By: George Clement
Whether deployed on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, high performance computing (HPC) solutions are now transforming a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare,
manufacturing, oil and gas, and research and educational institutions. Often integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies, HPC is able to process data and perform
complex calculations at speeds up to quadrillions per second. Today, the data science applications, large-scale analytics, and recommendation engines driven by HPC are helping to detect credit card
fraud, make faster and more accurate patient diagnoses, and assist scientists to find sources of renewable energy…
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By: Alexis Rodriguez Lorenzo
Much has already been written about the new capabilities of 5G, like low latency, massive IoT and high bandwidth, and how they will enable a new breed of applications, including Industry 4.0,
autonomous driving, public safety automation and others. This horizon of opportunity will only be reached if telcos are able to bring computing power to the edge, executing artificial intelligence
(AI) models where the data – often unstructured – is generated. However, reaping the business benefit from the symbiotic combination of 5G and edge will require more than just technology…
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By: John Nishimoto
As bandwidth continues its exponential growth, service providers must adapt their networks to accommodate the ever-increasing throughput demand. As data moves closer and closer toward the
end user, multiple 100G circuits to edge data centers are the new norm, while 400GbE services will become available to more and more content delivery network operators over the next couple of
years. To keep pace with the ever-growing complexity, incorporating colorless, directionless, and contentionless functionality in flex-grid deployments (CDCF) is essential to effectively
manage and operate super-high bandwidth networks…
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By: Juta Gurinaviciute
According to Gartner, 99 percent of the vulnerabilities exploited by the end of 2020 were the ones known by security and IT professionals at the time of the incident. In fact, one in three
breaches are caused by unpatched vulnerabilities. Software vendors are constantly publishing new patches to fix problems in software that they have sold. It is then up to the users of the software
to apply the patches. Otherwise, they risk leaving themselves open to attack via the backdoors that the vendors failed to spot when building the product in the first place…
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By: Todd Murren
2020 has been a momentous year. A global health crisis has fundamentally shifted the way we live, work and communicate — perhaps forever. In the wake of social-distancing protocols, digital
tools have become a day-to-day mainstay, driving our reliance on networks, data centers and the data that flows through them to an unprecedented level. In just the first few weeks of March 2020,
reports observed an 18 percent increase in U.S. in-home data usage compared to the same period in 2019. Average daily data usage rates exceeded 16…
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By: Brad Poulin
In the world of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), two simultaneous phenomena are driving unprecedented convergence. Customers are demanding more data from service providers, but at the
same time, crucial 2G and 3G cellular infrastructure is being deprecated. To meet this need for more data, service providers are turning to satellite to improve reliability and avoid interruption
in connectivity. As satellite and cellular networks transform, the future where they coexist and work seamlessly together is the future of industrial IoT…
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By: Koby Reshef
400G is delivering on its promise of higher capacity fiber optic transport to address the ever-increasing demands for speed and connectivity across metro, short- and long-haul network backbone
infrastructure and between data centers. These new capacity levels allow carriers to maximize the value of existing infrastructure while reducing operational costs. Of course, like any new
technology, 400G has its challenges. Upgrades from 10G to 40G to 100G and 200G do not require any changes to the existing carrier infrastructure; they all have wavelength spectral bandwidths that
fit into existing 50GHz/100GHz grid optical filters…
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By: Ayham Al-Banna, Tom Cloonan
HFC network evolution is one of the most complex and impactful set of decisions facing today’s operators. The difficulty is identifying potential market challenges and addressing them with the
right technology in a timely and cost-effective manner. The operative term is “right technology.” DOCSIS 4.0 (D4.0) is designed to carry the cable industry into the 10G future. It will enable 10
Gbps downstream (DS) rates and 5 Gbps upstream (US) rates. It’s the first DOCSIS standard to incorporate both Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS (ESD)—the two primary pathways
for evolving today’s HFC networks…
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By: Ashwath Nagaraj
For network architects and engineers, the WAN experience is typically seen through the eyes of telco carrier relationships. In many cases, this experience isn’t necessarily a positive one. The
process of working with a telco carrier to design an enterprise WAN requires negotiating contracts and rates, provisioning and installing new circuits, addressing performance issues and outages,
and managing service-level agreements (SLAs) on an ongoing basis. This can all be challenging to say the least…
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
I may be the only person who is saddened to see the end of 2020. I fully realize the challenges many people have faced over the last year and the devastating impact COVID-19 pandemic has had
around the world. My sympathy goes out to everyone effected by the coronavirus in so many different, challenging, and tragic ways. I just had a different experience. For me, this year was full of
unique opportunities that would not have occurred if it had not been for the unique challenges presented by the pandemic…
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
A brand-new year unfurls before us, promising continued progress against the pandemic and glimpses of an emerging “new normal” globally. The final weeks of 2020 and early days of 2021 brought
an array of news headlines reflecting on top trends and making predictions for what will be dominant in the new year. Amid this bevy of trends news, highlights also surfaced as the Federal
Communications Commission opened its latest 5G spectrum auction, T-Mobile rolled out next-generation 911 capabilities, a new national council for AI in the US debuted, and plans for a space-based
mobile communications network were launched…
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