Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data pertaining to an outage in a first portion of a communications system, obtaining second data pertaining to a relationship between the first portion of the communications system and a second portion of the communications system, analyzing the first data the second data to identify a risk to communication services facilitated by the second portion of the communications system, determining that the risk is greater than a threshold, and generating, based on the determining, a recommendation for reducing the risk. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first location of an antenna, causing a first ray to be emitted from a second location that is different from the first location, generating reflected surfaces from surfaces that the first ray reflects from, generating a reflected first location of the first location using the surfaces that the first ray reflects from, identifying, based on the reflected first location, potential locations along the surfaces that the first ray reflects from using the reflected surfaces, and verifying, based on the potential locations, that the first ray traverses a valid path between the first location and the second location. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a group of coefficients for a digital filter, and configuring the digital filter according to the group of coefficients. Further embodiments can include processing a group of statistics associated with a first data flow utilizing the digital filter, and determining a first statistic from the group of statistics does not satisfy a statistical threshold resulting in a first determination. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving workload requests for tenant devices providing services to user devices; partitioning node resources to facilitate network slicing in a software defined network to provide the services; determining that the workload requests exceed available resources of the node; and outsourcing a portion of a load to one or more neighboring nodes, where the outsourcing is performed in coordination with a regional orchestrator and a SDN intelligence module. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, specification of network service functions (e.g., a firewall or network address translation appliance) to be included in a service function path. Routers in a communication network may publish information regarding reachable network service functions and an API may be exposed that provides the information regarding the reachable network service functions. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining one or more characteristics associated with a mobile device accessing a communication service via a wireless network; determining whether the one or more characteristics satisfy a threshold for accessing a Citizen Band Radio Service (CBRS) network; and responsive to the one or more characteristics satisfying the threshold, facilitating access by the mobile device to the CBRS network to continue providing the communication service. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, connecting to a network core of a cellular network, wherein the connecting comprises a broadband connection utilizing tunneling to a security gateway; and assuming a functionality of Radio Access Network (RAN) to facilitate providing of a communication service to a wireless device, wherein a portion of the functionality is provided over a Citizen Band Radio Service (CBRS) band. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Enabling machine-to-machine communication for digital assistants can include initiating a call with a called device, generating audio stream data having a first instance of audio and a first spoken command, which can be provided to the called device. A second instance of audio stream data can be received from the called device, can include a second spoken command, and can be analyzed to determine if it includes assistant signature data. If the second instance of audio stream data includes the assistant signature data, the devices can switch to machine-to-machine communications.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a notification from a serving base station regarding a communication device over a mobile network indicating discovery of a target base station, and obtaining a device type of the communication device and a first cell identifier of the target base station. Further embodiments include providing instructions to the serving base station to request the communication device to obtain a second cell identifier of the target base station, and obtaining the second cell identifier of the target base station from the serving base station over the mobile network. Additional embodiments include providing instructions to the serving base station to generate a communication link between the serving base station and the target base station based on the second cell identifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards network slice pre-configuration for cellular communication systems, including 5G and subsequent generation cellular communication systems. Network equipment can be preconfigured to identify whether a network slice identifier included in a network communication belongs to a group of network slice identifiers. If so, the network equipment can process the network communication either according to a network slice rule that corresponds specifically to the network slice identifier, or according to a default group network slice rule for the group to which the network slice identifier belongs. Different groups of network slice identifiers can be associated with different sets of group network slice rules which can be arranged to reduce the work of setting up network slice identifiers in various network slicing scenarios.

Abstract: Malicious attacks by certain devices against a radio access network (RAN) can be detected and mitigated, while allowing communication of priority messages. A security management component (SMC) can determine whether a malicious attack against the RAN is occurring based on a defined baseline that indicates whether a malicious attack is occurring. The defined baseline is determined based on respective characteristics associated with respective devices that are determined based on analysis of information relating to the devices. In response to determining there is a malicious attack, SMC determines whether to block connections of devices to the RAN based on respective priority levels associated with respective messages being communicated by the devices.

Abstract: A comprehensive integrated system and method includes (i) proactively monitoring a network for degraded service and to proactively make repairs to components before service outages, (ii) identifying the root causes of hard alarms and failures on a layer 1 transport network and generate trouble tickets; and (iii) after repair, verifying that repaired backbone network meets or exceeds performance criteria of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with customers. A method includes surveilling first equipment in a network wherein the first equipment is in a controlled portion of the network, observing a set of messages wherein the set of messages relate to second equipment in a leased portion of the network, and detecting a fault in the network based on the surveilling step or the observing step.

Abstract: Technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating the allocation, scheduling, and management of network slice resources. According some embodiments, a system can facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include facilitating receiving information regarding a characteristic of a potential connection, by a user device, to respective network devices of a group of provider networks. The operations can further include facilitating selecting an identifier resource from a group of identifier resources, the group comprising the identifier resources available to the user device for a connection to a corresponding network device of a provider network from the respective network devices of the group of provider networks, resulting in a selected identifier resource. Further, the operations can include communicating the selected identifier resource to the user device for use by the user device to establish the connection to the corresponding network device.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method of receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a plurality of routes in a network through a routing device having a fabric, a first set of distributed chassis packet forwarders (DCPs) that support external service interfaces and a second set of DCPs; storing, by the processing system, the plurality of routes in a forwarding information base (FIB); determining, by the processing system, a third set of routes in the FIB having a high volume of usage; determining, by the processing system, a fourth set of routes in the FIB having a low volume of usage; copying, by the processing system, the third set of routes to the first set of DCPs; and copying, by the processing system, the fourth set of routes to the second set of DCPs. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing, by a global node, a model to a group of nodes of a network, the model being associated with determining a configuration of the network for qubits; receiving, by the global node from one or more nodes of the group of nodes, updated model parameters, wherein the updated model parameters are generated by each of the one or more nodes via training of a local model utilizing the model and local data accessible to the particular node of the one or more nodes resulting in local nodes; generating, by the global node, an updated model based on the updated model parameters, the updated model being associated with determining the configuration of the network for the qubits; and providing, by the global node, the updated model to the group of nodes of the network, wherein the updated model facilitates managing distribution and usage of entangled qubit storage in devices of the network as reserve hybrid quantum-classical network capacity for bandwidth

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a plurality uplink data packets on a network, the plurality of uplink data packets conveying application protocol messages from an application on a mobile device to an application server providing a service to the application on the mobile device over the network; providing data packets of the plurality uplink data packets to a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained to identify respective application protocol messages from the data packets; receiving from the machine learning model an indication that a start video download application protocol message has been identified by the machine learning model, the start video download application protocol message requesting initiation of a video download to the application on the mobile device from the application server; detecting a plurality of downlink data packets on the network, the plurality of downlink data packets conveying video content data to the mobile device in respo

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a routing device in a network, the routing device including an ingress/egress linecard; another linecard; a fabric; a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of maintaining a forwarding information base (FIB) for routes through the routing device; moving low-volume routes of the FIB to the another linecard; and moving high-volume routes of the FIB to the ingress/egress linecard, wherein the ingress/egress linecard looks up a route of an incoming data packet, determines whether the incoming data packet bears a high-volume route prefix, forwards the incoming data packet bearing the high-volume route prefix through the fabric and out of the routing device, and sends the incoming data packet bearing a low-volume route prefix through the fabric to the another linecard, and wherein the another linecard forwards the incoming d

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data to identify that the data is associated with an online game, translating, based on the analyzing, a first address associated with the data to a second address that is different from the first address, and transmitting the data to a communication device using the second address. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system receives an electromagnetic signal including a plurality of packets, stores a copy of the packets in a memory, converts the signal to an optical signal, and splits the optical signal into first and second optical signals each including the packets. A first converter and second converter then convert the optical signals to electromagnetic signals. A timing coordinator sends a timing signal to the memory and to the first and second converters, resulting in simultaneous release of a copied packet from the memory and first and second packets from the first and second converters. The system compares the copied packet with the first and second packets; if those packets are identical to the copied packet, the system outputs the first and second packets in outgoing signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including generating a plurality of discrete polygons from a digital image of a location, modifying a boundary of a first discrete polygon of the plurality of discrete polygons based on a user input at a venue map graphical user interface, assigning, at the venue map graphical user interface, a first zone of a plurality of zones associated with a first venue of a plurality of venues to a second discrete polygon of the plurality of discrete polygons, and presenting a performance map graphical user interface for the first venue of the plurality of venues including the second discrete polygon of the plurality of discrete polygons overlaid onto the digital image of the location. Other embodiments are disclosed.