We live in an era marked by significant market disruptions and rising uncertainty. As organizations and decision-makers grapple with unprecedented economic, social, and technological changes, our Global Service Providers are at the forefront of digitization and network transformation. They are faced with challenges that have ballooned more quickly than many were prepared for due to the Covid-19 pandemic, such as: increasing consumer demand for innovative and seamless experiences with little to no latency or downtime,…

“The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind. The right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right; it must be considered in relation to its function in society and be balanced against other fundamental rights, in accordance with the principle of proportionality.” ~ EU General Data Protection Regulation, Recital 4. Believe it or not, this is a direct quote from the GDPR. Unfortunately, we’ve seen privacy rights abused…

In collaboration with the national research and engineering network Internet2, Cisco is pleased to announce the completed transition of Internet2’s research and education (R&E) network traffic to a fifth-generation backbone. The new network, supported by Cisco solutions, delivers massive scale with lower CapEx, OpEx, and power draw, helping to accelerate research as it connects 37 state and regional networks throughout the United States. 4X increase in performance Cisco’s collaboration with Internet2 drives tremendous technical achievements,…

5G deployments are proceeding around the country, albeit more slowly, after a partial agreement between the FCC and the FAA about the potential danger of 5G transmissions generated too strong and too close to airports on bandwidths adjacent to the spectrum used by airplane altimeters. President Biden announced that Verizon and AT&T had agreed to slow deployments of 5G around major airports after consultation with the Department of Transportation, in order to assuage concerns over…

Dell Technologies is charging ahead with its Apex consumption-based sales portfolio with a total of seven new launches, while also expanding its public cloud integration for a broader multi-cloud experience for its customers. Dell sees the writing on the wall and that the future is hybrid and multicloud. Today, 92% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy in place or underway, and 82% of large enterprises have adopted a hybrid cloud infrastructure. And a new Forrester…

The FCC has named 44 people to a technological advisory council tasked with exploring the possibilities of 6G wireless connectivity, a large proportion of the council’s members being drawn from the ranks of the country’s biggest networking-technology corporations. The chair of the committee will be a former Qualcomm executive, Dean Brenner. Intel, Cisco, Comcast, Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, and all of the major mobile operators are also represented on the commission’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC). Also…