08 August 2025

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With the increasing development of critical broadband networks, the key issue for network operators is how to ensure mission critical services delivered over broadband interwork with the existing narrowband land mobile radio (LMR) networks such as TETRA.

A new white paper from TCCA titled ‘Interworking Function (IWF) Interworking of LMR networks with 3GPP Mission Critical Services’ explores the opportunities and challenges of interworking LMR networks with 4G/5G-based 3GPP Mission Critical Services (MCX) solutions by leveraging the standard-defined Interworking Function (IWF). The aim of this integration is to strengthen communication capabilities, achieve seamless interoperability, and enable a gradual and successful adoption of broadband technologies.

09 July 2025

Retail Express has released a new whitepaper to help retailers plot a path to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in retail. Titled ‘Retail’s Journey To AI’, it provides a comprehensive guide to AI integration in retail, presenting AI as a journey that retailers can undertake to gain critical advantages in efficiency, customer experience, and market competitiveness.

AI represents a transformative opportunity for retail, enabling better decision-making and operational efficiency. AI will provide the analytics that will support and even secure retail's future with a new way of doing business. However, AI adoption isn't optional but essential for competitive survival, with the guide emphasising that it is critical for retailers to take those first steps, however small, towards AI today.

10 June 2025

Given the emergence of AI over the past year or so, the introduction of the European Union NIS2 Directive in late 2024 was not a moment too soon. Just like in the latest installment of Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, IT teams are now having to deal with their own “mini-Entity” as they attempt to stay ahead of hackers.

In fact, one could argue that the original Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive was already somewhat out of date when it became effective in 2018 in that it only applied to limited types of organizations and left too many implementation details to individual member states. These among many other shortfalls.