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Connecting the Unconnected: 5G and Wi-Fi 6 Will Play a Pivotal Role in Bridging the Digital Divide
There are still Internet access disparities between residents of rural and urban areas. And the digital divide between lower-income and higher-income communities can only be closed with new approaches and solutions.
Tomorrow’s Tactile Internet Requires High-Performing, Pervasive and Secure Networks
The foundation of tomorrow’s tactile Internet demands open and supercharged fixed and mobile broadband spigots.
Network Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: Pervasive, Proactive, and Persistent Protection is Essential to Thwart …
DDoS attacks can represent up to 18% of a country’s total Internet traffic, according to Cisco VNI, and they are occurring and increasing at roughly the same rate as internet traffic.
The Latest Mobile Makeover: Why and How Unlimited Data Plans Have Re-emerged
Learn why and how unlimited data plans have re-emerged and what this means for mobile operators in the future.
5G Performance: More than an upgrade and potential for a mobile blockbuster
Experienced 5G speeds will be 5 times greater than 4G by 2021. Learn more about the Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) findings on 5G.
Wi-Fi Wanderlust: What’s happening with the “other” mobile technology?
This week, Cisco released the 2017 Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast. Not surprisingly, most people focus on the cellular (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G) aspects of the forecast. But there are also some rather exciting insights that can be drawn from our analysis of “the other” mobile technology – Wi-Fi. In some ways, Wi-Fi […]
Here’s Why Today’s Networks Can’t Be Run Like It’s 1999
There are new and much more advanced demands on public and private networks driven by cloud and IoT-based applications such as 4K streaming, connected/autonomous car safety applications, Virtual Reality (VR) streaming, and Telemedicine.
Tis the Season to Secure Your Devices (and Things)
Today, global headlines are focused on alleged government-led breaches of U.S. political parties. But the threat of nefarious online activity goes beyond the email and communications of elected officials. The large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack that flooded the servers of Domain Name System (DNS) host Dyn on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 undoubtedly proves the disruptive […]
The Cloud Journey: Moving from Adoption to Greater Optimization and Utilization
Cloud computing has become the virtual bedrock for today’s business and consumer applications as well as future offerings on the service horizon. Cloud plays a pivotal role in digital transformation and has literally reshaped global data centers. While this is widely understood, I believe the real challenge for cloud providers, businesses and consumers in 2016 […]