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Oct 31, 20221 min read
Where could artificial intelligence help us most?
Uche asks tech futurist Dean Gratton about artificial intelligence and which areas he thinks are most exciting for businesses and...
Sarah-Jayne Gratton
Apr 20, 20223 min read
Ensuring Successful Solutions in 5G Testing Times
A solution isn’t a solution until it’s been tested and proven to work! Continuous technology evolution, as well as the ever-increasing...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Mar 29, 20223 min read
Your 5G Private Network
I attended the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona with my wife Sarah this year and it was great to be back, although, I did notice...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Feb 22, 20223 min read
Diversifying the 5G Supply Chain
5G has certainly picked up pace and, with the need to expand the cellular infrastructure to permit the interoperation and coexistence of...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Jan 20, 20225 min read
What I Wish for in 2022…
Happy New Year (I hope). With my wife, Sarah, having contracted Covid just before Christmas, it has been a difficult time, not just for...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Dec 14, 20214 min read
Artificial Intelligence and the 5G Connectivity Revolution
We’re coming to the end of another year, and we are still faced with the ongoing pandemic crisis with yet again a new Coronavirus...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Nov 5, 20213 min read
Does 5G adoption mean out with the old?
With the increasing shift and rollout of 5G, the next-generation cellular technology, legacy cellular technologies are slowly being shut...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Sep 30, 20214 min read
What are O-RAN, Open RAN and OpenRAN?
I thought in this month’s column, I’d provide a definitive definition, along with a succinct explanation, of what O-RAN, Open RAN and...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Sep 20, 20214 min read
How the Digital Age has Changed Our Architectural Landscape
Our landscape and its architecture have held me in awe as I’ve travelled and worked over many, many years. But things are changing… A...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Jul 20, 20214 min read
With 5G Does Wi-Fi Have a Future?
With the excitement and furore surrounding 5G, the next generation of cellular technology, some are now doubting the future of Wi-Fi,...
Sarah-Jayne Gratton
Jul 8, 20213 min read
Ericsson’s ‘Massive’ Move to Break the Energy Curve
Sustainability shouldn’t be an option – it’s our moral responsibility. And, as we journey into a 5G connected world the above statement...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Jun 21, 20214 min read
The Future of the Electric Vehicle
The UK, has started easing lockdown restrictions and, as such, people will undoubtedly be eager to get back in their cars and travel to a...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Mar 15, 20214 min read
5G RAN: The Principles of Network Functions Virtualization
I feel I am on sort of a radio access network (RAN) “roll,” with this being my third visit to the technology. In my quest to understand...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Feb 11, 20214 min read
The O-RAN Alliance and its global community
In this month’s column, I want to revisit my earlier discussion surrounding the radio access network (RAN). Last year, December in fact,...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Sep 2, 20205 min read
Sustainability Through a Better 5G
I have worked within the R&D wireless and telecommunications industry for almost 30 years and, in that time, I have experienced the good,...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Jul 3, 20204 min read
From Modern to Medieval: A Journey in Connectivity
Wi-Fi has greatly improved over the years and last year we celebrated20 years of the technology in 20 years of Wi-Fi: What did we ever do...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Jun 15, 20204 min read
Covid19: It’s in the 5G...
The conspiracy is still very much alive and is infecting people in a different kind of way, so why is it still active and what’s causing...
Dean Anthony Gratton
May 12, 20203 min read
post-Covid19: A Fresh Perspective on the Future
We are still in some sort of lockdown with a new set of “flexible rules” that have been recently introduced by the British government. In...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Apr 7, 20204 min read
Covid19: The Infection in our Infrastructure
We are in the strangest of times. The Coronavirus or Covid-19 has presented many new challenges for humanity: Both for us individually...
Dean Anthony Gratton
Mar 26, 20204 min read
Achieving true Wireless Broadband with Cellular
It was all quite unexpected! You see, I have become familiar with more traditional backhaul technologies such as Ethernet, xDSL, fiber...
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