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A4: Low latency broadband to rural areas and business, its not happening fast enough. Technologies like Windows Virtual Desktop requires minimum dropped packets and under 200ms consistently.

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Q4: For CommScope we are building the physical connectivity in the core/enterprise with our wired solutions and switches, we are building the networks that connect the 5G Small Cells as well as the Radios that send new 5G NR to the growing masses

@TonyCai Certainly an area of focus for us @CambiumNetworks

Q4 - At the same time we are also building out the next generation HFC and DOCSIS networks for 10G/DOCIS 4.0 capacity to the home with our CMTS and Fiber Nodes as well as providing DOCSIS to PON transition technologies for the homes and businesses that need 10Gbps

A4: Lack of scalability and visibility. These are two issues we frequently see and are helping our customers with as they depart from legacy solutions.

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A4: It's been amazing to see how organizations have almost instantaneously moved to a work from home workforce. We've seen very creative use of Wi Fi, encryption/VPN and identify-based access control deliver the corporate network to the home and do it securely.

@CheeversCharles A4: Many rural areas, however, are not served by MVNO and SPs, due to the risky financials... which is where #FixedWireless services may be a better fit

We are also in a unique position in that we also develop the end devices in most of the homes in the US and across the globe - from DOCSIS and PON GW , Wi-Fi Access Points and Mesh solutions and STB and Smart Media Devices - so we really understand the e2 experience

A4: I’m interested in seeing how #edge, #5G, and #Wifi6 could help with the last mile problem, especially in low-density geographies.

A4: I’m also still amazed by how many organizations struggle with #networksecurity. It’s a mindset as much as it is a question of technology choices, and it has to be there in the planning stages instead of bolted on later.

@CambiumMatt Absolutely....and we will be happy to run fiber to your FWA solutions as well for interconnect backhaul... Hopefully lots of Ruckus and Cambium systems filling the void of 16M US consumers with less than 25/5 Broadband

@larry_lunetta I definitely agree!

@AAbatangle Wi-Fi 6E spectrum with Standard Power SAS controlled at 2W or greater can be an effective way of getting a single Fiber POP quickly to the last mile...

@CheeversCharles Now we've just got to see the financial incentive/commitment to do it.

A4 Even though we have seen incredible advances in software networks are still built with a device centric mindset. "We need a firewall for that or a router for this". We don't need more devices. We need to be able get the network functions we want.

The best way to secure a distributed workforce is to use the same access policies and enforcement as if they were still physically in the office.

I had a partner sell a virtual desktop solution last month, and upon additional discovery, I discovered they were using satellite technology and wanting to run 15 desktops via a high latency 3MBPS connection in Ohio. As much as I wanted to close the deal, wasnt worth the issues.

@TonyCai Yes - we need to be able to provide consistent latency to 15ms for all broadband consumers.... Latency is THE new currency.... more important to have services work snappy than to go from 200Mbps to 300Mbps SLA on Broadband... Although Gbps bursts do help with jitter too

A4: @linuxnetdata was founded as a fully remote, global company, so zero new impact. That being said, remote-only collaboration has its challenges, and we were disappointed to have to skip our company meetup this year due to #covid travel restrictions.

Huge! At @Nerdio we enable partners and customers to deploy Windows Virtual Desktops from Azure, and adoption has accelerated through the roof from everyone wanting to securely access their corporate apps and desktops over the WAN. We are seeing customers ditch their offices.

Q4 Sidebar - WFH is forcing every business to re-evaluate their infrastructure. It has been good for us because Stateless is all about making the creation of networks simple and fast.

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Supplement to A4: Demand for #FixedWireless networking equipment has never been higher (or more urgent). Many companies are discovering that this is the "new normal", and WISPs and traditional Service Providers are struggling to keep up with demand for #wfh bandwidth

@AAbatangle True, I miss live events!!

I live near Facebook in Menlo Park, Calif., and have been watdching the company build dozens of new buildings with more than 1M square feet of office space. Few people are in them now and I'm wondering how many will return to work there. Wow.

Its been huge .. We have seen over a years growth in traffic on the access network. New norms of peaks during the 8-5 Video Conferencing WFH window..... Lots more Uplink traffic from the home as people try and perform same functions at home as in the office

On the positive side, our remote access solutions are flying off the shelf as well as the contact tracing solutions that will facilitate a safe return to the office. Like all organizations, we are continuing to learn what remote working means.

Opportunities for new WFH services and packages... Do you want to always be the one person with the poor performing Video conference

Wi-Fi IS THE INTERNET for WFH

@stateless_inc Yes, we've seen accelerated adoption of @linuxnetdata IT infrastructure monitoring since February, driven by the need for enhanced #observability thanks to the pressures remote work is putting on systems & apps.

Note: @CambiumNetworks actually provided software to enable 45 MHz of additional unlicensed frequencies at the start of the COVID crisis to alleviate congestion and allow more subscribers to connect to their provider. (The @FCC graciously granted STA to many folks)

Other than people running leaf blowers and lawnmowers in the middle of your most important conference or the kids running in - Wi-Fi is your WFH lifeline

I can identify ... my next-door neighbor is a carpenter and seems to use his rotary saw whenever I'm on on a business call of any kind!

A3: I think that intent-based networking is an evolution of SD-WAN, but sounds like marketecture more than anything else right now; the paradigm makes sense, but it's early. Still haven't seen the full potential of SD-WAN outside the enterprise.

I had to read the article as I was not familiar with the term, so its basically AI networking governed by the IT administrator.

Marketechture! Love it

A3. Intent based networking is the mixture of data science and data communications. It has huge potential as tech is produced that allows networks to become 'aware' of the data that they are carrying. There's a lot of promise in this tech.

The network needs to be more programmable before we see true 'intent-based' networking apps.

SDWAN providers will pass traffic from different ISP providers through a virtual managed firewall and perform DPI, filtering, etc all from a centralized location.

If you can see the traffic and understand its flow, then connectivity choices, security and AI-powered optimizations naturally follow. The management and aggregation of all of this in the cloud makes it practical.

A5: Intelligent pathing with SD-WAN makes it easier to vector suspect traffic for further processing, moving the burden off of endpoints to a greater degree.

A5. I think it's not SD-WAN pre se. We're seeing more programmability being introduced into networks. Tech like P4 which allows us to now use software to control layer 2. Software control is allowing us to raise the level of intelligence of the network.

The Windows Virtual Desktop Control Plane in with ExpressRoutes Azure is the perfect example of how they converge networking, security all in one utilizing their global footprint. #wfh #wvd

We have been working with Service providers to sell Business services using SD-WAN services and solutions. Its the effective and fast way to stand up services but more importantly to easily pick and choose more

Like Enterprise Wi-Fi solutions have now drifted to the Home Wi-Fi mesh solutions ... we also see in the not too distant future - uCPE enabled SD-WAN like services will also leverage the home edge to enable services to consumers on a new uCPE home compute platform...

In the meantime we will be dropping containerized services into Residential GW and AP devices to enable the first batch of new home services from Firewalls to IoT hubs to Wi-Fi motion and other services

@CheeversCharles They already exist, and the demand will only scale with #Wifi6 and the glut of devices on home networks. Home routers need to be a lot smarter.

Yes - Wi-Fi 6E - 66Gbps of potential

cool!

Both #5G and #WiFi6 will bring wireless speeds up to par with wired... Wired versus wireless is no longer a choice... #VR and #AR will run fine over WiFi

Scope to even do HDMI over 6E but will still be lightly compressed to fit into 4x4 - 4.7Gbps initially

Absolutely. One thing that the network has been always been able to do is go faster! But will the WAN infrastructure get the RIGHT data to your doorstep?

#wifi6 can certainly handle VR applications

@zkerravala VR at 8K or even 4Kp60/120 which is what we need does not run well over Wi-Fi 5 today.... Sure there are some VR Googles and Phones in boxes - but thats not where VR needs to be...needs either Wi-Fi 6E or 60GHz to really have the latency and b/w required for 10ms

@stateless_inc @editingwhiz That's the real question, along with the realistic demand for consumer VR/AR apps. It hasn't really materialized yet.

@CheeversCharles any health concerns around so many radio signals through the air? I always wondered how the SAR scale on mobile phones correlate with wifi AP's in homes and businesses.

We are making sure that the power levels are appropriate for home use...so should be good... In fact we define the 6E level as Low Power Indoor mode - so that it wont interfere with Fixed Links using 6GHz today.. We have also specified a Very Low Power 25mW mode

@CambiumMatt Not if your in an MDU with 5GHz congestion - thats what the new spectrum at 6GHz is for... You can almost have your own channel per apparment ... with 7 160MHz channels and 14 x 80MHz...

@CheeversCharles Agree that 6 GHz opens a new swath of usable spectrum to alleviate congestion and utilize faster connections.