With the growth of mobile data traffic catalyzed by the world’s increasing dependency on cellular connections in every area of life, cellular networks are pushing capacity. However, spectrum is the scarcest resource in wireless technology and, with data usage skyrocketing, limited airwave access can...
Telcos today are battling shrinking profit margins and plateauing revenue growth. Unfortunately, industry leaders are hesitant to seek new innovations and are in danger of watching emerging revenue channels being claimed from under their noses. This cautious attitude towards emerging trends is causing telcos...
It is well understood that communications in high mobility environments — such as high-speed rail — suffer from severe Doppler spreads, which deteriorate the performance of the widely adopted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation in current 4G and 5G networks. This issue was a topic...
With consumer markets saturated, communications service providers (CSPs) are eyeing the enterprise for ways to monetize the 5G networks they’ve poured billions into building.
The good news: The opportunities are plentiful. From drones that inspect overhead power cables to robotic production lines that spot manufacturing...
As a company, three years ago, we decided to head toward the public cloud — and do so in a very public and aggressive way. It was seen as an interesting move, perhaps too far ahead of its time, but an idea worth keeping...
Open RAN is much more than just an opportunity to diversify vendor supply chains and introduce open standards into networks. It is an opportunity to innovate within what has always been a very hardware-centric and fixed part of the network. Part of that innovation...
Nobody bats an eye these days when supply chain experts talk about how a semiconductor shortage impacts nearly every product that requires sensors. The manufacturing of smartphones and tablets, IoT devices, and other types of IT hardware are all reeling from global supply chain...
Today businesses are transforming to meet the rising demand from consumers and users who want instant, accurate outcomes on everything from ATM transactions to video analytics for online gaming. Companies that are addressing the demands of our right-now economy by transforming their infrastructure will...
Typically, spectrum doesn’t become a mainstream topic. However, C-Band grabbed the limelight in the past few months when airports around the country cancelled or changed flights due to safety concerns around the official launch. Specifically, there was a lot of debate around base stations...
The number of media reports chronicling the rise in 5G adoption across both public and private sectors continues to grow
In March, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced the establishment of a cross-functional team tasked with speeding up the adoption of 5G and future...
Environmental sustainability has become a major goal for every industry. As the planet warms up, people are more concerned about the future. As a result, the shareholder pressure forces companies to adopt more sustainable business practices.
The IT industry is also under similar pressure. Therefore,...
Hoesung Lee, Chair of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a forward to the Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report released in February 2022: “This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction, it shows that climate change...
As demand has grown for high-speed services — from streaming high-resolution video to virtual conferencing — optical transport network speeds have grown almost as quickly. In fact, the Dell'Oro Group projects that 400GbE and higher speeds will account for nearly 30% of port shipments through 2024.
Since...
According to the European Commission, over 99% of European businesses are classified as SMEs (small to medium enterprises). To fit in this sector companies need to employ less than 250 staff, and the vast are described as micro-businesses employing less than 10 staff.
In the...
During the past 25 years, the open-source movement has changed just about everything in technology. By transforming how software is developed, deployed and licensed, open source now powers most of the cloud-based apps and digital services we rely on in daily life. And now...
It is said that the world’s adoption of everything digital leapfrogged several years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A hotelier was forced to go out of business during lockdowns before he found fresh air in cloud kitchens and app-based home deliveries. An entrepreneur running...
Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) can open doors to a more flexible densification strategy, allowing operators to quickly add new base stations using wireless backhaul
5G New Radio (NR) is a global standard that enhances the 5G wireless air interface. NR will provide a much...
Historically focused on consumers, telecom providers are now targeting large-scale enterprise customers
Let’s start with a simple question: Are you paying more today than in previous years for your home internet service? The speed, efficiency and overall capabilities have certainly evolved, but providers have not...
Customer service has never been the telecommunications industry’s strong suit. Between confusing contracts and bills, inconsistent customer support and spotty network quality, carriers regularly struggle to deliver the kinds of experiences that subscribers expect.
Exhibit A: Net promoter score (NPS) ratings for telcos, which track...
Cloud connectivity has been typically delivered via a combination of terrestrial wireline access and cell towers, feeding traffic into local, regional, nationwide and global fiber networks. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of international traffic today is being transported by a global mesh of submarine telecom...
Fraudulent robocalls are a menace across the globe. Many of these utilize call spoofing, a practice by which voice carriers and aggregators intentionally falsify caller ID information to gain an illicit advantage. Call spoofing enables many different types of fraud such as Wangiri (short...
While telecoms may be breathing easier after the government recently cleared much of the rollout of 5G near airports, saying it did not pose significant safety issues, the industry and this long-anticipated communications revolution continue to face much bigger challenges.
Telcos desperately want consumers to...
Organizations are getting a ton of network-related data every minute of every day. There has been a massive increase in devices, applications, bandwidth, IoT equipment and cloud-based applications to deal with. Add to that the recent rapid expansion of the network environment (stemming from...
Upgrade or disconnect? This is the stark choice facing 3G connected device users. The once-revolutionary mobile network is currently being rolled back across the world to make way for new and improved iterations. In doing so, however, millions of older devices face permanent disconnection.
This...
