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By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/17/2017
Spectrum auctions in India are rarely devoid of controversy and a planned sale of 5G airwaves later this year is unlikely to be any different.
By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/17/2017
US telecom companies are navigating a rough patch in the residential broadband and pay-TV sectors. The combined toll of transitioning customers to next-generation ...
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/17/2017
Telia Carrier's successful test of the Voyager white box transponder-router on its fiber optic network between Stockholm and Hamburg is proof that an open multivendor ...
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By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/17/2017
Telecom bosses love to associate technology innovation with the glitz of major sports events. Operators in South Korea plan to showcase 5G at next year's Winter ...
By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 3/17/2017
The annual optical fest that is OFC is about to open its doors at the LA Convention Center and, like most networking industry events, cloud cover is very evident.
By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 3/17/2017
Equinix CTO Ihab Tarazi and Callr CEO Taoufik Zagdoud explain how cloud architectures are enabling new business opportunities for competitive communications services providers.
By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/17/2017
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Interoute's container breakthrough; T-Systems peddles AI; ADVA's edge NFV device passes muster; consumer watchdogs bark at ...
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By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/17/2017
Nokia will split its mobile networks business into separate product and global service units after revealing that Samih Elhage is to quit his role as mobile networks ...
By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 3/17/2017
This week in our WiCipedia roundup: We've got the pay gap prognosis; tips galore for eradicating bro culture; how working from home encourages diversity; and more.
By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 3/16/2017
Intel's $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye Monday is all about the vast array of big data that autonomous cars will provide, but it is data it says it's eager to ...
By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 3/16/2017
As other communications technology vendors struggle to halt their sales declines, Chinese behemoth Huawei is thinking only of the next financial landmark and is ...
By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 3/16/2017
Although UHD is starting to come much more into focus, the next-gen TV format is not quite ready for its close-up yet.
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/16/2017
When France's Orange began to expand rapidly in west and central Africa in mid-2015, the region must have seemed like fertile ground to an operator facing a drought ...
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TT Caption Contest: AI Goes for a Spin
Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 3/18/2017
This month's cartoon caption contest focuses on artificial intelligence.
Netflix Looks at the Little Picture
Aditya Kishore, Practice Leader, Video Transformation, Telco Transformation, 3/17/2017
Netflix is looking at developing different versions of its shows specifically ...
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LTE-Advanced Pro: Deployment Progress
March 2017
This report reviews LTE-Advanced Pro technology development and deployment, highlighting the key networking features and showing how far vendors and operators have gotten in terms of developing, trialing and deploying the technologies. It also profiles leading mobile RAN system vendors, as well as a leading LTE-A Pro chipset vendor, showing how far they have come in terms of implementing, trialing and deploying Release 13 networking features.
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Pay TV Faces New Security Threats: Are Providers Ready?
March 2017
Today, pay-TV service providers and content companies face a wider variety of security threats than ever before, and most are ill-prepared to deal with them. This report assesses the new threats facing pay-TV providers, including video piracy and cyberattacks. It discusses the widening array of vulnerabilities that are exposing providers, as well as new solutions for protection. The report includes an overview 10 pay-TV security suppliers that offer products in the U.S. cable market.
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vCPE Test & Measurement: A Market Takes Shape
February 2017
This report, part of Light Reading's Testapedia initiative, surveys the means and methods of monitoring and assuring the performance of vCPE. The report also includes overviews of companies that provide the pertinent tools and services.
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The Growing Pains of 5G
Iain Morris , News Editor , 3/15/2017
The hype surrounding 5G reached fever pitch at the recent Mobile World Congress, ...
CEO Interview: Huawei's Eric Xu
Ray Le Maistre , International Group Editor , 3/13/2017
Light Reading spent face-to-face time with Huawei CEO Eric Xu at Mobile World ...
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BETWEEN THE CEOs - Executive Interviews
TEOCO Founder and CEO Atul Jain talks to Light Reading Founder and CEO Steve Saunders about the challenges around cost control and service monetization in the mobile and IoT sectors.
At MWC 2017, Qualcomm's CTO Matt Grob talks to Light Reading's CEO and Founder Steve Saunders about the progress being made in the development of the technologies and standards that will underpin 5G.
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The Cloud Descends on OFC 2017

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The annual optical fest that is OFC is about to open its doors at the LA Convention Center and, like most networking industry events, cloud cover is very evident.
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Equinix & Callr Highlight New Cloud Comms Opportunities

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Equinix CTO Ihab Tarazi and Callr CEO Taoufik Zagdoud explain how cloud architectures are enabling new business opportunities for competitive communications services providers.
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Advanced MIMO: Stephane Teral on 4x4 MIMO & Massive MIMO

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The advanced MIMO technologies are the most important technology for 4.5G evolution. It can ensure the shape of the beam stays stable by using multiple transmitters and receivers to obtain coverage and capacity gain. In low bands (<1GHz), which are coverage bands, 4T4R (or 4x4 MIMO) can do a perfect job. In high bands, Massive MIMO can help to obtain coverage ...
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Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality

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Listen to Dr. John Smee, Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, talk about the tremendous progress the industry is making towards making 5G NR – the global 5G standard – a reality. Hear about the latest demonstrations and technologies Qualcomm was showcasing at Mobile World Congress.
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AccelerComm First to 5G Polar Code IP

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AccelerComm is a semiconductor IP-core company that provides patented turbo coding technology. In this video, they demonstrate their turbo decoder at Mobile World Congress.
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P&O Ferrymasters on Video Conferencing Solutions

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As one of the leading European providers of transportation and logistics services, P&O Ferrymasters share their solution for video conferencing.
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Vodafone Germany & Huawei on Predictive Maintenance With Robust Network Services

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In this video, Klaudius Koschella, head of the access and transmission network operations department at Vodafone GmbH, explains why and how to change operation models from Reactive to Proactive and Predictive network maintenance. How is Robust Network Services supporting this change? He also talked with Telecoms.com about the key benefits of cooperation with ...
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4.5G Evolution: GSMA & Partners Push Forward LTE-Based Mission Critical Communication

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LTE networks could (and should) be used to substantially improve mission critical communication. Commercial deployments have demonstrated that LTE offers a number of advantages for mission critical communications. Spectral efficiency and data throughput are both significantly improved by LTE networks, while their ability to be used anywhere on the globe and across ...
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Etisalat Egypt: Innovating for MBB2020

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Etisalat Egypt's Director of Access Network Planning & Optimization Mohamed Shalaby explains how the telco will optimize its network to hit its MBB2020 goals.
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OrbTV: EdgeConneX CTO on Prepping for 5G, IoT

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Don MacNeil, CTO, EdgeConneX, talks to Liz Coyne, managing editor, Light Reading, at Mobile World Congress about how edge data center operators are preparing for a future of 5G, IoT and more.
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CEO Chat With TEOCO's Atul Jain

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TEOCO Founder and CEO Atul Jain talks to Light Reading Founder and CEO Steve Saunders about the challenges around cost control and service monetization in the mobile and IoT sectors.
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Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving

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Listen to George Tsirtsis, Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm, describe the critical role Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) will play in the autonomous car of the future. And hear about the outstanding momentum toward making C-V2X a reality.
From The Founder
Cisco's Conrad Clemson, recently promoted to head up the company's Service Provider Apps & Platforms developments, talks to Light Reading's Founder and CEO Steve Saunders about how he's bringing cloud video, mobile and virtualization together to empower network operators.
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Six different communications service providers join to debate their visions of the future CSP, following a landmark presentation from AT&T on its massive virtualization efforts and a look back on where the telecom industry has been and where it's going from two industry veterans.