MWC

Going to a foreign city for a conference can be an exhilarating experience, but it can also be a bit frustrating when it comes to your wireless network. Does your home carrier work in the conference city? How easy is it to go from one public network to another? What’s the security like? How is…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is having a big impact – and it’s about to get much bigger. IoT is evolving on a massive scale, thanks to the rise of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies like NB-IoT and LoRa™, and innovative IoT platforms to cost-efficiently control thousands o…

For the past few years, all of us in the industry have been talking about 5G.  Much of the discussion has been around the excitement of new spectrum and radios to enable that – it was all about ENABLING 5G. This year is different – the discussion now is about what we are all DOING with 5G. There are…

Cisco and Intel vRAN with MEC Proof of Concept The mobile wireless industry is undergoing tremendous transformation with 5G. This enables companies to not only create new content, but also devise innovative means of delivering that content. Some of these new realities require changing the way we env…

Catching up on emails some two months after the event, I finally got a look at the impressive Wi-Fi network metrics from Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, where Cisco again worked with the GSMA to successfully provide one of the world’s largest carrier-grade Wi-Fi networks. During the event at…

The term web-scale has been with us just a few years. Mainly referring to managing a data center infrastructure with capabilities to scale in size, speed and agility, it has usually been associated with large cloud service firms such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix.   It has not been associated…

Mobile is everything and everything is mobile. On Day 1 of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Chuck Robbins succinctly described the “mobility explosion,” as a driver for innovation and a means for anyone and everyone to take advantage of the incredible advances we are seeing in technology. This explosive…

The excitement, the energy, the sore feet once again engulfed us in the beautiful city of Barcelona for arguably the greatest show on Earth – Mobile World Congress.  Well, for those of us in networking, anyway. The theme for Mobile World Congress 2017 is: The Next Element. Upon reading “The Next Ele…

At MWC, we are making a dozen innovation and customer momentum announcements including 5G Trials with Verizon.  Last week, Verizon announced it will deliver 5G service to pilot customers in 11 markets across the U.S. by mid-2017, and today we announced that we will be a key technology supplier for t…