Archives for 2019

Whenever 5G is mentioned, the conversation seems to inevitably shift to 5GNR (New Radio) as the driver for the diverse use cases that will come. Meanwhile, all those 5G core innovations are pushed to the margins, with maybe a mention of network slicing. These same pundits like to tell people that 5G is still years […]

The iPhone 11 was released on September 20th, 2019. Take a look at it 1, and you’ll quickly notice the extra camera and the lower price tag. What you won’t see is any mention of native support for 5G. The new iPhone doesn’t have it. If you’re looking for the seeds of a 5G revolution, […]

5G has a need for speed, and just down the road is a host of new 5G services that will demand higher network performance, from augmented/virtual reality applications to connected cars. Where will that extra performance come from? There are two paths that mobile operators can take to boost network performance: they can upgrade and/or […]

As interest in 5G continues to heat up, you’re likely to hear a lot more about 5G security. You may not, however, be hearing the whole story. Most conversations around 5G security centers on the standards put forward by 3GPP last year. Those standards are a good starting point, don’t get me wrong, but they’re […]

They did it again. Another company has taken their old software, cleaned it up a little for deployment in the cloud, and called it cloud-native. We call it cloud-washing. Like the “green-washing” of old, where companies would make claims of environmentally friendly products and practices when, in fact, little had changed from the past, cloud-washing is […]