Tag: networking

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

IoT is a revolution that is reshaping how we think about networking and connectivity. Imagine a world where your coffee maker knows when to start brewing, your thermostat adjusts itself for optimal comfort, and your car communicates with traffic lights […]

December 21, 2023

What Is SD-WAN? When designing a network to connect central and far-flung offices, IT leaders are increasingly turning to a Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) overlay. A software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture that’s service provider-agnostic. This allows […]

December 20, 2023

5G gained about 537 million connections around the world during the third quarter of 2023, according to 5G Americas, based on data from Omdia. That brings the global total to about 1.6 billion 5G connections, up 71% from the same […]

December 20, 2023

AI-related technology will drive many of the trends Cisco executives expect to impact the enterprise in 2024, while key networking and data-center developments will change the future of infrastructure. On the AI side, there are developments coming that Liz Centoni, […]

December 19, 2023

Operators are facing the challenge of having to deploy more hardware to meet the appetite of users for more data while at the same time they need to try to take out as much equipment as they can in terms […]

December 14, 2023

So the poet Arthur Guiterman tells us. Time marches on. The days when enterprises built their own networks using routers and digital trunks are, for all practical purposes, gone. Thirty years ago, more than three-quarters of enterprises said that was […]

December 4, 2023

Ethernet is one of the original networking technologies, having been invented 50 years ago. And yet, because of the simplicity by which the communications protocol can be deployed and its ability to incorporate modern advancements without losing backwards compatibility, Ethernet […]

December 1, 2023

Rapid growth in technology has led to a boom in the telecommunications industry. New advancements pave the way as professionals connect with consumers and keep their businesses running. Whether a small business reaches out via email or pings an app, […]

December 1, 2023

In an era marked by increasing environmental concerns and the urgent need to address climate change, sustainability has become a central focus for nations, cities, and businesses around the world. It’s no surprise then that data centres come under a […]

November 27, 2023

In many networks, there is an inconspicuous brake on data traffic. R&M explains the situation. The often unrecognised vulnerability in local area networks (LANs) is due to certain effects of electrical resistance. Experts know this phenomenon as resistance unbalance in […]

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 21, 2023

China has cleared Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware, leaving the two companies free to close the transaction on November 22. Although the deal faced scrutiny from a number of competition regulators across the globe, including in the UK and […]

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

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 15, 2023

A total of 121 operators in 55 countries and territories have invested in public 5G standalone (5G SA) networks as of the end of October, Jordan Cox, research manager at the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), said during a recent […]

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 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

Research and development efforts around the world are already honing in on what will constitute future 6G systems, from candidate spectrum bands to potential capabilities such as joint communications and sensing, and intelligent reconfigurable surfaces. 6G is also expected to […]