After almost five years of talk, 5G is finally arriving. I had an opportunity to attend MWC Barcelona this year, and the innovations and challenges of 5G were on full display. A number of operators announced their 5G launch plans for 2019, and several...
The race to deploy 5G has begun around the world and it promises to make data access faster and more efficient. But, as mobile network operators (MNOs) such as AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile scale these networks, how do they maintain the visibility needed to...
Congratulations Chicago, which was this month revealed as America’s smartest city (and the world’s fifth), in an annual global ranking. The index assessed various criteria and sub categories – including government, where Chicago came out on top – but concluded that few single locations...
Small cell volume is finally here. If there was a tipping point it was 2018. Wide-scale deployments in "NFL cities" started to overtake the sporadic pilots that had been hailed as the small cell successes to-date. The technology is sound, the deployment approaches proven,...
5G will be a major leap forward for mobile technology, bringing not just faster speed and lower latency, but also introducing mobile connectivity to a vast range of industries.
However, for the promise of 5G to realize, and for the technology be deployed as widely...
The cloud is a powerful transformational agent for emerging markets, but only when dovetailed with other emerging and evolving digital technologies to deliver complete solutions. The International Data Corporation or IDC's top 10 predictions for IT, 2019, says that by 2022, 40% of organizations’...
MWC 2019 was peppered with artificial intelligence (AI) robots and references to machine learning (ML) across the various halls. For a show aimed at mobile operators, very few of those applications of AI and ML actually impact the network. The Radio Access Network (RAN),...
These days, it’s hardly news that enterprises are increasingly reliant on mobile and remote workers for business-critical activities. How much so? But by one estimate, the mobile workforce will account for more than 43 percent of the entire global workforce by 2023.
With so many workers out...
In the coming months, communication services providers (CSPs) across the globe will be busy rolling out their 5G networks, promising data rates 100x those of 4G, network latency of under 1 millisecond, support for 1 million devices/sq. km., and 99.999% availability of the network....
Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) provide high-speed connectivity to business and residential customers around the world. WISPs typically serve their local community and may extend to regional or even national network footprints. WISPs provide reliable streaming video, data, voice and IT services in a...
LTE: Not over yet
In early December of 2010, Verizon launched the world’s first LTE network. Less than a decade later, we are entering the 5G era. However, 4G/LTE is not over yet.
4G/LTE gave us an end-to-end, all-IP networking environment – from end-user devices, over...
5G is the fifth generation of wireless networking. And while 5G doesn’t exist yet — and won’t be available for widespread use until the 2020s — the performance goals it promises are unprecedented for wireless networks.
As a result, the projected performance of 5G has...
Introduction
Software-defined networking (SDN) offers the promise of increased agility, programmability, and revenue services opportunities. While SDN has been widely deployed in the data center and enterprise environments, and many service provider deployments are underway, I think the best is yet to come. According to...
With the race to 5G heating up around the world, it’s tempting to focus on the hype being generated about the applications and services the next-generation network will enable. Much attention has been given to what the blazing fast speeds and super low latency...
Throughout the wireless industry, Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) has ignited speculative optimism – like a gold rush – predicated upon business opportunities to enable indoor and outdoor deployments such as Private LTE, Densification, 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), and to address...
While marketing departments for mobile operators around the world extol the seemingly endless benefits that 5G network rollouts enable, the fact is that operators face a glut of new complications to validate, activate and optimize 5G infrastructure.
Since 5G is not simply an incremental update...
Mobile phones have become so ubiquitous that it appears everyone has one. Today, there are all different levels of phones on the market—from prepaid phones that cost under $100 to the latest Apple devices that run well over $1000. We’ve become accustomed to the...
5G is finally here. Carriers have launched networks, and the first mobile devices that can use them are hitting the market.
Fortunately, so are the high-speed mobile interfaces that devices need to keep up with 5G and the new applications that are set to...
As mobile network operators (MNOs) prepare to integrate 5G wireless technology and services, they are taking the opportunity to evolve their network architecture with three goals in mind: reduce costs; improve deployment efficiency, service flexibility and velocity; and open the market to innovation to...
5G is coming and represents a transformational opportunity for network operators
The arrival of 5G capabilities will present tremendous opportunity for network operators to grow if capitalized on correctly. Conversely, the trend could damage the growth prospects of these same companies if they miss the...
The term “logging off” may soon cease to exist thanks to the much-anticipated arrival of 5G. The newest mobile network is set to roll out next year, with promises of flexible, reliable and secure wireless network access from just about anywhere.
And we mean anywhere....
2018 was a year of progress, of consolidation, and of intense introspection as Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) companies get themselves, their networks and their internal processes ready for the arrival of 5G. The industry has weathered large-scale mergers as media and telecoms converge,...
Service providers are sitting on more marketable data than even Google -- but they’ve been slow to harness it for profit. Here are some ways they can turn things around
Not even Google can rival the wealth of consumer data that communication service providers (CSPs)...
A lot can happen in a year, especially in a telecoms year. The industry has seen consolidation, disruption and innovation, all at a dizzying pace. 2018 saw the hype around technologies such as AI and blockchain reach fever pitch, and in 2019, we will...
