Jeff Burt

Traffic on the world’s already busy mobile networks will become even more congested over the next five years, according to Cisco Systems. According to the giant networking technology vendor, by 2020, there will be 5.5 billion mobile users—about 70 percent of the expected worldwide population—using 8.5 billion mobile devices. Add in the growth of 4G […]

Chip makers Intel and Qualcomm are competitors in a growing number of industry segments, from mobile devices and the Internet of things to—eventually—data center systems. However, the two companies are partnering to drive interoperability, availability and adoption in the next phase of WiFi wireless connectivity. Engineers with Intel and Qualcomm’s Atheros unit have been working […]

Cisco Systems won a round in its ongoing legal dispute with Arista Networks when a regulatory agency ruled that the smaller rival had violated three of Cisco’s patents. An administrative judge with the International Trade Commission (ITC) on Feb.- 2 backed Cisco’s assertion that Arista had infringed on the patents in the development of its […]

The collaboration market continues its rapid expansion into the cloud. Vendors RingCentral and Pexip are introducing new unified communications (UC) offerings that leverage the cloud to make it easier for businesses to enable their employees to connect from anywhere and to scale their environments as needed. RingCentral officials on Feb. 2 rolled out RingCentral Global […]

Advanced Micro Devices is continuing a steady drumbeat of product releases as officials look to make the chip maker a larger player in everything from high-end gaming PCs and virtual desktops to cloud computing. The company on Feb. 1 unveiled virtualized graphics cards that can be housed in data center servers and delivered as needed […]

Software-defined networking and other network virtualization technologies continue to move beyond the hype phase as more end users launch deployments and more vendors roll out more offerings, according to a new survey looking at the space. Thirty-nine percent of survey respondents said they are either currently using software-defined networking (SDN) in their environments or will […]

Federal regulators have taken a significant step in the increasingly heated debate about allowing smartphones and other mobile devices to use unlicensed spectrum normally used by WiFi and other unlicensed services by enabling Qualcomm and Verizon to conduct more tests of LTE-U equipment. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is giving Qualcomm and Verizon permission to […]

PTC Demonstrates Augmented Reality for the Enterprise PTC sees augmented reality making a huge impact in the enterprise. Here’s a look at the strides PTC has made in AR that it showed off at a recent event. Leading the Charge PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann said the real future for augmented reality (AR) is in business. […]

The key architect behind some of the more successful processors for Advanced Micro Devices and Apple will now head up the self-driving automobile efforts at electric car maker Tesla. Jim Keller, who left AMD in September 2015 after his second stint at the chip vendor, will be vice president of Tesla’s Autopilot Hardware Engineering unit, […]

Augmented reality has been primarily a consumer technology in these early days of its development, finding its way into video games and marketing efforts, and into some early products like Google Glass. However, Jim Heppelmann, CEO of software maker PTC, believes it is in the enterprise that augmented reality (AR) will have its most significant […]

Mitel officials are continuing to expand the collaboration company’s mobile capabilities with the introduction of a series of new products and services that fall in line with their contention that the communications industry is rapidly becoming more mobile and cloud-based. At its Mitel Next event this week in Germany, Mitel unveiled hosted voice services for […]

Aryaka and Talari Networks this week introduced new offerings in their software-defined WAN portfolios, the latest examples in a market that is continuing to see an influx of products, money, competitors and customer interest. At the NFV & DN Expo Jan. 27, Aryaka officials unveiled SD-WAN Ultra, a cloud-based service that is designed to address […]