Category: Analysis

May 20, 2019

Inside the Boingo Wireless offices in Los Angeles, California, a team of experts man the company’s network operations center 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, monitoring nearly 300,000 network elements, including 31,000 distributed antenna […]

May 20, 2019

With 5G NR now a reality and preliminary estimates indicating that 5G NR comprises a tangible portion of the overall RAN market, some reflection to better assess how the vision and projections have changed as the 5G narrative has evolved […]

May 20, 2019

The traditional network model of a central, physical data center hub with spokes running out to fixed locations has gone the way of the mainframe and electric typewriter – once mainstays of business. Today’s workforce is increasingly mobile, while business-critical […]

May 16, 2019

The demands placed on today’s networks are higher than ever as employees now access an ever-increasing number of cloud-based and IoT applications. In fact, as more traffic travels over the public internet, the requirements of enterprise networks extend beyond 24×7 […]

May 14, 2019

The first wave of coastal sensor networks that detect the presence of naval radar systems which share the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band at 3.5 GHz have received approval from the Federal Communications Commission, and Federated Wireless has now officially […]

May 14, 2019

Cybersecurity professionals are paranoid by nature. That’s not a bad thing; it’s a job requirement. We want our cybersecurity team to “think like the enemy” to discover and remediate vulnerabilities as rapidly as they possibly can. Aside from this cynicism, […]

May 13, 2019

While there are certainly those with a differing viewpoint, many stakeholders, particularly the U.S. government, like to characterize 5G as a race, the winner of which will be able to exert economic supremacy as cellular-based automation drives transformation and value […]

May 6, 2019

The days of a branch office relying on a fixed MPLS connection to backhaul all internet traffic, data, and workflows back to the core network are over. To compete in today’s digital economy, today’s branch offices need to be an […]

May 1, 2019

Ericsson and China Telecom have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of commercial 5G and promote 5G technological innovation, the vendor said in a statement. Signed at China Unicom’s 5G Innovation and Cooperation Conference in Shenzhen, […]

May 1, 2019

For the last several years, market momentum has pushed 5G technology into the mainstream—at least kind of. Per Qualcomm, “5G is designed to be a unified, more capable platform that will not only elevate mobile broadband experiences, but also support […]