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By Sarah Thomas, Editorial Operations Director, 3/11/2015
Cisco is strengthening its ties with Microsoft, announcing a joint technology platform Wednesday that will combine Cisco Intercloud with Microsoft Azure to help ...
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/11/2015
Anyone expecting the OPNFV's first software release to be loaded with "sexy stuff" is going to be disappointed, admits Heather Kirksey, executive director of the ...
By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/11/2015
Thanks to aggressive bidding for all of the spectrum on sale, India's government has already easily surpassed its target of garnering $10.3 billion from the latest ...
By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/11/2015
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- OCP U.S. Summit 2015 -- Network operators looking to buy or build technology Facebook uses to run its massive data centers will get their wish.
By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 3/10/2015
What are the big challenges and opportunities for optical transport equipment vendors just now? Growth in long-haul 100G, data center interconnect, transport SDN and ...
By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/10/2015
What do you do after you've deployed a 10 Gbit/s transoceanic network that business customers can configure in minutes using SDN tools? Take it up to 100 Gbit/s.
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/10/2015
The Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) group said today it will announce its first code release in April and expects to also have a hardware infrastructure up and running ...
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/10/2015
A new data center startup company has designed technology that more easily creates data centers at the edge of the network, including colocation points and central ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/10/2015
China Mobile is reported to have applied for a license to operate FDD LTE technology out of concern it could face a spectrum crunch in its TDD LTE bands.
By Mari Silbey, Independent Technology Editor, 3/10/2015
After reportedly running into trouble signing up traditional pay-TV providers, HBO has now teamed up with Apple for the launch of its new "HBO Now" OTT video ...
By Sarah Thomas, Editorial Operations Director, 3/10/2015
It appears the US's two largest carriers have done a flip-flop on small cells as long-time small cells proponent AT&T is scaling back its focus on the technology, ...
By Dan Pitt, 3/10/2015
Open SDN is widely accepted by the networking industry as the way to transform enterprise, data center, carrier and campus networks. Potential benefits for ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/10/2015
For its latest device, Apple appears to have called time on its dealings with mobile operators. Launched to predictable ballyhoo on Monday, the new Apple Watch will ...
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NFV MANO: What's Wrong & How to Fix It
Vol. 13, No. 2, February 2015
This report analyzes the issues influencing vendors' interpretations of Management and Orchestration (MANO) and the need for greater functional clarity. The report profiles 19 leading vendors of NFV MANO solutions and assesses their strategies, positioning and products.
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G.fast Turbocharges Next-Generation Access
Vol. 10, No. 6, February 2015
G.fast, a new technology that supports up to 1 Gbit/s over short copper lines, is poised to transform the competitive landscape for gigabit telecom access. This report analyzes chipsets from four leading vendors in this important market, identifying their key features and advantages for system developers and service providers.
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Hot Market Sectors to Watch in 2015
Vol. 15, No. 2, January 2015
This report identifies 10 "hot areas" for 2015, highlights interesting developments in 2014, explains why each the market sector is likely to sizzle this year, how warm the temperature will get and how the sector can be expected to impact carriers, service providers and vendors in the coming year.
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Validating Cisco's Service Provider Virtualization & Cloud Portfolio
, 3/3/2015
How independent test lab EANTC and Light Reading put Cisco's programmable service ...
Q&A: The Castle in T-Mobile's LTE Network
Sarah Thomas , Editorial Operations Director , 3/2/2015
Grant Castle, T-Mobile VP of engineering services and QA, talks to Light Reading ...
Disrupting Telefónica in a Small Way
Michelle Donegan , 2/10/2015
As head of Communications Services and Product Innovation, Ian Small is inventing ...
pCell Promises to Fix Spectrum Crunch Now
Sarah Thomas , Editorial Operations Director , 2/3/2015
Startup says it's close to commercial deployments of a personal cell technology ...
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BETWEEN THE CEOs - Executive Interviews
Chattanooga’s EPB publicly owned utility comms company has become a poster child for how to enable a local economy using next-gen networking technology. Steve Saunders, Founder of Light Reading, sits down with Harold DePriest, president and CEO of EPB, to learn how EPB is bringing big time tech to small town America.
Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders talks transformation and virtualization – including Light Reading's independent testing of the vendor's virtualization solutions – with Cisco CEO John Chambers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Check out Light Reading's interview with Jay Samit, the newly appointed CEO of publicly traded SeaChange International Inc. With a resume that includes Sony, EMI, and Universal, Samit brings a reputation as an entrepreneur and a disruptor to his new role at the video solutions company. Hear what he had to say about the opportunities in video, as well as the outlook for cable, telco, OTT and mobile service providers.
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Extracting the Business Value From Transformation

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At the ICT Leaders Roundtable, hosted jointly by Light Reading and Huawei at the Hotel Renaissance in Barcelona just prior to Mobile World Congress, Huawei's Trevor Cheung on the need to make the business case for transformation.
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Saddle Up for Comptel

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Service provider IT specialist Comptel was raising money for charity at Mobile World Congress by showing people just how unfit they are...
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Efficient Service Chaining Based on Qosmos Classifier

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In competitive markets, with rapid innovation at the application layer, telecom operators are looking for fast and easy service creation, at a lower cost than today. A key ingredient to achieve these goals is intelligent, dynamic service chaining. The Qosmos Classifier is a newly launched networking component providing the intelligence to create any type of ...
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Ericsson’s Cloud & IP Vision

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At Mobile World Congress 2015, Ericsson's Head of Business Unit Cloud and IP, Anders Lindblad, talks about the company's latest data center technology advances and discusses the future of cloud architectures, telecom data center strategies, the future of IP, a new vision for executing workloads and more.
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In the Lab: Cisco Service Provider SDN Test

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The story behind Light Reading and EANTC's validation of Cisco's service provider virtualization and cloud solution.
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Ruckus CEO Talks Voice-Over-WiFi

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At MWC 2015, Selina Lo, CEO of carrier WiFi systems specialist Ruckus Wireless, talks about voice-over-WiFi and the growing use of WiFi by cable operators.
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Growth of the 5G Ecosystem

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Use cases and industry collaborations dominated 5G discussions during Mobile World Congress 2015. For what the road to 5G means for operators and their partners, head to the Building America's 5G Ecosystem event in New York on April 14.
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Sonus NaaS IQ Real-Time Demo

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Compass Networks Chairman and CEO Matt Bross and Ray Dolin, CEO of Sonus Networks, demonstrate their Sonus IQ SDN solution using a live video conference connection.
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LRTV Talks Carrier WiFi & WiFi Calling With Aptilo Networks

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We stopped by Aptilo Networks, a market leader in WiFi service management and offloading, to discuss the new possibilities with next-generation WiFi calling and why WiFi should be a natural part of any operator strategy.
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NGMN Chairman Outlines His 5G Vision

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Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, chairman of the NGMN Alliance and Deutsche Telekom CTO, shares his thoughts on the challenges, opportunities and costs of 5G.
LRTV Interviews
In the Cloud With Telecom Italia

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Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders sits down with Telecom Italia's Simone Battiferri at Mobile World Congress to discuss virtualization, agility and the economic advantages of the cloud.
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New Ways of Working

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At the ICT Leaders Roundtable, hosted jointly by Light Reading and Huawei at the Hotel Renaissance in Barcelona just prior to Mobile World Congress, Hong Kong Telecom's Michael Yue explains how the transformation in its business has changed its customer relationships.
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The New IP is actually bigger even than business. Like another hugely important tech that Light Reading is digging into right now, the New IP has the potential to change the world by fundamentally advancing what it is possible for people to achieve with communications.
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Net neutrality, broadband services and the current outlook on data consumption, as presented by the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Hot Topics
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Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/4/2015
Net Neutrality Arguments Have Historical Echo
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Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/4/2015
Apple Watch Has No Time for Operators
Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/10/2015
Poll: 5G Steals the Spotlight at MWC
Sarah Thomas, Editorial Operations Director, 3/10/2015
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