Журнал Стандарт / Standard Magazine, February 2016, Special Issue

Editor’s Column

Translating Words into Action
Leonid Konik, Editor-in-Chief

Cover Story

2015G
The year 2015 was a turning point in the 5G long-distance race: within the last 12 months, multiple stakeholders from various countries have moved from words to action

Keynote Address

Russian Doctor to the Rescue
Boris Sharov, CEO of Doctor Web, explains how the Russian antivirus software developer markets its sophisticated cybercrime deterrence solutions worldwide

The No. 1 Alternative
Rene Buhay, Kingsoft Vice President for Global Sales, talks about whether a sustainable alternative to Microsoft is possible and why users would want to buy it

Decisive Superiority
Jean Turgeon, Vice President & Chief Technologist for Software Defined Architecture, World Wide Sales, at Avaya, explains what benefits SDN gives to the corporate sector

Standardization

One Standard Fits All
Don Clarke, member of the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group and Chair of the Network Operator Council, explains the importance of cooperation between SDOs and Open Source in the field of NFV standardization

Executive Forecast

Major Milestones
Russian government officials, heads of trade associations, and major telecom operators sum up 2015 and make predictions for the current year

Business Development

Generation Gap
Mobile carriers are preparing to optimize costs by getting rid of their 2G and 3G infrastructure

LTE Enabled Technologies

The Fourth Generation of Voice
VoLTE adoption in Russia and around the world

No Holds Barred
Drivers and barriers for LTE Broadcast commercial deployment

Technologies

The LoRa Pilot Zone in Moscow
How LPWA and LoRa technologies are supporting the rapidly growing IoT applications and services industry

Machine Communication

Penetration Shallow
The growth of IoT: a road to sweeping migration to IPv6 or an IP address crunch

 The Industry Goes Online
How an industrial IoT helps to increase productivity through predictive maintenance