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Hybrid IT and the New East-West Network

February 23, 2024

Via: Network Computing

For the last decade or so, east-west traffic was just the traffic within a container cluster. That is the communication that happens between microservices, usually in Kubernetes. Service Mesh is an example of a solution that emerged to address the […]


News

AT&T’s Stankey breaks down that open networks decision

December 7, 2023

Via: RCR Wireless News

AT&T announced this week that it wants to have 70% of its traffic on open network platforms within the next few years and will spend up to $14 billion with Ericsson to make that happen. In remarks at the UBS […]


Technology, Wireless

OTT Business Messaging Traffic to Reach 375 billion Messages in 2028, says Juniper Networks

November 14, 2023

Via: The Fast Mode

A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications markets, found OTT business messaging traffic will reach 375 billion messages in 2028; rising from 100 billion messages in 2023. It predicts diminishing quality of SMS networks will drive […]


Technology, Uncategorized, Wireless

Test and Measurement: A human safety benchmark for comparing autonomous vehicles

September 29, 2023

Via: RCR Wireless News

One of the mains goal for autonomous vehicles is to improve human safety, by reducing the number of traffic crashes. But how do you know if autonomous vehicles actually do so, under what conditions, and by how much? A benchmark […]


News

AT&T says it’s seen 30% traffic increase in the past three years

September 11, 2023

Via: RCR Wireless News

Killer application? We don’t need your killer application. Or rather … the network itself is the killer application, in that it enables multiple services and lets users do what they want. Chris Sambar, AT&T’s network president, makes that argument in […]


Security

10 Tips to Secure Your Wireless Network: Protect Your Network from Unauthorized Access

July 17, 2023

Via: Network Computing

More traffic today is going over wireless networks than ever before. Unfortunately, malicious actors are trying to take advantage of that by eavesdropping on communications links or taking advantage of inadequately secured wireless access points. Here we present some best […]


Technology, Wireless

Huawei starts deployment of new 5G massive MIMO outside China

September 23, 2022

Via: RCR Wireless News

Chinese vendor Huawei has started to commercially deploy its third-generation 5G massive MIMO outside China, with the Philippines being the first major market. In a release, the vendor said that the major product in the third-generation 5G RAN series, MetaAAU, […]


Security

How Blocking and Controlling Traffic Can Stop DDos Attacks

July 7, 2022

Via: CSO

You only need to consider that more than 4.4 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occurred in the second half of 2021, to know with certainty that such attacks are always happening. It’s not a matter of if a company will […]


Mobile Networks

Managing HetNets: How Application Awareness Drives Intelligent Mobile Data Offloading Decisions

October 4, 2021

Via: The Fast Mode

5G comes with a lot of promises, including unlimited bandwidth and unrivalled speeds. Today’s mobile users expect 5G to deliver rich and highly interactive content seamlessly on their devices – whether it’s HD video streaming, online gaming or a virtual […]


Technology, Wireless

NFL, Extreme Networks Extend Partnership for Wi-Fi 6 Deployments

September 24, 2021

Via: The Fast Mode

Extreme Networks has extended its partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and will remain the Official Wi-Fi Network Solutions Provider and Official Wi-Fi Analytics Provider of the NFL through 2024, adding with new Wi-Fi 6 deployments. As a result, […]


News

SD-WAN buyers guide: Key questions to ask vendors (and yourself)

July 20, 2021

Via: Network World

Prior to the pandemic, SD-WAN was primarily a niche technology pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility by allowing traffic to burst directly from the branch office to the Internet, rather than backhauling it […]


Technology, Wireless

The state of the mobile network market in 2021

March 15, 2021

Via: RCR Wireless News

5G is already in the mainstream news in 2021, followed by a turbulent year due to geopolitics and COVID-19, but also the realization that telco networks are much more important than consumers, governments, and enterprises used to think they were. […]


Monitoring&Analysis

Ookla: How did the network hold up in 2020?

January 13, 2021

Via: RCR Wireless News

2020 was a tough year for humans — and for networks. As daily lives were interrupted and people stayed home rather than travel or gather for work, school or entertainment, there was an accompanying flip-flop in network traffic patterns: Far […]


Wireless

Four predictions for the in-building wireless market

November 13, 2020

Via: RCR Wireless News

A new generation of cellular technology, operating in newly opened mmWave frequency bands, is promising a major shift in the in-building wireless space. Most cellular network traffic is generated indoors, and some of the early 5G use cases around sports, […]


Wireless

Cisco Data Centers Segment Routing Traffic Engineering for Service Providers

October 14, 2020

Via: Cisco Blog

As we move into the exciting era of 5G and witness an ever-growing number of new devices coming online, the transport network is finding its overall capacity tested in ways we’ve never seen before. Millions of mobile voice, data, and […]


Monitoring&Analysis

Internet network outages are up, but not necessarily impacting users, report finds

August 4, 2020

Via: RCR Wireless News

The number of network disruptions across various elements of the internet rose sharply beginning in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic — but they often indicated traffic engineering work on the part of various service providers to adjust to changing […]


Wireless

Detection of Abnormal Traffic Rated as Top Use Case for DPI Software, finds Survey by Enea

July 23, 2020

Via: Fast Mode

Enea recently announced the results of the first survey about deep packet inspection (DPI) conducted among high-tech product managers. The goal of the survey is to better understand how DPI, a technology that identifies and details network traffic, is used […]


Wireless

Verizon tests 5G SA core, plans to start shifting traffic later this year

July 10, 2020

Via: RCR Wireless News

Verizon is venturing into Standalone 5G, having recently completed its first data session with an end-to-end 5G system including the carrier’s new 5G SA core. Verizon said that it plans to start moving traffic onto the new core in the […]


Hardware

How to Support Future Traffic Growth: New 800G Optics MSA

June 26, 2020

Via: Cisco Blog

Traffic across IP networks continues to grow, and networks continue to evolve to manage new traffic patterns and demands. This has always been the case, and the industry has a long history of developing new standards through various organizations, such […]


Wireless

Telia Carrier sees 50% traffic increase in internet backbone; US network usage may be leveling off

April 16, 2020

Via: RCR Wireless News

Global internet backbone provider Telia Carrier reports that it saw overall traffic volume rise by around 50% during the month of March as a result of pandemic-driven shifts in network usage. There are “major regional differences,” the company added, but […]