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Getting Ready For A Trillion-Dollar Economy

Communication service is key to unlocking the potential of the digital economy. Are the service providers ready with the technology and platform needed to achieve this?

Crisis, Corona And Beyond

While the pandemic forced organizations to go digital in a big way and the TSPs emerged as the key enablers, the new normal will be more virtual, dynamic and telecom-driven

Dusting The Pandemic Off

Adapting well and in time has been, and remains, the strongest hint of business survival. Is that what the semiconductor industry would be doing as it crawls out of the pandemic-hole?

Resilient, distributed enterprises

COVID has proved that technology can be leveraged to ensure business continuity even in extreme circumstances. It’s time for organizations to re-imagine infrastructure

Rise of the mobile ecosystem

The mobile is already an extension of one’s personality and COVIDdriven new normal has taken mobile apps to the next level. Here is what to expect in the post-pandemic world

Marriages on the card for Indian telcos

With India’s digital space becoming competitive by the day, telcos are emerging as exciting options for global investors, and RJio is not the only one attracting suitors

“Indian telcos need to address ever-increasing levels of data traffic”

Communication service providers around the world recognize the need for immediate action on AI and automation in their operations.

INTERMEDIARY MATTERS

Trump’s order to prevent censorship by social media platforms has highlighted the fault line that always existed. Is it time for India to strengthen its legal provisions as well?

How fast, furious, and fictile?

Amidst a slew of controversies and projections, 5G also stares at a new pocket of applications that could shape its real inflection point. Is this pocket well-lined?

COVID renews focus on secure mobility management strategy

If work from anywhere, anytime, and any device is exposing your business to bigger security risk, it’s time to get the EMM and UEM strategy right

Getting Ready For A Digital Identity Era

The 5G rollout will enable world to harness mobile-based security and authentication in a big way, paving way for elimination of paper-based processes

For Digital India, Kick-Start 5G Rollout After Covid

The government should overcome revenue loss arguments and provide 100 MHz of 5G spectrum to all existing operators at no cost, with clear rollout conditions and targets

Scaling Up Network In Post-Covid World

A vendor-neutral hardware and software-defined, open-interface technology is what the industry needs to meet the growing demand for broadband in the lockdown times

“Meeting bombing is an end-user behaviour pattern”

COVID-19 crisis has turned out to be a game-changer for many companies. While some companies have seen their business model tumble, few others, including the collaboration and communication solution and service providers have seen their numbers swelling. The one that leads the pack is Zoom, whose number of average per day users grew from 10 million in December 2019 to 300 million by April 2020. This, despite some major security gaps and concern about some Zoom calls being routed through data centers in China. In a video-call with Shubhendu Parth, Zoom Video Communications India head Sameer Rajeev talks about the security issues, its 90-day plans to plug these, Keybase acquisition, and the Version 5.0.

Mobile-first today!

The pandemic has demonstrated the role of telecommunication in an economy and going ahead “mobile-first” will dominate organization’s growth strategy

THE WIRES UNTANGLE SOME MORE

Cloud-centric workloads, application-led working styles; how long could WAN stay away from the software-ization switch? Let’s see if all nails have come off or not

Riding a tension-free, resilient, flexible network

For the joint-venture insurance company, establishing centralized and secure connectivity for branches was a challenge. The solution it adopted was software-defined wide area network

Extending security infrastructure to work-from-home

Existing security tools may serve well to protect the remote-working environment, but they need to be configured to deal with the new realities and threats. Read to find out how

Time for ‘Make in India' to go stronger

The lockdown is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity to strengthen mobile phone manufacturing and making the country a global supply chain hub for electronics

Building democratized networks

The lockdown has led to a surge in data usage. Here is what TSPs can do to improve their legacy networks so that it can better cope up with the ever-increasing demand

Enabling Remote-Working During Covid-19 Times

Zoom, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and Webex are most used collaboration and conferencing tools during lockdown in India

“Hughes as an entity is everybody's friend”

Satellite is an important layer in the enterprise networks across all sectors—from retail to petroleum to banking and military. With the explosive growth in cloud and rich-media applications deployed at branches, distributed enterprises are seeking next-generation WAN architectures that can deliver non-stop application availability, cutting-edge security environment and higher performance. Leveraging over 20 years of its experience in providing business solutions, Hughes Communications India (HCIL) is rapidly building on its enterprise offerings to provide Managed Network Services to Indian and global customers. The company’s Sr. Vice President for Enterprise Shivaji Chatterjee in an interaction with Anusha Ashwin talks about the satellite broadband industry and how it is driving the WAN services, and LTE MPLS technology.

Stressed, stretched, and supporting

Despite the financial tangle and the lockdown to deal with COVID-19, the telecom industry is leading from the front, keeping India connected and working

Industrial digitization is driving demand for private networks

Public safety, utilities, oil and gas, and railways are the top industry segments driving the need of private networks globally

IESA recommends ISRO-style commission for electronics sector

India needs to enhance its design capabilities and nurture it beyond the existing few cities. It also needs to incentivize the sector more to become a global hub

Efficient monitoring 5G networks

Integration of dynamic device components is a critical component of 5G network efficiency monitoring and optimization. Here is a list of Do’s and Don’ts

Driving unlimited possibilities

With increased adoption of voice technology, search behaviour among users is likely to undergo a massive change. This will help organizations further individualize consumer experiences

Vodafone registered nearly one year of traffic growth in first week of lockdown

As India moves towards the second phase of nation-wide lockdown, the increased demand for the internet seems to have stabilized after the sudden surge—over 45%— during the first week beginning 25 March 2020, when the whole country started working from home and education went nearly 100% online. According to industry sources, the data traffic of the three private-sector players jumped from 250 petabytes per day in December 2019 to nearly 365 petabytes per day end of March 2020. This has kept the telcos and their technology heads on their toes and Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) CTO Vishant Vora is no exception. In an email interview with Shubhendu Parth, he shared details of the initiatives taken by VIL in ensuring uninterrupted voice and data services, and how its investments in cutting-edge technologies helped in meeting the surge in demand.

COLLABORATED WE STAND

While we had the technology to create a mesh of remote workers, COVID-19 pushed its adoption at an unprecedented scale. Here is how companies in India are dealing with it

Business continuity amidst work-from-home

Being FY closing, it was critical that all departments at Apollo Tyres were able to work together seamlessly. It was also important to ensure that the company continued to service its partners without disruption