What you can’t see could cost you millions
by Brendan O’Flaherty, CEO, cPacket Networks
Financial trading firms have invested millions in what they thought were “best of breed” network monitoring systems. They’re now finding that these systems are blind to the problems that affect them the...
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Eighty percent of cellular connections originate indoors, but most enterprise users complain about spotty service in their offices, and they typically blame their company or the building owner rather than their wireless operator. In a recent Zinwave survey, seventy-four percent of 1000 office...
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For many device companies, a significant percentage of all product or part returns end up in the category “No Trouble Found” or NTF, also known as “No Fault Found” or NFF. This is the label received by a product that fails (or appears...
Sprint introduced something they call the "Magic Box," to speed up wireless data connectivity for customers in their homes, offices or when they travel. Like with other wireless carriers, Sprint customers generally have no problem with speed. However, for the customers who live in...
Google users had a collective panic attack this week when someone put together a massive phishing attack that used malicious links to a non-Google-Docs app that was.named "Google Docs". Diabolical. About 1 million users were affected, and although Google was on top of the issue...
Interoperability, architecture and framework for Wi-Fi roaming
The global mobile workforce is set to increase from 1.3 billion in 2014, accounting for 37.4% of the global workforce, to 1.75 billion in 2020, according to various sources. Globalization will continue to drive the growth of mobile...
Imagine driving a car communicating with city infrastructure. You come around a corner but the bits of information informing the car that a pedestrian is walking across the street have to wait for somebody’s video entertainment bits. The delay of a few milliseconds means...
Communication service providers need to simplify and rationalize their service assurance systems across all networks - mobile and fixed, enterprise and IT/data center - so that they can be maintained at peak performance and maximize the utilization of the network resources. As a consequence...
“Are we there yet?” It’s a familiar refrain for anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of taking a family road trip. Excitement, suspense, impatience, expectation—all packed into four little words.
As we approach 5G deployment and the commercialization of 5G use cases like autonomous driving,...
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is a better smartphone than previous versions in a few ways, but it is not a home run. The screen is bigger and better. Bixby, their new AI, which I’ve been waiting to try is...
Twitter might be the one platform that moves as fast as the telecom industry. RCR Wireless News surveys the Twitterverse and snags the telecom tweets of the week.
If there's one thing the telecom industry loves, it's marketing hype. If there's one thing Twitter loves,...
One of the main goals for the next generation in wireless mobile communications, or 5G, is to maximize capacity. Not only will we continue to see ongoing improvement in data connection rates, but also new advances in making the most of finite spectrum resources....
Boosted by early adoption from carriers such as AT&T, Telefónica and China Mobile, communications service providers (CSPs) are beginning to ramp up their investments in NFV/SDN initiatives. The market has seen its fair share of ups and downs, but now seems to be moving...
We’ve read the projections, and analyzed the statistics, and by all measures they are remarkable: In 2008, there were already more "things" connected to the internet than people; by 2020 the internet of things (IoT) will produce $19 trillion in profits and cost savings;...
Surprise! Ready or not, like it or not, Amazon is installing Alexa on your Kindle. Some like this. Others don’t. Many ask what gives Amazon permission to break trust with their customers? An author friend of mine told me what Amazon did to her...
Dan Meyer does the worst job breaking down the 600 MHz incentive auction results and says goodbye to RCR Wireless News in his last WOTW column.
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AT&T continues in its mission to actively transform the television space and blend it with wireless creating a new converged and expanded industry segment. Now they are now offering HBO to their unlimited data customers for free. This is big news for users who...
This change in the carriers’ strategies needs to be taken into consideration for any company that plans to deploy tablets or smartphones to their workforce.
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The very software technology that’s threatening the incumbents is also providing a solution that may ensure their survival.
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BlackBerry might not be what it was, but with a little fiscal help from Qualcomm maybe it can become a bigger part of the telecom landscape.
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HFC networks are the likely candidate for wireless/wireline convergence, and with continued roll outs of power cabling in fiber networks, they can stay that way.
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5G technology is set to revolutionize the mobile telecommunications space, though cooperation will be needed to extract the most benefit.
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The 5G ecosystem will require greater collaboration between providers and users and more flexibility on billing options.
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Amdocs’ Jeff Barak looks at the real-world link between Intel’s planned acquisition of Mobileye and Levi’s fashionable new connected jacket.
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