For nearly five years, SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) has been successfully adopted by ever more enterprises to connect to branchoffices via virtual private networks (VPNs) over the internet, saving

SmartNICs, as you might imagine, are network interface cards (NICs) with a brain. This brain can be a CPU, FPGA, or ASIC chip, but whatever the case, it allows the

When Ethernity announced its 5G DU Aggregation and vRouter solution in October 2020, we knew it was a gamechanger for the Open RAN market.  It offered Open RAN network builders the ability

The 3GPP 5G specifications have been evolving in stages into the new CUPS (control and user plane separation) architecture which is fundamental for 5G. The Serving Gateway (SGW) and PDN

Communications service providers (CommSPs) are growing more confident in the ability of network functions virtualization (NFV) to deliver carrier-grade voice and data services. This is thanks to the maturing NFV

Traditionally, monolithic network deployments have incorporated a base station at the cell tower, which has included therein all the necessary data processing to then forward the data on to the

COVID-19 has affected us all over the past year and a half. For some, the hardship has been all too personal. While others have remained healthy, COVID-19 has still changed

As service providers are rapidly upgrade their infrastructure, moving from 1Gbps demarcation to 10G and even 100G connections at the network edge, the cost of laying new fiber to handle

It seems all we hear about these days is 5G. However, the changeover to 5G networks will not happen overnight. It is a long, involved process that includes operators replacing