Video collaboration has not yet taken off around the globe, with the lack of bandwidth and interoperability holding back adoption, according to Damian Artt, Polycom’s president for the Americas region. However, this scenario is starting to change mostly because of LTE deployments. “The issue with bandwidth is being solved by … LTE, and the interoperability [...]

Small cell deployments continue to be a big topic across the mobile space as carriers continue to look for ways to squeeze as much coverage and capacity from their current spectrum positions. Vendors supplying these solutions, whether they be femtocells, picocells, Wi-Fi or distributed antenna systems, have noted that push, finding that carriers are looking [...]

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Sprint Nextel’s fourth quarter, a set of positive earnings surprises, and Cisco’s Virtual Networking Index.

Malicious mobile apps, government-sponsored attacks and sandbox avoidance are among seven major cybersecurity threats predicted by Websense Security Labs for 2013. The company recently released its 2013 threat landscape and noted that cybercriminals gained confidence and momentum in 2012. According to Websense Security Labs vice president, Charles Renert, the past year illustrated how quickly the threat [...]

The BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, trend has grown: A new report from iPass shows that more employees are using their own smartphones for work, and they rank connectivity cost as the least important factor when choosing a mobile network. iPass, a Wi-Fi and enterprise mobility services company, said that this creates the potential for “bill shock” for [...]

Operators must meet the challenge OTT traffic creates for the network and mitigate the negative impacts of congestion especially on video services. Learn from leading analysts at Strategy Analytics how to get in front of the video traffic wave with congestion and service aware video optimization to deliver Quality of Experience to consumers and cost-effectively [...]

Enterasys Networks aims to double wireless sales with the worldwide launch of its Wi-Fi portfolio, IdentiFi, aimed at enterprises deluged with an influx of employee-owned devices in the workplace. Globally, BYOD has affected enterprises and has imposed challenges for IT departments. “This trend is here to stay,” says Reinaldo Opice, vice president for Enterasys’ Latin [...]

Mobile and social technologies represent a departure from the information technologies that CIOs are used to, such as ERP and CRM.  This change is one of the three fundamental questions IT leaders and CIOs are facing, according to Mark McDonald, Gartner group vice president and head of research in Gartner Executive Programs. Along with many [...]

The prevalence of “iDevices,”the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) trend and the shift from Blackberry to Apple and Google devices are among  the major challenges to mobile security today.  “BYOD has changed it fundamentally,” said John McCormack, global president of Websense. McCormack talked with RCR Wireless News during this week’s Gartner Symposium in São Paulo. He also commented about the [...]