5G Non Terrestrial Networks 2022

whitePaper | May 1, 2022

The access layer offers the broadest attack surface in an enterprise’s network. It supports all network connectivity (via both wired Ethernet switches and wireless access points) for employees, contractors, and guests—as well as Internet-ofThings (IoT) devices. With ever-increasing numbers of devices connecting to networks each day, ensuring access layer security becomes a critical need. And with remote working becoming a new standard during the COVID-19 pandemic (and even beyond), proper security to mitigate access layer attacks has never been more important.

whitePaper | August 5, 2021

The third wave of the Internet is marked by substantial growth of more mobile, powerful, intelligent, and automated devices on the emerging edge network. In this environment, IT and OT will be converged and contribute to the increasing volume of data creation. This growth will outpace the growth of the core infrastructure capacity and create congestion points in the end-to-end application delivery chain, causing massive latency. Delay will bring near fatal blows to system stability and the application experience. Security challenges will also increase significantly. These conditions require a new approach—one centered around holistic application distribution and based on a different set of technology design principles. This is the essence of the Edge 2.0 era.

whitePaper | January 27, 2020

Wireless connectivity in the workplace is no longer a convenience or option; it is critical. With significant advances in technology, 5G promises to provide unprecedented speeds, massive connectivity and immersive experiences needed in today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise communications networks. Many carriers in the US and worldwide plan to utilize mmWave spectrum for select indoor use cases such as enabling new experiences at high- density venues, automating smart manufacturing facilities, and for providing fixed wireless access services to business locations.

whitePaper | April 28, 2021

Alongside connectivity and power, a third area – the antenna – needs to be equal attention because of the fundamental impact it has on device performance. The antenna is the means by which an IoT device receives and sends signals to the outside world and therefore is a fundamental element of an IoT device. However, antenna decisions are often neglected until the end of the development process, resulting in unnecessary compromises and sub-optimal siting of antennas that could have been avoided with better planning and design.

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

This paper presents a retrospective of network function virtualization (NFV), highlighting the context and the main use cases that made NFV a promised land in telecom. NFV is still waiting to be widely adopted by network operators, who do not see the return on investment that justifies procuring the technology and fail to see solutions to the challenges highlighted herein.

whitePaper | August 2, 2021

Traditional methods of building wide area networks (WANs) have always had limitations, but fell even further behind with the adoption of the cloud and remote work. Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) have simplified many aspects of WAN management, but are unable to fully break away from the hub-and-spoke model due to security requirements. Modern WAN-as-a-Service offerings address these shortcomings while providing organizations cost savings and improving network performance.