December 10, 2013

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Unlocking Wi-Fi Enabled Value-Added Services

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Competing with the virtual, e-commerce world is becoming increasingly challenging for real-world businesses. Traditional retailers have long envied the massive amounts of valuable data that online retailers have available to help them better understand customer behavior and implement winning marketing tactics. Online retailers know valuable information such as how frequently customers return, how long they […]

December 3, 2013

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Securing Critical Internet Infrastructure: an RPKI case study in Ecuador

2 min read

Securing the Critical Internet Infrastructure is an ongoing challenge for operators that require collaboration across administrative boundaries. A lot of attention has been given in recent years to securing the Domain Name System through a technology called DNSSEC. However, in the last couple of years, the attention has shifted to the security of the Internet […]

November 27, 2013

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Next Generation Hotspot Experience @ Beijing

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By Lisa Garza, Cisco Service Provider Marketing, Mobility Solutions In the blink of an eye, a Hotspot 2.0 industry milestone was achieved last week.  Cisco joined with China Mobile and 15 other operators to provide a Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Experience to over 400 attendees at the WBA Wi-Fi Global Congress in Beijing. The NGH […]

November 27, 2013

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The Next Generation of Wi-Fi Debuts in Beijing

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I recently had the honor to speak at the Wi-Fi Global Congress in Beijing. As evident by the more than 400 people in attendance, the importance and relevance of Wi-Fi continues to grow.  The Wireless Broadband Alliance now has over 100 members, a doubling in less than 2 years.  The membership includes a mix of […]

November 21, 2013

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A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

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“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]

November 19, 2013

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Virtualization: Can We Deconstruct the Problem and Opportunity?

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This was the title of a November 19 2013 panel that I had moderated in Washington D.C. at the MPLS-SDN Isocore Conference. The abstract for this conference was...

November 18, 2013

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Videoscape Helps Customers in India, Mexico, Brazil and Germany Deliver New Connected Video Experiences

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In Sao Paulo, GVT TV needed a way to protect its satellite-delivered video content. In New Delhi, direct broadcast satellite provider Tata Sky needed a way to outfit its customers to stream video to IP-connected screens. In Mexico, Megacable — the first in the country to launch broadband Internet over cable, needed to build the […]

November 14, 2013

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Understanding the Changing Mobile User

2 min read

The mobile market continues to evolve at a blindingly fast pace. It seems that new faster, sleeker, and more powerful mobile devices are launched every day, with new device categories created almost overnight. The number of available applications to run on these revolutionary new devices is staggering, numbering in the millions. Now you can do […]

November 1, 2013

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What Do Customers Want From Public Wi-Fi?

2 min read

It seems that the iconic “Wi-Fi Here” badge is turning up everywhere these days. Once found on coffee shop windows to indicate that patrons could connect their mobile devices to...

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