Tag: NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

December 28, 2023

Oxford picked rizz as its word of the year. Merriam-Webster picked authentic, while noting that rizz, deepfake, and coronation also stood out. In a similar vein, we present the 2023 Network Computing words of the year. These terms entered the […]

December 26, 2023

For major entertainment productions, video equipment configurations can comprise a single projector, a linear LED wall, multiple projectors like in the immersive Van Gogh art exhibit, or millions of pixels as seen in the Sphere in Las Vegas. “You’re able […]

December 14, 2023

Marking a major step in the fight against cybercrime, Microsoft has initiated action against Storm-1152, a group that offers a “cybercrime-as-a-service” network. The company has aggressively pursued legal measures to dismantle Storm-1152’s network, seizing its US-based infrastructure, shutting down key […]

December 8, 2023

“Our target as an industry, as a society, is very clear,” Ericsson Head of Product Line 5G Sibel Tombaz said during a talk on 5G sustainability at the recent Telco Sustainability Forum (available on demand here). “We need to leave […]

December 7, 2023

Competition among wireless carriers has driven down per-minute use charges by 6 percent on average, with some carriers slashing prices by more than a third, according to a new study by Paul Kagan Associates Inc., Carmel, Calif. A closer look […]

December 7, 2023

AT&T announced this week that it wants to have 70% of its traffic on open network platforms within the next few years and will spend up to $14 billion with Ericsson to make that happen. In remarks at the UBS […]

November 30, 2023

Ericsson’s newly released Mobility Report takes a look ahead to the height of the 5G era and forecasts that by the end of 2029, 85% of the world’s population will have access to 5G, global 5G subscriptions will surpass 5.3 […]

November 22, 2023

Verizon put 5G network slicing through its paces as part of its support of last weekend’s Formula 1 Last Vegas Grand Prix racing event. The carrier said that the technology “showed exceptional performance for streaming content in a high data-usage […]

November 17, 2023

Wi-Fi 6, or IEEE 802.11ax, was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance in the fall of 2019, and unlike past upgrades, this generation highlighted efficiency by introducing multi-user concepts, rather than focusing solely on faster speeds and bigger channels. Then, the […]

November 17, 2023

If an enterprise wants a lesson in quickly forming a zero-trust strategy for a sprawling organization, they should look to the US federal government’s effort to make all agencies compliant by 2024. That’s what Chris DeRusha, who was appointed federal […]

November 16, 2023

Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas. During the trial, Nokia and Mavenir validated the interoperability of […]

November 16, 2023

While the supply chain issues that dogged most of the networking vendors over the past couple of years have dwindled, Cisco says the current challenge is a backlog of purchased gear waiting to be installed by large enterprise and service […]

November 10, 2023

Arista Networks yesterday announced an expanded zero trust networking architecture that uses the underlying network infrastructure to break down security silos, streamline workflows and enable an integrated zero trust program. Through a combination of Arista-developed technologies and strategic alliances with […]

November 10, 2023

In 2023, enterprise network management professionals are struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change. They are investigating a wide variety of new technologies while also struggling to maintain, optimize, and secure their existing networks. Network Computing’s 2023 […]

November 9, 2023

Edge computing pre-supposes ‘blink of an eye’ response times, which in turn, requires low latency networks for transmitting and processing large volumes of data and images as fast as possible. This puts huge emphasis on data centres being physically close […]

November 9, 2023

5G-Advanced technology, or “5.5G”, will pave the way for a wider adoption of connectivity for industrial settings, John Gao, President of Huawei’s 5.5G domain, told RCR Wireless News. Gao stressed that 5.5G will enable wireless production and flexible manufacturing with […]

November 6, 2023

How fast should internet access be, to be considered “broadband”? The Federal Communications Commission wants to increase the minimum required speed for broadband, which it currently considers to be at least 25 Mbps upstream and 3 Mbps downstream, to 100/20 […]

November 2, 2023

It’s barely fall of 2023, but it’s already clear that CIOs aren’t particularly positive about their network plans for 2024. Of 83 I have input from, in fact, 59 say they expect “significant issues” in their network planning for next […]

November 1, 2023

More cloud computing solutions, remote and work-from-home systems and internet-connected devices increase risk from an expanded attack surface. As surveys predict the enterprise attack surface will continue to increase, the best way to reduce the number of vulnerabilities is to […]

November 1, 2023

Samsung Electronics and O₂ Telefónica announced that the companies will test advanced cloud-native vRAN (virtualized Radio Access Network) and Open RAN technologies in Germany. The two technologies enable network operators to set up even more flexible network architectures in which […]