5G FWA vs fiber – Which is best?

5G FWA vs fiber – Which is best?

Although superfast broadband - with a download speed of at least 30Mbps - is by now widely available, the demand for services that use ever-higher volumes of data with equal availability and reliable connectivity is steadily increasing. This has been highlighted by the COVID pandemic and the shift towards working from home. In response, governments around the world have been establishing...

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High-speed Internet from space: The Starlink network

High-speed Internet from space: The Starlink network

Accessing the Internet from space is not new, with many companies (OneWeb, Space Norway, Telesat, etc.) now offering it. More recently, however, a new participant has emerged on the scene promising something different – Starlink. SpaceX’s plan is to create a network of 12,000 satellites that fly from 350 to 1160 km above our heads and provide fast Internet access using lasers. Each satellite...

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DTLS security over UDP

DTLS security over UDP

DTLS (Datagram transport Layer Security) is a protocol that provides privacy for UDP communications. To understand DTLS, you first need to understand UDP. UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a transport layer protocol based on the exchange of datagrams (encapsulated in OSI model Layer 4 or transport layer). It allows datagrams to be sent over the network without first establishing a connection to...

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And we come to SD-WAN

And we come to SD-WAN

When I first laid my hands on a computer in the early Eighties, I didn’t realize at the time the full magnitude of what I was looking at. From then on, the interest in technology was never to end. Soon, personal computers (PC), with their colorful screens and countless possibilities, would start to be popularized among residential users and businesses starting to put their new equipment to work...

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Session-based routing: A reality today and growing

Session-based routing: A reality today and growing

Traditionally several current network scenarios are based on packet routing, but to reduce the network complexity, a concept has appeared on the market: session-based routing. This is due to theThe evolution of the network, which has reached a point where the complexity is continuously growing, and the elements involved are more and more expensive. A session is not a new concept, because many of...

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The telecommunications market continues to make progress in 2016

The telecommunications market continues to make progress in 2016

As we are past the half year mark for 2016, we have decided to take the opportunity to recap on what this year has meant so far for our industry. The telecommunications market and technology are forging ahead even faster and on several fronts. A number of different factors may have had an impact on this acceleration of progress, including the new digital transformation, the incorporation of Big...

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