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Francois Moore
Introduction to IOWN Global Forum As society continues to increasingly rely on the internet for work, trade, education, and entertainment, traffic demand, as well as the need for new advanced service capabilities, will continue to grow. In parallel, the environment is increasingly reminding us to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions as a mean to
Brian James
Did you know that one rack of legacy equipment generates as much as 14 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year? That’s the equivalent of discharging 500 fire extinguishers, but just one commercial off-the-shelf server generates only three tons. You can drastically reduce your network’s carbon footprint by eliminating or reducing this equipment, but it’s
Muhammad Sarwar
Thanks to Moore’s Law – an empirical law dating from 1965 which states that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years – the latest generation of digital signal processors (DSP) for optical transport networks has received a significant performance boost. This increased processing power boosts optical performance in all key
Nimal Gunarathna, P.Eng. CISSP,CISA,CCSK,CRISC,PMP,CISM,GICSP,CDPSE
As Open Radio Access Network (RAN) architecture gains transformative momentum, including significant government support and funding, security is understandably a significant area of focus and concern for governments and service providers. What steps can operators and vendors take to proactively secure networks? One significant measure is to maintain a current Software Bill of Materials (SBOM),
Rob Hughes
Despite ongoing expansions and continued, double-digit traffic growth, mobile network operators have ambitious sustainability goals. According to GSMA’s mobile net zero report for 2022, 50% of them aim to meet net-zero carbon targets by 2040 or even 2030. I’m Rob Hughes and I’m here for an open dialogue about how Open RAN can support carbon
Francois Moore
Sometime around 490 BC, the Greek runner Pheidippides is said to have sprinted from Marathon to Athens, about 26 miles, to announce the Athenians’ victory over the Persians. He then promptly passed away, becoming one of the earliest and most famous casualties of the speed vs distance conundrum. While admittedly a loose analogy, Pheidippides’ failed
Joe Mocerino
What is edge networking? Edge networking consists of the access and aggregation elements of the transport network. In our context, we are referring to the mobile edge network and transport over a fiber optic plan. The mobile edge network is from the cell site to the core. The mobile edge mainly consists of a Distributed
Maureen Bundy
It’s an age-old story of good news and bad news… The good news is that escalating demand for data and cloud services continues to drive network growth worldwide with no signs of slowing down. The bad news is that as a result, many network owners – including communication service providers (CSPs), utilities and transportation agencies
Ryan Pettijohn
In today’s smart manufacturing environment, agility is crucial. Market leadership hinges on the ability to quickly and accurately process valuable data insights. Yet as the sheer volume of available data grows exponentially, many manufacturers lack the networking power to capitalize on this valuable information. A carefully planned private 5G network provides the security, performance and
Joe Mocerino
Network slicing can optimize brownfield and greenfield networks In the last installment of this blog series, we looked at virtualizing the network as a single programmable infrastructure for the many 5G disparate service offerings compared to an overbuild approach. We also reviewed how the white-box approach offers the best performance scaling technique compared with purpose-built
Rob Hughes
How can vRAN boost energy efficiency? Many of the energy efficiency benefits from virtualized RAN (vRAN) come from pooling a collection of Distributed Units (DUs) or Centralized Units (CUs). If you’re able to reduce the number in use, you’ve got fewer servers and that are consuming less power. There’s a number of innovations that are
Anthony Laboy
Adoption of 5G is continuing at such a rapid pace, analysts now predict that 5G connections will reach nearly 2 billion worldwide by the end of this year. With such a successful track record for 5G, are we really ready to start talking about another G? The short answer is “yes.” 6G will build on
Joe Mocerino
Edge networks to support 5G need an open, innovative solution ecosystem. And they need flexibility to evolve rapidly as demand and technology change. I’m Joe Mocerino, 5G and edge optical networking expert at Fujitsu. Let’s have an open dialogue about how to build the efficient, scalable edge network you need to deliver today’s 5G services
Joe Krystofik
Empowering Data-Driven Decision Making Artificial intelligence (AI) classification and clustering techniques are generating new insights that allow network operators to unlock the hidden potential of their distributed and disconnected data sets. These two aspects of AI have opened up an expansive range of new possibilities for getting the best performance out of networks. AI classification