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07 July, 2021With advancements in networking software, such as SDN and NFV, communication service providers and carriers are evolving their new services via new levels of flexibility and agility. To address the needs of high availability cloud computing, Lanner introduces its NEBS-compliant HTCA-6400 HybridTCA network appliances.
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11 March, 2020Subsea cable capacity will provide the backbone capacity to enable the vast number of new business requirements that are arriving with 5G, artificial intelligence, machine learning and within IoT. However, price pressure on cable providers, the demise of the consortium model and continued transformational innovation in technology are radically altering the operational mode – and economics – for subsea cable owners. Mattias Fridström, the chief evangelist at Telia Carrier, tells George Malim what this new mode of operation looks like and the challenges subsea cable operators face in meeting the new needs of customers while maintaining profitability.
05 March, 2020Although we’ve missed out on the trumpets heralding the continued roll-out of 5G thanks to the cancellation of MWC 2020, there are significant early milestones to the full deployment of the technology being passed. The road is long, though, Tejas Rao, the managing director and global 5G offering lead at Accenture, tells George Malim.
10 July, 2019Although the UK’s mobile operators are launching 5G cellular networks, coverage issues, particularly indoors, are causing gym users to stop exercising, writes George Malim.
15 February, 2019T-Mobile Austria has deployed Teoco’s SmartCM next generation Radio Access Network (RAN) configuration management tool in order to provide the operator’s 7.2 million subscribers with a better quality of service.
14 February, 2019For all developed nations, competitiveness is going to depend heavily on super-fast 5G connectivity, writes Hakan Ekmen, the chief executive of P3 communications.
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Over recent years, many businesses have come to rely on the highly effective infrastructure that multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) delivers, and as a trusted solution, it has become the foundation on which the demands of today’s digital customers can be fulfilled. MPLS provides a highly reliable platform on which businesses can build their networks to offer increased agility and more robust security. As enterprises continue to expand and diversify by adopting cloud services, this can be enhanced by implementing a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) alongside existing MPLS architecture in a hybridised configuration, writes David Palmer, the head of product and network design at Claranet.
16 January, 2019The close of 2018 saw the UK operator O2 leave its customers without access to 3G or 4G data connectivity for more than 24 hours. The ensuing uproar underlined the critical importance of mobile broadband to all UK consumers, writes Tony Gillick, the vice president of solutions management at Openet.
10 January, 20193GPP Release 15 delivered the essential New Radio (NR) milestone needed in the definition of every new generation, but, alone, this will deliver only a few of the early promises of 5G, writes Alan Carlton, the vice president of InterDigital Europe. What comes next in Phase 2 (and beyond) will be what really defines this wireless generation.
03 January, 2019Quality of experience (QoE) has long been evasive for communications service providers (CSPs), especially when it comes to ensuring that the quality of service they provide matches the QoE users are subjected to, writes Michael Rezek, the vice president of business development and strategic partnerships at Accedian.
