Safaricom in world-first 400G network rollout

Safaricom in world-first 400G network rollout

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona – Kenya’s Safaricom is to build the world’s first end-to-end 400G backbone network. The network operator will deploy’s Huawei’s end-to-end systems as it upgrades its existing 100G...
WiFi 6 a catalyst for intelligent connectivity

WiFi 6 a catalyst for intelligent connectivity

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona – The industry is pushing towards the goal of a fully-connected intelligent world, but the challenges of capacity, bandwidth and latency threaten its smooth adoption. This is the word from Steven Zhao,...
WiFi 6 a catalyst for intelligent connectivity

5G set for massive global take-up

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona – The flood of 5G network and device launches this year will see 5G connections accounting for as much as 15% of the global total by 2025. According to the 2019 edition of the GSMA’s flagship...
Huawei unveils slimmest foldable 5G smartphone

Huawei unveils slimmest foldable 5G smartphone

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – Huawei has launched a foldable smartphone, the Mate X, making it just the second vendor to offer a commercially-available foldable device. The 5G phone, with its flexible OLED FullView display, is either a...
Flexibility key for multi-cloud approach

Flexibility key for multi-cloud approach

Driven by the need for faster digital transformation, hybrid IT estates have become the norm, with the most successful customers opting for a “right workload for the right cloud platform” approach. But this is also creating new types of complexity, with...
Digitalisation exposes business to new and unexpected risks

Digitalisation exposes business to new and unexpected risks

As organisations transition to a digital-first approach across all transactions, the attack surface of global business expands rapidly – and sometimes in unexpected ways. In other words, thanks to the rapid enhancements and constant changes in technology, the...