Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Trends, 2017–2022

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

The present White Paper will focus on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) technologies and intends to explore security-related use cases and requirements with the aim of identifying aspects of security where the nature of edge computing results in insufficient industry approaches to cloud security.

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

The commercialization of 5G networks is accelerating globally. From the perspective of industry development drivers, 5G communications are considered the key to personal consumption experience upgrades and digital industrial transformation. Major economies around the world require 5G to be an essential part of long-term industrial development.

whitePaper | July 20, 2022

As Intel’s business grows, demand for data center network capacity has increased by more than 25% annually. Additionally, business pressures require new capacity to be brought into production within 24 hours. As far back as 2014, we recognized the potential of software-defined networking (SDN) to help meet these challenges.

whitePaper | May 25, 2022

Businesses are increasingly aware that they must carefully choose their enterprise wireless technology wisely or risk of dealing with performance, reliability, and security issues. By combining the simplicity of conventional wireless LANs with advanced LTE/5G cellular wireless technology, Celona 5G LANs o!er wireless coverage in the most challenging environments, interference free connectivity, deterministic performance, and uninterrupted mobility for a new generation of wireless networking use cases.

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 | July 26, 2021

5G standalone (SA) operation, using a new core network, is foundational to mobile operators seeking to offer advanced 5G services with a low cost of production. Over the next two to three years, operators in all global regions will design, deploy, and scale 5G core networks on software-defined infrastructure. By April 2021, eight operators had already launched SA, according to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), and a further 36 have firm plans to launch in the near term. There is now a good supply of devices that support SA mode, including the iPhone 12 after the latest iOS update.