Closed Loop Automation

The power of real-time capabilities for communication service providers
A colleague of mine recently alerted me to a white paper she read about the competitive advantage of real-time. The concept of “real-time” remains a hot topic, and I can appreciate the ...

Can network congestion ever, really, truly be managed?
Network congestion continues to be an ongoing problem for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) all over the world. The situation was made all too clear recently with the release of Squid Game, Netflix’s ...

Facebook Outage – It’s all about the Pipes
In case anyone needed to be reminded, yesterday’s dramatic Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram outage drove home, once again, how dependent we have all become on ubiquitous connectivity and our favorite applications and online services. But ...

The surprising things mobile network operators are saying about 5G & QoE
We recently completed some research to better understand CSP attitudes toward Quality of Experience (QoE) and congestion management on 5G networks. As part of the study, independent market research agency Coleman Parkes ...

DDoS attacks and 5G: everything you need to know
Cybersecurity geeks may already know this historical tidbit… The first DDoS attack occurred back in 1999, when a computer at the University of Minnesota suddenly came under attack from a network of ...

The top trends CSPs and enterprises will face in 2021 and beyond
Like most everyone else, our way of working has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, one thing that can’t be stopped, even if it may have been slowed, is the ...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 canceled – here’s what to do instead
(written with Dan Bloom) What is the Mobile World Congress? For years, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) has been the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry. In 2019, the annual communications ...

Quality of Experience – How machine learning, net neutrality, and 5G relate to QoE
Around the world, an enormous amount of money is being spent on bandwidth and network equipment as communications service providers (CSPs) strive to deliver optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) across a range ...

DNS Attack on Yandex – Can It Happen to You?
Last week, Russian media was hit with news about massive DNS (Domain Name System) attacks on Yandex, the country’s biggest technology company and local giant of internet search – essentially, the Google ...

Closed-Loop Automation: What it means for CSPs | Allot
Where is Your CSP on the Closed Loop Automation Journey? Automation in telecom is not new. But it has evolved. Initially, it was about being more efficient at solving well-defined problems – ...