Tag: coronavirus

December 23, 2022

This report provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global data center accelerator market. The global data center accelerator market is expected to grow from $11.00 billion in 2021 to $14.36 billion […]

August 24, 2020

With millions of students depending on Zoom for online learning, the company was hit by a partial outage Monday morning. Zoom Video Conferencing said it was fixing a bug that prevented some U.S. and U.K. users from logging into their […]

June 22, 2020

U.S. fixed and mobile networks out-performed their European counterparts during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. The Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business released a paper detailing how broadband networks held up […]

June 11, 2020

During the first 90s days of the coronavirus pandemic, Verizon maintained its pre-COVID-19 reliability levels despite spikes and shifts in demand. As millions of employees moved to work-from-home (WFH), which included Verizon shifting 115,000 of its 135,000 employees to WFH, […]

June 9, 2020

Nokia Deepfield’s latest report finds that as cities and states are starting to re-open, network traffic has started to stabilize. In its June 4, update, Nokia Deepfield found that peak network traffic has normalized at 25% to 30% above pre-COVID-19 […]

June 8, 2020

Concerns about the possibility of Saturday’s Global 5G Protest Day bringing out anarchists bent upon setting fire to cell tower sites or vandalizing them in other manners were well-founded but failed to materialize this weekend. Picked up by major news […]

June 1, 2020

After posting a triple-digit revenue increase last year, the growth outlook for carrier managed SD-WAN has been lowered by 17%, according to a report. According to research by Vertical Systems Group, the corornavirus pandemic was the primary factor for lowering […]

May 29, 2020

With millions of employees now working from home, service providers are looking for ways to offer more secure, manageable services into those home offices. SD-WAN could emerge as a prime technology that better enables work-from-home (WFH) and work-from-anywhere (WFA) scenarios […]

May 18, 2020

The nation’s telecommunications companies are being warned by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that extremists, fueled by a conspiracy theory linking 5G cellular networks and the coronavirus, may escalate attacks against employees and infrastructure. “We assess conspiracy theories linking […]

May 18, 2020

Change is in the air for the telecommunications sector as vendors and service providers grapple with the fallout from COVID-19. While it may be too soon to carve all of the changes into granite, it does seem as though the […]

May 13, 2020

Self-proclaimed announcements of being a disruptor in the telecommunications industry have almost become table stakes for new entrants, but Dispersive Networks could live up to that billing. While Dispersive’s distributed networking technology has various use cases, it has drawn a […]

May 5, 2020

AT&T has not only weathered the networking storm of the coronavirus pandemic, it has also stayed on track for some of this year’s biggest goals. AT&T’s Scott Mair, president of technology and operations, said in a Tuesday blog that 2020 […]

April 30, 2020

American Tower Corporation reported steady financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, emphasizing how the company is responding to the ever-changing coronavirus landscape. Tom Bartlett, American Tower’s Chief Executive Officer, stated, “Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 […]

April 23, 2020

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, while discussing the carrier’s Q1 earnings with analysts yesterday said the company is still building FirstNet and enhancing their 5G network’s density, but he echoed the general concern of all carriers, their inability to get timely […]

April 16, 2020

Businesses have been scrambling over the past month to align their enterprise operations to the new remote working environments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some are still playing catch-up, many are already looking ahead to what comes after the […]

April 14, 2020

According to a Tuesday 8K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Charter Communications added 119,000 new internet subscribers last month. Charter is offering free internet access for 60 days during the coronavirus pandemic, so it remains to be seen […]

April 13, 2020

While AT&T’s core network traffic is still above its baseline levels, the increases actually dropped a bit last week. AT&T’s core network traffic, which includes business, home broadband and wireless usage, went from a 26% increase—compared to a similar day […]

April 13, 2020

CenturyLink’s decision to build adaptive networks is paying off during the coronavirus pandemic. CenturyLink uses “adaptive networks” to describe its software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization-based networks. Laurinda Pang, CenturyLink’s president of international and global accounts management, cited her […]

April 7, 2020

Verizon Business has ramped up its efforts to keep its global enterprise customers up and running during the COVID-19 pandemic. While Verizon’s network has been up to the task of serving entire work forces conducting business out of their homes, […]

April 6, 2020

United Kingdom wireless operators and government officials strongly condemned acts of violence by individuals incorrectly linking 5G to COVID-19 after vandals set fire to at least five cell sites, the very infrastructure that is keeping people connected and safe during […]