Design for Manufacturing: Avoiding the ‘Pay Me Later’ Trap

Author: Paul Cianci, VP Operations, Stoke 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 … Continue reading

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LTE recently surpasses 100 million connections, what’s the risk?

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

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LTE looks like it is fulfilling its multi-vendor promise!

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

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Charting the Signaling Storms

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

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Security eXchange to secure another LTE network in Europe!

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

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Stoke hits another home run at Mobile World Congress

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

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ZDNet Asia: 4G LTE could spur DDoS, mobile data theft

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

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Accelerating towards 4G: Wi-Fi Moves to Center Stage

Massive increases in mobile data traffic have compelled mobile network operators to quickly leverage all available capacity options, especially Wi-Fi spectrum. Not long ago, mobile operators viewed Wi-Fi as competition, but now, major operators have publicly embraced Wi-Fi for its … Continue reading

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Stoke’s view on the Launch of LTE in France (en Français)

On attend globalement du LTE qu’il permette de réaliser sur le marché français des gains importants en termes de débit, de capacité et d’efficacité. C’est une bonne nouvelle pour les Opérateurs français et leurs clients, à condition que les fournisseurs d’équipements d’infrastructure puissent supporter les objectifs de performance attendus par les Opérateurs. Continue reading

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With Mobile Gateways in Hot Demand, Samsung Backs Stoke

Prompted by increased operator traction for innovative LTE offerings, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation has made a strategic investment of US$5 million in Mobile Broadband innovator Stoke, Inc. supporting their accelerated penetration of the worldwide LTE market. “Samsung has deployed and commercialized … Continue reading

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