Future-proofing service provider networks

With mobile data traffic expected to increase nearly tenfold between 2014 and 2019, service providers are increasingly looking to Network Functions Virtualisation, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. The pressure to adapt and future-proof has never...

Converged networks ease bandwidth burden

Network operators who use converged IP and optical transport technologies can significantly ease the burden being placed on their infrastructure by demands for capacity caused by the explosion of bandwidth-hungry applications. A study by Bell Labs, the industrial...

Deploying networks in municipalities

Following a recent string of legal battles between municipalities and several telecommunications companies, most notably the judgement of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in favour of Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) over the Msunduzi municipality, a number of companies are...

Building the 5G networks of the future

Kathy Gibson reports from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – It is hoped that 5G will become a reality as soon as 2020, and Ericsson is already well on its way to making the next-generation network infrastructure a reality. Dr Sara Mazur, head of...

Cyberoam updates network security

Cyberoam, a leading global provider of network security solutions, announced a major update to its CyberoamOS network security operating system, which forms the basis for all of Cyberoam’s integrated security solutions – Cyberoam Next-Generation Firewalls and UTM...