News tagged: QoS

07 January, 2021

The six 4G fundamentals forming effective 5G foundations

The enhanced capabilities and functionality that 5G offers are the cause of much excitement across the global telecommunications industry. (more…)

12 February, 2019

How can BOSS apps adapt with 5G?

5G’s advent has been preceded by several technological advancements, business models and market demand for new types of communication services, writes Vinay Devadatta, the practice head for Innovation and Industry Relations at Wipro.

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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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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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19 December, 2018

Increasing numbers of NPMD tools are a problem for SMBs

Over the past few years the network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) industry has developed more and more specialized tools for specific network functions, writes Joe O’Connor, the senior vice president of Channels and Alliances at LiveAction.

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26 October, 2018

Cable bites back – part 2

In the final of a two part article, Jon Baldry the metro marketing director at Infinera, says DAA offers exciting opportunities, but migration to this new architecture presents a raft of new challenges. Fibre and dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) pushing deeper into the access network from the secondary hub to remote RPDs means a tenfold or so increase in the number of end points for the DWDM network. Secondary hubs will now also have to aggregate 100s of 10Gb/s circuits from RPDs into efficiently filled 100Gb/s backhaul circuits to the primary hubs. These secondary hub locations are often already space and power constrained and when they aren’t, operators may look to consolidate secondary hubs, creating a space and power constrained environment.

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25 October, 2018

Cable bites back – part 1

In the first of a two part article, Jon Baldry the metro marketing director at Infinera, says fibre to the home (FTTH) or building is now a very popular choice for new housing developments and business parks across the globe.

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24 August, 2018

Real-time data platform designed by VoltDB to accelerate 5G deployments

VoltDB, the enterprise-class database that powers real-time intelligent decisions on streaming data, announced new platform updates (more…)

18 June, 2018

The arrival of 5G — do you have a fast data strategy?

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5G isn’t just an incremental increase in speed and bandwidth, it’s the new face of the network and a key driver of the digital revolution. Until now, the technology was regarded as a buzzword, or something “just around the corner.” But with a number of public demonstrations, including at the recent 2018 Olympics, by industry leaders including Vodafone, Intel, Huawei, Verizon, and more, it’s safe to say that we have reached the era of 5G.

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01 June, 2018

AI and the future of wholesale

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely far from the headlines these days. While the technology isn’t new, the hype that surrounds it has reached fever pitch – we’re constantly hearing about the latest AI-based innovation transforming its industry. Little wonder then that organisations of all stripes are rushing to implement their own AI solutions, keen to realise the benefits it promises, writes Ravi Palepu, the global head of telco solutions at Virtusa.

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