Guest blog post by Andy Jones Last week I spent a couple of days at BT Innovation Week - a yearly event in which the UK operator showcases its latest communication research and innovations. Throughout the week, crowds of BT executives & staff, BT's carrier and enterprise customers (including all the UK mobile network operators), [...]
As AWS GreenGrass launch partners, we just announced Saguna’s support for AWS GreenGrass (read our press release here). Here is why we believe this is a ‘big deal’ for mobile operators and IoT application developers. Mobile Operators take part in the action With AWS GreenGrass running on Saguna Open-RAN MEC platform, mobile operators can extend [...]
With the evolution of mobile technology generations, we have seen a sharp increase in speed. Today’s 4G LTE networks are more than 100 times faster on average than 2G networks and 10 times faster than 3G networks according to Open Signal. Looking forward to 5G networks, the goal is clear. We intend to keep increasing [...]
At Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Congress 2016, ETSI will host the first ever MEC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) zone. Here is why this is important for MEC and the mobile industry. Each MEC PoC brings together a mobile operator and one or more industry vendors. Together, each group focuses on creating an integrated use case and demonstrating [...]
In case you missed it, Pokémon Go, developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices, is a free mobile game that allows players to capture, battle and train virtual Pokémon that appear throughout the real world. The game uses your phone’s GPS and clock to detect where and when you are in the game and make [...]
From Jan 30 to Feb 2 2016, Telecom Austria’s mobile infrastructure was subjected to a DDoS attack. The attack affected subscribers of Telekom and spanned its 2G, 3G and 4G networks. Denial of service (DoS) is a common type of cyber-attack. As the name implies, the attack renders online resources and communication services unavailable to [...]
60. Is the number of companies who are now members in the ETSI group standardizing Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). That number alone says a lot about the strong position of MEC, and what we can expect to see as 2016 unfolds. As more member companies join ETSI, MEC moves from the initial architecture and definitions phase [...]
The idea behind Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is to bring computational power and storage to the Radio Access Network (RAN), as close as possible to the mobile user and the IoT device. With MEC, mobile networks can provide low-latency and high bandwidth to content, applications and services. In this post, we will take a tour [...]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest trends in communications today. This makes sense since IoT is a broad term used to describe the connectivity of individual elements in our environment in order to improve the way we live, shop, work, drive, and more. While IoT addresses numerous aspects of life, in [...]
As a product guy working in a company focused on Mobile Edge Computing, I wondered how the 1st ever Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) congress will reflect industry views about MEC. I was excited to see multiple viewpoints about MEC coming from operators, vendors, standardization groups and the academia presented during the 2-day MEC congress. There [...]