By: Jezzibell Gilmore, Chad Milam
Steve had spent years growing, optimizing, and downright coddling his server farm. It was almost where he wanted it. A few more months and he’d have everything perfect. Then Steve got the
orders that thousands of IT managers have gotten from their management over the last several years: migrate everything to the cloud. No! Not when he was so close! What was Steve to do? Abandon his
beloved servers? Unfortunately, the direction from management was unequivocal. Cloud is where the company wanted, and needed, to be…
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By: Mike Wolfe
5G wireless technology is coming rapidly, but mobile network operators (MNOs) have billions invested in 4G networks, and those networks will, in many cases, form the basis of 5G networks. So
how do 4G networks evolve to support 5G? We know that 5G will deliver about ten times the throughput of 4G, and that it will likely use higher frequencies, but how do we get from 4G to 5G? In this
article, we’ll look at the fundamental changes that will occur during the transition from 4G to 5G. Network Densification
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By: Indranil Chatterjee
The promise of increased bandwidth and low latency made possible by 5G networks is contributing to a massive increase in the development of new mobile video technologies and streaming services
designed specifically for 5G networks. But even as excitement builds among mobile operators over the revenue potential from new 5G video services, they also have to account for the new challenges
those services will create. And while video will become even more important in a 5G network, the types of video supported will change dramatically…
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By: Mark Cummings, Ph.D., Joel Holland, William Yeack, CSE
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently experiencing a growth spurt. Just as when children go through growth spurts, it is helpful to be able to understand what is happening in the
context of the overall development process. And, just like in a teenager, the growth spurt brings significant benefits but also limitations and dangers. Understanding this is key to being able
to make the right decisions. So, if someone tells you that they have the ultimate AI that will solve all your problems, ask them the following questions: How do you fit in AI’s evolutionary
path? What is the cycle time or bias for training relative to the cycle time of the underlying problem? How do you handle the data scale problem? AI’s Evolutionary Path One senior person
in the field says that there is a new academic paper on AI published every minute…
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By: Shamik Mishra
5G is finally here. Well, almost. After all the hype, operators are slowly but surely deploying the technology. And they are turning to automation to address the demands placed on the network
from the explosive growth of data and devices. The ability to scale services quickly and flexibly is the key to success—and network automation provides operators that capability. That is easier
said than done. All too often, operators have ‘reactive automation’—a rules-based system that springs into action after a failure…
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By: Martha Suarez
As the industry looks to deploy 5G and faster connectivity, dynamic spectrum sharing technologies are playing a crucial role in the development of future networks. With the next-generation of
Wi-Fi, named Wi-Fi 6, sharing spectrum models like the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in the U.S. and the Internet of Things (IoT) just around the corner, dynamic spectrum access will
enable new kinds of networks and allow the participation of new stakeholders, opening up new opportunities for the industry and better connectivity for the users…
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By: Gil Santaliz
Traditionally quiet places that are seldom visited, the Cable Landing Station (CLS) is supposed to serve one purpose: to be a point where very expensive equipment transitions a subsea cable,
costing hundreds of millions of dollars, to a terrestrial cable that then provides connectivity to a major population center. Normally, this traditional terrestrial cable has two routes to ensure
uptime to the hub, designed that way in case one is compromised. Once it reaches the hub, it fans across an entire continent…
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By: Mark Cummings, Ph.D.
On September 9 and 10, Deutsche Telekom (DT) brought together a number of forward-thinking people in the telco industry to discuss automated orchestration at the Zero Touch Conference in Bonn,
Germany. The conference demonstrated that the basic automation requirements and technical terminology are now well understood. The conference demonstrated that many Communication Service Providers’
(CSP) senior management is not ready to take the concrete steps to automation. The reluctance is centered around these three areas of confidence: Compelling business caseSmart investments in
technologyViable supplier ecosystem Conference participants seemed to agree that there is not yet the commitment by CSP management required to make the changes necessary to automate…
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By: Ashwath Nagaraj
As the pace of migration to the cloud increases, enterprise executives are looking to expert partners to effect digital transformation. It’s essential to make the right choice, which of course
starts with knowing what to look for in your partner. When evaluating an SD-WAN service provider as part of a digital transformation initiative, enterprises must consider three essential factors
before making a purchase decision. The service provider under evaluation must be able to guarantee agility, application performance, and network security…
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
Autumn is here, and it's a reminder of the natural evolution surrounding all of us. The perpetual cycle between the old and new; death and rebirth; what was and what will be.There is no
finality to this cycle. It's a natural, incremental refinement of what is and what will become. Some things—from individuals, to species, to technology and enterprises—will cease to be;
as they are no longer integral to the natural order. Others will evolve and thrive, incorporating the adaptability to a changing environment with a deep-rooted instinct to survive and the
wisdom that could only be gained though a tangible experience with the past…
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
As autumn falls upon us, September and early October have brought a bevy of headlines on 5G, mergers and acquisitions, efforts to close the digital divide, and advancements in smart
manufacturing and connected car technology. The FCC announced new funding topping $121 billion to expand broadband connectivity for homes and businesses in rural areas. 5G arrived at Gatwick
Airport in London thanks to Vodafone, and in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York thanks to Sprint. Among many other headlines, new research by Dell’Oro Group and TMT Finance capture
the pace of growth and change in the telecom market…
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