Introduction Recent developments in networking such as AI-driven optimization, Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN), 5G-Advanced, and Zero Trust, promise major improvements in performance, scalability, and security. However, these technologies are also affected by massive...
Introduction Tier-1 telco O2 Telefónica Germany recently announced a major bet on the public cloud with their new 5G Cloud network, built entirely in AWS in collaboration with Nokia.1 O2 Telefonica’s plan is to have 40% of their customer base migrated to this new 5G...
Introduction In a recent survey cited by Forbes, analyst firm Futuriom questioned senior IT professionals on the importance of having connectivity and a single management control plane across enterprise data centers, edge, telco providers, and cloud services. Of those...
Introduction Edge AI is enabling new capabilities by embedding AI functionality directly into smartphones, IoT devices, industrial machines, robots, vehicles, and servers located where the data is generated and used. This allows immediate feedback based on real-time...
Introduction Today’s networks are more complex than ever and becoming more so every day. The factors driving this ever-increasing complexity include: the widespread use of cloud services and the real-time web, streaming and IoT applications they host; last-mile...
Introduction Many industry observers believe AI is having its “iPhone moment” with the rapid rise of emerging large language models and generative AI applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. A big part of what sets generative AI applications apart is...
Introduction AI applications, especially those harnessing large language models (LLMs) for deep learning, have an insatiable appetite for data. LLMs require vast datasets for training and inference, resulting in massive volumes of network traffic. To mitigate...
In a traditional cloud computing implementation, data generated at the edge of the network is sent to centralized cloud servers for processing. These servers can be located anywhere in the world, often in data centers far from the data source. This model works well...
The cost benefits of replacing physical network infrastructure with virtualized software are undeniable. That’s why mobile network operators (MNOs) have embraced network functions virtualization (NFV) to support 5G’s vastly greater infrastructure requirements relative...
VM and network upgrades can improve poor cloud performance in the short-run, but lose effectiveness over time because they don’t address one of its major causes. As a result, successive rounds of increasingly expensive upgrades and budget-busting overprovisioning have...
