February 2020

Active Electrical Cables (AEC) Becoming an Important Part of Data Center Architectures

Cloud providers are rapidly evolving their network topology architectures as they move towards 400 Gbps and beyond.  One trend resonating across the industry is the move towards CLOS switch rack or Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) topologies and the use of copper above the server access layer. However, the distances DAC… Read More »Active Electrical Cables (AEC) Becoming an Important Part of Data Center Architectures

Cisco’s many MWC announcements include a system to unify WiFi, LTE, CBRS, 5G called Unified Domain Center

We review the new announcements Cisco made public for the now-cancelled MWC20 show, and they are:  BNG on unified control plane, Unified Domain Center-to-DNA Center interoperation, IoT Control Center, SP Services Edge (CDN), new Open RAN partners, NCS 540 router with CPRI support, and Crosswork automation platform.  Since MWC is… Read More »Cisco’s many MWC announcements include a system to unify WiFi, LTE, CBRS, 5G called Unified Domain Center

Qualcomm MWC20 announcements include Updates on 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and mmWave

Qualcomm made many wireless-related announcements today from its San Diego, CA headquarters, in place of making a presentation at #MWC20 in Barcelona.  Top announcements included its FSM100xx 5G small cell chips customer announcements, RF-chip availability, Wi-Fi 6E demonstrations, and 5G smartphone customer announcements. ​ FSM100xx 5G RAN endorsements.  Qualcomm announced… Read More »Qualcomm MWC20 announcements include Updates on 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and mmWave

Wi-Fi 6E in 2020

We expect that Wi-Fi 6E products to hit the market as soon as 3Q20 in the US and by 4Q20 in Europe.  The appeal of these new 802.11ax products is that they operate not just in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, as 802.11ac products have, but now add 6 GHz… Read More »Wi-Fi 6E in 2020