Research Center

The connected-home landscape is continually broadening and evolving, and having consistent, reliable communication is critical to smart-grid operations for the home. Making the grid into a smart grid is one of several interrelated evolutionary steps occurring in the field of grid communications; it enables service providers and utilities to better manage their resources and proactively handle problem avoidance and resolution while providing advanced services to the home.... More Info

Ericsson’s vision of “the Networked Society” predicts that 50 billion devices will be connected via broadband, mobility and the cloud by 2020, and that more than 15 billion of those devices will be enabled for video. It also expects 90 percent of the traffic on global IP networks to be video by as early as 2015.... More Info

Unfortunately for the engineers tasked with refining the rules that govern telecommunications, standards aren’t as sexy as the smartphones they empower. And yet telecommunications standards are the silent enablers that make our modern connected world possible.... More Info

Every time someone signs into an app or service using thier Facebook or Gmail credentials, a thousand telecom network execs bite their collective fist. In their view, a mobile number, not a Facebook or Amazon login, should be the portal to the app world.... More Info

Network access has evolved over the past 20 years from just a simple internet offering to the current rush of services and applications, numerous speed and performance requirements and a variety of core and local access methods. Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), the cloud and virtualization are new buzzwords that bring with them a host of new requirements and opportunities.... More Info