This document provides information on the capabilities of Software Quality Leaders (SQL), a telecom solutions group, including:
1. SQL offers indoor/outdoor wireless network planning, design, installation, testing, commissioning, optimization, and support maintenance services for in-building and distributed antenna systems.
2. Their capabilities include in-house engineering and installation teams, radio frequency requirement analysis, propagation modeling, and turnkey project management.
3. SQL also provides Wi-Fi offloading solutions to help mobile operators integrate Wi-Fi access points with their cellular networks to increase capacity and reduce costs.
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to show how nanotechnology for drug deliver is becoming economically feasible.
Kafka at the core of an AIOps pipeline | Sunanda Kommula, Selector.ai and Ala...HostedbyConfluent
Large networks consist of a diverse range of equipment, across private, public, hybrid clouds and partner networks. A hierarchical network has layers of infrastructure, catering to access, core, or distribution roles, managed by different organizations specialized to architect the right network hardware, software, and features for that network layer. The nature of data generated by each component can vary in type and form, including logs, events, metrics, or alarms.
The diversity of data generated by a large network is beyond human scale. Apache Kafka® is a critical hub in large networks, empowering AIOps to enhance decision making, improve analysis and insights by contextualizing large volumes of operational data. Kafka solved the big problem of collecting, processing, storing and normalizing data at scale, allowing us to focus on building the AIOps pipeline.
Our platform connects the dots across relevant operations data and provides operations teams with simple and powerful access to insights, from within increasingly popular collaboration environments like Slack and Microsoft teams. The pipeline must also integrate with automation solutions.
This session will cover how large volumes of streaming messages can be received by parallel Kafka consumers, and turned into action by network operations teams, dramatically reducing downtime and improving performance.
NETWORK PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
REQUIREMENT FOR DRIVE TESTING
DRIVE TEST PROCESS
DRIVE TEST OUTPUTS
MEASUREMENT METRICS
DRIVE TEST ANALYSIS
NEPTUNE AND PROBE
Drive Test
OMC Statistics
Customer feedback
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
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3. Capabilities- IB/DAS Design
Design and Engineering
• In-House installation teams.
• Establish RF Requirements
• CW & Benchmarking Data
• Collect Venue Floor Plans and Walk Test Data
• Link Budget Calculation / Propagation Model
Tuning
• Traffic Distribution and Capacity Design
• Coverage Design
• Site-Specific Antenna and Feeder Design
• Propagation Analysis
• Frequency/PCI/Sector Planning
• Neighbor List Generation
• Final Design Report
4. Capabilities- IB/DAS Installation
• Installation of IBS of all sizes- (50k sq feet to
5 million sq feet)
• Offer Turn-key & stand alone installation
services.
• Presence of manpower across all major
cities.
• Provide On-Site Project management for
each installation.
• Professional & experienced installation
teams.
• Creating implementation report as per
actual implementation.
• In-House installation teams.
5. Capabilities- IB/DAS Testing &
Commissioning
Coaxial Cable and Fiber Testing
• Coaxial cable fault identification
• VSWR measurement
• Fiber OTDR Results
• PIM Testing
Active Components Commissioning
• TMA/TMB Installation &
Commissioning.
• Fiber DAS Commissioning.
• Power Outputs measurement at
major nodes across DAS.
Customer defined checklist
6. Wi-Fi Offloading
• Rapidly growing new category of Wi-Fi for mobile devices, where mobile
operator or ISP owns, operates the Wi-Fi Infrastructure, manages access from
users, and shares the Infra with roaming partners.
• Mobile Operator can integrate Wi-Fi sites with Outdoor, Small Cells or IBS
Sites by co-locating and at backend core-network integration by
Authentication, Subscriber management, billing, Policy & traffic
management.
Lowest
TCO
12. Why Small Cells?
• Operators face unprecedented increasing demand for mobile data traffic.
• 70-80% data volume from indoor & hotspots already.
• Mobile data traffic expected to grow 500-1000x by 2020.
• Mobile devices getting more & more sophisticated.
• Increased network density introduces Local Areas & Small Cells.
Only viable option to meet the data demand is making Cells
“Smaller, denser and Smarter”.
13. Site Ranking- Backhaul Criteria
• Low Cost Backhaul to site is first important criteria in Site ranking.
• Perform LoS analysis between existing Macro/Transmission hubs.
• Perform LoS analysis between Small Cells to Small Cells on
PathLoss/Connect Tool.
• Identify Best backhaul options between LoS/NLoS options based on total
cost (CAPEX + OPEX) analysis.
o PtP Microwave Link.
o PtP E Band Microwave Link.
o PtMP Microwave Link.
o PtMP non-LOS Microwave Link.
o Fiber Optic
• Rank Sites with candidate selection.
18. Benchmarking - Capabilities
“Develop a Holistic view of any Competitive Advantage or Disadvantage of
competing Wireless Operators in the area”
Benchmarking Services:
• Area
o Cluster, Market or Nationwide macro
networks.
o Railways and Public Metro rail systems
o In-Building and Venue
• Type
o Voice
o Data
o KPI Based
o MoS & QoS based
• Audience
o Engineering
o Operations
o Marketing
o Strategy
19. Benchmarking – Typical Algorithms - Voice
Test Details Specification
No of Operators tested 4 GSM & 4 UMTS
Voice Test Algorithm
Call Duration 3 mins (180 Secs)
Idle time in between calls 30 Sec.
Voice Service
Voice
Call
Idle
Voice
Call
Idle
Voice
Call
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Voice
Session
Voice Call Idle
UL DL UL DL UL DL UL DL UL DL
UL
MOS
DL
MOS
• 3 Mins - Continuous call
• 30 seconds - Idle time.
• Speech samples -DL and UL
• MOS score for voice quality
• Repeat for the entire
duration of collection
20. Benchmarking – Voice Analysis
• Voice Performance Analysis
• Coverage Distribution
• Call Setup Time
• Call Setup Success Rate
o Call Setup Failure Analysis
• Call Completion Success Rate
o Call Completion Failure Analysis
• Accessibility V/s Retain-ability: Market
Comparison
• Voice Quality: MOS
o Customer MOS Performance
o Customer Rx Quality Performance
o Customer C/I Performance
• Handover Analysis
21. Benchmarking – Typical Algorithms - data
Test Details Specification
No of Operators tested 4 GSM & 4 UMTS
Data Test Algorithm
Attach and PDP Activation Before every test
Ping 3 times - 32 bytes on www.google.co.in
FTP Download 15 MB from server
FTP Upload 1 MB to Server
HTTP 10 different websites.
Email send 100 KB Email to SMTP server
Email Receive 100 KB Email from POP3 server
** After every application test, we have 2 sec Idle time before the next Application is tested.
22. Benchmarking – Data Analysis
• Data Performance Analysis
• FTP Performance
o FTP Application Throughput Analysis
• HTTP Browsing Analysis
o HTTP Performance
• FTP DL/UL and HTTP Failures
• Email Performance
• Ping Response: Latency Performance
• GPRS Attach and PDP performance
• Data Access Technology Distribution
o EDGE - GPRS Codecs
o GPRS Timeslot Allocation
• KPI Overview Table