By: Dijam Panigrahi
We don’t know which of the world’s largest tech-forward companies will power the best future tools, technologies, and resources for manufacturing, healthcare, construction, and more. Because of
this, organizations have been working extremely hard to ensure they are creating changes that will greatly impact humanity. This begins as recent technological advances with artificial intelligence
(AI) and immersive mixed reality technologies such as augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) have been made…
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By: Ultan Mulligan
Think of the last time you bought a new electronic communications device, expecting it would save you time and make life so much more pleasant. Perhaps it was a new Internet-connected
television or smart-lighting system. Maybe you remember the thrills of trying to connect your phone to a new car, or a new phone to an old car. Was it easy? Or did you spend hours failing to make
it work with all your other time-saving, life-fulfilling devices? Isn’t everything interoperable now? We all recognize the frustration of interoperability problems…
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By: Travis Ewert, Tim Masse
Most network operators are drowning in data. It arrives 24/7/365 via a multiplicity of often disparate systems and sources from across the enterprise. Amid this deluge, how do network operators
sort through the clutter and create a user experience that integrates the most sophisticated data collection and holistic intelligence gathering techniques? How do they use measurement techniques
and analytics to sharpen the tools in their toolset? In an ideal scenario, network operators can customize which data and algorithms to use—and then take definitive action…
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By: Bill Dellara
One thing the last 18 months has taught the business community is the importance of being able to respond to change, fast. Any organization that was not on top of their business processes—or
that had a manual approach to business administration—felt the pain when the pandemic hit, and their workforce’s landscape changed in an instant. Suddenly, 90 percent of the workforce was operating
remotely. Communications and collaboration tools were tested to the limit to ensure business continuity while also offering a positive employee experience…
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By: Ihab Mahna
The past year has presented challenges on a scale unseen for many decades. Around the world, we have seen individuals, organizations and governments face these challenges head-on and adapt to
new, different ways of living and working. Throughout all of this, there has been one constant support: technology. On an individual level, technology has kept us connected while we remain
physically separate and provided a wealth of resources to keep us entertained, fit and in touch with those close to us…
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By: Prayson Pate
The dictionary defines agility as “the power of moving quickly and easily.” You want to achieve agility in your communications environment. But the question is how. Let’s start with speed Look
at the two adverbs in the definition of agility. The first is quickly. Being able to move quickly means breaking out of the old mode of relying on traditional networking solutions. These are
provided by a single vendor—and are closed. This means you must go to the supplier and convince them to add new capabilities or rip them out and replace them with another closed solution…
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By: Mark Cummings, Ph.D., Diego Lopez, Katarzyna Wac
Regional clouds are the answer. The question? It’s different in different regions, but a pattern is emerging. It involves government data and telco infrastructure. Europe has been a leader in
public discussions in this area and can be a model for other regions. But it has failed so far to focus on what it wants to own and what it wants to only control or orchestrate. This is key to the
kind of innovation ecosystem it needs to build to support its regional cloud. Timing is critical. Edge computing and 5G have created an open window, but it won’t stay open for long…
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By: Ankur Sharma
There has been a lot written on the coming Industry 4.0 transformation and how 5G will spur new opportunities and innovation. Much of the focus has been on a variety of use cases such as
increasing enterprises’ quality of service requirements, enhancing mobile-broadband experiences or delivering superior resource utilization and sufficient bandwidth to handle massive machine-type
communications. 5G networks with enabled slicing, new models of private networks and the use of licensed and unlicensed spectrum options are exciting, yet they also have challenging issues that
need to be addressed…
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By: Jay Meranchik
Years ago, telecommunications carriers embarked on a major network transformation that completely changed the way that carriers operate and perform on a day-to-day, call-by-call basis. Known as
the next-gen network, it was filled with promise—and in almost every way it has delivered. The convergence and widespread adoption of VoIP-based technologies and the introduction and evolution of
the Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) has resulted in a telecommunications network that looks like and acts nothing like its predecessor, the Public Switched Telephone Network, or PSTN…
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
Anything is possible, or so they say, and it’s usually said with optimism. But, it’s important to note that “anything” means “anything” which can be either good or not good. Only time will
tell. Looking back over the last year and half – give or take – there a lot of takeaways. In the before times, like 2019, the likelihood of a novel virus causing a global pandemic was among the
least of our worries. Now it’s on the top of our minds and virtually a part of every conversation we have…
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
The definition of “agility” is the state or quality of being agile; having the power to move quickly. This month’s issue theme is, of course, Agility—and evidence of agility is everywhere in
our industry news summary. From new research on consumers’ connectivity reliance to strategic alliances that enable network expansion and evolution, global news this month shows us all the many
ways the world in which we live and work continues to evolve rapidly every day. The top telecom industry news stories from the month are summarized below…
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