There is a new “streaming” service on the horizon that has the potential to change streaming patterns on networks worldwide. In the US, a new service has achieved cult status, and is rapidly moving into the mainstream as followers pile on behind it; that trend is connected fitness. I am not talking about Fitbit-style connected fitness, I am talking about...
Topics: Peloton, Global internet phenomena, Connected fitness, Iot
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...
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
IoT 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, 5g, Mwc, Mobile world congress,
I mentioned IoT in my MWC 2017 blog, and I wanted to follow that up with a quick peek at some analytics on some of the higher profile consumer IoT devices - both of which have multiple instances on my home network ;-).
Just a few thoughts on some of the trends that you are likely to see discussed and highlighted at Mobile World Congress a few weeks from now.
Topics: Nfv, Iot, Big data, Zero rating
Karl Andersson
Network Functions Virtualization is an ETSI architectural framework which includes virtualization, orchestration, and infrastructure management. This enables that making networks more efficient and enabling new business cases that were not previously viable. One example of this is Boingo Wireless. At Boingo Wireless, they have...
Topics: What were up to, Internet of things, Nfv, Iot, Mobile world congress
