Telecoms is deterministic. AI is probabilistic. So what’s the path forward? TM Forum’s annual DTW Ignite event in Copenhagen was, as always, excellent. Between keynotes, breakouts and interviews, I spent …
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean focuses on multiple subject areas including 5G, Open RAN, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and Industry 4.0. He also hosts Arden Media's podcast Will 5G Change the World? Prior to his work at RCR, Sean studied journalism and literature at the University of Mississippi then spent six years based in Key West, Florida, working as a reporter for the Miami Herald Media Company. He currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Early 6G standardization decisions point to a pragmatic migration path, while new work on spectrum, sensing and distributed compute could unlock fundamentally new use cases The path to 6G is …
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Agentic AI is collapsing the time defenders have to act; Cisco’s answer is a security model built around visibility, runtime protection, governed automation and human control The “Mythos moment” was …
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With its Qualcomm Agentic RAN Management Service, the company is linking near-term operational cost efficiency with the long-term move to autonomous networks As mobile network operators (MNOs) continue to densify, …
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Cisco bets that agentic AI will make routing, trust, telemetry and cost control inseparable Cisco CEO and Chairman Chuck Robbins kicked off Cisco Live by recalling how company founders Leonard …
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Harvest now, decrypt later makes quantum-safe security a present-tense infrastructure risk for CSPs For communications service providers (CSPs), the quantum-safe security question isn’t a future hypothetical that hinges on when …
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With PQC deadlines looming, ‘Preparation is not optional, and it is not a future IT problem’ Network operators are, to varying degrees, working to make their networks quantum-safe. This primarily …
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Deploying PQC is a pressing need but, longer term, a hybrid PQC/QKD approach will deliver quantum-safe networks Quantum computers have been on the verge of commercial utility for years. However, …
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Building a trusted decision infrastructure requires a new degree of public/private collaboration on bringing commercial innovation into defense communications systems I recently had the opportunity to chair RCR Tech‘s Defense …
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The threat of harvest now, decrypt later, alongside broader momentum in quantum computing, adds urgency to PQC adoption For telecommuication operators, the transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is no longer …