Every telecom system is bursting with information about subscribers, services and devices—not to mention the telco's network equipment and operational status. This data is both sensitive and necessary ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

A communications network that transmits data. Essentially all networks are data networks, including local area networks (LANs), public and private wide area networks (WANs) and the Internet, the ...

Monitoring the right things in your network and making them visible in dashboards can make the difference between proactive and reactive responses to network problems. I recently wrote about using log ...

Uptime Institute’s 7th annual outage report reveals networking issues, the challenges of infrastructure complexity, and configuration-related mishaps impact data center reliability. Power-related ...

Skills shortages remain the biggest barrier to infrastructure modernization initiatives. In-demand areas include AI, automation, infrastructure management, and network security. Many enterprise IT ...

The data center network has reached a critical point. As companies race to build massive XPU clusters for AI, traditional ...