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Pipeline had the opportunity to meet with Neeraj Patel from Radisys to discuss Edge computing at Mobile World Congress Americas.... More Info

Pipeline had the opportunity to meet with Ray Lachance from ZenFi Networks to discuss small cell densification for 5G wireless networks at Mobile World Congress Americas.... More Info

Pipeline had the opportunity to meet with Chris Winslow from Flex to discuss next generation, digital innovation in Telecom at Mobile World Congress Americas.... More Info

Pipeline had the opportunity to meet with Mobeen Khan from AT&T to discuss the evolution of IoT Services at Mobile World Congress Americas.... More Info

Talk about 5G tends to center on the upsides—the new horizons, potential, and use cases that this next-generation network will make possible. While full of promise, that dialogue skirts the cold reality that 5G deployment will be very expensive.... More Info

Throughout the past year, MEF has noted the growing recognition that service providers must move quickly to address changing customer requirements and adapt to intensifying competitive threats in the era of digital transformation. Executives from MEF member service providers have emphasized that it is imperative that they transform to deliver more dynamic, cloud-like services over automated and interconnected networks.... More Info

In today’s digital era, businesses are exploring ways to use cloud capabilities to enable mobility, flexibility, and less expensive alternatives to traditional telecommunications, both for their internal communications as well as connecting with customers, partners and suppliers around the world. As with other areas that have benefited from the cloud, the move is designed to drive efficiencies, reduce costs and tap into new geographic markets and customer opportunities.... More Info

The questions for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and Data Center Operators is: “what are their enterprise customers going to want next?” And, it’s a crucial question to ask, even if they themselves don’t know the answer yet. At a high level, we know enterprise customers generally want operational efficiencies, lower costs, and greater agility to consume, deploy, performance-tune, and manage IT resources.What if you could have it all?... More Info

Broadband providers—especially those with legacy copper networks and cable networks—are overwhelmed by the pace at which revenue is dissipating. Over the top (OTT) service offerings have hit full force, attacking every fundamental service that exists except for the “pipe” to the consumer’s premises.... More Info

The telecom industry is undergoing a significant transition as service providers and infrastructure vendors are turning to open source and multi-access edge computing (MEC) solutions to meet the demands of 5G—and to reduce costs and accelerate service innovation. Open RAN solutions are gaining traction with service providers that are driving disruption in their networks.... More Info

By as soon as 2019, 5G will be here, according to Forbes. As more than just the next generation of mobile broadband, the technology is expected to completely transform all aspects of daily life—from connected cars to remote surgery, the possibilities for new and innovative services seem endless.... More Info

The Data Center Exodus From Manhattan Over the course of the last 11 years, there has been a data center exodus from Manhattan for a variety of reasons. Many events took place over this time period to make data center tenants nervous about locating their data centers in the heart of New York City.... More Info

What is a network? When you think about it, a network can be just about anything.... More Info

This month, Mobile World Congress Americas provided a brief flurry of news from the City of Angels. Together, Ericsson, Intel, AT&T and T-Mobile demonstrated the first public 5G NR over-the-air data call, and Sprint debuted its newest Magic Box Generation 3 all wireless small-cell plug-and-play unit.... More Info

The technical landscape is changing, and systems are struggling to keep up. Networks are rapidly becoming software defined, hybrid cloud deployments are becoming commonplace, billions of IoT devices are coming online, and emerging technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, are being increasingly leveraged – out of shear necessity.... More Info

The cry of ‘think big’ has been a business credo for years, a mantra to every bootstrapping start-up and growing enterprise alike—live the dream, think big! While the smart home market is growing fast—figures from analysts IDC predict sales of smart home devices will rise by 18.5 percent annually to reach a considerable 939.7 million devices by 2022—it has yet to reach capacity or peak ‘bigness’ by any measure. In many ways, the market is still in its early days.... More Info

Big Data, BI, AI. These buzzwords seem to have been circulating in the industry for years now.... More Info

The growth in IoT is explosive, impressive—and unsustainable under current architectural approaches. CSP and DSP are moving away from a centralized network with challenges related to latency, network bandwidth, reliability and security.... More Info

The goals of increasing sales and service delivery efficiency and effectiveness have never been more important for digital service providers, media, and high‐tech companies. The ever-shifting market demands of the digital economy require extreme business agility to attract customers, keep them happy, and run profitable businesses.... More Info

As brands continue to build and expand their online presences, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transitioned from something ‘nice to have’ to something essential. AI-driven solutions play a crucial role in any business’s digital transformation.... More Info

Big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have both had their fair share of hype in recent years. Despite the rhetoric, however, both these technologies, working in sync, are now starting to emerge as fundamental building blocks shaping future networks to be more reliable and more automated—leading to a better customer experience.... More Info

INCOMPAS, the internet and competitive networks association, may be best known for its high-profile work in Washington, D.C., advocating for competition across all networks—from fiber and wireless, to streaming services, cloud and edge providers. But an equally important part of the association’s work is its annual INCOMPAS Show, which has fostered hundreds of millions of dollars of deals in the communications industry, building a vibrant ecosystem that enables companies in all facets of the industry to meet, develop partnerships and do business... More Info

For most communications service providers (CSPs), understanding the customer is no simple task. Back in the day when connectivity meant a single analog landline in the home, all you needed to know was whether the customer had connectivity and where to send the bill—and that the bill was actually paid on time.... More Info

Data—and what we do with it—may be the final frontier for all of mankind. At its core, data is information.... More Info

August brought plenty of news in network evolution. INCOMPAS made two FCC filings to continue to promote healthy competition and innovation in building fiber, while efforts to expand networks into rural and unserved areas of the U.S.... More Info

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing the way we interact with almost everything in our daily lives. From smart homes and connected cars to sensors in manufacturing plants, new applications of IoT technology that come to market every day, making our lives easier and more efficient.... More Info

Despite having been the subject of much discussion and investment over the past five years, the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) remains at a relatively early stage. In practice, the reason is that, like the ‘classic’ Internet itself, the IoT requires not only the development of viable business models but also a transformation in the way that partaking businesses operate.... More Info

Significant market forces are disrupting the telecommunications industry and impacting all areas of business. To keep pace with competitors, IoT, and the rise of edge computing, network transformation is mission critical.... More Info

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially and, unless you have been hiding under a rock, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of connected devices we’re utilizing in our daily lives. According to Gartner, as of the end of 2017, there were 6.3 billion smart devices already connected to networks, and it is predicted this number will grow to 20.4 billion by 2020.... More Info

We’re living in a fascinating time to watch data networks evolve. It wasn’t long ago that the industry was taken by storm by cloud computing, and now—before many enterprises have even begun to leverage that model—we’re on to the next thing, turning the cloud approach on its head with talk of edge and fog computing.... More Info