In this Ciena podcast episode recorded in Feb 2020, 5G Americas’ Chris Pearson and Ciena’s

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The age of the smart machine being smartly connected is here. Those words may seem cliché by now, but it’s true. We are entering an amazing time in history when not just people, but things are becoming intelligent. Artificial Intelligence is no longer relegated to the tall towers of the

5G is touted as a game changer in the world of mobile communication. Technology experts say its performance benefits and industry use cases will be unparalleled. As business owners consider upgrades to their networks and devices, they’re asking: is 5G going to be worth the hype? Chris Pearson, president of

By Chris Pearson, President, 5G Americas In the world of wireless telecommunications, there is perhaps nothing so shrouded in mystery and complexity than when introducing cloud native concepts. We are an industry that is undergoing a profound digital transformation that is introducing massive changes to our ability to scale our

Chris Pearson, President, 5G Americas | November 2019 A few weeks ago, when I was at Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles, I overheard more than one industry analyst observe that 5G is at the top of the “Hype Cycle”. The implication was that the cellular wireless industry had revved up marketing to such a degree

Service Enablement and Assurance are key to revenues By Sue Rudd, Strategy Analytics Overview After years of work on standards and process evolution, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) can now begin toleverage 5G management, orchestration and automation to enable new services and assure their quality in minutes not weeks or months.

By Chris Pearson, President, 5G Americas Mobile networks are on the cusp of riding a tsunami of data, which will be exploding as more 5G networks are deployed throughout the Americas and the world. The latest 5G Americas white paper Management, Orchestration, and Automation, provides an interesting view into what

By Chris Pearson, President, 5G Americas You hear a lot lately about how AI is going to automate jobs, by some estimates up to 29% of jobs by the year 2030. Scary thought. But you may also be aware machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) could also provide some

By Monica Paolini, Principal, Senza Fili Against the grain, let me start with the conclusion: AI will both create new vulnerabilities and become a powerful tool to fight security threats, and the challenge is to integrate AI carefully to avoid the first and benefit from the second. Security has always

By Eddie Hold, NPD Group “Focusing on a wired growth plan is not the best approach for providing broadband service in rural markets” While much of the media buzz about 5G is focused on the wireless technology’s potential speed, there’s a more fundamental benefit that 5G will bring to the

By Iain Gillott, President, iGR Edge computing (EC) – and there are several different versions/approaches – emerged on the wireless industry stage several years ago. It has the potential to be as disruptive a technology as anything that is being discussed today – 5G New Radio, NFV/SDN, C-RAN, etc. In