Category: Analysis

October 15, 2018

Critical communications and aerospace/defense company Harris and aerospace and defense company L3 Technologies plan to merge their businesses and create a new company that will be the sixth-largest aerospace, defense and critical communications contractor in the world. The transaction is […]

October 5, 2018

Veon (formerly VimpelCom) and Huawei recently demonstrated a 5G Holographic Call in Moscow. The Moscow Museum exhibition hall was used as the demonstration zone and the dialogue between the speakers was conducted using a hologram – a digitized image transmitted […]

September 28, 2018

As industry momentum behind 5G development, and deployments continues to build, edge networks are going to become a fundamental piece of the service enablement puzzle. However, if these networks are not architected properly, they could become the bottleneck that hinders […]

September 27, 2018

DALLAS–“Disruption is the new normal,” Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO of AT&T Business, said during a panel discussion at the AT&T Business Summit. “The generation of employees that are entering now are coming from this connected generation and they think and work […]

September 26, 2018

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission meets later today to, among other things, vote on a proposal that will streamline small cell deployment rules and, if adopted, make it easier for carriers to build out small cell sites needed to deliver […]

September 24, 2018

The ways in which our personal data is used and safeguarded in an increasingly digital world is a topic never far from the headlines. Some of the best-known companies in the world have become embroiled in controversy over this issue. […]

September 17, 2018

Edge computing puts compute resources closer to the end user, enabling lower latency, more predictable quality of service and the ability to offer a more flexible, cloud-based service enablement environment at the network edge. Multi-access edge computing is expected to […]

September 12, 2018

AT&T was rated the best mobile network, in what benchmarking company Global Wireless Solutions is calling its most comprehensive U.S. testing program to date. Verizon was ranked second; T-Mobile US came in third; and Sprint, fourth. GWS said that Verizon […]

September 11, 2018

This is the first blog in a series that will dive into the details around a modern approach to network automation. Network automation of complex configurations is much, much harder than automation of simple configurations. What makes a configuration complex […]

September 10, 2018

Think of the term user behavior analytics, or UBA. What went through your mind? Did you recall a conversation about insider threats? Or did you travel back to a meeting with a vendor, trying to convince you that machine learning […]