Enabling digital transformation: Is your network ready?
Numerous communications service providers (CSPs) across the globe have embarked on a digital transformation journey. Their primary goal? To drive automation and reduce costs while continuing to provide innovative offerings to their customers. But to reach these goals...
How IoT is reshaping network design
Back in 2014, a Gartner report said that the Internet of Things (IoT) will pose seven challenges in the data center: sheer volume of data, server technologies, data security, the data center network, consumer privacy, need for higher availability and increased data...
2020 is all about bandwidth, edge devices and PoE
2019 saw the introduction of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 products, the long-awaited launch of 5G devices and services, the initial commercial rollout of shared spectrum, as well as increased global interest in private networks.
A Fiber Foundation is Required to Support Your Wireless Experience
When a new skyscraper is erected, no one ever looks at the finished product and says, “That’s a strong foundation.” What is ultimately supporting the skyscraper, and making its existence possible, is a silent factor next to the magnificent height it reaches and its...
The Future of Entertainment is Today
Lately, I’ve been seeing the increased cadence in the ways we are changing how we consume broadband, entertainment and digital life elements in our homes and how our world is really headed to services and applications that make our lives easier, more immersive and...
Building the smart city telecom infrastructure of the future
In the enterprise space (i.e., buildings, campuses and venues), smart concepts are being implemented at a steady cadence. This is because communications infrastructure that supports smart building applications is universal, flexible, and future-ready. Interestingly,...
Shared infrastructure for smart cities
Mobile service providers have started rolling out 5G wireless services this year, giving subscribers their first glimpse of this new technology. As 5G technology spreads, cities will leverage it to become “smarter.” A smarter city leverages technology to make life...
Choosing to Deploy Single-mode or Multimode Fiber is Similar to Flying or Driving for Vacation
Ah, summer vacation time. Where are you going and how will you get there? Believe it or not, choosing between deploying single-mode and multimode fiber optic cable is much like debating whether to drive or fly for a family vacation.
How Do You Put an Elephant in the Fridge?
“How do you put an elephant in the fridge?” No, this is not a rhetorical question or a joke. Candidates who applied to work for Gemalto, a digital security company, were asked for a response to this seemingly irrelevant question during a job interview.
The 5G Future Begins Now
The most newsworthy stories in wireless today are all about 5G. In 2019, we enter a cautious, early adoption phase of this next generation of wireless technology. A small number of users will get a first taste of 5G in specific geographic locations, using specific...
