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Your Features are only as Strong as Your Hardware
In the telecom world innovation has taken the spotlight, opening the doors to new protocols, cutting-edge features, ambitious capabilities like 5G, NGFW, etc. Yet behind the scenes, there's a less glamorous, but equally vital actor: the robust hardware supporting all these technologies. Modern network devices nowadays promise more than ever, but these promises are...
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Can SD-WAN be applied to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)?
Whether due to startup costs, lack of scalability, or because it hasn´t been specifically designed for small businesses, up to now, it hasn´t been clear how SMEs could benefit from SD-WAN technology. However, given their dynamism and security, software defined wide...
Can we really align the network with business?
Lately there isn´t a single conversation, presentation or conference (especially now that everyone is talking about digital transformation) where you don´t come across a sentence like this: It needs to stop being a cost center and start taking an active role in the...
IoT in cars and Smart Cities
One of the most talked about concepts in the technology industry today is the Internet of Things (or as it´s also known, IoT). Still in its infancy, the IoT phenomenon spans many áreas from everyday objects and the automotive sector, to its integration in cities...
Microservices & its advantages
The idea behind Microservices has been with the software industry and developers for about six to seven years now, and it´s definitely a current buzz term which is being heard more and more in the industry. However, in global terms it´s a relatively simple concept. A...
Emerging Low Power Technologies
To support the further growth and development of the Internet of Things (IoT) the mobile industry is developing and standardising a new class of GSM technologies focused on IoT, which is called Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. These technologies enable the new IoT...
More and more people commute to work
The number of commuters rises to record high. According to an analysis by the Federal Institute of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), the number of commuters in Germany has peaked at sixty percent, compared to 53 percent in 2000. On...
Big movements in the sector
As I have done in previous years around this time, I would like to take this opportunity to summarize some of the most important issues we have encountered in 2017. This year is proving to be a very interesting year for the telecommunications sector. First of all, the...
Access to guest networks
Nowadays, all companies provide their customers with Wi-Fi in some form or another. We find it in shopping malls, airports, restaurants, offices and even on transport. It is fair to say that Wi-Fi has become a commodity. Most customers want to connect to Wi-Fi...
5G: How it will change our lives
The advent of 5G technology signifies the start of an even more globally connected society, a completely digital society. This technology, expected to be implemented in 2020, will change the way we interact with each other and objects, allowing us to be permanently...
Digital Transformation from a business perspective
Over the last years colleagues have written blog posts on digital transformation and the new technologies within the telecommunications industry that are accompanying the phenomenon. However, I would like to take a step back and look at the digital transformation from...
Power electronics in telecommunication equipment
The application of power electronics to communications devices has to do with the processing of the electrical input power using semiconductor devices and reactive elements. Thus, the raw input power is processed according to a control input that conditions the output...
WannaCry – Bitcoin – Crime
The first and so far the only time I was personally involved, (or to be more precise my son who at that time was eleven years old), in a cyber-attack by ransomware was in 2012. The computer of my son was apparently blocked by the Federal Criminal Police Office due to...
