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If you missed DTW24 – Ignite this year, then Cerillion Product Director, Brian Coombs, has you covered with his usual round-up of highlights from this year’s event. AI remains high on everyone’s mind, but has the telecoms industry worked out its killer use cases yet?

Another year, another MWC. Cerillion’s Product Director, Brian Coombs, looks back on the highs and lows of 2024’s event, doling out his awards for the best in telecoms and connectivity tech for this year.

Cerillion were back as silver sponsors of DTW23 last month. From catching up with customers, talking to prospects and participating in sessions, Brian Coombs divulges his highlights from this year’s show.

While many lavish greenfield smart city developments have been catching headlines lately, the reality is that most will be brownfield developments, integrated into existing urban spaces. Brian Coombs explores the unique challenges of smartifying our cities.

MWC is back, but did it deliver? Cerillion’s Product Director, Brian Coombs, picks out the highlights (and lowlights) from four days of roaming around the cavernous exhibition halls.

Cerillion was a silver sponsor and exhibitor at DTW 2022, the TM Forum’s flagship event in Copenhagen in September. Brian Coombs takes a look back at the show, and picks out some of his highlights.

Brian Coombs reports back from this year’s MWC Barcelona, detailing the highs and lows from the showfloor – from the usual bricolage of 5G services and connected devices, to folding mobile phones, cyber-dogs, and the Metaverse causing more than a few eyes to roll.

In case you hadn’t noticed – Facebook was hit by a vast service outage two weeks ago. Why might such an outage become more likely in the future, and what should businesses do to mitigate the risk? Brian Coombs explains.

With more and more enterprises turning to multiple cloud services, a move to distributed cloud set-ups becomes increasingly likely – perhaps even necessary. What are the differences between these two discrete cloud implementations, and what are the relative benefits and drawbacks of each approach? Cerillion Product Director Brian Coombs writes.

MWC Barcelona is coming up once again, with Cerillion demonstrating its full product suite alongside the latest industry developments, innovations and more. Brian Coombs, Cerillion Product Director, shares what he hopes to see around the exhibition and compares this with what he expects to be the reality.

Microservices architecture has been hyped as the latest and greatest software model that will increase your flexibility, accelerate time-to-market and underpin your digital transformations. However, it’s not without its drawbacks. Brian Coombs, Product Director at Cerillion, explains why a pragmatic approach is required to ensure microservices are used where there are significant benefits to be gained, and not just for the sake of it.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the showpiece event for the telecoms industry and is in many ways, the perfect launchpad for future technologies. So, what were some of the key trends emerging from MWC 2018? Brian Coombs recaps the event by picking out the themes that caught his attention.