Looking Back at the 2015 Conference

This address once belonged to the website of TIA 2015: Network of the Future, a telecommunications industry conference held in downtown Dallas, Texas, in early June 2015. It was organized by the Telecommunications Industry Association. That event finished more than a decade ago. Its website eventually went offline and the domain lapsed, and this independent journal now uses the address. We have no connection with the organizers.

What the event covered

The conference brought together people from across the communications business: service providers, manufacturers, technologists and strategists, along with government officials. Over several days of workshops, keynotes and panel discussions, they talked through the subjects that dominated the industry at the time. Those included 5G, the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine technology, the cloud, software-defined networks and network function virtualization.

The program was built around three tracks, on mobile networks, on new services, and on infrastructure. Three pre-conference workshops covered RF and cellular basics, software-defined networking and the oneM2M standard. There was also a policy day, a startups competition and a memorable tour of the network inside AT&T Stadium.

Why we kept the subject

Those questions did not go away when the event ended. Many of the ideas on the 2015 agenda have since been built, some have quietly failed, and others are still being argued about. That makes the old program a good skeleton for a journal. Our Tracks and Workshops section follows the same outline, written fresh for readers today.

What this site is not

• It is not the conference's website, and it is not run by anyone who organized it.
• There is nothing to register for, nothing to sponsor, and no upcoming event.
• We do not publish the former program, speaker details or contact details.

What we added

We also write about one industry the conference never put on its agenda: gaming and betting. Casinos, lotteries and sportsbooks are demanding network customers, and they make a lively case study for nearly every topic above. You will find a mention in many of our articles, plus a section of its own.