Articles
Tomorrow’s Tactile Internet Requires High-Performing, Pervasive and Secure Networks
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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 …
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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)
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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
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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 […]
Multimedia Millennials: Cable operators offer more apps and streaming services to young consumers
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In 2015, the average US consumer spent more time inside mobile applications than in front of a TV, enticing cable operators to bring streaming apps onto their platforms.
Summertime and the viewin’ is easy (depending on your broadband connection)
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Summer is my time to play catch up with TV. There is a huge list of TV shows and movies that will be streamed on Netflix and Hulu from the past year. Netflix may even allow you to download its videos, according to recent news. Over a gigabyte of data is consumed to watch an […]
The Ubiquitous Nature of the Internet of Everything (IoE) drives new Network Requirements
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Co-written with Taru Khurana, Senior Analyst, SP Thought Leadership The ubiquitous nature of Internet of Everything (IoE) is driving a digital transformation in many industries and businesses. This digital disruption has already begun and it’s driving advanced cloud access and network performance requirements for a wide range of devices and machine-to machine (M2M) connections. Faster […]