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Telia’s Fridström explains how fibre providers can avoid a subsea sinking feeling 11 March, 2020

Telia’s Fridström explains how fibre providers can avoid a subsea sinking feeling

Subsea 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.

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There isn’t a US$1bn 5G use case, says Accenture 5G lead 05 March, 2020

There isn’t a US$1bn 5G use case, says Accenture 5G lead

Although 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.

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Gym users feel the burn from weak indoor signals 10 July, 2019

Gym users feel the burn from weak indoor signals

Although the UK’s mobile operators are launching 5G cellular networks, coverage issues, particularly indoors, are causing gym users to stop exercising, writes George Malim.

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T-Mobile Austria deploys Teoco configuration management 15 February, 2019

T-Mobile Austria deploys Teoco configuration management

T-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.

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UK mobile networks are showing real improvement but the next challenges are already here 14 February, 2019

UK mobile networks are showing real improvement but the next challenges are already here

For 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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How businesses are finding a new way to future-proof their networks

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.

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The long and winding road to 5G begins with 4G optimisation 16 January, 2019

The long and winding road to 5G begins with 4G optimisation

The 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.

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Will Release 16 Deliver the Full Ambition of 5G? 10 January, 2019

Will Release 16 Deliver the Full Ambition of 5G?

3GPP 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.

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CSPs add value to SD-WAN by achieving full QoE visibility 03 January, 2019

CSPs add value to SD-WAN by achieving full QoE visibility

Quality 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.

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How can system design engineers guarantee a successful transition from 4G to 5G? 18 December, 2018

How can system design engineers guarantee a successful transition from 4G to 5G?

The transition from 4G to 5G brings a variety of benefits, notably an increased data rate and mobile broadband network capacity. However, system design engineers will need to adapt to the latest 5G new radio (NR) standard which was completed in June 2018, writes Ken Karnofsky, a senior strategist for Signal Processing Applications at MathWorks.

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