Keith Dyers’ article for The Mobile Network, “4G Hype Leading to LTE Security Shortcuts” discusses operator hesitation in deploying LTE IPsec security and identifies four main reasons that operators may bypass or delay IPsec: cost, market speed, performance impacts, and … Continue reading
The Small Cell Forum, in partnership with ETSI, will hold the next Small Cell LTE Plugfest in June 2013, hosted by the SINTESIO test lab in Slovenia. About a dozen vendors are scheduled to participate. The event, which is supported … Continue reading
Why do some operators mandate IPsec in the LTE network while others treat the 3GPP LTE security recommendation as an afterthought? Three recently published papers provide perspective on the implementation options – and the risks. Keith Dyers’ article for The … Continue reading
Design for manufacturing describes the process of developing a product with the ultimate manufacturing and test process in mind with the goal of reducing assembly costs and increases in quality. Equipment manufacturers in the LTE infrastructure world use these techniques … Continue reading
Wireless Intelligence (WI), the research firm connected to the GSMA, this week announced that LTE had surpassed 100 million connections and forecast that it would reach 900 million connection by December of 2017. A pretty impressive start for LTE by … Continue reading
If the amount and variety of interoperability testing (IoT) with eNodeB equipment we are being asked to perform is any indication, LTE looks to be fulfilling its promise of enabling more equipment players, promoting more competition, fewer vendor-homogeneous networks, and more negotiating strength for operators. Continue reading
A new Industry Insight brief from Stoke discusses the primary drivers of LTE signaling growth, the impacts on each network boundary, and identifies strategies to mitigate threats to the Mobility Management Entity (MME) from excessive or inappropriate signaling. For example, … Continue reading
News of Samsung’s LTE network RAN and core win at 3 Ireland became public today (see article here), marking another LTE network in Europe being secured by Stoke Security eXchange. This follows Samsung’s win at 3UK which was announced in … Continue reading
I am happy to report Stoke repeated our success at MWC 2012 in last month’s MWC 2013 show. You may recall that at last year’s event we offered live demonstrations of the Wi-Fi gateway innovation “clientless, but connected” Wi-Fi access … Continue reading
A new article from cybercrime watcher Ellyne Phneah of ZDNet Asia highlights the risk potential of LTE networks and the lucrative potential of mobile phones to enhance botnets. Food for thought at ZDNet Asia
