Overwhelming: Connected everything

Smart Chimps, May 2016

IoT clearly presents mobile operators with huge potential for market growth, and with the phenomenon giving the end user a greater control of their connected devices from their handset than ever before, there’s a clear demand from both sides for it to work.

However, if this tech revolution is to truly take off and its full capabilities are to be fully realised, IoT developers and mobile operators must first conquer the key issues which may prevent it reaching its full potential. In particular, in the telecom world, network capacity should be viewed as the biggest concern.

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SDN and NFV in 2016

Capacity, March 2016

There are voices that argue that for moderation in place of unseemly haste if this future is to be reached bloodlessly. Robin Kent, director of European operations at vendor Adax, believes that in the headlong rush to virtualise, assumptions are often made than software is where all emphasis should go at the expense of hardware elements: “To prove successful, NFV can only occur when there is architecture in place for both hardware and software,” he warns. “Getting away from proprietary hardware is good, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.”

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Edge flows, test flows and IoT Security

The Mobile Network, March 2016

MWC16, the week that was…

IoT was a massive topic at MWC in general, but one particular aspect was being highlighted by signalling platform provider Adax. Adax’s Robin Kent is concerned that the sheer volume of connections, and their often inherently chatty nature (think a connected car app) will overwhelm the security and transport architecture inherent in current mobile signalling.

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