Harry Jacob

„My biggest mistake is to dive always down to the floor, even when the pool is very deep.“

Harry Jacob, born in Nördlingen (Bavaria, Germany) in 1968, studied journalism in Munich and Leipzig. For 16 years he held leading positions at Vogel IT-Medien in Augsburg, where he was instrumental in the development of the print magazine, supplements and digital offers of “IT-BUSINESS“, a trade magazine for IT specialists. In 2014, he became editor-in-chief of “A & D”, a magazine for manufacturing automation at publish industry, Munich – in time for the hype of Industrie 4.0.

Since 2017, Harry Jacob works as freelance journalist, author and communications consultant. His main topics are IT, IoT and Industry 4.0, with focus not so much on technics but on concepts and strategies of business models and customer relations that are changing due to digital transformation.

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Articles by the author

Cradlepoint brings 5G securely to the WAN

5G can enrich SD-WAN infrastructures (Source: Cradlepoint) Until now, the industry has focused on 5G primarily in the context of private networks. With the increasing roll-out of public 5G mobile networks, the expansion of the network infrastructure by means of

5G is changing the way we look at corporate networks

Bad weather, wars, epidemics - 5G helps improve the resilience and flexibility of enterprise networks. (Source: Frank Cone / Pexels) In addition to bandwidth, quality management and cybersecurity, the resilience of corporate networks has increasingly come into focus in recent

Vodafone relies on self-developed OpenRAN components

OpenRan (Picture: Vodafone) Actually, OpenRAN should enable the major mobile operators to supply themselves on the market with interoperable RAN components that come from different manufacturers. But this is obviously not enough for Vodafone. The provider is driving technical development