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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco

Forrester IT

Photo Copyright: Abhinav Sunil Sustainability in digital communications, data transmission, networking, and telecommunications is a critical component for climate action. According to the International Energy Agency, data transmission networks consumed 260–340 TWh (terawatt-hours) in 2021, or 1.1–1.4% of global electricity use.

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Nonpublic 5G Networks Will Be A Critical Building Block Of Your Enterprise Network Strategy

Forrester IT

Nonpublic 5G networks promise better privacy, data security, compliance, and cellular network performance; they also offer safer and more private features for dedicated user groups.

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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Ericsson

Forrester IT

(Photo by Abhinav Sunil) As the key backbone provider for connectivity and network infrastructure, the telecommunications industry has been in a spotlight for sustainability. With the advent of 5G, what can we do to build our new networks to be as energy-efficient as possible?

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5G-enabled manufacturing: Realizing Industry 4.0

TM Forum

A two-year project with Ford Motor Company has shown how 5G, mobile private networks, multi-access edge computing (MEC), IoT (Internet of Things), big data, cloud, artificial intelligence will deliver Industry 4.0 Vodafone ensured the 5G mobile private network was secure by design and embedded across the architecture from the beginning.

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How customers capture real economic value with zero trust

CIO Business Intelligence

Hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security architectures were designed for days gone by when users, apps, and data all resided on premises. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange provides a different kind of architecture (zero trust) that not only enhances security but reduces costs while doing so.

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New Filipino telco's cloud-native approach helps secure rapid subscriber growth

TM Forum

DITO Telecommunity, a joint venture between China Telecom and Philippines conglomerate Udenna Corporation, is the Philippines’ third national telecoms operator. Our main challenge has been building a network from scratch, during the Covid-19 global pandemic and meeting the timelines laid down by the government.

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Impressions From Mobile World Congress 2021

Forrester IT

This was the first time attendees could get a sense of the global state of and the major trends in the telecommunications and technology sectors in the previous 18 months. […]. Mobile World Congress 2021 (MWC21) took place between June 28 and July 1, 2021, after Mobile World Congress 2020 got canceled due to the pandemic.

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