IoT

We’ve all been on WebEx calls, video calls, and IM chats. Maybe we have been sophisticated enough to have more than one of these communications methods turned on at once using WebEx or Jabber. However, what happens when the call ends?  What happens to the files that were shared, the chats that were…

It’s been a couple weeks since Cisco Live wrapped up. With roughly 25,000 attendees each year, it is a gold mine for new content, hands-on learning, IoT discussions and…well, fun. While I spent a fair amount of hours perusing the show flow, ogling the astonishing 250 booth displays, I also spent a l…

Video traffic is soaring, and it’s shaking up the mobile marketplace – fast. With the arrival of 5G networks moving ever closer, the shift towards mobile video could be seismic. So how can you take full advantage? The video revolution is happening all around us, and touching every part of our lives.…

I often meet with customers about the first and easiest way to use IoT in an industrial domain: by deploying wireless technology. There is a lot of variety of Radio Frequency (RF) technologies being used in the industrial domain ranging from ZigBee to WirelessHART to WiFi to LoRa to LTE, etc. Unfort…

The best way to succeed is to identify how to fail, then adapt accordingly. So, here’s how to lose: Focus on technology, not psychology. 2. Think that cyber security is an IT-only problem. 3. Believe that an air gap will save you. We live in a connected world and that’s not about to change. Actual…

This year’s Mobile World Congress was a hive of all things… well, mobile. There was much to ponder for service providers looking to stay at the cutting edge with the latest tech and solutions. Here are the five hottest topics from the event. 5G Ready or not, 5G’s one of the key themes around all th…

Cisco Live has come and gone and now is a time to reflect on the incredibly crazy few days and see what was discussed. Business outcomes were top of mind for our customers and analysts, and we had no shortage of them. We kicked off the week talking to our analysts at CSCAPE and the big theme was cus…

The mobile revolution has only just begun… The number of terminals is growing exponentially and the use of video is an ever-increasing trend. A growth of 53% of the yearly mobile data traffic is forecast by 2020. In a context of deeply changing consumer habits, half of the service providers we know…

Don’t get me wrong. I’m looking forward to faster mobile internet as much as the next person. But the significance of 5G goes much further than that – particularly for mobile network providers. Here’s why: The 5G mobile broadband connected society Last September, the United Nations’ informatio…