Category: Analysis

March 19, 2019

To say we’re in the early days of 5G is an understatement, but regulators and academics in the U.S. are already looking to what’s next. Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to open up frequencies from 95 GHz […]

March 18, 2019

As U.S. carriers invest in public safety cellular networks and stand up attendant services geared toward public safety, a major change in the way first responders work is coming. Enhancements to network capacity and latency, combined with other cutting-edge technologies, […]

March 18, 2019

Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies confirmed that it has a proprietary operating systems for both smartphones and computers, which the vendor plans to use in the event of an eventual ban by the U.S. government, German publication Die Welt reported, citing […]

March 15, 2019

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is carrying out an assessment of the potential security implications in the implementation of 5G equipment by Chinese vendors, international press reported NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as saying. Stoltenberg said that allies are “consulting […]

March 14, 2019

The global optical communications community last week assembled in San Diego for the latest edition of Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC). This year’s event highlighted the market’s hot topics in a range of standing-room only business and technical […]

March 13, 2019

Increasing the capacity of fiber-optic cables might one day be possible through the exploitation of a part of the signal commonly thought of as substandard. That imperfect element in a carrier, called “noise” is usually something one tries to avoid—it […]

March 12, 2019

5G will be a major leap forward for mobile technology, bringing not just faster speed and lower latency, but also introducing mobile connectivity to a vast range of industries. However, for the promise of 5G to realize, and for the […]

March 12, 2019

As much as tools and technology evolve in the cybersecurity industry, organizations remain reliant on clever, well-trained humans with incisive critical thinking skills to protect themselves from the perilous cyber threat landscape. But just as the threat landscape continues to […]

March 11, 2019

The definition of a service provider is expanding. Today’s service providers include not only traditional telcos but also mobile network operators, cable MSOs and cloud platform operators. And as service providers expand, so does the growth of IoT data on […]

March 11, 2019

Today 5G deployments are relatively limited in coverage scope, although that will rapidly change as the telecom industry enters a multi-year investment supercycle. The early focus will be on delivering enhanced mobile broadband but, as standards continue to progress, that […]