General Motors have recently announced their new end-to-end software platform called Ultifi
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New partnerships between 5G and cloud providers
Multiple important 5G providers have recently started partnerships with the biggest cloud providers.
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Mobile subscriptions shifting towards 5G
According to the newest Ericsson Mobility Report, the 5G uptake is faster than it was for 4G. Despite the pandemic, 5G subscriptions with a 5G-capable device grew significantly during the first quarter, and it is estimated that there will be close to 580 million 5G subscriptions by the end of 2021.
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Live audio rooms create new QoS requirements for social media apps
With the continuous popularity of Clubhouse, other companies started creating its clones as additional functionalities to their existing apps.
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Advancements in audio streaming require more bandwidth
High quality audio streaming, before available almost exclusively on Tidal, is now coming to other popular services.
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Pandemic highlights the importance of latency
Both internet usage and capacity has seen a surge since March 2020. However, it is important to point out, that the majority of the increase in internet usage has been real-time connections (like videoconferencing), more than consumption (such as streaming video).
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Internet traffic over a year into pandemic
As tens of millions of people transitioned to working and learning from home in March and April of last year, the internet traffic saw an exceptional growth.
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Live transcription services are growing
Since the pandemic started, millions of people participate in countless online meetings.
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Low Latency High Quality A/V Streaming
The need for remote collaboration has spiked during the pandemic and many video chat applications have seen tremendous growth in their user base.
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New cloud-based solutions for AI-equipped cameras
Veo Technologies has designed a video camera and cloud-based subscription service to record and then automatically pick out highlights of games, which it then hosts on a platform for its customers to access and share that video content.
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A newly proposed privacy-friendly DNS protocol
Cloudflare announced support for a new proposed DNS standard called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODoH).
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Predictions for optical networking in 2021
2020 showed the need for reliable internet services all around the world, especially with the rapid move of many aspects of people’s lives online, including work, education and healthcare.
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