There is hardly a day when news related to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin does not make headlines. But beyond digital currencies, the applicability of distributed ledger and blockchain is finding its way into a number of different industries including telecommunications. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a shared database that is spread across several nodes or computing devices. Each node replicates…
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5G is coming, and the pipes are getting fat. Please put a penny in the operator’s hat. The standards bodies defining 5G services are having a fine old time dreaming up more and more new uses for the 5G mobile network, from ultra high-speed mobile broadband through to integrated transport networks and autonomous vehicles, connected wearables, mobile healthcare, sensor networks,…
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There is no ignoring the rapid proliferation of connected devices, particularly those associated with the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is the inter-networking of objects, both physical and virtual, that collect and share data. IoT objects can range from simple sensors that tell you when to water your plants to sophisticated devices enabling driverless cars. All of these devices…
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With the forthcoming 5G network, service providers have set the ambitious goal of delivering a highly reliable, secure and resilient network that will provide communication services to a wide variety of industries — anywhere, at any time, over any access technology and on any device. New 5G Core network capabilities will be a key element in fulfilling this goal. Although…
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The Internet of Things (IoT) holds the promise of billions of connected devices and trillions of dollars in economic opportunity. However, to capitalize on the huge commercial upside, IoT application developers face many pain-points created by the increasing complexity and diversity of IoT deployments. Think about a smart building, smart city or smart factory. These environments house many different types…
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Machine-to-machine (M2M) services are now present in almost every area of social and economic activity. From personal fitness to city-wide environmental monitoring, data is being collected, processed and summarized to support smart services. With this explosion comes important challenges such as ensuring the reliability, maintainability, scaling and security of these innovations. To provide a platform to address these areas, the…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has acted to resolve one of the biggest scourges of modern times: malicious robocalling and caller ID spoofing. A formal recommendation on unwanted call blocking made in September 2017 builds on the output of the industry-wide Robocall Strike Force, consisting of telecom services providers, technology experts and consumer groups, to continue work on eliminating this…
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The ATIS Synchronization Committee (SYNC) is at the forefront of the industry in doing work to examine GPS vulnerability and methods of GPS backup for time and frequency synchronization. The group has recently published a technical report which discusses this in detail, GPS Vulnerability (ATIS-0900005). GPS (Global Positioning System) has become so ubiquitous in everyday life that most people take…
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Connected vehicles have the potential to deliver tremendous value to both consumers and the transportation industry. As part of the larger intelligent transportation ecosystem changes, connected vehicle applications provide connectivity between and among vehicles, infrastructure, and wireless devices. This, in turn, can to assist in preventing crashes, easing traffic congestion and delivering new and exciting applications directly to the vehicle….
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The number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices continues to grow rapidly, driven by an increasing range of use cases and business models combined with declining device costs. Cisco[1] predicts upwards of 14 billion connected IoT[2] devices by 2021, while according to the most recent Ericsson Mobility Report[3], the number will reach 18 billion by 2022. This growth rate…
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