Research Center

Believe it or not, the smartphone revolution is only eight years old. It kicked off in 2007 with Apple’s prescient slogan, “This is only the beginning,” and the release of the first iPhone, which pulled smartphones as a whole out of the geek toy box and into the realm of mass-market acceptance.... More Info

“If I have a thousand ideas,” Alfred Nobel once mused, “and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” While his most famous invention… dynamite… went on to do both good and bad things, there is no question that it was an important advancement, and that it changed the face of the 19th and 20th centuries. And this was possible because he was willing to risk failure to accomplish something unique that would have an impact so great, it would change the face of history.... More Info

The networking industry is experiencing a kind of renaissance, with impacts that will be far-reaching. The acronyms SDN and NFV are the buzz and all the pundits are weighing in, but few are the stories of real production deployments with real customers consuming virtual network functions.... More Info

Mobile service providers face growing operational challenges from new 3G, 4G and 5G technologies and massive radio access network expansion from small cells. Backhaul complexity has also increased dramatically with the transition to Ethernet/IP.... More Info

AT&T U-verse recently updated its U-verse App to include 41 additional live channels and compatibility with a wearable. The U-verse App has more live channels available to watch outside the home than any cable provider with 236 live channels inside the home and 173 channels available outside the home.... More Info