5G
Why Wait for 5G? The Challenges of Railway Connectivity – Solved – Today (Part 2)
Recently I blogged about how Cisco are working with ScotRail (the train operator) and Network Rail Telecom (the track operator) in Scotland to deliver a trial of the world’s fastest in-train WiFi, an evolution of work done earlier on “Project SWIFT”. I also described a school of thought that sugges…
Keeping Up with the Video Streaming Binge-Watchers
Video streaming services are hugely popular, with more and more people determined to stay up to date with the latest series. But for service providers, the challenge is to keep up in a different sense. Because over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube account for an increa…
What’s the Real Business Value of 5G?
Meeting the cost of 5G is major talking point at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year. According to a major German operator, the cost of supplying Europe with 5G connections could be anything between €300 billion and €500 billion . This is a major challenge. Because 5G technology is going to ma…
5G Networking: Who’s in the Driving Seat?
Our new solution is a cost-effective route to reliable 5G connections – and the innovative services they make possible Over the next years, people will increasingly expect 5G connections and the types of service they can support. And this will lead to increasing demands on service provider networks.…
Mind the Gap: 5G Network Strategy Ahead
A new solution that uses plug-in technology makes it cost-effective to deploy segment routing across the whole network The pressure on service providers is rapidly increasing. Globally, demands for bandwidth are doubling every 18 months and the number of devices being used to connect to the internet…
Why Wait for 5G? The Challenges of Railway Connectivity – Solved – Today (Part 1)
This year’s UK budget day (23rd November 2017) has been an interesting day for technology. Technology plans were central topics – including a significant government 5G investment. As my Cisco UK colleague Matt Houlihan blogged earlier, Cisco is already working with Government to ensure that…
The Future of Telecom Networks: Programmed to Succeed
When it comes to creating fast, flexible, on-demand services, programmability is key Programmability is an exciting area of network technology that creates a world of new agile services for service providers. It’s immensely powerful because it decouples the services themselves from the underlying ha…
Endless Reasons to be 5G Ready
By 2022 the number of 5G subscribers will be big… and growing fast. Are you ready for the next revolution? Multiple industry reports, including Cisco Visual Networking Index, highlights the growth of 5G technology, and how it will transform the way we use the internet. On average we expect there wil…
Glimpsing the Evolution of Cable Networks at This Year’s Cable-Tec Expo
The evolution of cable networks came into focus at the recent SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver, Colorado. Cable industry professionals from all over the world came together to learn and share the next generation of network technologies that will be shaping the cable industry for years to come. Distribu…
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