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Sintetiche riflessioni sulla evoluzione della tecnologia e dell’Industry
A cura di CT.TA.STC

Numero 4 – 22 febbraio 2019

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5G, FutureNet e Tecnologie

        •   Equinix raggiunge il traguardo di 200 global data centers nel mondo
        •   Google - 13 miliardi di dollari di Investimneit negli USA nel 2019 per data center e uffici
        •   Nasce la Kinetic Edge Alliance - KEA - con Vapor IO, Federated Wireless e altri
        •   Trump executive order a big step for national AI strategy, despite no new funds
        •   Vodafone teams up with WDR for 5G TV trial
        •   5G e Industry 4.0: grande test bed e trial in UK
        •   Investigation finds EU’s net neutrality policy is failing operators and consumers
        •   Columbus, Ohio, is piloting a fleet of autonomous electric shuttles as part of a multimillion-
            dollar smart transportation initiative
        •   Amazon cambia idea e non costruirà la nuova sede di New York per le opposizioni della
            popolazione
        •   Lumos lights up 10G PON in rural Virginia with ADTRAN

Servizi e Terminali

        •   Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed
        •   Alternative Treatments: VR & 5G for reducing pain & anxiety in hospice patients
        •   Gli smartphone cinesi hanno il 30% del mercato in Europa, quota in crescita
        •   Hey, Siri: Read My Lips - Silent speech recognition enables covert communication
        •   Could data security fears over second-hand devices be blocking a $52bn opportunity for
            telcos?

5G, FutureNet e Tecnologie

Equinix raggiunge il traguardo di 200 global data centers nel mondo
Equinix sempre più gigante; ha comprato anche i Data Center di AT&T, nel mondo 200
data center (solo uno in Italia)

Equinix reported 2018 annual revenues of $5.072 billion, an increase of 16% year-over-year; 9% growth
on a normalized and constant currency basis. Net income amounted to $365 million, a 57% increase
over the previous year.
Some highlights:
   • Achieved record global gross and net bookings in the 4th quarter
   • Equinix has 36 expansion projects underway and has entered Hamburg, Muscat and Seoul as
       new markets
   • Strong bookings across all three regions (Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific) in Q4 with record
       EMEA bookings, and the second-best booking performance to date in the Americas and Asia-
       Pacific regions.
   • Equinix bookings this quarter spanned across more than 3,000 customers, with a quarter of
       those customers buying across multiple metros.
   • Enterprises continue to leverage Equinix's highly distributed and cloud-enabled global
       platform to locate their infrastructure closer to the interconnected digital edge.
   • In Q4, 60% of total recurring revenues came from customers deployed across all three regions,
       and 86% of total recurring revenues came from customers deployed across multiple metros.
   • Interconnection revenues continued to outpace colocation revenues in Q4, growing 10% year-
       over-year on an as-reported basis and 12% on a normalized and constant currency basis.

http://investor.equinix.com

Tags:   Cloud Data Center
        https://us6.campaign-
Source:
        archive.com/?e=70df740c80&u=e7ba52423a4c879d0ae56cbae&id=42337f8b95

Google - 13 miliardi di dollari di Investimneit negli USA nel 2019 per data center
e uffici
13 b$ di investimenti nei soli USA da l'idea della dimensione del cloud e dei data center
per Google

One year ago this week, I was in Montgomery County, Tennessee to break ground for a new data center
in Clarksville. It was clear from the excitement at the event that the jobs and economic investment meant
a great deal to the community. I’ve seen that same optimism in communities around the country that
are helping to power our digital economy. And I’m proud to say that our U.S. footprint is growing rapidly:

In the last year, we’ve hired more than 10,000 people in the U.S. and made over $9 billion in investments.
Our expansion across the U.S. has been crucial to finding great new talent, improving the services that
people use every day, and investing in our business.
Today we’re announcing over $13 billion in investments throughout 2019 in data centers and offices
across the U.S., with major expansions in 14 states. These new investments will give us the capacity to
hire tens of thousands of employees, and enable the creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs
in Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia. With this new investment,
Google will now have a home in 24 total states, including data centers in 13 communities. 2019 marks
the second year in a row we’ll be growing faster outside of the Bay Area than in it.
This growth will allow us to invest in the communities where we operate, while we improve the
products and services that help billions of people and businesses globally. Our new data center
investments, in particular, will enhance our ability to provide the fastest and most reliable services for
all our users and customers. As part of our commitment to our 100 percent renewable energy
purchasing, we’re also making significant renewable energy investments in the U.S. as we grow. Our
data centers make a significant economic contribution to local communities, as do the associated $5
billion in energy investments that our energy purchasing supports.

Tags: Cloud Data Center
Source: https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/investing-13-billion-2019/

Nasce la Kinetic Edge Alliance - KEA - con Vapor IO, Federated Wireless e altri
la necessità di federarsi per una nuova categoria di service provider, i cosidetti edge
provider, sembra molto forte ...potrebbe essere lo stesso percorso dei providerr di CDN
negli anni 2000

Chicago is the first Kinetic Edge city.
Vapor IO and its partners—including Federated Wireless and MobiledgeX—have launched the Kinetic
Edge Alliance (KEA), an industry alliance of software, hardware and networking companies intent on
driving the adoption of compute, storage, access and interconnection at the edge of the cellular network.
Other entities in on the action include StackPath and Linode on the deployment side and technical
partners Seagate Technology, Alef Mobitech, Hitachi Vantara, Detecon International, Pluribus Networks
and New Continuum Data Centers.

The alliance intends to accelerate the rollout of edge computing, delivering a platform for wireless
operators and application providers to deliver new edge-enabled products and services to customers.
The KEA is starting out by rolling out tower-connected infrastructure for edge computing across the top
30 U.S. metro markets.

Tags:   Edge Computing
        https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/vapor-io-federated-wireless-and-more-launch-
Source:
        kinetic-edge-alliance

Trump executive order a big step for national AI strategy, despite no new funds
dopo l'iniziativa di Obama, anche Trump concorda sulla priorità anche se non alloca
fondi
President Donald Trump signed the American AI Initiative on Monday, an executive order prioritizing
the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies in the United States. The order
elevates the priority of AI R&D in federal agencies and calls for reallocation of research investment into
the technology.
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence will
oversee the initiative. The administration also called upon regulatory agencies and other stakeholders
such as NIST to create guidance and standards for AI technologies. Federal agencies were tasked with
improving access to federal data, models and computing resources for AI research and development.
The administration affirmed the importance of AI for national competitiveness and security, but also
acknowledged the impact it will have on America's workers, calling for greater education and training
of a workforce capable of using AI.

Tags:   AI
        https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-executive-order-a-big-step-for-national-ai-strategy-
Source:
        despite-no-new-f/548234/

Vodafone teams up with WDR for 5G TV trial
TV e 5G trials -- sa da fare …
The trial will roll out in Cologne
Vodafone Deutschland has teamed up with public broadcaster WDR to test the delivery of media library
content over 5G, enabling viewers to receive 4K resolution video over wireless networks.
The goal of the trial is to test the resilience of delivery of high-resolution content to mobile devices.
For the purposes of the trial, WDR is transmitting content via a 5G test infrastructure operated by
Vodafone from the broadcaster’s production facilities.
Over the course of the trial, which is scheduled to last until the end of 2020, the pair will test the
reception of TV and media library content on smartphones and tablets over 5G.
To begin with the partners will test data transmission at Vodafone’s 5G lab in Düsseldorf and 5G mobile
lab in Aldenhoven. Later, transmission will begin at WDR’s campus in Cologne.
 Tags: 5G
 Source: https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019/02/13/vodafone-teams-up-with-wdr-for-5g-tv-trial/

5G e Industry 4.0: grande test bed e trial in UK
trial molto complesso e articolato che comprende vari scenari dai big data ai sensori
alla security

It’s a big day in Worcester, as the Worcestershire 5G Consortium has just teamed up with
Worcester Bosch to launch a 5G testbed in the latter’s factory.
This is the UK’s first 5G factory trial and it’s seen as a huge step towards Industry 4.0 (aka the fourth
industrial revolution).
The test will involve things like using 5G to increase factory output, using Internet of Things (IoT)
sensors for preventative maintenance and real-time feedback, and using data analytics to predict
potential failure.
These technologies should allow Worcester Bosch to react in real time to things that are happening in
the factory and even pre-empt problems, so they can be solved before they strike.
Security is also a focus of these trials, with QinetiQ designing security into the network and applications
in what’s known as 'security by design' – essentially building the tech from the ground up with security
in mind.
The trials will all test end-to-end application performance and should lay the groundwork for the wider
availability of 5G in factories, which could prove transformative to the industry.
But this is just one of many 5G trials across many different industries. Indeed, the Worcestershire 5G
Consortium is one of numerous government-backed programmes exploring 5G. So hopefully by the time
the first commercial 5G networks go live later this year the UK will be ready for them.

Tags: 5G, industry 4.0
Source: https://5g.co.uk/news/5g-factory-trial-industry-4-0/4730/

Investigation finds EU’s net neutrality policy is failing operators and consumers
Analisi molto chiara di come la NN non ha portato vantaggi ai consumatori in Europa
e sulle differenze tra i vari paesi

US policy hasn’t delivered what it promised either, with broadband infrastructure investment falling for
the first time in three years.
A new piece of research published after a year-long investigation into the EU’s net neutrality policy
found it is damaging operators’ business and ignoring what users want.
The policy is due for review this year, but the Body of European Regulators for Electronic
Communications’ (BEREC} entrenched views are a cause for concern, according to John Strand.
Over the past year Strand Consult fought to create transparency in BEREC's work but faced opposition
to legal requests made under Europe’s freedom of information laws. Evenutally, Strand Consult
succeeded in gathering the minutes of more than 40 meetings on net neutrality behind closed doors,
many of which were heavily redacted.
Here is a brief summary of the main findings:

   •    EU policymakers wrongly assume connection speeds will increase linearly indefinitely,
        regardless of whether users want to pay for higher speeds or applications need them. This
        fixation with speed has limited consumers’ choice of preferred features like flexible pricing,
        service quality, safety, durability, and so on and amounts to a regulatory taking of consumers’
        and producers’ welfare without compensation.
   •    BEREC’s preferred group of stakeholders are advocacy organizations AccessNow, EDRi, ISOC,
        and BEUC, all of which apart from BEUC have received funding from Google and only deal with
        consumers in the capacity of ISP customers. Yet information from these organisations is how
        BEREC claims to know what all consumers want.

Tags:   network Neutrality
        https://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/press-wire/investigation-finds-eu-s-net-neutrality-policy-is-
Source:
        failing-operators-and-consumers

Columbus, Ohio, is piloting a fleet of autonomous electric shuttles as part of a
multimillion-dollar smart transportation initiative
"multimilion dollar transport initiative" ... senza soldi non si va lo ntano!

Photo: Smart Columbus
The May Mobility self-driving shuttle seen here driving into downtown Columbus, Ohio can hold up to
six passengers.
Visitors to Columbus, Ohio, have a new way to see the city’s downtown attractions. A fleet of electric,
self-driving vehicles now shuttle passengers around a cluster of museums and parks, using sensors and
software in lieu of engines and auto parts. The pilot project, which began in mid-December, belongs to
a larger statewide effort to improve road safety and mobility in this car-dependent capital.
Smart Columbus, launched in 2016 after the city bested 77 mid-sized U.S. cities for a pool of “smart
transportation” funding. The U.S. Department of Transportation granted Columbus up to $40 million,
while Vulcan Inc., the private company of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will chip in up to $10
million. The program aims to develop advanced data and intelligent systems technologies to solve
problems plaguing many urban transportation networks: traffic congestion, accidents, tailpipe
pollution, commuter delays and inaccessibility.

Tags:   Self Driving CAr
        https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/selfdriving-shuttles-hit-
Source:
        the-streets-of-ohio

Amazon cambia idea e non costruirà la nuova sede di New York per le opposizioni
della popolazione
Dopo aver scelto New York grazie agli inventivi proposti dal Governatore, per la sua
nuova sede dopo Seattle, Amazon cambia piano per l'opposizione dovuta alla paura di
"egemonia" sul mondo del lavoro

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Getty Images
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a victory lap on Twitter Thursday over news that Amazon is
scrapping its plan to build a new headquarters in Queens.
“Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors
defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the
world,” she tweeted.
The freshman Democratic lawmaker had been a vocal opponent of the deal to lure the online retail giant
to Long Island City — which would’ve given Amazon $3 billion in city and state subsidies in exchange
for bringing a projected 25,000 jobs to the area.
Amazon said it was pulling out of the plans because “a number of state and local politicians have made
it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us.”

Source: https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/ocasio-cortez-cheers-as-amazon-scraps-nyc-headquarters

Lumos lights up 10G PON in rural Virginia with ADTRAN
Un altro caso di lancio di servizio commerciale FTTH a 10 Gbps per utenti business e
consumer, dopo quello di Iliad , Singapore e vari altri
Lumos Networks is deploying ADTRAN's 10G fiber access portfolio to deliver network-wide 10Gbps or
10G fiber services for small business customers in rural Virginia.
Lumos Networks, which has been an ADTRAN customer for nearly a decade, is using the ADTRAN Total
Access 5000 fiber broadband platform as the cornerstone of its access network. The carrier is now using
the ADTRAN software-defined access (SD-Access) architecture.
“The number of applications that require more robust broadband services continues to grow for both
residential and small business customers, especially with emerging technologies accelerating network
demands,” said Lumos Networks SVP and General Manager Diego Anderson. “Our partnership with
ADTRAN positions us to create reliable connections with our customers while delivering a level of
distinguishing service and support over a fiber-based infrastructure. The initial product offering will
include tiered symmetrical speed profiles of two, four and eight gigabits per second for delivering
higher-speed solutions to meet evolving customer requirements. We also anticipate increasing speed
profiles in the future based on the flexibility provided within this platform.”

“Lumos Networks is committed to serve as the leading provider of fiber broadband services in each of
its markets so that its customers can reap the benefits that next-generation 10G services bring to
communities and individual customers,” stated ADTRAN’s Vice President and Head of Sales for the
Americas Harris Razak.

Tags: FTTH, futurenet

 Servizi e Terminali

Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed
sempre più dati degli utenti direttamente a Google e Amazon

The tech giants are demanding a continuous stream of customer information from smart-home
manufacturers, prompting privacy concerns.
As Amazon.com Inc. and Google work to place their smart speakers at the center of the internet-
connected home, both technology giants are expanding the amount of data they gather about customers
who use their voice software to control other gadgets.
For several years, Amazon and Google have collected data every time someone used a smart speaker to
turn on a light or lock a door. Now they’re asking smart-home gadget makers such as Logitech and
Hunter Fan Co. to send a continuous stream of information.
In other words, after you connect a light fixture to Alexa, Amazon wants to know every time the light is
turned on or off, regardless of whether you asked Alexa to toggle the switch. Televisions must report
the channel they’re set to. Smart locks must keep the company apprised whether or not the front door
bolt is engaged.
This information may seem mundane compared with smartphone geolocation software that follows you
around or the trove of personal data Facebook Inc. vacuums up based on your activity. But even gadgets
as simple as light bulbs could enable tech companies to fill in blanks about their customers and use the
data for marketing purposes. Having already amassed a digital record of activity in public spaces, critics
say, tech companies are now bent on establishing a beachhead in the home.
“You can learn the behaviors of a household based on their patterns,” says Brad Russell, who tracks
smart home products for researcher Parks Associates Inc. “One of the most foundational things is
occupancy. There’s a lot they could do with that.”

Tags:   AI, Big Data, Privacy
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/your-smart-light-can-tell-amazon-
Source:
        and-google-when-you-go-to-bed?srnd=technology-vp

Alternative Treatments: VR & 5G for reducing pain & anxiety in hospice patients
Un esempio di uso non ludici o industriali della VR

Here in Southern California, where I live, AT&T is teaming up with end-of-life care provider VITAS
Healthcare to study whether virtual reality and augmented reality can help reduce chronic pain and
anxiety for some hospice patients. Utilizing newly available 5G in the trial areas, the study's aim is to
test low-latency connectivity and on-demand streaming AR & VR content can be leveraged toward
alternative therapies administered to keep patients comfortable, calm, and mentally engaged.
It's the latest in a growing number of efforts to use mixed reality technologies to deliver medical care to
patients. By one estimate, the global market for AR & VR in healthcare will top $6 billion by 2025. A
more robust body of evidence will be needed, however, for healthcare providers to outlay big money on
alternative treatments in the long run.

Tags: 5G, VR
Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/testing-vr-to-reduce-pain-anxiety-in-hospice-patients

Gli smartphone cinesi hanno il 30% del mercato in Europa, quota in crescita
Nel 2018 in Europa Apple perde l 5% in volume, samsung l'1%, Huawei e Xiaomi
crescono del 55% e oltre!

Samsung continua a mantenere il primo posto con una quota di mercato del 28,7 per cento, ma ha perso
circa l’1 per cento rispetto al 2017. Apple ha il 26 per cento, in calo del 5,1 per cento rispetto all’anno
precedente. Entrambe le aziende stanno facendo i conti con un rallentamento generale del mercato degli
smartphone, e con la maggiore tendenza dei consumatori ad acquistare i prodotti cinesi.

Tags: Smartphone
Source: https://www.ilpost.it/2019/02/15/produttori-cinesi-smartphone-europa-huawei-xiaomi/

Hey, Siri: Read My Lips - Silent speech recognition enables covert communication
anche i muti potranno parlare ...

Photo: Lorrie LeJeune
Arnav Kapur, a researcher in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab, demonstrates the AlterEgo
device, which can decipher words iterated silently with the mouth closed.

Called “silent speech recognition,” the technology essentially reads lips. Users mouth the words of a
command or message, and the device deciphers the words, based on the movements of the face and
neck.
The feat can be accomplished using surface electromyography, or sEMG. Electrodes are placed on the
skin at key places around the mouth, along the jaw, under the chin or on the neck. Muscle movements
in those areas generate neuromuscular signals—essentially an electrical code. Algorithms trained on
silent speech then translate the electrical signals, decoding what the user is saying.

Tags: wearable
Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/hey-siri-read-my-lips l

Could data security fears over second-hand devices be blocking a $52bn
opportunity for telcos?
Si svilupperà in maniera significativa come nel mondo delle automobili un mercato
degli smartphone di seconda mano?

Customer concerns over data security are preventing telcos from properly capitalising on the
opportunities presented by the second hand device market, a new report reveals
The global market in second hand smartphone handsets could be worth as much as $52.7 billion by the
year 2022, according to a report by IDC. However, new research published by the Blancco Technology
Group shows that fears over data security could be preventing consumers from trading in their own
devices…
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Tags:   Smartphone
        https://www.totaltele.com/502172/Could-data-security-fears-over-second-hand-devices-be-
Source:
        blocking-a-52bn-opportunity-for-telcos

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