devices
Shifting Perceptions in Technology to Drive Change in Learning
Ymasumac Marañón Davis is an educational consultant, intuitive life coach and author. This blog is the first in a series around access. The cloud and mobility in our devices have caused industries the world over to rethink how they conduct business. Education is no exception to this shift in cultur…
Customer Spotlight: The City of Schenectady Leads Smart City Movement
The City of Schenectady, with a population of just over 66,000, has bold vision for growth. Schenectady’s leadership wanted to address its growing challenges, such as increasing traffic, resource constraints, safety concerns and inadequate infrastructure. Thus, the city developed a plan to integrate…
Protecting Clinical Devices – the Achilles Heel of Healthcare
Everyday, hackers and cybercriminals are infiltrating networks. And they are especially interested in healthcare. That’s because stolen medical records are profitable, selling up to 10 times more than credit card numbers on the black market. But even more lucrative than identity theft is a ransomwar…
SDN and NFV Use Cases in EPN
My last post reviewed some of the building blocks of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and positioned the protocols and APIs (Application Programming Interface) into categories so that the multitude of technologies associated with SDN can be positioned in a coherent framework. This month I’d like to…
How Service Providers Can Become Leaders in the Internet of Everything
Over 50 billion “things” or devices are projected to be connected to the Internet through wired and wireless networks, generating zettabytes of data, all powered by cloud computing. This Internet of Everything (IoE) will fundamentally transform businesses, generate enormous economic wealth and creat…
Faster, Clearer and Future-Proof: VoLTE Brings it Home
by Vicki Livingston, Head of Communications, 4G Americas From the first batters up to the plate in South Korea in 2012, with a flurry from Metro PCS in the U.S., Voice over LTE (VoLTE) seemed to be in a field of dreams and not making much noise or progress. However, bring it on baby… as VoLTE may be…
The Key to Success in Tracking Mobile Devices: Symbiosis, Not Espionage
As a shopper enters a store, the retailer uses Wi-Fi to track her movements, interests, and shopping habits, providing a treasure trove of insight valuable to merchandising and product development alike. And as advances in Wi-Fi promise increasing location precision and beacons promise pinpoint loca…
TU Darmstadt Rolls Out Cisco Unified Access to Prepare for 802.11ac
Technische Universität Darmstadt, usually known as TU Darmstadt is a research university based in Germany. It was founded in 1877 and over the last 137 years has grown to be among the largest and most prestigious public universities in Germany serving over 25,000 students per year. It is the alma-ma…
Small Cells Are Big For Business
Closing the big deal. Calming an irate customer. Clarifying instructions given in an email. Voice has long been the killer app for business. As the world goes mobile, smartphones are becoming a key way for business people to stay connected, not just when they are out of the office, but an import…
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