August 3, 2022

Top 5 Requirements for Service Assurance in 5G Private Networks

Private 5G networks are about to be the hottest game in town- with an expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 47.5% from 2022 to 2030. These are like public networks in many ways, but instead of sharing resources and bandwidth with others, these are dedicated networks purpose-built by, or for, businesses or organizations. The benefit is that they gain full control and ownership to help guarantee availability, security, and performance.
July 28, 2022

The SBC your New Strategic Cloud Friend

Before the cloud, you probably used Session Border Controllers as a bit of useful, but non-mission-critical bit of on-prem network equipment. After all, it was (and is) designed to secure Voice over IP infrastructure and interworking between incompatible signaling messages and sessions from end devices or application servers.
July 14, 2022

Fixed Wireless Access – Service Assurance For Consumers

FWA is booming. Consumers are quickly swapping out their fixed lines for mobile access to get high speed internet. 4G started the trend, and 5G will accelerate it. But are consumers really prepared for the unpredictability that can come from mobile networks?
July 12, 2022

EspialTV Legacy STBs

How best to support legacy STBs? Its simple; as an operator you have to invest and deployed 1, 10, 100 thousand STBs and as you evolve your TV solution you want to reuse this investment. The good news is that there is almost always a technical solution for this.
June 9, 2022

Will Electricity Providers be Powering Rural America’s Broadband?

Access to fixed broadband promotes higher property values while increasing job, business, and population growth. However, data shows that broadband access is more widely available in densely populated urban areas, leaving more sparsely populated rural environments on the wrong side of the digital divide.
May 24, 2022

Next Generation TV Services for Commercial Customers

Most operators offer services to bulk and commercial customers today. Customers in this category can range from universities, bars/restaurants, lobbies, hotels, residential communities, new developments to gyms, mining camps, military, and prisons. This type of business can be very important as it usually involves multiple endpoints per sale and contract terms are often 3-5 years.