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5G network slicing: what, why, what, how By Dr. Konstantinos Stavropoulos | December 2019

Ten interesting facts about network outages By EXFO | December 2019

5G network automation relies on accurate real-time topology By Jo Hicks | November 2019

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Our 5G world in 2025: what to expect, how to make it happen

Dr. Konstantinos Stavropoulos | January 28, 2020 - 11 am EDT | 4 pm GMT

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The road to 10G cable networks

Jimmy Gagnon | January 30, 2020 - 11 am EDT | 4 pm GMT

Telco network transformation in the 5G era: maximizing analytics and automation

Dr. Konstantinos Stavropoulos | December 12, 2019

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EXFO and Zain unlock the value of network data to boost CX and revenues

Hawaiki ushers in a new era of digital communications in the Pacific

Certifying 5G equipment vendors

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The sequence of bits that form the unit of data transmission at the LAN data-link layer or medium access-control layer. In Ethernet, a frame consists of the sequence of bits transmitted by a station from the preamble through the frame check sequence. Also known as a packet.