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As software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology becomes more popular, communications service providers (CommSPs) want to expand their service offerings to include smaller remote offices. Low system costs for these locations are important, as is delivering line rate performance for deep packet inspection (DPI) and IPsec packet encryption/decryption and routing. Intel® Network Builders ecosystem member Lanner Electronics Inc. has built its NCA-2510 server products for these markets. The NCA-2510 product family is based on the Intel Atom® processor C3000 . The Intel Atom processor C3000 is designed to scale-out workloads in low-cost applications. The platform also features high I/O integration, making it a good choice for data networking applications.

Facial recognition is among one of the hottest technology trends nowadays and the booming applications of it is clearly foreseeable, starting from security-critical to retail payment systems. However, like other IoT applications, facial recognition generates tremendous volume of data, which may lead to performance disappointment due to network congestions. Therefore, with the assistance of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) for the anticipated 5G network specifications, the concept of facial recognition to be deployed at retail setting has become a reality.

The term mobility as a service (MaaS) has been the hot issue these days, and the reasons behind are 5G networks, V2X communications and mobile edge-cloud computing. Once intelligent Maas is realized, public transit vehicles like city buses will be able to collect and make sense of massive amounts of data from a huge array of sources, and there will be tremendous volume of data exchange on a daily basis. They may even communicate with sensors in response to signs like stoplights, bus stops, and even ones embedded in the roads to get traffic updates and rerouting alerts. In essence, they will act as a digital assistant to communicate with your device and gather information you need to go about your day.

2018 just started and the hype about NFV and SDN has been around for some time now. For the past years, service providers tested, validated and showcased many proof of concepts and created an eco-system what can help the migration path towards a simplified, open and programmable network infrastructure. 2017 seemed to be the year of the initialization of the network transformation starting with the lowest level in the network, the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE).

The current telecom industries are facing one of the most revolutionary eras that will drastically change the ecosystem, which is the upcoming of 5G networks by 2020. In the mean time, industry players have already employed technologies like SDN (Software-Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) introducing a more flexible, more agile, more visible and more secured network architecture.

A recent post published on AT&T‘s corporate blog by Chris Rice, Senior VP at AT&T Labs, and one of the most influential people in the telecom industry, together with John Medamana, VP Network Platforms, illustrated well the revolution the telecom industry is going through following the introduction of the white box concept.

The high anticipation of 5G technologies will be realized at the debut launch by KT (Korea Telecom) Corporation at the PyeongChang Olympics Games 2018. As promised, KT Corporation announced that they have setup the necessary infrastructure at the stadium including terminals, network protocols, bandwidth and edge devices to deliver audiences the immersive experience of watching the Winter Olympics games.

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