North America I 2014
Nicholas Ilyadis
VP and CTO, Infrastructure & Networking Group (ING) Broadcom Corporation
Moving on with mobile the challenge of success
DELIVER THE BEST EXPERIENCE ON EVERY PHONE, TABLET AND GADGET (EVEN ONES THAT HAVEN’T BEEN INVENTED YET). Mobile customers get savvier—and more demanding—every day. So the network has never mattered more. With device numbers set to nearly double in four years, Cisco is helping carriers offer better plans, more services and, always, a top-tier experience. The Cisco® Intelligent Network masters any device, anywhere, anytime. Regardless of operating system, communications standard, apps or hardware. Now, offering customers more is an easy call. Use the device of your choice to learn more at cisco.com/go/yourway
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CONTENTS Size, Spectrum, Speed and No Latency
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Tomorrow’s telecom: Preparing for a 5G World
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Balancing security and speed in LTE: Can vendors keep pace?
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by Lauri Oksanen, VP, Research and Technology, Nokia Solutions and Networks by Vikash Varma, President & CEO, Stoke, Inc.
Relentless Growth: Video, VoLTE and IoT
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Enabling the smarthome: Networks in the Zettabyte Era
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Mobile video in the Zettabyte Era
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The Cloud crushes the barriers to true OTT TV Everywhere
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by Todd Antes, VP, Product Management Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. by Chris Goswami, VP of Marketing, Openwave Mobility
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by Louis C. Schwartz, CEO, UUX
SDN, NFV and Cloud - Culprits or Saviours?
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Five key trends for network transformation in the Zettabyte era
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Innovation for a new era of information technology
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by Nicholas Ilyadis, VP and CTO, Infrastructure & Networking Group (ING), Broadcom Corporation
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by Ariel Efrati, CEO, Telco Systems, and COO, BATM Advanced Communications
Boosting the Transport Network
Captains of disruption in the telecom world: Carrier Ethernet by Paul Pierron, CEO, FiberLight, LLC.
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ZetaMan 24 by Cheri Beranek, President and CEO, Clearfield, Inc.
Optical wireless broadband: The need for bandwidth in the Zettabyte era by Gerardo Gonzalez, President and CEO, Skyfiber
Connections
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Managing Zettabyte Capacity and Performance
From the Editor-in-Chief’s desk
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Improve performance management while increasing network data 29
Imprint
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Mastering virtualization challenges
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Feeding the two-headed broadband monster: Scaling the Internet’s foundation to keep pace with demand
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by Rebecca Copeland
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by Anand Gonuguntla, President & CEO, Centina Systems
by Alastair Waite, Head of Enterprise Data Centre Business, EMEA, TE Connectivity
by Geoff Bennett, Director of Solutions & Technology, Infinera
Fast Data and Asset Analytics Big Data in the Zettabyte Era
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Explosive growth of network data: Are operators ready to control their network CAPEX?
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by Mike Hummel, Co-founder and CEO, ParStream
by Vinod Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, Subex
CONNECTIONS Managing the Data Crisis
