EU Digitalization Goals: 5G networks rise & shutdown of 3G/2G technologies

EU Digitalization Goals: 5G networks rise & shutdown of 3G/2G technologies

The 5G revolution goes ahead All telecommunication carriers offering mobile solutions are competing to deploy the new 5G network as soon as possible. The latest investments involving the purchase of radio spectrum  must be recouped quickly (offering customers not only broadband connectivity, but also multiple  additional and professional services that were previously unheard of, such as “network...

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MTBF and hardware reliability

MTBF and hardware reliability

This year’s University Entrance Exam (EVAU) for physics in Madrid included a question on atomic decay..

The difficulty could lie not so much in physical concepts as in statistics, and with an equation as simple and seemingly innocent as the exponential: This equation

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eSIM: Two different flavors for the same technology

eSIM: Two different flavors for the same technology

eSIM (or embedded SIM) technology is destined to replace the traditional SIM cards that you insert in your mobile phones when you buy a new terminal or switch mobile phone operators. The eSIM is an eUICC (Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card) chip on the circuit board of an electronic device with a cellular connection. A virtual SIM, which we shall refer to as a mobile operator profile, is...

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NarrowBand IoT

NarrowBand IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is on everybody’s mind and analysts expect billions of connected devices in the upcoming years. In order to meet the increasing demands of products for consumers and IoT solutions for companies and business customers, new standards for transferring data have to be determined. Besides short-range radio systems such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Zigbee to Wide Area Networks...

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Band 28 : Mobile takes over Television broadcasting

Band 28 : Mobile takes over Television broadcasting

The mobile market continues to have spectacular growth figures and it is forecasted that upward trend continues throughout the next few years. Not only on a head count where we can safely say that over half of the world’s population has a mobile subscription, but also on the amount of SIM connections used for machine-to-machine (M2M), especially with the huge spread of IoT to date and even more...

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DMVPN vs Mobile IP

DMVPN vs Mobile IP

Nowadays, there are more and more applications running on a mobile environment such as, M2M, services for passengers, telemetering, etc… These applications often rely on several wireless access technologies (LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Satellite…) to implement the connectivity to the on-board network. In these kind of scenarios, very often the WAN IP changes have an impact on the continuity of applications...

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