Everything about business services is mission critical. There's no room for downtime, unresponsive support, or rigid offerings that won't tailor to individual business needs.
Topics: Network optimization, Best practices
Read MoreWe are so jaded by new, over-hyped "opportunities" that we sometimes don't recognize when new ideas do begin to work. The monetization of subscriber data is one area where providers are starting to get traction.
Topics: Application intelligence, Subscriber, Monetization
The Mirai Botnet attacks in late 2016 gave us a real world view into the massive threat posed by the proliferation of unsecure IoT devices. Over the course of several attacks, hundreds of thousands of IoT devices were high-jacked to silence a popular Internet security website, take millions of Internet users offline by flooding DYN DNS servers, and to...
The regulatory environment is changing and so are the methods used by regulators and operators to validate, enforce, respond, and comply with requirements. Operators worldwide have been phenomenally successful in delivering access and encouraging technology adoption. So much so that broad, dependable, and secure telecommunication and Internet access have...
Topics: Virtualization, Service provider, Regulatory
Read MoreI’m at the Big Communication Event in Austin, and there is a noticeable and major shift that I see happening in the telecom infrastructure space. I know, I know, how many different times do we hear about transformation, change, and technological “revolution”? Yet, I really do think that a major shift is underway that will alter our view of telecom as we...
Topics: Nfv, Virtualization, Cloud services
Read MoreIoT was not new news at Mobile World Congress 2017. But the problems that it presents for telecoms was THE news at this year’s MWC. The challenge is that high performing and safe IoT needs a response from telecoms, but there is no clear, single business consensus for why operators should build infrastructure to support IoT—and, until that consensus...
Topics: Iot, Mobile world congress, Mwc, 5g
Read MoreTopics: Nfv, Network functions virtualization, Virtualization, Light reading, Att
The Pokemon Go! rage should give us all pause. In its first month, over 100M people downloaded the app and many mobile operators were surprised by the game’s peculiar impact on their mobile data subscribers. This video provides a brief view into how things played out, leading us to ask—are you ready for the next big app?
Topics: Bandwidth, Quality of experience qoe, User experience, Mobile, Network analytics, Network performance, Dpi, Mobile subscriber experience
