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Wi-Fi Wanderlust: What’s happening with the “other” mobile technology?
This week, Cisco released the 2017 Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast. Not surprisingly, most people focus on the cellular (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G) aspects of the forecast. But there are also some rather exciting insights that can be drawn from our analysis of “the other” mobile technology – W…
Predicting the impact of 5G. Mobile innovation will create new levels of bandwidth consumption
The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts that there will be about 25 million 5G capable devices and connections by 2021, which will generate 8.9 exabytes (EB) of annual mobile data traffic. Let’s compare that in context of the overall Mobile VNI Forecast. By 2021, there will be…
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…
Introducing DevNet Create Conference in May 2017
The application development landscape is changing. Innovation that has its roots in startups, APIs, cloud computing, containers and microservices is quickly making its way into the enterprise and into verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and transportation. IoT and Edge computing o…
The Full Potential of Intelligent WAN: Reduce Complexity With Managed Services
Intelligent WAN and the Branch Problem Most enterprises struggle with their IT strategies when it comes to branch offices. At the core of this issue is the age-old problem of cost versus benefit (and also factoring in the ultimate quality of service at each price point). In a time when IT departme…
University of Melbourne Enables a Smart Campus
With more than 200,000 visitors a day, and more than 65,000 students spread across multiple sites, The University of Melbourne wanted know how staff, students and visitors were experiencing the campus. This insight would help answer tough questions, such as which buildings and services should be dev…
Cisco WAP150 competitive performance test
Happy New Year all! As we settle comfortably into January, making the turn into 2017, we look forward to what the year promises. 2016 was a good year, with new models announced, nice opportunities closed, and new plans put in place. With new hopes at the start of the year, comes the refreshing excit…
Voiceworks Changes the Communications Landscape in The Netherlands & Germany with Cisco
Voiceworks delivers telephony solutions from the cloud. Voiceworks BV, an Almere based company in The Netherlands, is one of the largest and fastest growing VoIP & web technology specialists. They are achieving great success in the Dutch and German telecom world with its corporate Unified Commun…
Happy Holidays!
It is Christmas Eve here, and my family is making cookies. Soon, more family will be coming over. We have a whole list of things that need to be cut, prepared and cooked. And, I cannot wait. My family indeed enjoys this time of year, especially when we will be at Mammoth Mountain next week! But bef…