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5/18/2012  -  The combination of social, mobile and cloud, or SoMoClo, will have Management World attendees exercising their jaws, reckons industry analyst
5/17/2012  -  Service provider transport networks are handling massively more volume, but spending has yet to surpass Sonet/SDH spending
5/17/2012  -  Light Reading's Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference will see lots of discussion about the optical control plane
5/16/2012  -  We mean that not just in terms of faster speeds, but also in terms of new topics like software-defined networking
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Keen to see if any of the operators are rubbing their hands at the prospect of SDN enabling them to cut ties with traditional...
5/14/2012  -  Internet exchange operator Epsilon says it isn't Enron revisited
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Epsilon says it "supports SDH and Ethernet; typically the interfaces are all optical for both transmission standards"
5/11/2012  -  Interop's booth crawl and happy hour rounded out a terrific day of cloud content and carrier meetings here in the driest place on Earth
Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... Good guesses, both!  Although... if he's life-casting from Vegas, and Interop is his best content ... he might want...
5/9/2012  -  Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior, Zynga's Infrastructure CTO Allan Leinwand, and Avaya's SVP Marc Randall offer thoughts on enterprise clouds and software defined networking
5/8/2012  -  Verizon's Stuart Elby says the drive to the cloud is also driving service providers headlong into software-defined networking
Most Recent Post: Soupafly... The question sits squarely around capability. Is the software & supporting systems actually ready and capable of supporting...
5/8/2012  -  More hints emerge about Cisco's software-defined networking strategy, with the company saying it wants to lead in widening SDN's scope
Most Recent Post: Soupafly... I posited the question of capability in a post about Verizon's future landscape vision of SDN and there core business. Today...
5/8/2012  -  Light Reading Live! event tackles the deployment of policy and subscriber data management systems that enable personalized mobile services
5/7/2012  -  Cincinnati Bell partners with Apptix and Parallels so it can provide small and medium businesses with cloud services quickly
5/3/2012  -  Capex spiked in Q1 and will remain high for a while as Cablevision expands its Wi-Fi network and network DVR and tees up new products
5/1/2012  -  Remember Concentric? The name is back in the headlines (not literally) as XO makes its move on the cloud services market
4/30/2012  -  Dimension Data's Keao Caindec talks about the ongoing development of cloud service delivery capabilities and explains why it's important to focus on the network as well as the IT systems that underpin cloud applications
4/23/2012  -  After months of due diligence, Vodafone offers more than £1B for enterprise services and international capacity player C&W Worldwide
Most Recent Post: Michelle Donegan... Vodafone says with acquisition of CW&W, it  will be the second largest service provider in the UK, after BT, by...
Cloud Services Newswire Feed
PALO ALTO, CA: Nicira Takes Clouds to the Islands - 5/16/2012
TOKYO: Docomo Revamps Cloud Offer - 5/16/2012
LONDON: Interoute Reaches Hong Kong - 5/15/2012
Cloud Services Blogs
Sarah Reedy
Photos: AT&T's Digital Housewarming
Sarah Reedy
5/8/2012  -  11:10 AM Photos from the carrier's connected digital home in New Orleans
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Jeff Baumgartner
Synacor Upends the App Concept
Jeff Baumgartner
5/1/2012  -  4:15 PM Synacor's first (and very small) acquisition could be a big multi-screen hit for MSOs as they tap HTML5 to avoid paying tribute to Apple and Google
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Carol Wilson
Clouds Roll In Over Wholesale
Carol Wilson
4/5/2012  -  4:05 PM Competition is heating up as ISPs, telcos and MSOs seek easier paths to offering cloud services
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Carol Wilson
Terremark Packs Portability Into Private Cloud
Carol Wilson
4/4/2012  -  4:15 PM Others offer private clouds, but Terremark will try to set itself apart with the promise of easy movement of apps and data
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Ray Le Maistre
T-Systems Kicks Cloud Butt
Ray Le Maistre
4/2/2012  -  11:45 AM Strikes major global cloud services contract with cigarette manufacturer but such deals are few and far between for telcos
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Jeff Baumgartner
Cisco's Video Game-Changer
Jeff Baumgartner
3/16/2012  -  9:40 AM How Cisco's $5B play for NDS could alter the global pay-TV landscape
Most Recent Post: GunnyGooGoo... The vision of mobile video is a geeks view shared by MSO insiders.  There is a market for mobile video, but it is a...
Stan Hubbard
Ethernet Europe 2012 – Event Preview
Stan Hubbard
2/29/2012  -  3:00 AM Ethernet Europe Chairman Stan Hubbard tells us what to expect
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Columns
Coming in 2020: The Web 3.0 Experience
How cloud computing and analytics will drive 21st century business applications and revenue for enterprise customers
Questions for a Network Evolution
Hossein Eslambolchi has 10 things service providers should ponder as they consider how to make their networks ready for the next mobile and video revolution
Solutions to 10 Service Provider Pain Points
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi gives us his take on how to fix the 10 'pain points' causing havoc in service-provider networks
Eslambolchi: 10 Service Provider Pain Points
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi lists 10 things that are causing havoc in service provider networks
Cloud Computing's Security Problem
Robert Poe
Although the cloud computing market is hot, cloud service providers must address data and service security concerns
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ANALYST NOTES
Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst
2012 is poised to be a year in which critical technologies leap from development to commercialization and monetization
Victor Schnee, BSG Advisory
The mobile cloud will be the battleground where the interests of carriers, mobile device makers and Internet-based companies come crashing together
Sridhar T Pai, Contributing Analyst
The Indian SME sector demands a complete suite of apps that will be easier for carriers to position and sell in the cloud
Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst
Akamai Technologies has launched 'Aura Network Solutions,' a set of licensed CDN products aimed at network operators
Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst
Annual survey of consumers finds more watch high-quality online video – and if it doesn't work, they're likely to blame their ISP
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Cloud Services Core Content
WHITE PAPER
Monetizing Cloud - by Heavy Reading
3/15/2012 - In this paper we will discuss the relevancy of cloud-based business models, explain why telcos are in prime position to become trusted cloud providers,...
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VIDEO
Looking to the Cloud
12/13/2011 - Scott Cain of BT provides a service provider view on cloud services.
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WEBINAR
ON DEMAND
Monetizing the Cloud - a Light Reading Webinar
9/29/2011 - This webinar will explore how cloud-based services will evolve to be profit engines of the future, including the possibility of industry-specific vertical...
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Cloud Services Sponsor Assets
CASE STUDY
Parallels® Automation, CSP Case Study: Charter Business
9/12/2011 - Since launching Parallels Automation, Charter Business has added thousands of new custom Web hosting customers and migrated tens of thousands of mailboxes.
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WHITE PAPER
Rapidly Launch Microsoft® Office 365 Syndication with Parallels Automation
9/12/2011 - Minimize syndication complexity and get to market with Office 365 in the fastest possible way while being able to bundle internal or third-party services.
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WHITE PAPER
The Carrier Cloud: Driving Internal Transformation and New Cloud Revenue - by Alcatel-Lucent
11/16/2011 - Cloud computing brings service providers new opportunities to improve their own operations while generating revenue from cloud services. Like most...
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WHITE PAPER
Cloud Ready Service Infrastructure for Communications Service Providers - by Alcatel-Lucent
11/9/2011 - The emergence of cloud computing combined with the convergence of information technology (IT), telecommunications, media, and entertainment have created a...
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DATA SHEET
Cloud Services Accelerator - by Sigma Systems
9/27/2011 - Sigma System's Cloud Services Accelerator is a robust solution enabling service providers to deliver personalized business bundles with both on/off-network services.
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WHITE PAPER
Is Your Head in the Cloud? - by Heavy Reading & Oracle
9/26/2011 - In this paper, we will discuss different flavors of cloud services available; why telcos have a great opportunity as cloud services providers; key technical...
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DATA SHEET
Billing and Revenue Management for Cloud Computing - by Oracle
9/26/2011 - Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) is the industry's leading pricing, rating and billing solution for today's on-demand and cloud services...
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