of hype, carriers are finally turning on their 5G networks. Just don’t be surprised if you’re nowhere near one. Who launched it? Both Verizon and AT&T have launched their mobile 5G networks, while KT argues that a robot in South Korea is its first 5G customer. Sprint turn...

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Jun 05, 2019

Cisco explains how artificial intelligence and machine learning fit into a feedback loop that implements and maintain desired network conditions to optimise network performance for workloads using real-time data. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are expected to be some of the big topics ...

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Jun 05, 2019

Cisco explains how artificial intelligence and machine learning fit into a feedback loop that implements and maintain desired network conditions to optimize network performance for workloads using real-time data. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are expected to be some of the big topics ...

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Jun 04, 2019

Telecom companies are racing to roll out 5G networks across the world, kickstarting a new generation of internet connectivity that will supercharge businesses from retail to automobiles. While 5G is expected to be rolled out gradually over the next few years, there’s already one place to look ...

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Jun 04, 2019

Many paths lead to SD-WAN. Much like the 300,000 gold diggers who flocked to California during the 1849 gold rush, enterprise WANs everywhere are all headed toward a single destination. Today however, it’s not a shiny metal drawing treasure seekers into the hills--it’s an edge device and...

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Jun 03, 2019

During the trial, conducted as part of Viettel’s ongoing 5G technical testing program, the companies achieved a downlink speed of 1.5Gbps to 1.7Gbps. The Vietnamese government has been pushing for Vietnam to become one of the world’s early 5G adopters to help ensure the nation is at the ...

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Jun 03, 2019

There's no denying that 5G is kind of a big deal. Partially launched in the UK (depending on your network and location), it means faster speeds when on the move and lower latency so things like streaming video just got better.  With a more reliable connection, you'll be able to enjoy hi...

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Jun 02, 2019

Sprint has officially entered the 5G market, turning on their new and upgraded network in a few places around the US. This is just the start of their 2019 plans to have 5G turned on in several new cities, and should be a big boost in coverage and speeds for anyone in one of those areas. First up on ...

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May 30, 2019

Nokia has been doing well in the networking business in recent time. Together with the Italian operator TIM, Nokia achieved data transport of 550 Gigabits per second on the 350 km Rome to Florence backbone network. This is also a European record for long-distance data transmission using the High-Spe...

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May 30, 2019

Vietnam’s first 5G phone call was made Friday on the network of Viettel, the country’s largest telecommunications company. The trial called, made publicly with the participation of the Ministry of Information and Communications, showed that the speed of Viettel’s 5G mobile network ...

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May 30, 2019

5G is coming very soon – in fact, in a few places it’s already here. It’s the next generation of mobile networks, following on from 4G/LTE, and it promises much higher speeds, lower latency and more reliable connections, so you can browse, play, stream and download faster, or in hi...

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May 29, 2019

In-flight internet provider Gogo has announced plans to bring 5G to the North American skies starting in 2021. Gogo says the new 5G service is being designed to power faster in-flight Wi-Fi on smaller commercial airlines in the continental United States and Canada, those companies’ even smalle...

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May 29, 2019

Enterprise 5G is forecast to generate $45 billion annually by the mid-2020s through next generation application development, IT services, platforms and connectivity according to new Telsyte research. The report, Australian Enterprise IoT & 5G Study 2019, said 68 per cent of IT and business leade...

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May 28, 2019

While Huawei is facing severe challenges over its 5G technology particularly from the US, the Chinese tech giant is forging ahead with its 5G programme in Africa. Huawei has partnered with two South African universities to launch a free 5G course. Aimed at postgraduates studying ICT at Wits Universi...

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May 28, 2019

Viettel, the largest mobile operator in Vietnam, has outlined bold 5G ambitions which go much further than mere network deployments and high-speed services for its subscriber base. The operator reportedly is working on its own core 5G technology, with the aim to develop 80 per cent of the tech at ho...

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May 28, 2019

The regulator is seeking feedback from the telecommunications industry and the public on the best approach to 5G spectrum allocation, the baseline requirements for spectrum winners and driving the development of the broader 5G ecosystem. IMDA plans to allocate the 3.5-GHz and the 26-GHz to 28-GHz fr...

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May 27, 2019

In April 2019, all three Korean operators have turned 5G mobile service into reality. Samsung has delivered the largest share of 5G network solutions as well as 5G NSA core in Korea. Unprecedented 5G use cases are now commercially available to consumers with 5G smartphone

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May 26, 2019

Bridget Barnes Espinosa spends much of her time working with immigrant business owners in Detroit, making connections through her cross-cultural consulting firm, Puente Cultural Integration. On May 29, she’ll bring together some of those entrepreneurs and local vendors for BRIDGE Bilingual Bus...

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May 26, 2019

Huzzah! The wireless industry has finally delivered on years of promises and hype and is finally offering the first super-fast 5G networks. Sort of. Verizon in April became the first U.S. carrier to offer 5G service via a phone, though the phone in question was a Motorola model with an ugly 5G add-o...

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May 23, 2019

Hybrid cloud networking is the interconnection between private cloud resources and public cloud infrastructure that supports the movement of workloads in those environments. Linked by telecom services and the infrastructure that underpins that connection, hybrid cloud networking facilitates the tran...

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May 23, 2019

The benefits of an open market may sound worthwhile — flexibility, speed, cost-saving, freedom, scalability, neutrality — but there are certain corners of the greater technology and software industry where openness has not quite reached, including SD-WAN. In recent months it seems that t...

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May 23, 2019

Wireless carriers around the world are beginning to deploy 5G, the latest and greatest in mobile broadband technology. Like the evolution from 3G to 4G, the jump to 5G will mean faster speeds, lower latency and many other benefits. It’ll be a major boost for businesses, gamers, livestreamers a...

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May 22, 2019

There’s still a lot to understand about industrial networking, especially since Ethernet is now “everywhere,” from the enterprise to the factory floor. But there are different Ethernet communication protocols at the fieldbus level and there are advanced technologies that add to an ...

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May 21, 2019

With increasing frequency, we are hearing about a revolution that is taking place in technological connectivity—one being spearheaded by the development of 5G (fifth generation) networks. But what can 5G do, really? Faster movie downloads and near instantaneous access to information on phones ...

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May 21, 2019

It's being called the 5th generation of wireless technology and many consumers have good reason to be excited about the 5G revolution. 5G technology will allow devices to download information a lot faster than the current 4G and LTE networks. Smartphones aside, there's a buzz about its integ...

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May 20, 2019

The traditional network model of a central, physical data center hub with spokes running out to fixed locations has gone the way of the mainframe and electric typewriter – once mainstays of business. Today’s workforce is increasingly mobile, while business-critical productivity and colla...

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May 20, 2019

Ranplan Wireless has expanded its portfolio of indoor and outdoor planning tools for designing and optimising 3G, 4G (LTE), Small Cells, Wi-Fi and new 5G wireless networks. Ranplan In-Building and Ranplan In-Building Lite are powerful stand-alone tools that speed up the planning and deployment of Sm...

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May 20, 2019

In a recent release, Multi-Tech Systems, a global supplier of M2M and IoT communication solutions, has introduced its mPower Edge Intelligence, a new embedded software offering that builds on its application enablement platform, to deliver programmability, network flexibility, enhanced security and ...

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May 20, 2019

Top US corporations from chipmakers to Google have frozen the supply of critical software and components to Huawei, complying with a Trump administration crackdown that threatens to choke off China's largest technology company. Chipmakers including Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx and Broadcom have told ...

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May 19, 2019

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.” Famed inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla said this in an interview with Collier’s magazine in 1926. Fast-forward nearly 1...

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May 16, 2019

What a difference a few weeks can make. Last month, I came to Chicago for the launch of Verizon’s 5G network, which is now live both here and in Minneapolis. The inaugural 5G device was the Moto Z3 equipped with Motorola’s 5G MotoMod, and my experience — and that of many other tech...

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May 16, 2019

Starting as an e-bike business portal one year ago, Bicle® is a digital platform that allows industry professionals in the e-mobility industry to have a social network and build business connections. The website covers all aspects of e-mobility from electric automotive vehicles, light electric v...

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May 15, 2019

At the Samsung Foundry Forum, Arm, in a joint effort with Samsung Foundry, Cadence, and Sondrel, showed the first 28nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) embedded MagnetoResistive Random Access Memory (eMRAM) IoT test chip and advancement board. The Musca-S1 is intended to offer decision t...

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May 14, 2019

The 5G wireless network has been a topic of discussion in 2019, providing unprecedented speed and capacity compared to previous generations of cellular networks. Its implications for general phone usage are obvious, with users downloading and streaming content faster, however this high-speed network...

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May 14, 2019

As SD-WAN surges toward maturity and more companies join the market, separating the hype and buzzwords from the actual technology is getting more difficult. John Proctor, president and CEO of Martello Technologies, told SDxCentral in an interview that “the SD-WAN market is still fairly new, bu...

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May 13, 2019

For almost a decade, Samsung and our partners across industry and government have worked tirelessly to develop and nurture the technologies that will thrust the world into a whole new level of intelligence and connectivity. Often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this fundamental shif...

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May 13, 2019

These are weird times in Enterprise wireless. We have a Wi-Fi culture that continues to push wired Ethernet further to the margins for client access, and where access points were once THE THING that vendors competed on, they are now just part of big honkin’ super systems and grand stories to t...

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May 13, 2019

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom recently achieved a landmark data transmission rate by consistently topping 100 Gbps in a trial microwave link over 1.5km. Conducted at the Deutsche Telekom Service Center in Athens, the joint innovation project represents a major technical breakthrough, achieving more ...

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May 11, 2019

The first worldwide 5G network has made its debut in South Korea last month, followed a few weeks later by the first European network, the one launched in Switzerland. Even the first 5G smartphones have made their debut on the European market but so far these are expensive models while to see a mid-...

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May 10, 2019

Office 365 doesn’t work well in a traditional hub-and-spoke corporate network. There. I said it. If enterprises don’t transform legacy networks to accommodate Office 365, their end users will force them to. Gartner predicts cloud software revenues to grow more than 17% in 2019. Driving t...

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May 09, 2019

In the beginning, there were LANs. Well, it wasn't the very beginning, but the creation of LANs eventually led to other networking advancements, such as wide area networks and different types of WAN technologies. LANs, or local area networks, connect computers and devices in the same geographic ...

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May 09, 2019

Traffic steering classifies traffic and matches application requirements with network characteristics, conditions and behaviors. It’s similar to a car’s GPS or Waze effect that directs drivers to the best route for their destination, based on conditions like congestion, accidents and pri...

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May 08, 2019

The latest Mobile World Conference (MWC) event was all about the transition from 4G to 5G technology. At the same event, location intelligence startup Mapbox demonstrated how 5G networks are used for creating and consuming live maps on smart devices, leading to safer and more efficient traffic manag...

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May 08, 2019

Channel sounding of 5G signals started years ago with the intent of gaining knowledge on how 5G signals will react in a real-world environment. From those experiments, engineers have developed channel models. 5G New Radio is, however, much more complex than LTE given beam steering and mmWave signals...

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May 07, 2019

Over the last several years, SD-WAN has become one of the hottest topics across the IT and Telecom space. I want to use this blog to provide some context for sourcing professionals looking to gain a better understanding of the technology and make more strategic supplier selections. To start, let&rsq...

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May 07, 2019

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How SD-WAN Overcomes Last Mile Constraints
May 7, 2019
As more businesses require 24/7 uptime of their networks, they can’t afford to “put all their eggs in one basket.” Even MPLS with ...

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May 06, 2019

Mobile network operators worldwide are beginning their initial rollouts of 5G network services, surfacing difficulties in how to deploy 5G mobile networks. In order to deliver faster speeds to subscribers, 5G standards require more complex antenna designs and deployment strategies, according to ABI ...

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May 05, 2019

5G is coming. Well, technically it has started rolling out in developed countries, kind of, may be, slowly! This 5th Generation cellular network is theoretically 10 times faster that 4G -LTE. That means instead of waiting 5 minutes to download a movie on Netflix on 4G, it will take just 30 seconds o...

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May 03, 2019

This is the final blog in a 4-part series on three prominent wireless technologies, the previous blogs included: Is Wi-Fi 6 the Dominant Choice for the Future of Wireless Technology? Can 5G Actually Replace Wi-Fi? What is CBRS Technology? Should I Care About It? In this post, I want to wrap up with ...

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May 02, 2019

Revolutionary. Transformative. Game changer. These are just a few descriptors attached to 5G, the next generation of wireless that will succeed 4G. The new standard is set to vastly improve connectivity between people and things. It dominates press headlines and takes center stage at nearly every te...

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Apr 30, 2019

The digital workplace has been in everyone's mind since the arrival of the cloud in everyday business. This is not a single technological solution, but an overall approach that brings together different technologies to enable centralized and simplified IT management, to provide users with a pers...

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Apr 29, 2019

It’s no secret that business applications are moving out of the data center and into the cloud. In fact, more than 40 percent of business applications now reside in the public clouds according to RightScale. This migration has forced organizations to re-evaluate their network architectures and...

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Apr 29, 2019

Cisco is announcing solutions that can help customers embrace a new age of wireless connectivity.  Wi-Fi 6 (also known as 802.11ax) is the new standard for Wi-Fi networks.  Built on the same fundamental wireless innovations as 5G, these new standards could reshape how businesses and consum...

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Apr 28, 2019

StarHub unveiled an innovative Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solution through its partnership with the Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance (ngena), which currently has 24 international partners. As a partner of ngena, StarHub is connected to a single global network through a co...

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Apr 28, 2019

The term “cloud-native” is often invoked for applications that run in the cloud. In fact, only a few of these applications are actually “cloud-native”. And those that are typically involve stateless workflow indicative of most web-scale projects. Is this distinction important...

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Apr 27, 2019

From smartphones and smart TVs to autonomous cars able to communicate with other vehicles on the road, it’s all part of the emergence of a vast network of devices and technologies called the Internet of Things (IoT). Just as the internet connected personal computers, the IoT is connecting all ...

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Apr 26, 2019

For the past few months I’ve been evaluating Wyebot, a cloud-managed wireless network performance tool that jumps to life quickly and has some nice features. I’ve laid hands on a number of competing products- those solutions that promise to solve wireless problems and to alert you when t...

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Apr 26, 2019

to setup a manufacturing unit here. “Aruba’s entire R&D facility functions between Chennai and Bangalore, and we should be able to inaugurate our manufacturing plant in India sometime in June to September,” said Santanu Ghose, Director, Aruba, HPE, on the sidelines of the Netwo...

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Apr 26, 2019

With our recent acquisition of Duo, Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewalls work with Duo to give you the enhanced security your business requires today. Just as importantly, it addresses a concern we’re hearing more frequently from our customers: How to help an overwhelmed IT team. Better n...

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Apr 26, 2019

As regular readers may recall, Comcast is my broadband Internet (WAN) service provider. And regular readers may also recall that MoCA is one of the LAN technologies in current use in my home (containing my office), along with 802.11ac mesh wireless and GbE Cat5e and Cat6 wired (powerline isn't c...

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Apr 25, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission is required by law (under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) to initiate a notice of inquiry and report annually on whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion. This annual ...

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Apr 25, 2019

With all the focus on creating a nationwide fifth generation (5G) network, questions often arise about why it is important for the U.S. to lead in 5G development, the benefits of moving to 5G, and why is there a continual push for more spectrum to be made available for 5G. The first benefit of devel...

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Apr 25, 2019

We're witnessing a transition toward software-based networking across almost every aspect of IT. Without repeating any holy grail marketing statements about software-defined WAN, we do have to discuss the future of VPN services and how software is driving change both now and in the future.

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Apr 25, 2019

Multi-cloud is marching its way beyond “buzz word” to a real deployment scenario. Some key drivers behind this new normal include: Preference: Different internal teams can have different preferences when picking clouds due to each team’s competency and specialization No lock-in: To...

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Apr 25, 2019

Enterprises relying on MPLS can significantly reduce networking cost by implementing software defined wide are networks. In addition to cost saving, SD-WAN enables automation, intelligence and centralized management which makes enterprise networks cloud ready. Weighing all these factors into conside...

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Apr 24, 2019

If you have set up a new wireless router or Internet connection, the possibility is that you may end up with the Windows was unable to find a certificate to log onto to the network error while trying to connect to the network. Disable FIPS for your network. If you’re getting Windows was unable...

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Apr 24, 2019

With many organizations adopting a direct-to-internet networking strategy for their branch locations, there is considerable interest in how to architect the security. This is especially true if the organization is also adopting SD-WAN as part of their branch networking strategy. That’s because...

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Apr 24, 2019

Operational technology (OT) refers to the hardware and software used to run industrial control systems (ICS), such as SCADA, that serve as the foundation of various areas of critical infrastructure. This includes industries that are essential to public safety and well-being, including power plants, ...

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Apr 24, 2019

In the age of digital transformation, it can be difficult for financial institutions to offer their business operations and customers the most value. Here’s an easy place to start: software-defined wide area networking. SD-WAN taps software to route a network connection through the fastest pat...

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Apr 24, 2019

Nitel has expanded its partnership with Cisco in hopes of giving partners unparalleled software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) flexibility. The company has integrated Cisco Secure SD-WAN (powered by Viptela) into the Nitel Connect SD-WAN platform. Nitel already partners with Versa Networks fo...

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Apr 23, 2019

One of the main concerns when adding any new technology to your infrastructure is creating a more complex architecture. While an SD-WAN can help simplify your overall network architecture and management, it is important to assess your network to eliminate as much complexity as possible while plannin...

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Apr 23, 2019

How do you streamline the upgrade to integrated networks to allow for quick 5G deployment? A new approach from Huawei may have some of the answers. Operators need to act quickly and efficiently to meet current demand, while ensuring networks are flexible and adaptive to rise to the challenges 5G wil...

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Apr 23, 2019

SD-WAN has made networking sexy again—and for good reason. Many CIOs view SD-WAN technologies as key to their cloud-first strategies. After all, it's known for optimizing WAN performance and connecting branch offices quickly and securely all while reducing costs. But, the market is flooded...

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Apr 22, 2019

As our world becomes increasingly dependent on the internet, more safeguards must be put in place in order to keep our information and services we rely on secure. In the last few years, we have seen an increase in regulations and legislation passed to uphold these safeguards, but it is unclear how m...

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Apr 22, 2019

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Internet of Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) rely on low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) for a wide range of applications. Nodes in LLNs have limited resources and often operate in harsh communication environments. However, this also leads to loss in tr...

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Apr 22, 2019

With Silicon Valley constantly in search of the new, new thing, everyone from vendor bloggers to conference organizers to research firm analysts have touted the next big thing as SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networking). For example, researchers at IDC project that the market for SD-WAN will g...

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Apr 22, 2019

Still an emerging technology, SD-WAN sees large adoption rates: About two-thirds of IT professionals recently reported they already have some of their WAN software-defined, while half have active SD-WAN projects. The enthusiasm for the tech comes down to its ability to help businesses find the faste...

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Apr 22, 2019

In the transportation world, communities everywhere are upgrading road systems to prepare for the driverless revolution, reduce congestion, speed up overall traffic flow and increase capacity – much of it driven by population increases and the anticipated arrival of connected vehicles. Urban p...

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Apr 22, 2019

We’ve shared stories before about the speed of deployment that we can do with our automation as well as our large network-focused project, engineering, and support team. But, why does speed matter? Most IT projects are just that, they’re projects. They’re often long-term rollouts t...

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Apr 22, 2019

As we are fond of saying around here at Ruckus HQ (and in the field, and on the phone, and in webinars, over drinks, etc.) all answers in Wi-Fi begin with, “it depends”. As a rule of thumb, and this has been consistent for many years, a school typically needs 1 Ruckus AP for every other ...

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Apr 20, 2019

When you rely on your Wi-Fi to get things done or for gaming, it’s essential that you get a strong connection. These powerful hi-tech routers will ensure that you enjoy seamless connectivity around your home. Is it worth upgrading my router? Quite possibly. A more powerful router may help you ...

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Apr 20, 2019

It’s no wonder that with the availability of new communications technology, telco providers are retiring copper wirelines. This new technology is rendering the 100-year-old copper landline technology - once so integral to our communications infrastructure - obsolete, and thus leading many telc...

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Apr 19, 2019

The Federal Government has been advocating a move to the cloud for almost a decade now. And yet, a great amount of applications are still sitting in agency data centers. This is due to several reasons: complexity of re-writing the application for the cloud, belief that the cloud is not as secure as ...

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Apr 18, 2019

When I started my career in networking  (longer ago than I care to admit), the industry was struggling with incompatible systems at the protocol and interface level. As a budding young engineer concerned with ordering a chaotic technosphere, the OSI model seemed like just the remedy. That was a...

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Apr 18, 2019

Where there are opportunities there are problems. You might think I’ve got that the wrong way around but not when it comes to 5G and mobile phone billing. Billing is hard, really hard. Some people contend that mobile phone networks make it deliberately confusing so that you don’t end up ...

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Apr 18, 2019

Sometimes I wish the 3GPP standards organization would just quit numbering random milestones in the progress of cellular technology -- though they are good for the consulting business. In reality, there are important things going on all the time in wireless, but when 3GPP identifies a new “gen...

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Apr 18, 2019

What’s transitioning like to SD-WAN? Ask Nick Dell. The IT manager at a leading automotive components manufacturer recently shared his experience transitioning his company from MPLS to Cato SD-WAN. During the webinar, we spoke about the reasons behind the decision, the differences between carr...

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Apr 18, 2019

This is a summary of a byline article written by Fortinet’s John Maddison, entitled “Addressing the Challenges of Moving Security to the Edge,” that first appeared in Security Week on April 04, 2019.
For the most part, the traditional network perimeter is gone. In its place ...

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Apr 18, 2019

As they say, business happens. Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, expansion, and CHANGE! All necessary, but at times quite disrupting. While the role of technology as a disruption enabler has been widely noticed, with old business models being radically disrupted by new ones with a “technolo...

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Apr 17, 2019

The 91st Annual ENTELEC Conference & Expo runs April 23rd – 25th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX.  As one of the premier events for communications and control technologies in the energy industry, it brings together leading communications, IT/OT and networking p...

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Apr 17, 2019

Customers often ask us whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be the kind of game changer that analysts are predicting. From what I’m seeing, the answer is an unconditional yes. The trick is figuring out the right use cases. While any computer can calculate pi to a million places faster tha...

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Apr 17, 2019

Cisco invested in IoT very early on, mainly to gain market visibility and build the ecosystem. As part of that IoT strategy, we’ve focused on verticals that create strategic value to Cisco, mostly around the IoT business unit. And as such, digital agriculture has always been an emerging catego...

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Apr 17, 2019

Dual-homing for endpoints is a common requirement, and many Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MC-LAG) solutions were built to address this need. Within the Cisco Nexus portfolio, the virtual Port-Channel (vPC) architecture addressed this need from the very early days of NX-OS. With VXLAN, vPC was enha...

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Apr 17, 2019

For virtualized security, as more companies adopt SD-WAN technology to enhance the agility of their networking architecture, they must give strong consideration to how and where to apply security across the network. For example, retailers with a lot of store locations can benefit from virtualized SD...

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Apr 17, 2019

We love to talk about the cool projects we’ve gotten to do at QOS. From working with some of the largest SD-WAN deployments today to some of the smallest as well. From customers just down he street to those with sites across the globe in dozens of countries. From all of these experiences we&rs...

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Apr 17, 2019

This is the second installment of the blog series exploring how enterprises can realize the full transformation promise of the cloud by shifting to a business first networking model powered by a business-driven SD-WAN. The first installment explored automating secure IPsec connectivity and intellige...

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Apr 17, 2019

VMware vSAN powers hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions with vSphere-native, flash-optimized storage for private and public cloud deployments. A core building block for the Software-Defined Data Center, more than 17,000 organizations have deployed vSAN - from edge to core to cloud – o...

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Apr 17, 2019

Ericsson and Swisscom, the telecommunications service provider in Switzerland, have switched on the large-scale commercial 5G network in Europe to support commercially available smartphones. The long-term strategic partners went live with the network in the first minute of April 17, following Swissc...

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Apr 16, 2019

For Michael Soler, a senior infrastructure manager at Westcon-Comstor, a major IT distributor, moving to a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) was as much about taking control of the network as it was about saving money. The move accomplished both, according to Soler. “It’s been ...

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Apr 16, 2019

NetReveal platform enhancements empowering financial institutions to combat financial crime and fraud. Nyansa, an innovator of AIOps solutions, recently revealed Voyance IoT, the industry’s first inclusive AI-based solution to integrate IoT security and device performance analytics in a solita...

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Apr 16, 2019

With the sheer number of applications in today’s enterprises, it can be hard for procurement departments and cloud administrators to maintain compliant and efficient procurement processes for their cloud development teams. Last week at Next we introduced you to Private Catalog, a new service f...

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Apr 16, 2019

Even though an enterprise network is considered the lifeline of an organization, there are certain challenges that have limited the efficiency of the enterprise networks. Malware threats, limited data replication performance, network availability, sluggish network connectivity  — all are ...

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Apr 16, 2019

Hardware reigned supreme in the networking world until the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN), a category of technologies that separate the network control plane from the forwarding plane to enable more automated provisioning and policy-based management of network resources. SDN's or...

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Apr 16, 2019

Over the past few months, we have seen a storm of hype about 5G, the next evolution in mobile network technology. Handset manufacturers are starting to come to market with 5G-ready smartphones, while many mobile network operators worldwide looking to deploy 5G networks in 2019 and 2020.  KT in ...

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Apr 15, 2019

It seems that ambiguity surrounds many technology buzzwords and phrases. For instance, the phrase Internet of Things, what does it mean, and what impact can this have on our lives and business? If you were to ask a dozen people to define what the Internet of Things really means, you would likely get...

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Apr 15, 2019

As employees demand more flexibility, companies are looking to the cloud for answers. Digital disruption is dramatically changing the way companies operate, paving the way for new ways of working. Mobile computing, cloud networks, social media and data analytics, among others, are ushering a new way...

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Apr 15, 2019

The internet has changed rapidly since its inception in 1983. The way we communicate, consume news and media, shop, and collect data are just a few examples of the way the internet has changed the world. A term you may have heard crop up in recent years is IoT, or The Internet of Things. IoT is abou...

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Apr 14, 2019

IoT is responsible for driving the biggest quantity of data into data lakes for businesses to analyze and leverage for analytics. With so much data at stake, companies must control who can and cannot access that data. This is the concern of Gerry Gebel, vice president of business development at Axio...

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Apr 14, 2019

Fujitsu unveiled an expanded Smart xHaul transport solution to accelerate seamless and efficient evolution to 5G networks. The complete solution is offered in collaboration with HFR Networks and Volta Networks. It enables 5G transport networks to leverage legacy 4G Centralized Radio Access Network (...

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Apr 12, 2019

When we talk about tech, we're almost always looking ahead into the future. But what happens when we look back into the past? The other day I was a bit taken aback by one of those 'This time, 10 years ago' reminders from Facebook...you know, the ones where they show you what you posted 1...

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Apr 12, 2019

Our deal is complete. And, ARRIS is now officially part of CommScope. Here, Bruce McClelland, newly appointed COO of our combined company, shares his vision of the future of networking – and why CommScope is uniquely positioned to shape it. Read the blog.

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Apr 11, 2019

Tom Soderstrom, the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), recently wrote an article titled “The Next Computing Wave: Ultra Powerful, Ultra-Accelerated, Ultra Connected.” The article, published on MeriTalk, touches on a number of topic...

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Apr 11, 2019

We bring you a few interesting facts about the impact of 5G on Location technology. Why did we decide to inform you about this topic? Well, location tech is the most interesting area of advancement in 5G. In the modern world, it means that 5G is stepping up, bringing entirely new techniques that imp...

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Apr 11, 2019

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, we chat with Adrian Iliesiu about developing with SD-WAN and how you can streamline your workflow with vManage. Interviewing Adrian are Cisco Champion hosts, Daren Fulwell and David Peñaloza

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Apr 11, 2019

Simplifying the IT architecture is super important for retailers — for scalability and technology efficiency to name a few reasons. The challenge that presents itself is the core foundation and the network that all the digital touchpoints rely on. Many times, it’s just not there. The goo...

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Apr 11, 2019

For the past four years running, we've asked global respondents about the challenges faced on their journey to a modern, multi-cloud operating model. For the past three years, we've consistently been told the top challenge is "consistent security across all applications". Now certa...

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Apr 11, 2019

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, we chat with Adrian Iliesiu about developing with SD-WAN and how you can streamline your workflow with vManage. Interviewing Adrian are Cisco Champion hosts, Daren Fulwell and David Peñaloza.

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Apr 10, 2019

At Digital Transformation World this May, Santi Magazù, Vice President, PlayGiga will share his insights and experience of launching cloud gaming propositions through 5G. In the lead up to the big event, read his article below. Gaming is an enormous market with high customer engagement. A rec...

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Apr 10, 2019

Let’s face it, even in the best of cases, enterprise IT can be rigid, complex and expensive. When we talk to customers with extensive on-prem investments, they tell us they want to take advantage of the cloud’s scalability, innovative services and geographic scope, but they’re worr...

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Apr 10, 2019

In the world of open, public APIs, the SaaS world is undoubtedly moving toward integrated solutions. Developers are creating apps for popular platforms, and sites like Salesforce App Exchange and G Suite Marketplace are filled with hundreds, if not thousands of apps to boost productivity.

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Apr 10, 2019

My father is a real craftsman.  He always used to tell me whilst I was growing up (and still does to this day :-), “you cannot do all the jobs with the same tool. You would not use a hammer to cut wood, right?” He’s right of course, and the same folk wisdom is true for network...

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Apr 10, 2019

Google Cloud Next ’19: When it’s about to increase developer velocity, or to lower the operational overhead of managing infrastructure, with the use of serverless compute developers can focus on writing code that delivers business value. Oren Teich, Product Management Director, said, &ld...

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Apr 09, 2019

All digital transformation can be boiled down to two fundamental requirements. The first is application performance. Today’s distributed organizations require instant and universal access to SaaS applications such as O365 and SalesForce, as well as rich media services such as VoIP and video co...

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Apr 09, 2019

Unlike the fine folks at The SSL Store, the majority of the world doesn’t spend its time thinking about encryption. In fact, it’s a concept most people have a rudimentary knowledge of, at best. So things like prime factorization and perfect forward secrecy don’t really move the nee...

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Apr 09, 2019

I’ve been working with new trendy tech for years, and one of the things that’s been driving me crazy is not the speed at which things move but the fact that my clients want to keep up at any cost.There are several new features (aka cloud services) that are announced or released from publ...

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Apr 09, 2019

At a remote corner of Satara district in Maharashtra, thousands of cows are wearing sensors that track everything from pregnancy, diseases, state of vaccination and other health-related parameters. This dairy farm in Bhilawadi has proven that the Internet of Things (IoT) can deliver value to Indian ...

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Apr 09, 2019

Juniper Networks announced a cloud-delivered version of its SD-WAN solution. Juniper’s Contrail Service Orchestration now gives enterprises a simple way to manage and secure not only the WAN infrastructure but also branch LAN and Wi-Fi networks typically deployed alongside it.

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Apr 09, 2019

The latest generation of Network Packet Brokers (NPBs) are playing a key role in simplifying network management and the move to virtual infrastructures. They have strengthened their capabilities and strategic value by adding intelligence that ensures a network tool only receives the data it needs to...

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Apr 09, 2019

Enea announced a partnership with Fortinet, a global supplier of cybersecurity solutions, around secure SD-WAN for white box universal customer premise equipment (uCPE). The partnership aims to provide a flexible and cost-effective solution integrating Enea NFV Access and FortiGate Next Generation F...

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Apr 09, 2019

How much should you expect to spend on for an SD-WAN service? It’s a question that I’m often asked and one that depends highly on your network configuration. Pricing involves capacity at locations, whether it’s fully managed or not, and the services being included.

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Apr 09, 2019

In three years, Google Cloud has opened 15 new regions and 45 zones across 13 countries. We continue to expand our global footprint to support our growing customers around the world. Today we’re announcing two new additions to our global infrastructure: new Google Cloud regions in Seoul, South...

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Apr 09, 2019

oday nearly every IT decision maker wants to invest in innovation that will facilitate network performance and agility without compromising security. For many, the answer is SD-WAN. The intersection between security and SD-WAN is critical in keeping data not only accessible but safe. Here’s a ...

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Apr 08, 2019

What if someone told you that there was a new way to commute to work in the morning? A way that was more efficient than taking the highways or backroads to avoid traffic – a way that would allow you to save time, headaches and the dangers of driving altogether…you’d be interested,...