Category: Blog Posts
UAVs for Restoring Communications in Emergency Situations
If you have ever experienced a natural disaster (hurricane, tornado, earthquake, wildfire, etc.), you are well aware of the importance of communications during this time. A functioning communication network is essential to coordinating emergency and recovery operations, rebuilding infrastructure as well as allowing the public to contact rescue services, family and friends. Following a disaster, disruption to the communications network…
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Context-Aware Identity Management: The Who, What, Where, When and How
In the age of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), users increasingly want the flexibility to access both their business-critical applications and personal applications anywhere, anytime and on multiple devices. This increased mobility — combined with the fact that many applications are emerging that cross multiple industry sectors or domains — requires authentication and authorization processes beyond single sign-on capabilities. Furthermore,…
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Telecom
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have long been associated with science fiction movies, with no better example than 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hal the computer (“I’m sorry Dave, I am afraid I can’t do that”). But what exactly is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? In its simplest form it is the automation of tasks or functions which otherwise require human intelligence…
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Understanding the Value of Distributed Ledger/Blockchain Innovation in the ICT Industry
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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What the Haul?
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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Subscriptionless Devices Offer Potential Revenue Opportunity for Network Operators
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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Innovations in 5G Core
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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oneM2M’s Value Proposition for IoT Application Developers
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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Putting the oneM2M Standard into Action: ATIS OS-IoT Software
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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