Tag: infrastructure

May 14, 2020

Network densification is proving to be a key driver for enabling successful 5G networks and in delivering the consistent, reliable and speedy service that carriers have been promising users as they switch over to next-generation networks. Wireless carriers and equipment […]

April 7, 2020

Water is one of our most precious resources. Yet every year, we lose more than 126 million cubic meters globally to leaks, poor metering and theft. Beyond that is the energy wasted moving water that never gets used. It adds […]

April 6, 2020

As part of the recent RSA Conference, we all got to see – either in-person or virtually – the latest and greatest technology coming out of the security industry. While events like this can certainly be helpful in guiding future […]

January 29, 2020

As the 5G digital services race begins, we now find communication service providers (CSPs) at various stages of planning, designing or deploying new infrastructure. The range of potential 5G use cases are huge. Everything from gaming to smart factories to […]

January 20, 2020

As the 5G digital services race begins, we now find communication service providers (CSPs) at various stages of planning, designing or deploying new infrastructure. The range of potential 5G use cases are huge. Everything from gaming to smart factories to […]

December 12, 2019

Resilience engineering is the practice of designing networks (and other things like airplanes) such that any failures are gracefully handled. But how do you know that your engineering efforts are successful? You can start with network emulators, where you can […]

May 24, 2019

I have often said that the goal of any wireless network is to get the wireless signal onto a fiber as quickly as possible. Think about it. This axiom has gone unchallenged until recent developments in alternate technologies (a.k.a., microwave) […]

April 16, 2019

There are plenty of historic and technological reasons why utilities’ industrial networks have been disconnected from their enterprise IT networks. As utilities continue to plan for and invest in new infrastructure for the coming decades, they have a critical opportunity […]

February 27, 2019

2019 is seen as the kick-off year for 5G, with many global operators quickly accelerating their investment in their infrastructure to support 5G use cases and services, offering great potential for both consumers and businesses. 5G represents a fundamental transformation […]

January 28, 2019

The House Energy and Commerce committee has asked the Federal Communications Commission to produce communications records between FCC employees and network operators related to the commission’s recent order preempting local control and pricing of infrastructure access, alleging that FCC representatives […]

December 27, 2018

Each year a few hackers do something new that begs further examination. The general public and Hollywood paints most hackers as these uber-smart people who can take control of entire city’s infrastructure and crack any password in seconds. The reality […]

December 12, 2018

Cloud computing is changing everything – just ask Juniper CTO Bikash Koley. Along with that notion Koley says that there are a number of certainties about the future of building out large cloud infrastructures: Multicloud is a real inflection point […]

December 11, 2018

Communications capabilities are essential to the success of organizations everywhere. Voice, e-mail, text messaging, multimedia messaging, file sharing, streaming video, conferencing, collaboration, and more – you can’t do business without them. But as traffic volumes and the number of communications […]

November 28, 2018

As web applications mature and become more popular, organizations need to focus more on maintaining a positive security footprint around them. Traditionally, web application security was handled using a combination of the corporate firewall, authentication to an LDAP directory, and […]

October 17, 2018

Saudi Arabian carrier Mobily has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese vendor Huawei focused on the deployment of future 5G networks in the country. The companies announced a five-year plan to upgrade Mobily’s networks and accelerate the arrival […]

August 16, 2018

Domain Name System (DNS) is our root of trust and is one of the most critical components of the internet. It is a mission-critical service because if it goes down, a business’s web presence goes down. DNS is a virtual […]

August 29, 2017

Speaking in Orlando, Fla., at the recent Wireless Infrastructure Show, Zayo President and CEO Dan Caruso discussed how 5G represents not just a huge revenue opportunity for the wireless infrastructure ecosystem, but also a chance to create new levels of […]

April 3, 2017

A security breach is a serious matter, but most IT leaders aren’t even aware when it has happened. In this episode of Network Matters with Ethan Banks, learn about the likelihood of something malicious lurking in your infrastructure, and how […]

March 29, 2017

There are those that believe the era of infrastructure is gone, but Martin Casado is not among them. Casado, now a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, discussed during a keynote address at the Interop conference here why we’re now on […]

March 27, 2017

One of the greatest advantages of network functions virtualization and cloud network architectures is the ability for network operators to dynamically scale the capacity of their networks to better mirror demand without having a significant amount of capacity laying dormant, […]