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Reasons, beyond performance, to upgrade your network to Wi-Fi 7
When someone in IT proposes upgrading the wireless network, the standard reaction is: "But our Wi-Fi is already fast". Understandable most users measure network quality by a quick speed test. Yet, the move to Wi-Fi 7 is not just about chasing a bigger number on a screen. It's about latency, stability, scalability, and how the wireless network fits into an...
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How to face the challenge of integrating telecommunication technologies and vendors
One of the biggest challenges that customers have always faced is that of integrating different telecommunication technologies or vendors in the same customer environment, with a view to getting the best characteristics from each technology. Nowadays, there are...
European Utility Week 2018: Smart Grids and more
On November 6th, the European Utility Week 2018 (EUW18) was held in Vienna (Austria). The event is attended by numerous companies and industry experts and provides an opportunity for them to showcase their developments and solutions. One of the main objectives of this...
3D printing is also being used for communications devices
3D printing, also known as direct digital manufacturing or additive manufacturing, has come to revolutionize every sector of industry; at the design level, building prototypes and even serial production, producing fully functional parts for the most demanding of...
SD-WAN joins the interoperability challenge
Some days ago, I had the chance to go to the annual SD-WAN Summit, an event that has been held in Paris for the last 3 years. It is a great opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art solutions and share trends on wide-area network connectivity, since key industry...
ZigBee Smart Energy
ZigBee Smart Energy (SE) is a standard for interconnecting and interoperating devices, via radio frequency, directed towards monitoring, managing and automating energy, gas and water usage. It seeks to be a useful tool for creating “Green Homes”, and is aimed at...
The advantages of cellular networks in the corporate sphere
Today’s society is one in which we have become accustomed to having everything instantly, in which we are no longer patient, where neither waiting times nor delivery times have a place. Time is no longer negotiable, we want everything and we want it all now. What...
Space telecommunications: Deep Space Network
The 50th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon was celebrated roughly a year ago. But space adventure is not just about putting a man in space. The conquest of space has prompted human beings to devise missions that go beyond the confines of our own solar system....
Optimized user experience
We’re still in the midst of digesting what could be termed the “first decade of cloud”, and yet it is already evoking the relentless – though, at the same time, typical of our natural condition as human beings – need to unveil the next “technological futurism” that...
The Internet lands in bank offices
Banking was one of the first sectors in need of telematically connecting its offices and cash machines with Central Services. The arrival of the first point-to-point lines made it possible. Thus, movements made in customer accounts were updated in real time in central...
Operating System-level Virtualization
For more than a decade now, hardware virtualization technology, more commonly known as virtual machines, has been the technology on which the production systems we know and use today in our information society have been based, and has made – in the midst of an...
Smart Grid: The advantages of having always-on communications
The need for real-time communications in Smart Grid scenarios is becoming increasingly important. One of the most common solutions is to have industrial routers send information securely to the different utility control centers. Main Advantages 1. Flexibility, because...
A review of the physical principles behind the Wi-Fi /5G wireless revolution
Following on from a previous article on DSL and its scientific bases, I now want to review the fundamentals of another technology: radio. As with a DSL, the ability to transmit data in any radio communications system – from the very first Marconi experiments to 5G...
