Category: Editorial

July 17, 2019

Mobile Threat Defense (MTD), Mobile Threat Management (MTM), Mobile Threat Prevention (MTP)—regardless of the exact terminology, these all lead to the same concern: securing mobile devices. The highly digital world we live in has fundamentally changed the way we work. […]

June 7, 2019

Every headline-grabbing cyberattack unveils new sophisticated hacking techniques, but the attacker’s portrait remains the same: a modern-day professional with a strong sense of curiosity, patience, and social skills that thoroughly examines a company’s systems, takes note of every vulnerability, then […]

May 22, 2019

The past days have brought bad news for Huawei—and the worst might be yet to come. President Trump issued an executive order giving the federal government the power to bar American companies from doing business with foreign suppliers that could […]

April 18, 2019

In the past decades, the telecommunications industry has seen massive changes. We’ve gone from first mobile phone to 4G LTE, and we’re now getting ready to enter a new era of intelligent connectivity, the era of 5G networks. What is […]

March 20, 2019

The mobile industry recently confirmed that it has achieved a huge milestone in the race to bring 5G networks to life by approving standalone 5G specifications. Considered the next big revolution in mobile connectivity, 5G wireless technology aims at providing […]

January 10, 2019

When it comes to networking, 2019 sounds promising. Several emerging technologies are expected to change how businesses and their employees connect. In a recent blog post from Cisco, Anand Oswal, the Senior VP of Cisco Enterprise Network Engineering, claims that: […]

November 7, 2018

Apart from the constant need to improve their security policies, companies now face a new hurdle: GDPR compliant storage devices. As the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) established that USB sticks with sensitive data are a business risk, new […]

September 26, 2018

With more than nine billion devices currently in use around the world, Wi-Fi continues to have a major impact on everything, from home and office networking to Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Today, Wi-Fi plays a […]

August 23, 2018

With a proliferation of laptops, smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, the need for a strong and fast connection is bigger than ever. While a single router may not be able to cover the entire office space, range extenders or access […]

June 20, 2018

Amazon has denied the recent reports that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to produce and sell switches to businesses and compete with Cisco and others in the commercial networking industry. Both Cisco and Amazon have thus formally denied the rumors […]

May 29, 2018

The market for Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions met an accelerated growth in 2014-2018, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) analysts. This happened mostly due to the increased demand for Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions, a niche that has recorded […]

April 3, 2018

Last year, US-based companies that market their products in any of the 28 member states of the European Union have had some homework to do. The famous General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is on its way and it’s going to […]

February 20, 2018

Let’s face it: these days, if your students don’t have internet access, you might as well close shop. With the technologies you have at your disposal, that’s not really a problem – until you realize that each network comes with […]

January 8, 2018

Cloud technology is now pervasive in every field – and education is no exception. On the contrary, educational institutions can benefit greatly from cloud technology, both in terms of costs and the quality of the courses offered. Cloud technology dramatically […]

December 10, 2017

DataCenterKnowledge reported at the beginning of 2017 that AT&T virtualized their customer-facing network in the proportion of over 30 percent. This is part of a three year program that aims to achieve network virtualization by 2018. Three thirds of the […]

October 5, 2017

Network attached storage or NAS is a technology that functions as a network node in a box. Without implying the same complexity of a file server, this storage system has a greater storage capacity and network administrators (and applications or […]

July 9, 2017

Remember software-defined networking? In fact, software-defined anything, out of the ever growing range of tech features that slowly move towards virtualization, beginning with this step. SD-WAN is in the spotlight this time, as software-defined networking in wide-area networks is the […]

March 7, 2017

As we have mentioned in previous articles, network virtualization is currently of utmost importance in the Telco-networking industry. Not only is it a priority, but the race is ongoing in all that might mean improving this technology. At this year’s […]

February 1, 2017

While Apple opposes the Friday immigration order, and considers legal counterattack options, other Silicon Valley companies weigh their back-up plans. Tech Crunch mentions how companies consider moving their foreign-born employees to Canada. Some of the co-founders join forces in view […]

November 15, 2016

Programmable functional disaggregation is the new buzzword in the telecom industry. Telco Transformation mentions this type of data disaggregation in one of its September editorials. It involves breaking up network equipment into smaller, more flexible and leverage components. Basically, this […]