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Security

Cisco boosts security wares with AI-driven access control, identity management

February 6, 2024

Via: Network World

Cisco is updating elements of its overarching Security Cloud platform to help enterprise customers better protect widely distributed resources. The enhancements include a new service called Identity Intelligence that brings together information from the vendor’s existing security products, such as […]


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Samsung, TfL to Promote ‘Circle to Search’ with Google Feature on New Galaxy S24

February 1, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

The iconic Harry Beck Tube Map has been reimagined for the first time in over 90 years, as part of a new partnership between Transport for London (TfL) and Samsung, to promote the Circle to Search with Google feature on […]


Technology, Wireless

Five ways disaggregation will shape the future of telecoms (Reader Forum)

January 31, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Disaggregation has taken the telecoms world by storm, initially reshaping the Radio Access Network (RAN) and now creating a domino effect that could permanently shift the telecoms landscape as we know it. But what does this mean, specifically? What are […]


Security

FCC, FTC tout robocall enforcement

January 31, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission said that a an ongoing joint effort to undermine and reduce spam and scam robocalls is bearing fruit. The two agencies have been jointly focusing on robocall enforcement; the FTC calls […]


Security

Network Security in 2024: Artificial Intelligence, Observability, Simplicity, and Beyond

January 30, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

Looking back on this past year, the network and security space has experienced a series of major advancements, as well as brand new challenges. The innovation and increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in network operations has created new opportunities […]


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University of Hawaiʻi and Ocean Networks Bring Gigabit Broadband to Hawaii with $120M Submarine Fiber Cable System

January 30, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

University of Hawaiʻi (UH) and Ocean Networks yesterday announced a $120 million, public-private partnership to construct a submarine optical fiber cable system that will connect the Hawaiian Islands and improve and expand high-speed broadband internet throughout the state. The project, […]


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LTE and 5G critical comms market to jump 57% to $5.5bn by 2026

January 29, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

What to believe? Who to believe? (We’ll write about this one day.) But, just because it’s modish, and because it presents another (!) way to segment the non-traditional new-cellular comms market, new research reckons the combined market for public and […]


Mobile Networks

Mobile core market stagnant due to slow 5G SA deployment: Study

January 24, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

The global mobile core network (MCN) market growth rate has been reduced to less than a 1% CAGR during the 2023-2028 period, according to a newly published forecast report by Dell’Oro Group. The report noted that the growth in this […]


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2024 networking and security predictions

January 24, 2024

Via: Network World

Following a year ripe with innovation, disruption, and challenging macro-level conditions, IT departments continue to be at the forefront of organizational ambitions to accelerate business transformation. Generative AI (GenAI), sustainability initiatives, and other strategic priorities are set to emerge from […]


Mobile Networks

How cellular IoT found its groove – five things to know about the eSIM revolution

January 23, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

In case you missed it, SIM specialist Kigen hosted a webinar earlier this month about smart metering – but more about the impact of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, actually, for the whole IoT market – which presented a thorough view […]


Hardware, Technology

China ends 2023 with 3.38 million 5G base stations

January 23, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

China ended 2023 with a total of 3.38 million 5G base stations at a national level, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said. By the end of last year, the country had more than 10,000 5G-powered industrial internet […]


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Private 5G will ‘not reach potential’ – even as spending jumps 800% to $9bn by 2028

January 23, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Just to muddy the water, already stirred-up with competing analyst forecasts; the number of private LTE/5G networks worldwide will grow from over 4,000 in 2022 to over 60,000 in 2028, reckons research company Analysys Mason. Enterprise spending on private networks […]


Hardware, Technology

Who will enterprises trust to guide network transformation?

January 18, 2024

Via: Network World

Who do you trust? Thirty years ago, enterprises answered that question with three almost-equally cited sources: their primary computer vendor, their network provider (almost always their “interexchange” provider), and their network equipment vendor. This fall, in a group of 158 […]


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Telecom trends—2024 and beyond [Reader Forum]

January 17, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

I have been in the Telecom industry since 2004 when I started in network engineering at Verizon, this year marks 20 years in the industry! I ‘grew up’ Telecom and have worked in wireline, wireless and places where they converge, […]


Technology, Wireless

NGA highlights role of 6G in distributed sensing, communications

January 17, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

ATIS’ Next G Alliance (NGA) has published a new white paper that looks at the transformative role that future 6G technology is expected to play in enhancing integrated sensing and communication systems. NGA said that next-generation systems will enable distributed […]


Technology, Wireless

Mobile Test Summit on trends in wireless communications – sessions available online now

January 17, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

This year’s Mobile Test Summit took place from November 28 to November 29, 2023. Wireless communications professionals came to the Rohde & Schwarz headquarters in Munich for two days of insights into the latest developments in mobile device and infrastructure […]


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6 hot networking and data center skills for 2024

January 16, 2024

Via: Network World

Many enterprise IT execs plan to enhance their network and data center infrastructures, particularly in areas of sustainability, energy efficiency, hybrid cloud, and cybersecurity, in 2024. They may find themselves stymied, however, by a lack of trained professionals capable of […]


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The AI clone wars: five ways artificial intelligence will impact telcos and consumers in 2024 (Reader Forum)

January 10, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Rest assured, the future for telcos in 2024 is far less dire than this line from Star Wars – Attack of the Clones. But you wouldn’t know it based on growing industry concerns surrounding how bad actors are using Artificial […]


Hardware, Technology

Network automation to the rescue in the data center

January 10, 2024

Via: Network World

Let me start by saying it’s widely known that data centers benefit from being highly automated. Automated scripts can complete whatever task they are given much faster than a human and do it consistently, with fewer errors. The data center […]


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HPE tees-up $13bn deal for Juniper Networks, say reports

January 9, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is closing on a $13 billion deal for Juniper Networks, according to a report yesterday (Monday, January 8) in The Wall Street Journal, and widely covered elsewhere since. So far, neither company has commented on the […]