The mobile broadband industry’s rapid migration to LTE has opened the door to malicious and non-malicious threats as a result of fundamental vulnerabilities in the all-IP LTE architecture. Consequently, security must be a foundational element of LTE network deployments. As the adoption of IPsec encryption for transporting LTE traffic continues to grow significantly, there is increasing need for a security gateway. This white paper discusses the evolving threat landscape, the economics and performance requirements of security solutions, and the role of the security gateway in LTE networks as subscribers ramp up by the millions every quarter and VoLTE services start to emerge.
A Review of Low Power Wide Area Technology in Licensed and Unlicensed Spectru...journalBEEI
There are many platforms in licensed and license free spectrum that support LPWA (low power wide area) technology in the current markets. However, lack of standardization of the different platforms can be a challenge for an interoperable IoT environment. Therefore understanding the features of each technology platform is essential to be able to differentiate how the technology can be matched to a specific IoT application profile. This paper provides an analysis of LPWA underlying technology in licensed and unlicensed spectrum by means of literature review and comparative assessment of Sigfox, LoRa, NB-IoT and LTE-M. We review their technical aspect and discussed the pros and cons in terms of their technical and other deployment features. General IoT application requirements is also presented and linked to the deployment factors to give an insight of how different applications profiles is associated to the right technology platform, thus provide a simple guideline on how to match a specific application profile with the best fit connectivity features.
After the read, you will learn the characteristics of the 6 wireless protocols IEEE protocols: LoRa, NB-IoT, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE, WiMax.
In the field of IoT, a wide range of communication technologies wireless protocols exist simultaneously. In terms of transmission distance, there are BLE, WI-FI, ZigBee, sub1G, etc., which are widely used in the context of local wireless networks, such as wearable, home, and enterprise applications.
It’s clear that private LTE networks will play an important role in our connected future. In this paper, we will explore
what private LTE is, its benefits, and where it can best be used.
A Review of Low Power Wide Area Technology in Licensed and Unlicensed Spectru...journalBEEI
There are many platforms in licensed and license free spectrum that support LPWA (low power wide area) technology in the current markets. However, lack of standardization of the different platforms can be a challenge for an interoperable IoT environment. Therefore understanding the features of each technology platform is essential to be able to differentiate how the technology can be matched to a specific IoT application profile. This paper provides an analysis of LPWA underlying technology in licensed and unlicensed spectrum by means of literature review and comparative assessment of Sigfox, LoRa, NB-IoT and LTE-M. We review their technical aspect and discussed the pros and cons in terms of their technical and other deployment features. General IoT application requirements is also presented and linked to the deployment factors to give an insight of how different applications profiles is associated to the right technology platform, thus provide a simple guideline on how to match a specific application profile with the best fit connectivity features.
After the read, you will learn the characteristics of the 6 wireless protocols IEEE protocols: LoRa, NB-IoT, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE, WiMax.
In the field of IoT, a wide range of communication technologies wireless protocols exist simultaneously. In terms of transmission distance, there are BLE, WI-FI, ZigBee, sub1G, etc., which are widely used in the context of local wireless networks, such as wearable, home, and enterprise applications.
It’s clear that private LTE networks will play an important role in our connected future. In this paper, we will explore
what private LTE is, its benefits, and where it can best be used.
This paper clarifies the standards defined around LTE network security by standard development organizations including 3GPP, ITU, ETSI, and industry group NGMN. It also examines the different security borders of the mobile network, and delves deeper into the requirements of the Mobile Access Border - the border between the RAN and the core (S1).
TOWARDS FUTURE 4G MOBILE NETWORKS: A REAL-WORLD IMS TESTBEDijngnjournal
In the near future, current mobile communication networks will converge towards an All-IP network in order to provide richer applications, stronger customer satisfaction, andfurther return on investment for the industry. However, such a convergence induces a strong level of complexity when handling interoperability between different operators and different handset vendors. In this context, the 3GPP consortium is working on the standardization of the convergence, and IMS is emerging as the internationally agreed upon standard that is multi-operator and multi-vendor. In this paper, we shed further light on the subtleties of IMS, and we delineate a blueprint for the implementation of a real-world
IMS testbed. An open source Presence Server is deployed as well. The operation of the IMS testbed and the Presence Server are checked to assess their conformance with 3GPP standards. A simple third party application is developed on top the IMS testbed to further assess its operation.
What is LTE technology?
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a long-term evolution technology of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) technology standard developed by the 3GPP (The 3rd Generation Partnership Project) organization, which was officially established and launched in It was formally established and launched at the 3GPP Toronto meeting in December 2004.
The LTE system introduces key technologies such as OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and MIMO (Multi-Input & Multi-Output).
LTE-M vs NB-IoT technology, who is the mainstream LPWAN technology?
NB-IoT is also known as LTE Cat-NB, and other terms such as LTE Cat- NB1 and Cat N1 also apply to the NB-IoT specification released in 2016. Today, there are also Cat N2 or Cat NB2 devices using the later enhanced NB-IoT specifications, which are now moving towards commercialization. So, what are the results of LTE-M vs NB-IoT?
Below are the 10 comparison results of LTE-M vs NB-IoT.
This paper clarifies the standards defined around LTE network security by standard development organizations including 3GPP, ITU, ETSI, and industry group NGMN. It also examines the different security borders of the mobile network, and delves deeper into the requirements of the Mobile Access Border - the border between the RAN and the core (S1).
TOWARDS FUTURE 4G MOBILE NETWORKS: A REAL-WORLD IMS TESTBEDijngnjournal
In the near future, current mobile communication networks will converge towards an All-IP network in order to provide richer applications, stronger customer satisfaction, andfurther return on investment for the industry. However, such a convergence induces a strong level of complexity when handling interoperability between different operators and different handset vendors. In this context, the 3GPP consortium is working on the standardization of the convergence, and IMS is emerging as the internationally agreed upon standard that is multi-operator and multi-vendor. In this paper, we shed further light on the subtleties of IMS, and we delineate a blueprint for the implementation of a real-world
IMS testbed. An open source Presence Server is deployed as well. The operation of the IMS testbed and the Presence Server are checked to assess their conformance with 3GPP standards. A simple third party application is developed on top the IMS testbed to further assess its operation.
What is LTE technology?
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a long-term evolution technology of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) technology standard developed by the 3GPP (The 3rd Generation Partnership Project) organization, which was officially established and launched in It was formally established and launched at the 3GPP Toronto meeting in December 2004.
The LTE system introduces key technologies such as OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and MIMO (Multi-Input & Multi-Output).
LTE-M vs NB-IoT technology, who is the mainstream LPWAN technology?
NB-IoT is also known as LTE Cat-NB, and other terms such as LTE Cat- NB1 and Cat N1 also apply to the NB-IoT specification released in 2016. Today, there are also Cat N2 or Cat NB2 devices using the later enhanced NB-IoT specifications, which are now moving towards commercialization. So, what are the results of LTE-M vs NB-IoT?
Below are the 10 comparison results of LTE-M vs NB-IoT.
Revision for 2015 from the IMS services & signaling course. The lecture was part of the communication protocols class delivered to students from FIIT STU Bratislava, Slovakia and University Zilina, Slovakia.
The IMS framework on Ericsson Labs is to build Java or Android based mobile applications or RESTful based PC client applications with messaging, presence on top of IMS/SIP.
Lecture notes (summarizing a more extensive lecture) about IMS Signaling. The notes evolved; this is the latest version. This lecture has been presented in 2010 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
DPDK IPSec performance benchmark ~ Georgii TkachukIntel
DPDK IPSec performance benchmark ~ Georgii Tkachuk
IPSec and cryptodev overview and performance numbers by Intel Benchmarking team.
Part of 2 day SDN/NFV/DPDK dev lab
https://www.meetup.com/Out-Of-The-Box-Network-Developers/events/237028223/
Fundarc Communication is working towards next generation network development. we provide consultancy to solution developers OEM and technology evengelist
Best Practices for Network Security Management Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen, Founder & CEO, Skybox Security
Changing technology and business trends pose new challenges to network security management, including firewall change management processes, management of security configurations in a BYOD-world, regulatory compliance, validation of firewall migrations, and troubleshooting access problems to complex networks. Through case studies, survey data, and real-world practices, this session will grant insight into automating and optimizing network security management.
Learn to streamline and automate firewall analysis to improve productivity
Discover how to automate network device configuration to minimize error
Gain insight into how secure change management can ensure stringent security compliance
Distributed Antenna Systems and Compact Base Stations: When to Use Which?Frank Rayal
Distributed Antenna Systems grew from the need to provide wireless coverage and capacity to areas of highly concentrated users. More recently, as capacity and coverage demands expanded and some municipalities passed strict edicts against constructing towers, DAS systems got deployed along streets to provide service in the urban and suburban outdoors. Another solution to add capacity and coverage uses compact base stations which are getting large attention from both a cost and performance perspective. From a deployment perspective, they provide similar network architecture to DAS, which raises the question on how these two solutions compare. This application note will highlight the areas where each solution makes economic and technical sense.
IKE is the protocol used to set up a security association (SA) in the IPsec protocol suite. IKEv2 is the
second and latest version of the IKE protocol. Adoption for this protocol started as early as 2006.
IKE builds upon the Oakley protocol and ISAKMP. IKE uses X.509 certificates for authentication - either
pre-shared or distributed using DNS (preferably with DNSSEC) and a Diffie–Hellman key exchange - to
set up a shared session secret from which cryptographic keys are derived.
It’s new and it’s VoLTE, but will consumers notice? VoLTE is a game changer for mobile operators. They can use VoLTE as a jumping off point for new services aimed at delivering high-quality voice and video conferencing services, among others, that rival anything that has come before (3G) or after (OTT). Journalists Monica Alleven and Brad Smith talk to industry experts to find out how network operators are preparing for VoLTE.
VoLTE Service Monitoring - VoLTE Voice CallJose Gonzalez
There is currently no accepted standard for the measurement or monitoring of VoLTE Services, even though we believe that this is vital to assure the quality and reliability of such services - and to establish a framework for reliable comparison across implementations.
To this end Ascom has defined a formal definition and implementation strategy to help the Operations team solve a range of challenges, including issues related to EPC, IMS and the Application Server. We will describe this solution in a number of short articles.
This article describes the architecture of our solution and the VoLTE Voice Call test case.
IPsec provides the capability to secure communications across a LAN, across private and public WANs, and across the Internet. Examples of its use include:
Secure branch office connectivity over the Internet
Secure remote access over the Internet
Establishing extranet and intranet connectivity with partners
Enhancing electronic commerce security
What are the differences and relationships between LTE-M and NB-IoT?
What is LTE-M?
LTE-M, or LTE-Machine-to-Machine, is an LTE evolution-based IoT technology, called Low-Cost MTC in R12 and LTE enhanced MTC (eMTC) in R13, designed to meet the needs of IoT devices based on existing LTE carriers.
The full name of eMTC is enhanced Machine-Type Communication. It is the LTE network between machines using LTE communication for the IoT. It is often abbreviated as M2M.
A response to the growing interest in IoT and LPWAN, LTE-M is unique in that it can be very energy efficient and transmit up to 10 bytes of data per day, but can also transmit up to one megabit per second. LTE-M serves a very wide range of use cases.
Scaling Mobile Network Security for LTE: A Multi-Layer ApproachF5 Networks
Service providers know they need to protect the network, maintain stability, and manage millions of real-time sessions without costs spiraling out of control. In this paper, Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading, outlines the new challenges introduced by LTE and the security architecture in the service provider network. He stresses the importance of implementing a dynamic, multi-layered security approach that makes use of virtualization, service chaining, and real-time subscriber awareness.
Security is a top priority for service providers, who must deliver superior network quality and customer experiences without adding complexity or cost. F5 Networks offers a suite of dynamic, multi-layered solutions that simplify delivery architectures, boost service availability, and enhance application awareness and control
HOW TO CHOOSE BETWEEN LTE-M AND
NB-IOT FOR GLOBAL DEPLOYMENTS. LTE-M AND NB-IOT TECHNOLOGIES - INCREASED
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Towards Future 4G Mobile Networks: A Real-World IMS Testbedjosephjonse
In the near future, current mobile communication networks will converge towards an All-IP network in order to provide richer applications, stronger customer satisfaction, andfurther return on investment for the industry. However, such a convergence induces a strong level of complexity when handling interoperability between different operators and different handset vendors. In this context, the 3GPP consortium is working on the standardization of the convergence, and IMS is emerging as the internationally agreed upon standard that is multi-operator and multi-vendor. In this paper, we shed further light on the subtleties of IMS, and we delineate a blueprint for the implementation of a real-world IMS testbed. An open source Presence Server is deployed as well. The operation of the IMS testbed and the Presence Server are checked to assess their conformance with 3GPP standards. A simple third party application is developed on top the IMS testbed to further assess its operation.
Long term evolution (LTE) is replacing the 3G services slowly but steadily and become a preferred choice
for data for human to human (H2H) services and now it is becoming preferred choice for voice also. In
some developed countries the traditional 2G services gradually decommissioned from the service and
getting replaced with LTE for all H2H services. LTE provided high downlink and uplink bandwidth
capacity and is one of the technology like mobile ad hoc network (MANET) and vehicular ad hoc network
(VANET) being used as the backbone communication infrastructure for vehicle networking applications.
When Compared to VANET and MANET, LTE provides wide area of coverage and excellent infrastructure
facilities for vehicle networking. This helps in transmitting the vehicle information to the operator and
downloading certain information into the vehicle nodes (VNs) from the operators server. As per the ETSI
publications the number of machine to machine communication (MTC) devices are expected to touch 50
billion by 2020 and this will surpass H2H communication. With growing congestion in the LTE network,
accessing the network for any request from VN especially during peak hour is a big challenge because of
the congestion in random access channel (RACH). In this paper we will analyse this RACH congestion
problem with the data from the live network. Lot of algorithms are proposed for resolving the RACH
congestion on the basis of simulation results so we would like to present some practical data from the live
network to this issue to understand the extent RACH congestion issue in the real time scenario.
IoT technologies are mainly in the areas of communication and sensors. This article is about IoT technology NB-IoT vs LoRa technology.
What is the classification of IoT communication technology?
There are many wireless communication technologies for IoT, mainly divided into two categories: one is Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Z-wave, and other short-range communication technologies; the other is LPWAN (low-power Wide-Area Network), i.e. wide-area network communication technology.
LPWAN can be further divided into two categories: one is LoRa, SigFox, and other technologies working in the unlicensed spectrum; the other is 2G/3G/4G cellular communication technologies working in licensed spectrum and supported by 3GPP, such as EC-GSM, LTE Cat-m, NB-IoT, etc.
IoT technologies are mainly in the areas of communication and sensors. This article is about IoT technology NB-IoT vs LoRa technology.
What is the classification of IoT communication technology?
There are many wireless communication technologies for IoT, mainly divided into two categories: one is Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Z-wave, and other short-range communication technologies; the other is LPWAN (low-power Wide-Area Network), i.e. wide-area network communication technology.
LPWAN can be further divided into two categories: one is LoRa, SigFox, and other technologies working in the unlicensed spectrum; the other is 2G/3G/4G cellular communication technologies working in licensed spectrum and supported by 3GPP, such as EC-GSM, LTE Cat-m, NB-IoT, etc.
Mobile Communication has been developed rapidly since last few decades. The growth of the wireless broadband technologies in the modern years was the answer of increasing demand for mobile Internet and wireless multimedia application such as live TV, live Movies, video conferencing etc. Mobile communication plays a vital role in telecommunication industry. During a common wide area radio access technology and supple network architecture WiMAX and LTE has facilitate convergence of mobile and fixed broadband network S. Atchaya | S. Selvanayaki | S. Deepika"4G Wireless Technology" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-2 , February 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd10712.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-network/10712/4g-wireless-technology/s-atchaya
The ecosystem surrounding the coexistence of NB-IoT and 5G has taken shape and continues to expand. The conditions for the Internet of Everything are beginning to mature. What is the relationship between NB-IoT and 5G?
The relationship between NB-IoT and 5G
TECHNIQUES FOR OFFLOADING LTE EVOLVED PACKET CORE TRAFFIC USING OPENFLOW: A C...IJCNCJournal
Cellular users of today have an insatiable appetite for bandwidth and data. Data-intensive applications, such as video on demand, online gaming and video conferencing, have gained prominence. This, coupled with recent innovations in the mobile network such as LTE/4G, poses a unique challenge to network
operators in how to extract the most value from their deployments while reducing their Total Cost of Operations(TCO). To this end, a number of enhancements have been proposed to the “conventional” LTE mobile network. Most of these recognize the monolithic and non-elastic nature of the mobile backend and propose complimenting core functionality with concepts borrowed from Software Defined Networking
(SDN). In this paper, we will attempt to explore some existing options within the LTE standard to address traffic challenges. We then survey some SDN-enabled alternatives and comment on their merits and drawbacks.
Infonetics and Stoke webinar: Security at the speed of VoLTEMary McEvoy Carroll
Stoke and Infonetics critical issues in optimizing and securing LTE traffic as LTE subscribers ramp up by the millions and operators ready their VoLTE services.
Similar to Infonetics white paper: Security at the Speed of VoLTE (20)
In our 2015 predictions, published at the end of 2014, Argyle Data suggested that 2015 would be the year of native Hadoop applications. This has proven to be the case. The validity of this prediction was confirmed by the focus around Hadoop applications at the Strata conferences this year and in multiple other forums and publications. In light of the growing focus on Hadoop, we have compiled a list of the top 20 most influential individuals around the space.
Machine learning is the key to unlocking the potential of big data. By combining machine learning with big data and Hadoop-based applications, it is now possible to monitor massive amounts of data faster than ever before. This list of Machine Learning's Top 20 influencers charts Twitter's most-read authors on the topic during 2015.
The Internet of Things is going to make shopping a far more personalized experience. Stores will be able to tailor your shopping experience to your specific needs through the use of real-time analytics. They will be able to predict what you want, how often you want it and where you will want to buy it. Stores will use sensors to track both customer movement and inventory. Facial recognition will be used to create a shopper profile to identify both high value customers and known shoplifters. The data from these devices will allow stores to operate at a far more efficient level and personalize customer recommendations much more effectively than ever before. This, and more, adds up to the new face of the connected retail environment
A guided tour to the internet of things in the sim connected worldMary McEvoy Carroll
Today, the majority of computing power is on smartphones not computers. The point to note here is that they’re all connected, not by an ethernet card, but by a SIM card. This industry shift is already accelerating because of the myriad of devices connected through the Internet of Things (IoT).
"Our vision is to enable telecom operators to transform their business model and service delivery through innovation. Working with innovators like Connectem, our telecom technology team aims to help our carrier
partners transform their networks to handle signaling storms and future network loads through the use of our virtualization enablers."
— Patrick P. Gelsinger, Chief Executive Office, VMware
The Connectem Virtual Core for Mobile (VCM) solution uses network
functions virtualization (NFV) to enable mobile operators to address
challenges related to packet core networking, such as managing peaks and
troughs of load on the EPC for both control plane and data plane surges.
The VCM solution uses a unified, centrally-managed, elastic, scalable, and
robust virtualization platform that is powered by VMware®
. This document describes the Connectem VCM solution, powered by VMware vSphere®, and the extremely promising results it has achieved. In lab tests, VMware and Connectem were able to demonstrate that the optimized performance of LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) control plane processing on standard, commercial-grade servers
and virtualization software is greater than what is
available today on purpose-built systems and
software.
Minimizing network delay or latency is a critical factor in delivering mobile broadband services; businesses and users expect network response will be close to instantaneous. Excess latency can have a profound effect on user experience—from excess delay during a simple phone conversation, reducing throughput at edge of cell coverage areas by reducing effectiveness of RAN optimization techniques, to slow- loading webpages and delays with streaming video. Response delays negatively impact revenue. In financial institutions, low latency networks have become a competitive advantage where even a few extra microseconds, can enable trades to execute ahead of the competition.
The direct correlation between delay and revenue in the web browsing experience is well documented. Amazon famously claimed that every 100 millisecond reduction in delay led to a one percent increase in sales. Google also stated that for every half second delay, it saw a 20 percent reduction in traffic.
For LTE network operators, control of latency is growing in importance as both an operational and business issue. Low latency is not only critical to maintaining the quality user experience (and therefore, the operator competitive advantage) of growing social, M2M, and real-time services, but latency reduction is fundamental to meeting the capacity expectations of LTE-A, where latency budgets will be cut in half and X2 will need to perform at microsecond speed.
Total network latency is the sum of delay from all the network components, including air interface, the processing, switching, and queuing of all network elements (core and RAN) along the path, and the propagation delay in the links. With ever tightening latency expectations, the relative contribution of any individual network element, such as a security gateway, must be minimized. For example, when latency budgets were targeting 150ms, a network node providing packet processing at 250μs was only adding 0.17% to the budget. However, in LTE-A, with latency targets slashed to 10ms, that same network node will consume almost 15x more of the budget. More important, when placed on the S1 with a target of only 1ms, 250 μs is 25% of the entire S1 latency allocation, and endangers meeting the microsecond latency needed at the X2. Clearly, operators need to apply stringent latency requirements for all network nodes, when designing LTE and LTE-A networks.
As LTE adoption grows, network sharing strategies enable faster, broader and more effective participation by mobile broadband operators in new and existing markets. Shared networks, however, are at greater risk of breach or service disruption and must be protected at all points of vulnerability.
Designed to help mobile operators implement effective LTE security measures, this new info graphic from Stoke describes the threats, risks and remediation options for the top five domains of protection for LTE networks: 1) Device and application security
2) RAN-Core Border (the junction of the radio access network with the EPC or S1 link)
3) Policy and Charging Control (interface of EPC with visited LTE network)
4) Internet Border
5) IMS core
What will it take to make virtualized LTE security a practical option? Stoke examines the drivers, roadblocks and milestones in this presentation first given in London in May, 2014
Any LTE security framework must address five key points of vulnerability. This presentation examines the specific risks to critical EPC infrastructure at the S1 link (the border between RAN and core, reviews emerging trends and threat vectors at that interface, details some pertinent use cases, and outlines the steps to virtualization.
Secure from GO: Design considerations for the integration of security into L...Mary McEvoy Carroll
The LTE S1 link (between the RAN and EPC) is a new domain, different to all other network interfaces where add-on security is applied. Network elements developed for the SGi (Core to Internet) or S8 (Operator-to-Operator) interfaces have unique capabilities within that environment, but do not possess the processing capacity, low latency, flexibility, and interoperability needed at the specific location of the S1 link. The S1 interface carries all data plane traffic and critical control plane traffic and the Security GW is the only network element with aggregate visibility into both. Control of this interface can protect EPC elements from signaling overload resulting from extraordinary operating conditions or from malicious attack.
In this white paper, Stoke offer guidelines about the criteria for selection of an LTE security solution, and provide detailed deployment and testing criteria to help operators avoid such issues. This paper provides insight into why and how operators successfully secure their LTE networks from initial LTE launch, including best practice guidelines for designing, testing, and deploying the LTE security gateway (SEG). Part I describes LTE network vulnerabilities and threats and the rationale for securing the S1 interface from launch. Part II provides design, test, and deployment recommendations, based upon Stoke’s combined experience with multiple security gateway deployments.
Secure from go: Stoke Guide to Securing LTE Networks from Day 1Mary McEvoy Carroll
The LTE S1 link (between the RAN and EPC) is a new domain, different to all other network interfaces where add-on security is applied. Network elements developed for the SGi (Core to Internet) or S8 (Operator-to-Operator) interfaces have unique capabilities within that environment, but do not possess the processing capacity, low latency, flexibility, and interoperability needed at the specific location of the S1 link. The S1 interface carries all data plane traffic and critical control plane traffic and the Security GW is the only network element with aggregate visibility into both. Control of this interface can protect EPC elements from signaling overload resulting from extraordinary operating conditions or from malicious attack.
In this white paper, Stoke offer guidelines about the criteria for selection of an LTE security solution, and provide detailed deployment and testing criteria to help operators avoid such issues. This paper provides insight into why and how operators successfully secure their LTE networks from initial LTE launch, including best practice guidelines for designing, testing, and deploying the LTE security gateway (SEG). Part I describes LTE network vulnerabilities and threats and the rationale for securing the S1 interface from launch. Part II provides design, test, and deployment recommendations, based upon Stoke’s combined experience with multiple security gateway deployments.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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Infonetics white paper: Security at the Speed of VoLTE
1. I N F O N E T I C S R E S E A R C H W H I T E P A P E R
Security at the Speed of VoLTE
Infonetics Research White Paper
Written by Principal Analyst Stéphane Téral
February 2014
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Contents
Executive Summary 1
The Need for Securing LTE Networks Has Never Been Greater 2
The world is moving to LTE at a fast and unstoppable pace 3
Exhibit 1: Worldwide LTE Subscriptions 3
And voice, still half of total mobile service revenue, is inevitably moving to LTE as well 4
Exhibit 2: Worldwide VoLTE Market Opportunity 4
This Developing LTE World Provides Hackers with a New Eldorado! 5
Exhibit 3: LTE Network Architecture 5
Meanwhile, potential threats to mobile networks are real and fully documented 6
Exhibit 4: Monthly ATLAS Peak Monitored Attack Sizes 6
Consequently, Security Must Be a Foundational Element of LTE Deployments 7
IPsec encryption is the key mechanism. . . 7
. . . but full IPsec introduces new considerations 7
Now IPsec is gaining momentum, setting the stage for security gateway implementations 8
Security Gateways Also Provide High VoLTE Network Performance and QoS Control 8
Focusing on the S1 interface provides the highest benefits 8
An S1-focused security gateway can process tiny VoLTE packets 9
And manage signaling storms 9
Bottom Line 9
About Infonetics Research 10