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Top News & Views All News & Views Amazon Cloud Revenue Leaps 49% to $5.44B By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/26/2018 Amazon Web Services revenue bounded 49% upward in the quarter, to $5.44 billion, generating $1.4 billion operating income for Amazon, according to results reported ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Microsoft Crowds the Cloud With AI, Expansion Focus By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/26/2018 Microsoft launched its Windows Server 2003 operating system 15 years ago this week as the company aimed to help businesses host and run web applications more easily. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Phil Harvey Microsoft CFO Amy Hood projected that revenues for company's Intelligent Cloud... FCC: High-Band 5G Spectrum Cleared for Take-Off in 2019 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 4/26/2018 BROOKLYN, NY -- Brooklyn 5G Summit -- An FCC representative said Thursday that he is expecting the auction of major millimeter wave bands -- to support the rollout of ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement AT&T Eyes Higher DirecTV Now Margins By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/26/2018 AT&T executives think they've got this next-gen video business all figured out. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast & the Set-Top Double Bind By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/26/2018 Comcast has always gone against the grain with its X1 video platform. At a time when other cable operators were minimizing their set-top investments, Comcast ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Michelle That is a very odd feature. I'm trying to think of real-world use cases where... Using Open Source to Drive Automation By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 4/26/2018 While the IT side of telecom organizations has a long history of using open source technology, the networking side has traditionally relied more on commercial ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T CFO: Business Revenues Bouncing Back By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/26/2018 Like Verizon, AT&T saw declining business revenue in the first quarter, as increased wireless sales to businesses and improved strategic service revenues failed to ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm By Robert Clark, 4/26/2018 Leaked disclosures about a probe into possible Iran transactions by Huawei clearly show that China's big two telecom vendors are in the eye of the US-China trade storm. Post a Comment \| Read (16 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli @mendyk: True enough, but they are typically seen as a pseudo-referendum, in... Qualcomm Profits Hammered by Licensing Disputes By Iain Morris, News Editor, 4/26/2018 Qualcomm yesterday blamed disputes with Apple and another licensee widely assumed to be China's Huawei for a collapse in profits during the first three months of the ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: iainmorris How about "Qualcomm sees mixed fortunes in Q2"? Eurobites: UK Bets Big on AI By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/26/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica, Orange and KPN reveal Q1 earnings; Ericsson lands Italian virtualization job. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Tumbles on Weak Results, Insists Good 5G Times Lie Ahead By Iain Morris, News Editor, 4/26/2018 Nokia has served up disappointing news for investors with first-quarter results that show a decline in network spending by its customers and an operating loss when ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw He must have put on a good show. After opening 9% down the shares finished... WiC Leading Lights 2018 Finalists: Female-Led Startup to Watch By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 4/26/2018 Tech companies are overwhelmingly founded by men. But the two startup founders in our finalist list for the Leading Light award for Female-Led Startup to Watch are ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Always Hungry: Feeding Data Center Bandwidth Demands in the Cloud Era By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/26/2018 The new generation of cloud applications is creating a ferocious appetite for bandwidth -- not just to the user, but also inside the data center and between data centers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T on Track With 5G, Starts FirstNet Build By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 4/25/2018 AT&T executives said Wednesday the operator plans to be the mobile 5G leader in the US, and will spend five years fully building out the FirstNet LTE network in the ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Six Key Takeaways From Facebook's Q1 Earnings Call By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders used the company's earnings call Wednesday to defend its ad-supported business model, saying it helps Facebook improve ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DanJones Well doesn't this say it all? AI has proven more readily able to detect... Google Partners Compete on Ease of Cloud Connections By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Google's new Partner Interconnect service, launched this week, means all the major cloud operators are now doing their own form of direct connection to a host of ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) New Data on Pole Prices Power 5G Debate By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/25/2018 As part of the working group efforts within the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), one subcommittee has collected data on telecom pole attachment ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/25/2018 Huawei is, once again, the subject of some unwanted US government attention. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: Phil Harvey True, but we're reporting the investigation, so we do owe them right of reply.... ACG Survey: Security Top Automation Worry By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Service providers of all stripes are moving rapidly to automate their networks, says one global study, but perhaps surprisingly, security is one of their major ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Romps With Subs Gains, Sky Bid By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Despite mounting video and voice subscriber losses, the Comcast growth engine just keeps purring along as the company ramps up its pursuit of UK satellite TV king Sky. 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FCC: High-Band 5G Spectrum Cleared for Take-Off in 2019 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 4/26/2018 BROOKLYN, NY -- Brooklyn 5G Summit -- An FCC representative said Thursday that he is expecting the auction of major millimeter wave bands -- to support the rollout of ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Light Recap: The Light Reading Hall of Fame By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/26/2018 As the Light Reading Hall of Fame poll keeps going and anticipation builds for the 2018 inductees, a few of you wondered who else has made it into the hallowed Hall ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mendyk I suggest a Veterans Committee to backfill for the telecom deadball era. Like... AT&T Eyes Higher DirecTV Now Margins By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/26/2018 AT&T executives think they've got this next-gen video business all figured out. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast & the Set-Top Double Bind By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/26/2018 Comcast has always gone against the grain with its X1 video platform. At a time when other cable operators were minimizing their set-top investments, Comcast ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Michelle That is a very odd feature. I'm trying to think of real-world use cases where... Using Open Source to Drive Automation By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 4/26/2018 While the IT side of telecom organizations has a long history of using open source technology, the networking side has traditionally relied more on commercial ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T CFO: Business Revenues Bouncing Back By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/26/2018 Like Verizon, AT&T saw declining business revenue in the first quarter, as increased wireless sales to businesses and improved strategic service revenues failed to ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm By Robert Clark, 4/26/2018 Leaked disclosures about a probe into possible Iran transactions by Huawei clearly show that China's big two telecom vendors are in the eye of the US-China trade storm. Post a Comment \| Read (16 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli @mendyk: True enough, but they are typically seen as a pseudo-referendum, in... Qualcomm Profits Hammered by Licensing Disputes By Iain Morris, News Editor, 4/26/2018 Qualcomm yesterday blamed disputes with Apple and another licensee widely assumed to be China's Huawei for a collapse in profits during the first three months of the ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: iainmorris How about "Qualcomm sees mixed fortunes in Q2"? Eurobites: UK Bets Big on AI By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/26/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica, Orange and KPN reveal Q1 earnings; Ericsson lands Italian virtualization job. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Tumbles on Weak Results, Insists Good 5G Times Lie Ahead By Iain Morris, News Editor, 4/26/2018 Nokia has served up disappointing news for investors with first-quarter results that show a decline in network spending by its customers and an operating loss when ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw He must have put on a good show. After opening 9% down the shares finished... WiC Leading Lights 2018 Finalists: Female-Led Startup to Watch By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 4/26/2018 Tech companies are overwhelmingly founded by men. But the two startup founders in our finalist list for the Leading Light award for Female-Led Startup to Watch are ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nimble Small Cell Vendors Find Another Market to Exploit By Danny Dicks, 4/26/2018 The history of small cell vendors is an exciting one, though nerve-wracking. Companies making WiFi access points and routers have had a long-lasting and stable market ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Always Hungry: Feeding Data Center Bandwidth Demands in the Cloud Era By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/26/2018 The new generation of cloud applications is creating a ferocious appetite for bandwidth -- not just to the user, but also inside the data center and between data centers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T on Track With 5G, Starts FirstNet Build By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 4/25/2018 AT&T executives said Wednesday the operator plans to be the mobile 5G leader in the US, and will spend five years fully building out the FirstNet LTE network in the ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Six Key Takeaways From Facebook's Q1 Earnings Call By Mitch Wagner, Mitch Wagner, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, Light Reading, 4/25/2018 Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders used the company's earnings call Wednesday to defend its ad-supported business model, saying it helps Facebook improve ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DanJones Well doesn't this say it all? AI has proven more readily able to detect... Google Partners Compete on Ease of Cloud Connections By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 4/25/2018 Google's new Partner Interconnect service, launched this week, means all the major cloud operators are now doing their own form of direct connection to a host of ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) New Data on Pole Prices Power 5G Debate By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/25/2018 As part of the working group efforts within the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), one subcommittee has collected data on telecom pole attachment ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) US Investigating Huawei for Sanctions Violations – Report By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 4/25/2018 Huawei is, once again, the subject of some unwanted US government attention. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: Phil Harvey True, but we're reporting the investigation, so we do owe them right of reply.... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Virtuapedia Indexes The Future of Virtualization Index project provides CSPs with a clear and concise set of benchmarks to measure their progress in the migration to virtualized networks using a series of surveys involving more than three dozen of the world's most important CSPs. Message Boards Phil Harvey, 4/26/2018 6:22:12 PM Microsoft Crowds the Cloud With AI, Expansion Focus Re: Intelligent Cloud growth expected Microsoft CFO Amy Hood projected that revenues for company's Intelligent Cloud segment would be between $8.95 billion and $9.15 billion for next quarter. Phil Harvey, 4/26/2018 6:21:16 PM Microsoft Crowds the Cloud With AI, Expansion Focus Re: Xbox Live numbers Side note about Microsoft as a service provider: its Xbox Live monthly active users now number 59 million. Those subscribers get online multiplayer gaming, as well as TV shows, movies, music and apps. Joe Stanganelli, 4/26/2018 6:06:08 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't @mendyk: True enough, but they are typically seen as a pseudo-referendum, in part, on White House approval. And, of course, in this particular case, a shift in Congressional majority could pave the way toward impeachment.That... mendyk, 4/26/2018 5:11:37 PM Light Recap: The Light Reading Hall of Fame Re: For the annex I suggest a Veterans Committee to backfill for the telecom deadball era. Like Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. And Rutherford B. Hayes, who had the first phone installed in the White House. And the great great great... Phil Harvey, 4/26/2018 4:47:21 PM It's Miller Time: Light Reading's Hall of Fame Poll Is Now Open Re: Re: HoF Excellent question. Here ya go. DanJones, 4/26/2018 3:33:47 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: No US jobs will be lost over this No US Jobs? Really? DanJones, 4/26/2018 3:31:42 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't t sould be more accurate to say it could stymie the Trump administration in significant ways. i.e. See the way that a Republican house hampered the Obama administration. Losing the house didn't kill Obama's presidency though. Besides,... hpchathelp, 4/26/2018 2:59:37 PM Amoroso: Act Now on Virtualizing Security Re: cryptrography cryptography is a technique which converts a plaintext to encrypted formatted text which is unreadable to the user. There are many techniques which can be used in cryptography. You can read details about it from here... James_B_Crawshaw, 4/26/2018 2:51:41 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't Oi, you leave the house of lords out of it! You'll be attacking the Queen's corgis next. Grrr James_B_Crawshaw, 4/26/2018 2:45:25 PM Nokia Tumbles on Weak Results, Insists Good 5G Times Lie Ahead Re: Re: 5G coming fast, and coming big He must have put on a good show. After opening 9% down the shares finished the day almost flat. The comment is in marked contrast to Huawei's more subdued view of 5G and the reality of 4G. Maybe this time things are different... mendyk, 4/26/2018 2:40:58 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't It seems that fact-checking has been outsourced to CNN. Good move. brooks7, 4/26/2018 2:35:49 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't uh...not to step in on LR on LR violence. Doesn't LR have US employees who could help with that? I would do the same with the Limey's if we wanted to talk about the role of the House of Lords. seven &... mendyk, 4/26/2018 2:10:08 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't Well, Iain, I suppose this works in our post-factual times. Maybe readers are better off avoiding these pieces altogether. Michelle, 4/26/2018 2:02:35 PM Comcast & the Set-Top Double Bind Re: TV, activate That is a very odd feature. I'm trying to think of real-world use cases where it makes sense. I haven't thought of anything compelling yet. iainmorris, 4/26/2018 1:48:31 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't I think this is all getting a bit silly and pedantic. Robert didn't make an especially big deal of it in the story. He said in one sentence there were elections this year that could have implications for the administration,... mendyk, 4/26/2018 1:29:32 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't It's sometimes hard to let the facts get in the way of a point. The results of the midterm elections directly affect the legislative branch of the government. There's nothing byzantine about that. Light Reading comes off... mrblobby, 4/26/2018 1:24:51 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: No US jobs will be lost over this ... at least at the macro level. There is strong demand for electronic and optical components. In fact there is undercapacity. So at least at a macro level the component manufacturing capacity will be absorbed by other... rgrutza600, 4/26/2018 12:50:48 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't The House doesn't set trade policy. The executive branch does, so the mid-terms aren't relevant to trade policy. iainmorris, 4/26/2018 12:35:51 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't I'm no expert on the byzantine workings of the US "democratic" system (which is perhaps not quite as bonkers as the UK one) but this is from CNN in late 2017: "Top White House aides, lawmakers, donors and political consultants... mendyk, 4/26/2018 12:26:37 PM I'm Back for the Future of Communications Re: Re: Yeet "That terrible Warren Beatty movie" -- kind of like saying, "that terrible Styx song." mendyk, 4/26/2018 12:17:13 PM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't The midterm elections are Congressional and have nothing to do with the Trump administration or its trade policy. So the point as it's made in the story is incorrect. PaulERainford, 4/26/2018 11:55:42 AM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Re: Would that it were, but it ain't Presumably Robert is referring to the midterm election, which does take place this year, doesn't it? Not the presidential election, but still an election. iainmorris, 4/26/2018 11:27:58 AM Qualcomm Profits Hammered by Licensing Disputes Re: Re: Tabloid trickery How about "Qualcomm sees mixed fortunes in Q2"? mendyk, 4/26/2018 11:22:53 AM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Would that it were, but it ain't The Trump administration does not face an election at the end of this year. That doesn't happen until 2020. mendyk, 4/26/2018 11:18:42 AM Qualcomm Profits Hammered by Licensing Disputes Re: Re: Tabloid trickery Plus, "Sales up, profits down" isn't nearly as exciting as a good hammering. mkanterman, 4/26/2018 10:46:33 AM Huawei, ZTE in the Eye of a Trade Storm Re: Networking Cold War I mean networking has been in a cold war between the U.S. and China since long before the current trade discussions. And even the ZTE case preceded the current administration and its stance on trade with China. Could these... iainmorris, 4/26/2018 10:25:47 AM Qualcomm Profits Hammered by Licensing Disputes Re: Re: Tabloid trickery The hammering referred to the net profit, which is down more than 50%, not to the share price. Incidentally, that is down a quarter since the start of the year, which can only be described as, well, a hammering. Phil Harvey, 4/26/2018 10:14:44 AM I'm Back for the Future of Communications Re: Re: Yeet Maybe this guy is playing the drunk Jay Bulworth character from that terrible Warren Beatty movie... More Message Boards		Security Now Orangeworm Malware Burrows Into Healthcare Industry Jeffrey Burt, Freelance Editor & Journalist, 4/26/2018 A group of cybercriminals, known collectively as Orangeworm, are using their own ... (2 comments) Cryptocurrency Theft Uses Old Exploit to Highjack AWS Traffic Scott Ferguson, Editor, Enterprise Cloud, 4/26/2018 Earlier this week, attackers stole about $150,000 worth of cryptocurrency by ... (3 comments) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News AT&T Doubles Down on Fiber Diet Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/26/2018 Third-largest US broadband provider plans to pass 10 million homes with FTTH ... 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A CSP's digital transformation involves so much more than technology. Crucial – and often most challenging – is the cultural transformation that goes along with it. As Sigma's Chief Technology Officer, Catherine Michel has extensive experience with technology as she leads the company's entire product portfolio and strategy. But she's also no stranger to merging technology and culture, having taken a company — Tribold — from inception to acquisition (by Sigma in 2013), and she continues to advise service providers on how to drive their own transformations. This impressive female leader and vocal advocate for other women in the industry will join Women in Comms for a live radio show to discuss all things digital transformation, including the cultural transformation that goes along with it.

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