The real challenge to 5G deployments will be local.

The first month of 2021 has set the stage for what will be a dynamic re-shaping of the RAN ecosystem over the rest of the year.

Wishful 5G thinking doesn’t even register at a time when most of us are just trying to survive and look forward to better days.

NFV and SDN: What's the Difference?

Ongoing coronavirus concerns are just too much to overlook at this point.

Rich Communications Service still hasn’t arrived and I doubt it will ever become the standard mode of messaging that operators envision.

5G may be the most over-hyped technology advancement in the history of telecommunications but the same will also be true for 6G, whenever that comes around.

The public-cloud moves are significant as they continue what has been an ongoing cloud rethink by AT&T.

The telecom industry is more exciting than it’s been for years, and 5G is a big reason for that. But the collective aspirations of executives driving this leap in

The OpenStack Foundation needs to keep pushing innovation because the rest of the ecosystem is not letting up.

5G was by far the biggest talking point at this year's MWC Barcelona event but Huawei did give it a run for its money.

We here at SDxCentral are also interested in hearing more about the importance of software, network infrastructure, and security in support of that 5G future.

The data center server vendor made several smart partnerships around HCI and cloud last year, and now it’s moving into edge and IoT.

AT&T's launch of 5G services this week has taken the level of competition and snipping to a glorious new level showing that we are truly now entering the golden

MEC is an idea whose time has come. And for mobile operators, advertisers, and OTT providers, it's also an idea that can't come soon enough.

If IBM does what it says it’s going to do with the assets, then it becomes a more formidable competitor against Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

The widespread deployment of cloud infrastructure has led IT teams to demand freedom of choice, but that might not always be what’s best for the organization as a whole.

Having your SD-WAN delivered as-a-service helps simply the network and free up IT resources to focus on growth generating opportunities.

Cloud-native architectures are already impacting data science, IoT, and other areas and will provide both the threat of being disrupted and the opportunity for innovation.

In the rush to capitalize on NFV many operators have focused purely on the NFV orchestration, but as they move from trials to production, one key piece is missing

For a server to be truly dispensable, it should be able to be shut down at will or fail without any noticeable end-user impact.

Moving the security perimeter into the cloud helps companies that are struggling with the budget and talent needed to keep security in-house.

Monolithic compact DCI boxes are like a race car. But why buy a high-performance race car when all you really need is a flexible, rock-solid daily driver?

I lived through the 3G and 4G hype but I don’t remember the breadth of hype being quite as insane as it is for 5G.