An Independent Look at the
Network of the Future
tia2015.org is an independent journal about the networks that carry modern life: mobile, fiber, cloud, the Internet of Things and the quiet infrastructure underneath them. We also follow one industry that stress-tests all of it every weekend, because casinos and sportsbooks depend on low latency as much as any carrier does.
The name comes from a June 2015 conference once held under this address in Dallas. That event is over and we have no connection with its organizers, but the questions it asked are still open, so we keep asking them in plain English.
You will find explainers on 5G, RF, software-defined networking and machine-to-machine standards, along with longer essays and a running look at how networks hold up when the pressure is highest. Read More...
Keynote Essays
Latest From the Journal
Next-Generation Mobile Networks
Stadium Tour: Inside a Connected Stadium
Why Latency Decides In-Play Betting
Software Defined Networking 101
Policy Day: Spectrum, Auctions and the Rules of the Network
RFID Chips and the Smart Casino Table
Building New Services and Revenue in a Connected WorldTexas Companies: The Telecom Corridor and Beyond
How a Lottery Terminal Network Works
What the Class of 2015 Got Right, and What It MissedA Sample of the Technologies We Explain
The Network of the Future is the platform that will power the digital revolution.
Get prepared for tomorrow's reality:
mobility, software defined networking, Internet of Things, dynamic infrastructure
Next-Generation Mobile NetworksTrack 2:Building New Services and Revenue
in a Connected WorldTrack 3:Network Infrastructure for a
Data-Centric WorldWorkshop 1:Understanding RF and CellularWorkshop 2:Software Defined Networking 101Workshop 3:oneM2M: One Standard
for Connected Machines
Where the Network Meets the Casino Floor
A modern gaming resort runs more like a carrier than a card room. Every slot machine reports to central servers, chips and card shoes feed data from the tables, and surveillance video pours into storage around the clock. When the floor network stutters, revenue stops.
Online betting raises the pressure further. In-play odds can expire in seconds, live-dealer tables are streamed to phones around the world, and an app has to prove where each customer is standing. Our Casino Tech section looks at all of this from the engineer's side, as a case study in what networks can do.
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Dallas, Where the Name Comes From
North Texas is one of America's great telecom clusters, which is why the 2015 event came here. It is also a place of odd contrasts. Texas has no commercial casinos, so the visitors who wanted a night at the tables drove an hour north across the Red River into Oklahoma. Meanwhile, its stadiums and data centers keep setting the pace for the rest of the network.
We write for people who build, buy or simply depend on networks. No vendor pays for our opinions, and we are not affiliated with the organizers of the 2015 conference.