Carl Weinschenk

Yesterday, I noted that AT&T’s 2017 roadmap includes fixed wireless 5G trials. Such trials and early rollouts of 5G likely will lean heavily of fixed wireless, since it’s easier to hit a stationary target. The hard stuff, such as delivering 5G to a device speeding along the highway, can be saved for later. That doesn’t […]

9 Successful Digital Disruption Examples The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held early every January, lets everyone know what will be the hot topic for at least the first part of the year. The year is front-loaded because even announcements not technically made at the Las Vegas show are pushed ahead because the big convention is […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World One of the biggest stories of 2016 is that artificial intelligence (AI) worked its way into the mainstream. The typical end of year stories suggested that the use of AI will grow during 2017. Computerworld, looking at the year just ended, says that heavy hitters […]

The goal of telephone companies and their ecosystems to push fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) data transmission speeds continues unabated. The latest chapter is XGS-PON. This month, there was a “plug fest” supporting the new XGS-PON specification at LAN’s Digital Application Laboratory in Tauxigny, France. It was attended by more than 30 companies. The goal of such conclaves […]

Just about everything about wireless and cellular networks is changing. There are more users, the sessions conducted by these folks are longer, and the nature of the content is more complex and time-sensitive. For those reasons, the protocols being used are changing, too. That’s not the only change. The macro cell towers that have sufficed […]

The operating system (OS) used by an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor is a vital element. It must juggle two priorities. On one hand, these OSes must provide increasingly important security functions and, of course, do the job that the sensor or other device is tasked with providing. On the other hand, it must be […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 One of the benefits that the wireless sector claims over its wired cousins is that using the air to transport signals starkly reduces the challenges and costs of wired connectivity. The truth of that statement doesn’t mean that the wired sector is on the point of extinction. Indeed, […]

Building High-Growth IT: 5 Things to Know Now It’s fascinating to watch the telecommunications ecosystem spin up, almost from thin air, virtual network functions (VNFs). The ability to remotely create and control network assets promises to radically change, if not transform, networking. This is especially true when NFV is teamed with software-defined networks (SDN), the […]

5 Essential Incident Response Checklists It may be time to consider halting the sale of Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices. That won’t happen, of course. But the basic idea is that what is happening is frightening enough to raise the thought. A world of malware is being developed that uses consumer-based IoT devices as an […]

Tom Wheeler, who has led the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for three years, will step down on January 20, the day that Donald Trump takes office. The FCC was active during Wheeler’s tenure, and the headline event was the fight over net neutrality, which he and the other Democratic commissioners won. The Washington Post points […]

IoT Adoption, Emerging Tech Driving Tech Industry Revenue Growth No company has had more of a Perils of Pauline lifestyle during the modern telecommunications era than BlackBerry. It was king, fell to the very bottom of the barrel (to a point where its demise was expected on an almost weekly basis) and found a way […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 The process of a technology going from the lab to commercialization is uneven. The autonomous vehicle category is in the midst of making this transition with a very high profile. There was some news during the past couple of weeks. Yesterday, Google announced that it has made its […]