Ericsson’s latest service-enablement offering is the generator that feeds the official event apps with data in real time, and enables an immersive viewing experience for spectators anywhere. By ingesting all the different types of data associated with the championships, like live TV streams, location data and real-time positioning information from skiers as they race, the system can create an enriched context for all event content. By exposing this premium content in the form of an application programming interface (API), this offering allows event data to be separated completely from application and functionality – reducing development time and increasing re-usability.
Airport Billing System for Aviation and Non-Aviation Services Ericsson
The Ericsson billing and settlement platform provides out-of-the-box modules for aviation, concessions, and cargo that can be configured for unique needs. The platform automates business models that can be modified or removed over time. It offers comprehensive visibility of consolidated revenue streams and flexible integration of business rules to streamline reporting and auditing.
Growth Codes: How do operators turn data growth into profitable revenue growth?Ericsson
Operators can turn data growth into profitable revenue growth by segmenting offerings to increase revenue and loyalty, focusing on key performance indicators to improve the user experience, and forming strategic partnerships to deliver synergistic experiences across platforms. The document outlines six "growth codes" that leading operators use: showcasing customized offerings, minding gaps in quality and experience, embracing mobile data and third-party partnerships, using streetwise metrics, shifting mindsets from problem to opportunity focused, and establishing long-term ecosystem collaborations. These frontrunners maximize old and innovate new revenues by differentiating on connectivity and synergizing markets and technologies.
By combining big data analytics with effective management of insights, operators can gain a competitive edge across different business models and ecosystems. This helps operators grow their business faster by realizing enhanced customer experience and improved efficiency, supporting them to harness the potential of big data analytics.
Networked Society City Index 2014 - InfographEricsson
The document presents the results of the Networked Society City Index 2014, which ranks 40 cities around the world based on their performance and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability, and development. Stockholm ranked first overall, followed by London, Paris, Singapore, and Copenhagen in the top five. The index found that 21st century ICT gives cities new ways to address challenges by optimizing resources, improving connectivity, and increasing economic prosperity and social inclusion. It also provides three predictions about how ICT will shape the sustainable urban future: GDP will be redefined to capture new scopes of growth, collaboration will change the core of organizations, and ICT will provide new opportunities to meet future challenges.
Future-proof your network using big data. By 2019, video will contribute more than half of the total volume of global mobile traffic. How can you prepare?
How can big data add value to your business? Use them to get the competitive edge by combining effective management of insights and big data analytics. This helps operators across business, IT and networks.
Ericsson’s latest service-enablement offering is the generator that feeds the official event apps with data in real time, and enables an immersive viewing experience for spectators anywhere. By ingesting all the different types of data associated with the championships, like live TV streams, location data and real-time positioning information from skiers as they race, the system can create an enriched context for all event content. By exposing this premium content in the form of an application programming interface (API), this offering allows event data to be separated completely from application and functionality – reducing development time and increasing re-usability.
Airport Billing System for Aviation and Non-Aviation Services Ericsson
The Ericsson billing and settlement platform provides out-of-the-box modules for aviation, concessions, and cargo that can be configured for unique needs. The platform automates business models that can be modified or removed over time. It offers comprehensive visibility of consolidated revenue streams and flexible integration of business rules to streamline reporting and auditing.
Growth Codes: How do operators turn data growth into profitable revenue growth?Ericsson
Operators can turn data growth into profitable revenue growth by segmenting offerings to increase revenue and loyalty, focusing on key performance indicators to improve the user experience, and forming strategic partnerships to deliver synergistic experiences across platforms. The document outlines six "growth codes" that leading operators use: showcasing customized offerings, minding gaps in quality and experience, embracing mobile data and third-party partnerships, using streetwise metrics, shifting mindsets from problem to opportunity focused, and establishing long-term ecosystem collaborations. These frontrunners maximize old and innovate new revenues by differentiating on connectivity and synergizing markets and technologies.
By combining big data analytics with effective management of insights, operators can gain a competitive edge across different business models and ecosystems. This helps operators grow their business faster by realizing enhanced customer experience and improved efficiency, supporting them to harness the potential of big data analytics.
Networked Society City Index 2014 - InfographEricsson
The document presents the results of the Networked Society City Index 2014, which ranks 40 cities around the world based on their performance and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability, and development. Stockholm ranked first overall, followed by London, Paris, Singapore, and Copenhagen in the top five. The index found that 21st century ICT gives cities new ways to address challenges by optimizing resources, improving connectivity, and increasing economic prosperity and social inclusion. It also provides three predictions about how ICT will shape the sustainable urban future: GDP will be redefined to capture new scopes of growth, collaboration will change the core of organizations, and ICT will provide new opportunities to meet future challenges.
Future-proof your network using big data. By 2019, video will contribute more than half of the total volume of global mobile traffic. How can you prepare?
How can big data add value to your business? Use them to get the competitive edge by combining effective management of insights and big data analytics. This helps operators across business, IT and networks.
The document traces the history and growth of SMS (Short Message Service) over the past 20 years. It notes that the first SMS text message was sent on December 3, 1992 in the UK. SMS became popular among young people due to a sense of belonging and immediacy. Real-time charging systems allowed mobile operators to offer prepaid subscriptions, which helped SMS and mobile telephony grow substantially over the following decades to billions of users worldwide by the 2010s.
Airport Billing Software at São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport Ericsson
São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport streamlined airport billing with our airport billing software that supports billing for aviation, concessions and cargo services on a single system.
We are on the brink of a fundamental shift in society. As we journey towards the Networked
Society we are unlocking the full potential of learning and education. Students and
progressive teachers, empowered by technology, are turning established models on their
heads while new skills and educational platforms are redefining our systems and institutions.
The impact of the internet on our daily lives is the biggest technological innovation of the last decade. It has re-shaped our planet, our lives and global industries – including TV and Media.
Rethinking Energy Performance - infographicEricsson
This document discusses strategies for reducing energy consumption in mobile networks between 2014 and 2020. It notes that mobile video traffic is expected to increase 10 times during this period based on current practices, leading to a 30% rise in mobile network energy consumption. However, the document advocates a systematic approach that can help operators expand app coverage while improving energy efficiency. This includes optimizing network hardware and software, intelligently managing energy consumption, and tailoring site solutions to different business models. The goal is to break the trend of increasing energy use through precision planning and new technologies.
We do everything on our phones: from looking for love to searching for the nearest supermarket. We can download songs and watch HD videos in the blink of an eye. Thanks to Ericsson technology we can do this, and much, much more.
Networked Society City Index 2016 - infographEricsson
The world is entering a new era where the economic and political importance of cities is growing rapidly. Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities and urban concentration is accelerating. Therefore, cities are vital for solving major social, environmental and economic challenges.
As the world has evolved from the age of industrialization to the Networked Society, the nature of consumption has also changed.
The evolution of consumers’ consumption patterns is intertwined with the disruptions that have transformed industries, cities and society alike. Businesses that grasp the new reality will be the ones that survive transformation to grow and flourish.
Furthermore, the evolving nature of consumption means that growth no longer has to be at the expense of the global environment.
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/commerce_reports
Ericsson is a driving force for innovation in communications technology, investing $5 billion annually in research and development. It has over 25,000 R&D employees and one of the strongest patent portfolios in mobile communications with over 37,000 granted patents worldwide. Ericsson works with other technology leaders to develop new standards and platforms through its commitment to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing of its patents, benefiting billions of consumers. Over 40% of the world's mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks that support customers in 180 countries and 2.5 billion subscriptions.
Connected Print uses printed electronics, mobile broadband and the connectivity of your body to bring a world of information to your fingertips. This infographic looks at how it works, and how it can change our lives.
Ericsson Technology Review: Versatile Video Coding explained – the future of ...Ericsson
Continuous innovation in 5G networks is creating new opportunities for video-enabled services for both consumers and industries, particularly in areas such as the Internet of Things and the automotive sector. These new services are expected to rely on continued video evolution toward 8K resolutions and beyond, and on new strict requirements such as low end-to-end latency for video delivery.
The latest Ericsson Technology Review article explores recent developments in video compression technology and introduces Versatile Video Coding (VVC) – a significant improvement on existing video codecs that we think deserves to be widely deployed in the market. VVC has the potential both to enhance the user experience for existing video services and offer an appropriate performance level for new media services over 5G networks.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL REALITIES
The key role that connectivity plays in our personal and professional lives has never been more obvious than it is today. Thankfully, despite the sudden, dramatic changes in our behavior earlier this year, networks all around the world have proven to be highly resilient. At Ericsson, we’re committed to ensuring that the network platform continues to improve its ability to meet the full range of societal needs as well as supporting enterprises to stay competitive in the long term. We know that greater agility and speed will be essential.
This issue of our magazine includes several articles that explain Ericsson’s approach to future network development, including my annual technology trends article. The seven trends on this year’s list serve as a critical cornerstone in the development of a common Ericsson vision of what future networks will provide, and what sort of technology evolution will be required to get there.
ERIK EKUDDEN
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Technology
Ericsson Technology Review: Integrated access and backhaul – a new type of wi...Ericsson
Today millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum is valued mainly because it can be used to achieve high speeds and capacities when combined with spectrum assets below 6GHz. But it can provide other benefits as well. For example, mmWave spectrum makes it possible to use a promising new wireless backhaul solution for 5G New Radio – integrated access and backhaul (IAB) – to densify networks with multi-band radio sites at street level.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explains the IAB concept at a high level, presenting its architecture and key characteristics, as well as examining its advantages and disadvantages compared with other backhaul technologies. It concludes with a presentation of the promising results of several simulations that tested IAB as a backhaul option for street sites in both urban and suburban areas.
Ericsson Technology Review: Critical IoT connectivity: Ideal for time-critica...Ericsson
Critical Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity is an emerging concept in IoT development that enables more efficient and innovative services across a wide range of industries by reliably meeting time-critical communication needs. Mobile network operators (MNOs) are in the perfect position to enable these types of time-critical services due to their ability to leverage advanced 5G networks in a systematic and cost-effective way.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explores the benefits of Critical IoT connectivity in areas such as industrial control, mobility automation, remote control and real-time media. It also provides an overview of key network technologies and architectures. It concludes with several case studies based on two deployment scenarios – wide area and local area – that illustrate how well suited 5G spectrum assets are for Critical IoT use cases.
5G New Radio has already evolved in important ways since the 3GPP standardized Release 15 in late 2018. The significant enhancements in Releases 16 and 17 are certain to play a critical role in expanding both the availability and the applicability of 5G NR in both industry and public services in the near future.
This Ericsson Technology Review article summarizes the most notable new developments in releases 16 and 17, grouped into two categories: enhancements to existing features and features that address new verticals and deployment scenarios. This analysis and our insights about the future beyond Release 17 is an important component of our work to help mobile network operators and other stakeholders better understand and plan for the many new 5G NR opportunities that are on the horizon.
Ericsson Technology Review: The future of cloud computing: Highly distributed...Ericsson
The growing interest in cloud computing scenarios that incorporate both distributed computing capabilities and heterogeneous hardware presents a significant opportunity for network operators. With a vast distributed system (the telco network) already in place, the telecom industry has a significant advantage in the transition toward distributed cloud computing.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explores the future of cloud computing from the perspective of network operators, examining how they can best manage the complexity of future cloud deployments and overcome the technical challenges. Redefining cloud to expose and optimize the use of heterogeneous resources is not straightforward, but we are confident that our use cases and proof points validate our approach and will gain traction both in the telecommunications community and beyond.
Ericsson Technology Review: Optimizing UICC modules for IoT applicationsEricsson
Commonly referred to as SIM cards, the universal integrated circuit cards (UICCs) used in all cellular devices today are in fact complex and powerful minicomputers capable of much more than most Internet of Things (IoT) applications require. Until a simpler and less costly alternative becomes available, action must be taken to ensure that the relatively high price of UICC modules does not hamper IoT growth.
This Ericsson Technology Review article presents two mid-term approaches. The first is to make use of techniques that reduce the complexity of using UICCs in IoT applications, while the second is to use the UICCs’ excess capacity for additional value generation. Those who wish to exploit the potential of the UICCs to better support IoT applications have the opportunity to use them as cryptographic storage, to run higher-layer protocol stacks and/or as supervisory entities, for example.
Mobile data traffic volumes are expected to increase by a factor of four by 2025, and 45 percent of that traffic will be carried by 5G networks. To deliver on customer expectations in this rapidly changing environment, communication service providers must overcome challenges in three key areas: building sufficient capacity, resolving operational inefficiencies through automation and artificial intelligence, and improving service differentiation. This issue of ETR magazine provides insights about how to tackle all three.
Ericsson Technology Review: 5G BSS: Evolving BSS to fit the 5G economyEricsson
The 5G network evolution has opened up an abundance of new business opportunities for communication service providers (CSPs) in verticals such as industrial automation, security, health care and automotive. In order to successfully capitalize on them, CSPs must have business support systems (BSS) that are evolved to manage complex value chains and support new business models. Optimized information models and a high degree of automation are required to handle huge numbers of devices through open interfaces.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explains how 5G-evolved BSS can help CSPs transform themselves from traditional network developers to service enablers for 5G and the Internet of Things, and ultimately to service creators with the ability to collaborate beyond telecoms and establish lucrative digital value systems.
Ericsson Technology Review: 5G migration strategy from EPS to 5G systemEricsson
For many operators, the introduction of the 5G System (5GS) to provide wide-area services in existing Evolved Packet System (EPS) deployments is a necessary step toward creating a full-service, future-proof 5GS in the longer term. The creation of a combined 4G-5G network requires careful planning and a holistic strategy, as the introduction of 5GS has significant impacts across all network domains, including the RAN, packet core, user data and policies, and services, as well as affecting devices and backend systems.
This Ericsson Technology Review article provides an overview of all the aspects that operators need to consider when putting together a robust EPS-to-5GS migration strategy and provides guidance about how they can adapt the transition to address their particular needs per domain.
The document traces the history and growth of SMS (Short Message Service) over the past 20 years. It notes that the first SMS text message was sent on December 3, 1992 in the UK. SMS became popular among young people due to a sense of belonging and immediacy. Real-time charging systems allowed mobile operators to offer prepaid subscriptions, which helped SMS and mobile telephony grow substantially over the following decades to billions of users worldwide by the 2010s.
Airport Billing Software at São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport Ericsson
São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport streamlined airport billing with our airport billing software that supports billing for aviation, concessions and cargo services on a single system.
We are on the brink of a fundamental shift in society. As we journey towards the Networked
Society we are unlocking the full potential of learning and education. Students and
progressive teachers, empowered by technology, are turning established models on their
heads while new skills and educational platforms are redefining our systems and institutions.
The impact of the internet on our daily lives is the biggest technological innovation of the last decade. It has re-shaped our planet, our lives and global industries – including TV and Media.
Rethinking Energy Performance - infographicEricsson
This document discusses strategies for reducing energy consumption in mobile networks between 2014 and 2020. It notes that mobile video traffic is expected to increase 10 times during this period based on current practices, leading to a 30% rise in mobile network energy consumption. However, the document advocates a systematic approach that can help operators expand app coverage while improving energy efficiency. This includes optimizing network hardware and software, intelligently managing energy consumption, and tailoring site solutions to different business models. The goal is to break the trend of increasing energy use through precision planning and new technologies.
We do everything on our phones: from looking for love to searching for the nearest supermarket. We can download songs and watch HD videos in the blink of an eye. Thanks to Ericsson technology we can do this, and much, much more.
Networked Society City Index 2016 - infographEricsson
The world is entering a new era where the economic and political importance of cities is growing rapidly. Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities and urban concentration is accelerating. Therefore, cities are vital for solving major social, environmental and economic challenges.
As the world has evolved from the age of industrialization to the Networked Society, the nature of consumption has also changed.
The evolution of consumers’ consumption patterns is intertwined with the disruptions that have transformed industries, cities and society alike. Businesses that grasp the new reality will be the ones that survive transformation to grow and flourish.
Furthermore, the evolving nature of consumption means that growth no longer has to be at the expense of the global environment.
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/commerce_reports
Ericsson is a driving force for innovation in communications technology, investing $5 billion annually in research and development. It has over 25,000 R&D employees and one of the strongest patent portfolios in mobile communications with over 37,000 granted patents worldwide. Ericsson works with other technology leaders to develop new standards and platforms through its commitment to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing of its patents, benefiting billions of consumers. Over 40% of the world's mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks that support customers in 180 countries and 2.5 billion subscriptions.
Connected Print uses printed electronics, mobile broadband and the connectivity of your body to bring a world of information to your fingertips. This infographic looks at how it works, and how it can change our lives.
Ericsson Technology Review: Versatile Video Coding explained – the future of ...Ericsson
Continuous innovation in 5G networks is creating new opportunities for video-enabled services for both consumers and industries, particularly in areas such as the Internet of Things and the automotive sector. These new services are expected to rely on continued video evolution toward 8K resolutions and beyond, and on new strict requirements such as low end-to-end latency for video delivery.
The latest Ericsson Technology Review article explores recent developments in video compression technology and introduces Versatile Video Coding (VVC) – a significant improvement on existing video codecs that we think deserves to be widely deployed in the market. VVC has the potential both to enhance the user experience for existing video services and offer an appropriate performance level for new media services over 5G networks.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL REALITIES
The key role that connectivity plays in our personal and professional lives has never been more obvious than it is today. Thankfully, despite the sudden, dramatic changes in our behavior earlier this year, networks all around the world have proven to be highly resilient. At Ericsson, we’re committed to ensuring that the network platform continues to improve its ability to meet the full range of societal needs as well as supporting enterprises to stay competitive in the long term. We know that greater agility and speed will be essential.
This issue of our magazine includes several articles that explain Ericsson’s approach to future network development, including my annual technology trends article. The seven trends on this year’s list serve as a critical cornerstone in the development of a common Ericsson vision of what future networks will provide, and what sort of technology evolution will be required to get there.
ERIK EKUDDEN
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Technology
Ericsson Technology Review: Integrated access and backhaul – a new type of wi...Ericsson
Today millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum is valued mainly because it can be used to achieve high speeds and capacities when combined with spectrum assets below 6GHz. But it can provide other benefits as well. For example, mmWave spectrum makes it possible to use a promising new wireless backhaul solution for 5G New Radio – integrated access and backhaul (IAB) – to densify networks with multi-band radio sites at street level.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explains the IAB concept at a high level, presenting its architecture and key characteristics, as well as examining its advantages and disadvantages compared with other backhaul technologies. It concludes with a presentation of the promising results of several simulations that tested IAB as a backhaul option for street sites in both urban and suburban areas.
Ericsson Technology Review: Critical IoT connectivity: Ideal for time-critica...Ericsson
Critical Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity is an emerging concept in IoT development that enables more efficient and innovative services across a wide range of industries by reliably meeting time-critical communication needs. Mobile network operators (MNOs) are in the perfect position to enable these types of time-critical services due to their ability to leverage advanced 5G networks in a systematic and cost-effective way.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explores the benefits of Critical IoT connectivity in areas such as industrial control, mobility automation, remote control and real-time media. It also provides an overview of key network technologies and architectures. It concludes with several case studies based on two deployment scenarios – wide area and local area – that illustrate how well suited 5G spectrum assets are for Critical IoT use cases.
5G New Radio has already evolved in important ways since the 3GPP standardized Release 15 in late 2018. The significant enhancements in Releases 16 and 17 are certain to play a critical role in expanding both the availability and the applicability of 5G NR in both industry and public services in the near future.
This Ericsson Technology Review article summarizes the most notable new developments in releases 16 and 17, grouped into two categories: enhancements to existing features and features that address new verticals and deployment scenarios. This analysis and our insights about the future beyond Release 17 is an important component of our work to help mobile network operators and other stakeholders better understand and plan for the many new 5G NR opportunities that are on the horizon.
Ericsson Technology Review: The future of cloud computing: Highly distributed...Ericsson
The growing interest in cloud computing scenarios that incorporate both distributed computing capabilities and heterogeneous hardware presents a significant opportunity for network operators. With a vast distributed system (the telco network) already in place, the telecom industry has a significant advantage in the transition toward distributed cloud computing.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explores the future of cloud computing from the perspective of network operators, examining how they can best manage the complexity of future cloud deployments and overcome the technical challenges. Redefining cloud to expose and optimize the use of heterogeneous resources is not straightforward, but we are confident that our use cases and proof points validate our approach and will gain traction both in the telecommunications community and beyond.
Ericsson Technology Review: Optimizing UICC modules for IoT applicationsEricsson
Commonly referred to as SIM cards, the universal integrated circuit cards (UICCs) used in all cellular devices today are in fact complex and powerful minicomputers capable of much more than most Internet of Things (IoT) applications require. Until a simpler and less costly alternative becomes available, action must be taken to ensure that the relatively high price of UICC modules does not hamper IoT growth.
This Ericsson Technology Review article presents two mid-term approaches. The first is to make use of techniques that reduce the complexity of using UICCs in IoT applications, while the second is to use the UICCs’ excess capacity for additional value generation. Those who wish to exploit the potential of the UICCs to better support IoT applications have the opportunity to use them as cryptographic storage, to run higher-layer protocol stacks and/or as supervisory entities, for example.
Mobile data traffic volumes are expected to increase by a factor of four by 2025, and 45 percent of that traffic will be carried by 5G networks. To deliver on customer expectations in this rapidly changing environment, communication service providers must overcome challenges in three key areas: building sufficient capacity, resolving operational inefficiencies through automation and artificial intelligence, and improving service differentiation. This issue of ETR magazine provides insights about how to tackle all three.
Ericsson Technology Review: 5G BSS: Evolving BSS to fit the 5G economyEricsson
The 5G network evolution has opened up an abundance of new business opportunities for communication service providers (CSPs) in verticals such as industrial automation, security, health care and automotive. In order to successfully capitalize on them, CSPs must have business support systems (BSS) that are evolved to manage complex value chains and support new business models. Optimized information models and a high degree of automation are required to handle huge numbers of devices through open interfaces.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explains how 5G-evolved BSS can help CSPs transform themselves from traditional network developers to service enablers for 5G and the Internet of Things, and ultimately to service creators with the ability to collaborate beyond telecoms and establish lucrative digital value systems.
Ericsson Technology Review: 5G migration strategy from EPS to 5G systemEricsson
For many operators, the introduction of the 5G System (5GS) to provide wide-area services in existing Evolved Packet System (EPS) deployments is a necessary step toward creating a full-service, future-proof 5GS in the longer term. The creation of a combined 4G-5G network requires careful planning and a holistic strategy, as the introduction of 5GS has significant impacts across all network domains, including the RAN, packet core, user data and policies, and services, as well as affecting devices and backend systems.
This Ericsson Technology Review article provides an overview of all the aspects that operators need to consider when putting together a robust EPS-to-5GS migration strategy and provides guidance about how they can adapt the transition to address their particular needs per domain.
Ericsson Technology Review: Creating the next-generation edge-cloud ecosystemEricsson
The surge in data volume that will come from the massive number of devices enabled by 5G has made edge computing more important than ever before. Beyond its abilities to reduce network traffic and improve user experience, edge computing will also play a critical role in enabling use cases for ultra-reliable low-latency communication in industrial manufacturing and a variety of other sectors.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explores the topic of how to deliver distributed edge computing solutions that can host different kinds of platforms and applications and provide a high level of flexibility for application developers. Rather than building a new application ecosystem and platform, we strongly recommend reusing industrialized and proven capabilities, utilizing the momentum created with Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and ensuring backward compatibility.
This document summarizes key insights from an Ericsson Technology Review article on facilitating online trust with blockchains. It discusses how blockchains can establish trust without centralized authorities by using distributed consensus protocols. It differentiates between public blockchains like Bitcoin that use proof-of-work and private blockchains used within organizations that employ identities and access management. While blockchains remove the need for trusted third parties, their consensus mechanisms have drawbacks around delay, throughput and costs. Alternative technologies like hashgraphs aim to address these issues to enable distributed trust.
Ericsson Technology Review: Spotlight on the Internet of ThingsEricsson
The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a fundamental cornerstone in the digitalization of both industry and society as a whole. It represents a huge opportunity not only in economic terms, but also from a global challenges perspective – making it easier for governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to address pressing food, energy, water and climate related issues.
5G and the IoT are closely intertwined. One of the biggest innovations within 5G is support for the IoT in all its forms, both by addressing mission criticality as well as making it possible to connect low-cost, long-battery-life sensors.
With this in mind, we decided to create a special issue of Ericsson Technology Review solely focused on IoT opportunities and challenges. I hope it provides you with valuable insights about the IoT-related opportunities available to your organization, along with ideas about how we can overcome the challenges ahead.
Ericsson Technology Review - Technology Trends 2019Ericsson
The document discusses six technology trends seen by the author that will shape the future network platform for innovation. It summarizes two key trends:
1. The Internet of Skills and cyber-physical systems (CPSs), which will require the network platform to support high-quality, remote interactions between humans and things with low latency and bandwidth demands.
2. Distributed compute and storage, ubiquitous radio access, security assurance and zero-touch networks, which the author sees as four crucial technology areas that will drive the evolution of the future network platform.
Ericsson Technology Review: Driving transformation in the automotive and road...Ericsson
A variety of automotive and transport services that require cellular connectivity are already in commercial operation today, and many more are yet to come. Among other things, these services will improve road safety and traffic efficiency, saving lives and helping to reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change. At Ericsson, we believe that the best way to address the growing connectivity needs of this industry sector is through a common network solution, as opposed to taking a single-segment silo approach.
The latest Ericsson Technology Review article explains how the ongoing rollout of 5G provides a cost-efficient and feature-rich foundation for a horizontal multiservice network that can meet the connectivity needs of the automotive and transport ecosystem. It also outlines the key challenges and presents potential solutions.
The document discusses how SD-WAN is becoming an orchestration game for service providers. Enterprises are increasingly seeking secure, agile networks to connect offices and mobile workers across multiple clouds. This has led to growing demand for managed SD-WAN services from service providers, who need orchestration to handle complexity and assure quality of service across multiple vendors. Orchestration is key to automating service provisioning and monitoring performance across connectivity, security, mobility and multi-cloud services. The document provides an example of how Ericsson's Dynamic Orchestration solution helped Verizon create new virtual network services.
Ericsson Technology Review: 5G-TSN integration meets networking requirements ...Ericsson
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is becoming the standard Ethernet-based technology for converged networks of Industry 4.0. Understanding the importance and relevance of TSN features, as well as the capabilities that allow 5G to achieve wireless deterministic and time-sensitive communication, is essential to industrial automation in the future.
The latest Ericsson Technology Review article explains how TSN is an enabler of Industry 4.0, and that together with 5G URLLC capabilities, the two key technologies can be combined and integrated to provide deterministic connectivity end to end. It also discusses TSN standards and the value of the TSN toolbox for next generation industrial automation networks.
Ericsson Technology Review: Meeting 5G latency requirements with inactive stateEricsson
Low latency communication and minimal battery consumption are key requirements of many 5G and IoT use cases, including smart transport and critical control of remote devices. Thanks to Ericsson’s 4G/5G research activities and lessons learned from legacy networks, we have identified solutions that address both of these requirements by reducing the amount of signaling required during state transitions, and shared our discoveries with the 3GPP.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explains the why and how behind the new Radio Resource Control (RRC) state model in the standalone version of the 5G New Radio standard, which features a new, Ericsson-developed state called inactive. On top of overcoming latency and battery consumption challenges, the new state also increases overall system capacity by decreasing the processing effort in the network.
Ericsson Technology Review: Cloud-native application design in the telecom do...Ericsson
Cloud-native application design is set to become standard practice in the telecom industry in the near future due to the major efficiency gains it can provide, particularly in terms of speeding up software upgrades and releases. At Ericsson, we have been actively exploring the potential of cloud-native computing in the telecom industry since we joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) a few years ago.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explains the opportunities that CNCF technology has enabled, as well as unveiling key aspects of our application development framework, which is designed to help navigate the transition to a cloud-native approach. It also discusses the challenges that the large-scale reuse of open-source technology can raise, along with key strategies for how to mitigate them.
Ericsson Technology Review: Service exposure: a critical capability in a 5G w...Ericsson
To meet the requirements of use cases in areas such as the Internet of Things, AR/VR, Industry 4.0 and the automotive sector, operators need to be able to provide computing resources across the whole telco domain – all the way to the edge of the mobile network. Service exposure and APIs will play a key role in creating solutions that are both effective and cost efficient.
The latest Ericsson Technology Review article explores recent advances in the service exposure area that have resulted from the move toward 5G and the adoption of cloud-native principles, as well as the combination of Service-based Architecture, microservices and container technologies. It includes examples that illustrate how service exposure can be deployed in a multitude of locations, each with a different set of requirements that drive modularity and configurability needs.
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.