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By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/13/2016
It's early Wednesday morning in Europe and while ADVA CEO Brian Protiva says he got a good night's sleep ahead of the announcement that his company has acquired ...
By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 1/13/2016
Germany's ADVA has acquired Overture Networks for an initial $35 million in a bid to strengthen its cloud access business and create what it claims will be an "NFV ...
By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 1/13/2016
DOCSIS 3.1, the cable industry's great hope for widespread gigabit network upgrades, is one step closer to mainstream deployment with the announcement today that ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/13/2016
China Unicom and China Telecom have announced a strategic cooperation agreement that will cover the sharing of network equipment and should help them stand up to ...
By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 1/13/2016
Cisco has introduced tools designed to help enterprises manage employees who go behind IT's back to set up cloud accounts.
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/13/2016
French telecom incumbent Orange has agreed to acquire Bharti Airtel's businesses in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone in a continuation of its expansion strategy in West ...
By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/13/2016
- Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tele2 gets a loan; new role for Swantee; Ooredoo expands mobile money platform.
By Light Reading, 1/13/2016
Accedian's Patrick Ostiguy talks to Steve Saunders, Light Reading's founder and CEO, about how his company's network performance assurance products help service providers differentiate themselves in today's super-competitive market.
By Prateek Duble, Consulting manager, IBB Consulting Group, 1/13/2016
Content owners are launching new products that lean heavily on large volumes of data to deliver the best possible experience. Of course, this data usage brings ...
By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 1/13/2016
The best CES interviews take place in the hallways and byways of the Las Vegas Convention Center and its surrounding hotels. Such was the case with Comcast Vice ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 1/12/2016
A few weeks from now (and maybe sooner) the biggest single shareholder in UK fixed-line incumbent BT will be its German counterpart Deutsche Telekom, heralding the ...
By Sarah Thomas, Editorial Operations Director, 1/12/2016
Most women in the technology industry have likely come up against unconscious biases and skewed company cultures, but what about slights that are purposeful, even ...
By Steve Saunders, CEO and founder, Light Reading, 1/12/2016
Gambling? Booth babes? 24-hour buffets? It must be time for CES, when the entire tech industry descends on Las Vegas. Although this show is known for consumer product launches and gadgets, Light Reading went to speak with industry luminaries about how a future of connected cars, smart homes, virtual reality and 4K TV will impact on the networks they help to build.
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Laurent Paillassot, Deputy CEO, Customer Experience and Mobile Banking , 1/13/2016
The deputy CEO of Orange's mobile banking business tells Telco Transformation why ...
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ADVA Speeds to New IP With $35 Million Overture Bargain
Elizabeth Miller Coyne, Editor, 1/13/2016
ADVA set a course for the virtualized New IP world, announcing it was acquiring ...
Ericsson CTO: Get Connected to the Enterprise
Steve Saunders, CEO and founder, Light Reading, 1/13/2016
Ericsson's CTO Ulf Ewaldsson outlines why the enterprise cloud sector offers a ...
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COTS, ATCA & White Box User Survey: 2016 Market Outlook
December 2015
This report analyzes how telecom equipment manufacturers use COTS platforms and white box switches, based on an exclusive worldwide survey of engineers, designers, product managers and sales/marketing personnel that work for telecom and networking system equipment manufacturers and suppliers. These platforms are widely used in many types of networking equipment, from the access edge to the core of the network.
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The Lower the Better: Encrypting the Optical Layer
December 2015
This report takes a closer look at some of the trends driving the market for optical layer encryption, the benefits it can provide, how a handful of vendors are addressing the growing need and, finally, how encryption technology and the market for this capability may continue to evolve.
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The African Fiberco "Big Three": Seacom, MainOne, Liquid Telecom & the Case for African Fiber Consolidation
December 2015
This report examines the strategic options available to Africa's Big Three Fibercos -- MainOne, Seacom, and Liquid Telecom -- including the dynamics of their core geographies and the state of their current network infrastructure and service portfolio.
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Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-chief , 12/30/2015
NFV featured strongly in the roll call of the most read Light Reading stories of ...
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Africa's Data Dilemma
Iain Morris , News Editor , 12/8/2015
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Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-chief , 12/1/2015
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Ericsson's CTO Ulf Ewaldsson outlines why the enterprise cloud sector offers a major opportunity to communications service providers, telecom vendors and Light Reading.
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CEO Chat With Patrick Ostiguy, Accedian

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Accedian's Patrick Ostiguy talks to Steve Saunders, Light Reading's founder and CEO, about how his company's network performance assurance products help service providers differentiate themselves in today's super-competitive market.
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Why Did Light Reading Go to CES?

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Gambling? Booth babes? 24-hour buffets? It must be time for CES, when the entire tech industry descends on Las Vegas. Although this show is known for consumer product launches and gadgets, Light Reading went to speak with industry luminaries about how a future of connected cars, smart homes, virtual reality and 4K TV will impact on the networks they help to build.
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Dumbest Gadgets of CES 2016

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There are many products launched at CES that could forever change the future of mankind. These gadgets are not on that list.
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CEO Chat With Avi Freedman, Kentik

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Kentik's Avi Freedman talks to Steve Saunders, Light Reading's CEO and founder, about his company's analytics and network visibility tools, and how they differ from what's already on the market.
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Dramatic Changes Loom in Network Security

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Network-based security services represent a big opportunity for service providers to create distributed, intelligent threat detection that uses actual network behavior and analytics to identify threats and shut down bad actors.
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Looking Beyond DOCSIS 3.1

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Cox's Jeff Finkelstein discusses where cable is heading with DOCSIS, SDN, NFV, software-based networking, 5G, open source and other new technologies.
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Infoblox CEO on Security

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In Part 1 of this CEO interview, Steve Saunders, CEO of Light Reading, sits down with Jesper Anderson, CEO of Infoblox, to discuss perimeter defense, the new boundary of DNS and the new security threat to service providers.
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SCTE Chief Sets Goals for 2016

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In this video interview, SCTE President & CEO Mark Dzuban discusses DOCSIS 3.1 training, energy standards, virtualization and much more.
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Ericsson's Secret Cloud Recipe

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In this interview, Steve Saunders, CEO of Light Reading, sits down with Paul McNamara, VP of Cloud Strategy at Ericsson, to discuss the vendor's new product, configuration files and the new trends of 2016.
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Overture Networks NFV Solutions

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Overture's VP of Product Management Houck Reed discusses how his company's NFV solutions are helping customers to deploy new services.
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The NFV Learning Curve

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Brocade's VP of Strategy, Andrew Coward, talks about the the key lessons learned from New IP developments and early NFV deployments, including the hardware performance considerations linked to the introduction of virtual network functions (VNFs).
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From Head of Bell Labs to Cisco Cloud Guru

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After moving up the ranks at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, Gee Rittenhouse is now Cisco's cloud guru. In part one of this interview with Steve Saunders, he discusses how he consolidated the efforts of over 1,500 developers working on Cisco's move towards the cloud. Now he's focused on helping service provider customers develop new business opportunities from ...
BETWEEN THE CEOs - Executive Interviews
Accedian's Patrick Ostiguy talks to Steve Saunders, Light Reading's founder and CEO, about how his company's network performance assurance products help service providers differentiate themselves in today's super-competitive market.
Kentik's Avi Freedman talks to Steve Saunders, Light Reading's CEO and founder, about his company's analytics and network visibility tools, and how they differ from what's already on the market.
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