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By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/15/2016
Making good on its promises to roll out DOCSIS 3.1 early this year, Comcast announced today that it's now launching gigabit service in Atlanta based on D3.1 ...
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/15/2016
SANTA CLARA -- Open Networking Summit -- AT&T is lifting the hood on the massive two-year software development of the network engine known as ECOMP and promising to ...
By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/15/2016
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone powers smart streetlights with Philips; Liquid Telecom broadens connectivity in South Africa with new hub; Ofcom ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/15/2016
Altice has reported a slight decline in sales last year despite a sharp rise in underlying earnings, prompting further concern about the sustainability of the cable ...
By Brian Santo, Senior editor, Test & Measurement / Components, Light Reading, 3/15/2016
Averna has bought itself an international presence with the takeover of privately held Test & Measurement Solutions, a company with operations in Belgium, the ...
By Brian Santo, Senior editor, Test & Measurement / Components, Light Reading, 3/15/2016
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a single RF switch for DOCSIS 3.1 customer premises equipment (CPE) that will enable MSOs to deploy a ...
By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/14/2016
Rumors are swirling around Silicon Valley that SDN startup PLUMgrid is looking for a suitor to buy the company. But PLUMgrid's CEO denies it.
By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/14/2016
India's Reliance Communications appears to be getting ready to launch 4G services in India now the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has finally cleared its ...
By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/14/2016
The advent of DOCSIS 3.1 is once again raising the question of whether cable operators should extend the frequency range they use for upstream data traffic, or ...
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/14/2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit -- Open source project ONOS is using this week's Open Networking Summit to show off significant progress for its efforts ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/14/2016
Revolutions do not always have revolutionary outcomes. Monarchs were back on the thrones of England and France not many years after the upheavals that first toppled ...
By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 3/14/2016
What do an engineer, geophysicist, head of sales and Starz's 16th employee all have in common? They are all women who have risen through the ranks to be leaders in ...
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Sony Extends Reach of OTT Service Across the US
Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 3/14/2016
Sony has upped its OTT game by offering its PlayStation Vue service in 203 ...
Cable Next-Gen: Mile-High Moments
Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 3/11/2016
Light Reading recently hosted its Cable Next Gen Technologies & Strategies at The ...
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Pics: Getting Jiggy With Next-Gen Cable
Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/15/2016
The cable industry converged on Denver's Cable Center for one day of intense ...
AT&T's John Donovan on Cloud, Virtualization & White Box Networking
Steve Saunders, CEO and founder, Light Reading, 3/15/2016
John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President of AT&T Technology and ...
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Preparing for Virtual Reality
February 2016
This report analyzes the state of the market for VR technology and services. It assesses the impact that different VR applications will likely have on telecom operators by considering application throughput and latency requirements, and assesses which applications will likely be mass-market and which will remain small-scale. It describes the elements that make up the technology and service value stack for VR and profiles 14 innovative players across the broad VR market.
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Cable Has Its Eyes on the Enterprise Business Prize
January 2016
This report explores cable's prospects in the enterprise market and the opportunities and challenges ahead. Much of the information was obtained at the Light Reading Future of Cable Business Services conference in December 2015, which featured extensive discussions among cable providers, vendors and industry analysts about cable's enterprise efforts. The report includes profiles of eight technology suppliers that support U.S. cable's business services.
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IoT Platforms: Chasing Value in a Maturing Market
January 2016
This report examines the market for horizontal, multi-sector platforms to enable IoT applications. It considers the opportunities for telecom operators in this market; where value resides in the process of developing, supporting and delivering an IoT application; and how much of this value can be captured through the use of a horizontal platform. The report also assesses the offerings of 10 leading vendors of IoT platforms.
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NFV: Bringing VMware & the Telcos Together
Mitch Wagner , West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading , 3/15/2016
As carriers open their networks to standardized components and virtualization, ...
5G: Hurdles on the Track
Iain Morris , News Editor , 3/7/2016
Standardization efforts on 5G are getting ahead of a business case for the ...
Telefónica CTO: It's Time for Unica Phase II
Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-chief , 3/3/2016
After a year of tough lessons, the Tier 1 operator is moving forward with its SDN ...
Validating Cisco's Threat-Centric Security Solutions
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Independent test lab EANTC evaluated a range of Cisco security products – ...
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In the heart of the Silicon Valley, Steve Saunders, CEO of Light Reading, sits down with Gigamon CEO Paul Hooper to discuss the Gigamon success story, virtualization, 5G and the other new hot trends in the industry.
Deutsche Telekom's Senior Vice President Technology Europe, Kerstin Günther, gives Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders an update on the operator's transformational network revamp, which is set to have a dramatic impact on operating costs and new business development.
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Evolving LAA & Introducing MulteFire – Qualcomm at MWC 2016

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LTE in unlicensed spectrum continues to be a hot topic at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and in this interview, Dr. Yongbin Wei, Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., shares his insights on the multiple options that are now available to expand the benefits of LTE to unlicensed spectrum, and how the evolving LAA will help to ...
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The Key Role of Layer 7 Visibility in Virtualized Environments

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Erik Larsson, VP Marketing, Qosmos, describes the key role of Layer 7 application visibility in virtualized environments for troubleshooting, security, QoS, and reporting, in data centers and virtualized PoPs.
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Digital Operations Transformation: Huawei's Vision & Practices

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Dong Sun shares Huawei's effort in Digital Operations Transformation.
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Ken Wang on Digital Transformation

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Ken Wang gives his view on digital transformation at the DOT Summit in Barcelona.
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Parallel Wireless Innovates With vRAN for Small Cells

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Light Reading meets with Rajesh Mishra, Co-founder, president, and CTO of Parallel Wireless, at MWC 2016 to discuss how the company's vRAN solution is removing constraints from deploying rural, enterprise, and public safety small cells.
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Cost-Effective vCPE Solution for Enterprise Users

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In this video, we show a multivendor service chaining demo to illustrate a cost-effective virtual CPE solution for enterprise users. The demo comprises NFV infrastructure provided by Wind River, and three different VNFs provided by Brocade, Checkpoint and Riverbed.
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Wind River's vCPE Plan

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Wind River's Charlie Ashton introduces its reliable vCPE solution.
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Progressing Towards 5G: Qualcomm at MWC 2016

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5G was a big theme at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Dr. John Smee, senior director of engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, shares his insights on how 5G will expand mobile networks to new industries; the timeline for 5G standardization; and the leadership role Qualcomm is playing to drive 5G to commercialization, including advanced technologies ...
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Shut Up About Open Source 'Ulterior Motives' Already

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It's surprising to hear rumors about companies joining open source out of nasty, ulterior motives. These rumors were even circulating at the recent Open Compute Project Summit, where they ought to know better. The rumors are true -- every time. Profit and enlightened self-interest are what open source is all about.
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Leveraging Open Source for the Telco Data Center

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Ericsson's Patrick Jestin and Netronome's Nick Tausanovitch explain how their companies are working together to develop open source-based solutions for more efficient telco data center deployments.
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Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs

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Davide Cherubini of Vodafone and David Sharpley of Amdocs introduce a multivendor NFV live demo with three enterprise vCPE use cases at MWC 2016.
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Digital Operations Transformation Summit Highlights

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Huawei hosted an event which covered some of the hottest topics in communications technology.
From The Founder
John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President of AT&T Technology and Operations, talks to Light Reading's Founder and CEO Steve Saunders at the Digital Operations Transformation Summit about the US operator's network evolution, the importance of white box networking and much more.
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Communications service providers are transforming their business models, service portfolios and networks to compete in a digital age. A critical enabler of this business transformation is the evolution of traditional telco operations model into digital operations model that supports a digital user experience and digital service delivery. At Huawei’s Digital Operations Transformation Summit in Barcelona, the world’s leading service providers and industry thought leaders are sharing their business and digital operations transformation visions and experiences. In this radio show, Huawei and the TM Forum summarize the key findings from the Summit, including service provider drivers for digital operations, the challenges they have faced and the best practices they are adopting on their transformation journeys.