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January 31, 2023

Huawei isn’t a new addition to Gartner Magic Quadrants, but for the first time, the company was positioned in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, and it’s worth noting that Huawei was the only non-North American […]

January 24, 2023

The Fast Mode spoke to Srini Addepalli, Chief Technology Officer at Aryaka on new encryption technologies and their impact on today’s networks. Srini joins us in a series of discussions with leading vendors in the traffic management, service assurance, traffic […]

December 15, 2022

In 2020, Ericsson first took a deep dive into breaking the energy curve with a focus on how operators could transition from 4G to 5G without following the historical pattern of major generational step changes in energy consumption. Now, with […]

December 13, 2022

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced dozens of planning grants to states in recent weeks, which will be used to support five-year plans for broadband deployments nationwide that are intended to ultimately make internet services available to every […]

November 3, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Office of Engineering and Technology announced the conditional approval of thirteen proposed automated frequency coordination (AFC) database systems in preparation for the testing phase of 6 GHz Wi-Fi operations. AFC is a spectrum use coordination […]

October 27, 2022

The thought of Wi-Fi 6E has had technologists salivating over access to pristine spectrum. It is like having the beach front to yourself. No traffic from other users. No one getting sand on your towel. From a protocol stack perspective, […]

September 23, 2022

Starlink’s commercial success is causing network slowdowns, benchmarking company Ookla concludes in new analysis, as new customers result in a heavier network load and slower speeds for the Low-Earth Orbit-based internet service, compared to its performance a year ago. “Starlink […]

December 16, 2020

Technology is always evolving, which is exciting and frustrating for any organization trying to keep up with, adapt to, and anticipate new changes. Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have it particularly hard. A case in point: The evolution to 5G requires […]

June 23, 2020

One of the interesting things about working with Cisco’s high-end data center switches is seeing how well they adapt to new challenges. We put a lot of engineering and R&D into products like the Nexus 9000, and for us it’s […]

May 1, 2020

Significant social events are usually a catalyst for new threats to emerge – there are always malicious people looking to exploit others during times of crisis. The current COVID-19 telework situation is no different. Cybercriminals understand that times of rapid […]

April 7, 2020

The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, launched by the federal government last week, is a public/private industry initiative to support researchers around the world battling the virus by leveraging U.S. supercomputers. Members include IBM and Amazon Web Services, and now […]

March 18, 2020

In some of the first analysis on the impacts that the novel coronavirus pandemic will have on the mobile ecosystem, Strategy Analytics said that it is expecting to see a significant drop in business-to-business mobile device shipments, as verticals around […]

February 15, 2019

The number of publicly known data breaches decreased last year compared to 2017, despite harsher breach notification rules going into effect in Europe. The number of compromised sensitive records also went down by more than a third, from 7.9 billion […]

January 2, 2019

It is a no-brainer. More than anything, 2019 will be dominated by 5G. Major operators are discussing roll-outs of different shapes and sizes, and OEMs are already hinting at the capabilities and prices of their new 5G-ready handsets. With its […]

October 8, 2018

Digital transformation is having a significant impact on networks. Workflows, applications, and transactions need to move freely across today’s distributed network. Mobile users and IoT devices need immediate access to critical information regardless of their location, including faster access to […]

July 16, 2018

One of the reasons that we in the cybersecurity industry continue to lose to bad actors is our lack of pro-activity. While many organizations have made big investments in their security functions, they tend focus largely on reacting to alerts […]

October 7, 2016

Volvo Buses unveiled the first pedestrian and cyclist detection system for the bus industry. Launching at the IAA in Hannover, Germany, the system will be on Volvo’s European city bus fleet in 2017. “Accidents involving buses and unprotected road-users seldom occur, but […]

October 5, 2016

AT&T has recently rebranded its Network Functions on Demand service as FlexWare and is making it available in 150 countries through the AT&T Network on Demand platform. The rebranding comes with additional support for new devices and enhanced functionality. AT&T is also adding Palo […]

September 14, 2016

Matt Oswalt made two great points while tweeting about my Automation Gone Wild blog post: Automation should be a strategy. You need management buy-in; You should have at least one person with strong software development experience in your automation team. […]

January 22, 2016

According to the latest predictions from analyst firm IDC, “more than 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud by 2017.” That means that your organization is likely to evaluate an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions this year, if you […]