5G Frequency Bands overview
One of the objectives of 5G requires a massive use of frequency bands to allow both flexibility of use cases and large chunks of bandwidth allocated for very high throughput. Here is a summary...
The 8 Layers Blog
HTTPS Encryption on Pornhub and YouPorn – the false impression of privacy
All High Tech news websites have announced it between the end of March and beginning of April: “Pornhub And YouPorn Enable HTTPS Encryption So Your Private Time Can Truly Remain Private”. This is a...
“noreply” or the best way to turn down a potential customer engagement
I am sometimes puzzled by the customer experience I face when using a new online service, and I try to imagine the process used by the team who came up with the customer journey...
Google Mobile Site Certification – Your mobile website size and speed matters
Google has just launched a great certification program called “mobile sites” where they advocate for their vision of how mobile websites should be designed and optimized to improve the user experience. It gives some...
An admin with fat fingers took down Amazon S3
Amazon has shared the root cause analysis of the major outage they have faced on 28th of February and taking down S3, and affecting AWS, EC2 and other services relying on S3.
LTE Radio Coverage vs Frequency Band
I found some time ago a good PDF document from ZTE talking about APT 700 band for LTE and which was also showing a table of the theorical LTE coverage performance versus the radio...
Measurement units in Telecommunications – kilo, mega, giga
I got a comment about the conversion of bps to kbps used in the LTE throughout calculator that reminded me about this bizarre situation that we usually do not convert telecom bits into kilobits...
5G will be called 5G and has an official logo
3GPP has unveiled the logo and name which will be used for 5G networks, which will be called 5G (unlike 4G which official name has been LTE). This designation and logo are meant to...
GSM-R, LTE-R and Hyperloop at 1,200 kph
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the American start-up which develops a concept of super fast train moving on electromagnetic suspension at 1,200 km/h has recently signed an MoU with the region of Occitania...