As the consequences of climate change intensify, adaptation practices will become the "new normal" for the ICT sector. This is one of the key findings of a new report produced by the ITU, in collaboration with the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and UNESCO, with the support of Deutsche Telekom.

Huawei announces that it has successfully completed a joint trial on IP-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) and optical synergy with Telefónica.

With data center activities and cloud-based services rapidly gaining importance in the communications industry, the global market for Ethernet test equipment has witnessed a steady evolution of complex next-generation solutions.

Global machine-to-machine (M2M)¹ connections will reach 250 million this year, according to a new GSMA report², which highlights that M2M has become an important growth area for mobile operators.

Over the next five years, the number of new vehicles equipped with standard mobile connectivity will increase sevenfold. This aims to meet the demand from both European regulators and consumers, who are concerned about road safety and the protection of passengers and pedestrians, as well as the provision of entertainment, information, and navigation services from within the vehicle.

Telefónica Digital has presented “The Connected Car Industry 2013”, a report that gathers the opinion of eight of the world's largest car manufacturers* and the analysis firm Machina Research.

The anticipated surge in demand for wireless data will severely strain available spectrum unless new, efficient technologies are deployed. Wireless marvel: A 96-antenna wireless test array at Rice University is the most advanced project to leapfrog 4G technology today.

A report commissioned by Telefónica Digital reveals that while smart meters will become increasingly common, their global adoption is at different stages. However, both energy suppliers and technology companies anticipate a stagnation in the sector after 2018.

Changes in legislation are significantly impacting the enterprise data storage market for video surveillance worldwide. For example, in Germany, the maximum retention time for video surveillance footage has been increased from 24 to 48 hours, effectively doubling the maximum capacity requirement for video surveillance data storage systems.

In late December, a researcher at the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint noticed something strange: a security gateway was logging hundreds of thousands of malicious emails clearly being sent from over 100,000 devices running Linux, but they weren't PCs. Rather, they were internet-connected consumer devices, including routers, televisions, media centers, and even a refrigerator.

A group of Swiss researchers has developed a method that increases the bandwidth of optical fiber tenfold by reducing the space between the light pulses that carry information, allowing more data to circulate in less time.

The demand for outsourcing services is increasingly popular in Spain, and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) accounts for the majority of contracts, at 85%.

After three years of hard work, the Cloud-TM (Transactional Memory) Platform prototype has been launched. This announcement marks the final stage of one of the largest cloud computing research projects in the European Union.

Question: Calix Solutions has deployed in 80 countries worldwide, with 85% of local exchange operators in the United States using its solutions. What is your perspective on fiber optic deployment in the US? What are the advantages and challenges?

There are more than 5 billion mobile users, more than 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every month, there are trillions of web pages, billions of searches are done daily on Google, Facebook has more than 900 million users, Twitter has more than 200 million users, more than 24 hours of video are uploaded every second on YouTube, etc. [1].

Alcatel-Lucent is enabling a major increase in the capacity and reach of China Telecom's fiber optic data network. What can Europe learn from China's approach to fiber?