A Foundation for the Future of Communications

By: Andrew De La Torre

Communications service providers (CSPs) today are facing significant challenges in competing with digital disruptors and traditional competitors. Success in this market relies heavily on IT and business agility, including the ability to quickly capitalize on emerging opportunities and identify new revenue streams. In this article we will identify four foundational elements to unlocking new opportunities for service providers and charting a path beyond the consumer market: cloud native, open industry standards, analytics/AI, and automation…

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Man, Nature and Machine

By: Afarin Bellasario

Humans have always dreamed of a paradise where no one has to work, all essentials magically appear, and they can spend their time pursuing pleasure, enlightenment, and the companionship of their loved ones. But for most of history, only the rich and powerful could enjoy a life of leisure while the masses, free or enslaved, toiled. Now, technology promises an easy life for everyone. A future where robots, overseen by drones, cultivate and harvest land to feed us, fully automated factories produce goods of all kinds, and a network of autonomous cars, trucks, planes, and ships bring everything seamlessly to our smart houses magically kept at a perfect temperature all year long…

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The Network Economics of AI are Driving
Bandwidth to the Metro Edge

By: Marco Bertolini

The explosion of interest in AI is expected to result in a market size of $2.5 trillion by 2032. Network and cloud interconnection architectures, especially in the metro area, are also scaling rapidly to align with the demand for AI-based services. Similarly, the size of the edge computing market in 2023 reached $16.5 billion, and edge analytics will reach $41 billion globally within five years. The focus on the edge reflects the economics of AI-driven use cases in everything from smart cities and transportation to logistics and advanced manufacturing…

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Unlocking Revenue: API Monetization
is a Golden Opportunity for Telecoms

By: Amir Mehmood

Monetization is imperative for the telecom sector. Despite telcos investing nearly $1 trillion in network upgrades since 2018, they still need help monetizing 5G effectively. Many analysts have commented on the potential revenue telcos have lost to OTT (over-the-top) services in recent years, and roughly 75 percent of operators have been vocal about their concerns over those missed OTT opportunities. This is why generating revenue from 5G is vital to operators. They’ve invested in costly infrastructure, learning lessons over the past two decades, and are rightly looking for their slice of the action…

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How Digital Twins, 3D AI, RPA, and Immersive
Reality Tech Are Modernizing Industries

By: Dijam Panigrahi

The manufacturing sector today is being driven by rapid advancements in sophisticated technology. Among the most significant contributors to this modernization are Digital Twins, 3D AI, robotics automation, and immersive reality technologies. These innovations are not merely enhancing traditional manufacturing processes but are fundamentally altering how industries approach production, quality control, and overall operational efficiency. Digital Twins: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds Digital Twins technology has emerged as a game-changer, providing manufacturers with a virtual replica of physical assets, systems, or processes…

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5G and 6G: Smart Connectivity in the
City of the Future

By: Dr. Christoph Dietzel

From autonomous cars to unmanned drones and on-demand air taxis — the smart city of the future will enable individual mobility at all times. New concepts are already needed today. Concepts that must be able to monitor and control traffic flows in a comprehensive, autonomous, intelligent, and real-time manner. To realize such a future, not only are data-based solutions necessary, but also network infrastructures that can transmit data as close as possible to instantaneously, with as little latency as possible…

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Future of Voice: How Cloud-based Platforms
are Improving Operational Agility

By: Jonathan Wagner

Communication is the cornerstone of human interaction. People want and need to be connected to each other, whether it’s chatting with their loved ones or calling up the local auto parts store to ask a question. Some studies have even shown that consumers and businesses alike prefer human-to-human voice interactions. For communication service providers, meeting market demand requires the delivery of well-supported end-to-end voice communication systems. While some may believe voice is dying, London-based Omdia Research estimates the number of public switched telephone network (PSTN) subscribers to decline at a compounded annual rate of 14…

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Smart AI Ops for IT

By: Mark Cummings, Ph.D.

The advent of PCs with built in AI added to the existing online AIs is creating new challenges for IT Ops. The recent announcements of Co-Pilot from Microsoft, Gemini from Google, AI embedded in MacOS, plus the ability to run GenAI on PCs, promise productivity increases but open the door to new vulnerabilities in cybersecurity, privacy, and maintenance of proprietary information assets. In smart organizations, IT Ops and senior management need to partner in developing solutions that will maximize the benefits of AI while protecting the organization…

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Powerful Applications of AI and IIoT

By: William Dykas

Industry 4.0 and the technologies that characterize it should not operate in isolation. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), for example, are two technologies that when working in confluence with each other empower companies in the industrial sector to realize new levels of innovation, efficiency and productivity. Incorporating AI into IIoT will enhance product quality, elevating the overall standard of manufactured goods and strengthening competitive edge through greater customer satisfaction…

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AI for Network Intelligence

By: Jason Gintert

Networking has often been a daunting subject area reserved for only those “in the know,” usually in some sort of technical role. But as networking becomes a more essential part of business operations and business success, the need for the business owner or business-oriented staff with little or no technical background to be able to interact with and understand it more thoroughly could represent a huge step forward for IT leaders everywhere. By now, most everyone has heard something about Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

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Letter from the Editor - August 2024

By: Scott St. John - Pipeline

Fully autonomous enterprises are a tangible possibility today. GenAI created targeted advertisements from Meta on the front end, automated IoT warehouses from Prologis and Amazon fulfillment in the middle, and an integrated supply chain on the back end. Maybe a little customer-service AI chatbot from IBM on the side. Simply pick the widget you want to sell, plug, play, rinse and repeat. Seems easy, but it doesn’t come without its pitfalls. The thing is, agility is agile until it’s not. The CrowdStrike outage is already being touted as the largest IT outage in history…

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IT & Telecom Industry News

By: Thomas Board - Pipeline

In the month that gave us one of the world's largest IT blackouts there was no shortage of innovative news in the tech world. From multiple new LLMs to investment in tech talent across Africa, Pipeline has your monthly dose of news covered.The month’s top industry news stories are summarized below. To view current breaking news in real-time, visit Pipeline’s News Center, follow Pipeline on social media, or subscribe to receive our weekly industry enterprise and communications technology news summary…

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