To deal with the ever-growing demand for bandwidth, Swisscom upgraded its Optical Network for All-IP Transport Services (SONATE) to 100G, ensuring a superior experience of ultra-broadband services
Huawei Futureway VP Dr. Frank Effenberger introduces FTTD and explains why we need it. He clarifies the difference between FTTD, FTTDp and FTTH, and explains the key technologies and challenges of FTTD
Huawei Access Standard Director Les Brown introduces the copper-based new technologies such as vectoring and G.fast. He explains how they work and the benefits for operators, as well as clarifying the difference between FTTH and FTTDp, and provides an update on the G.fast standard progress
Global Capacity's VP of Product and Marketing Mary Stanhope discusses proactive network monitoring, unified Ethernet and TDM interconnects – and the 'original' Sabrina
Karl-Heinz Nenner from Deutsche Telekom talks about the operational efficiencies that operators are expecting from network functions virtualization (NFV)
Senior executives from TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) explain how Carrier Ethernet is supporting the creation and delivery of cutting edge services across the carrier’s extensive global fiber backbone.
What happens now that big vendors have caught on to software-defined networking? Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation, gives us his thoughts about the new landscape
Steven Shalita, VP of Marketing, NetScout Systems, Inc., discusses the challenges Cable/MSO operators face in assuring the delivery of services as they roll out new IP-based services over ever growing IP networks.
Steven Shalita, VP of Marketing, NetScout Systems, Inc., discusses how 3G and LTE mobile network operators can leverage their service assurance investments for network-derived business and operational intelligence.
Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee, outlines the company’s strategy and its plans to shake up the industry now that it has acquired Nokia Siemens Networks' Business Support Systems business unit.
Cox's Jeff Finkelstein outlines the anticipated benefits and drivers of Docsis 3.1, and explains how much bandwidth operators will need to free up during the initial deployment of the emerging, multi-gigabit platform.
Jorge Salinger of Comcast says the operator has moved beyond the trial stage and is now starting to pilot equipment and services that take advantage of the emerging Converged Cable Access Platform
New CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney offers an update on the R&D house’s activities, including his top priorities, the role that the recently formed 'innovation team' will play, and when CableLabs expects to complete the Docsis 3.1 specifications
Acme Packet introduced a few new communication technologies for carriers: virtualization of its IP communication products, a new flagship session border control solution, and Palladion to provide a real-time view of all of the rich media communication activities taking place on the network.
As carriers look to deploy SDN and NFV technology, it will become possible and cost effective to extend DPI throughout the network, enabling the growth of more services.
What's the role of a group like PARC today? The Father of Ethernet gives us his opinion -- and reflects on how it all got started for Ethernet, 40 years ago.
Radisys CTO Manish Singh discusses how the company's cloud offerings enable rich communication services, new user experiences, and enhanced operator monetization. He also discusses the company's small cell and LTE-A rollouts.
HEVC (high efficiency video codec), or H.265 as some refer to it, will allow operators to deliver higher quality video while consuming less bandwidth. Rovi is helping drive HEVC adoption through its SDKs, DivX certification and more
Kontron's solution makes use of cloud architectures to provide a more scalable, manageable, energy-efficient and cost-effective way of delivering content to mobile devices.
Aptilo Networks VP Marketing Johan Terve talks about the benefits of carrier-class Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi offloading at Mobile World Congress 2013. With Aptilo's solutions, mobile operators can generate additional revenue, reduce churn and attract new customers by providing carrier-class Wi-Fi services.
Everyone agrees that standards are good to stitch together networks made of 4G, small cells and even Wi-Fi, but there's much less accord over which standards to use to actually to get it done
SMS has become a major threat vector. There are millions of spam SMS messages every day, resulting in the loss of personal data and and money. Mobile operators see increased churn and customer care as a result, as well as real bottom line impact. Cloudmark discusses these challenges and what operators can do about this threat
During the Huawei SoftCOM Analyst & Media Briefings in London, experts from Huawei discussed the new SoftCOM solution with analysts during special 'deep dive' sessions. Professor Sanqi Li and Don Clarke from British Telecom also gave a presentation to key industry media figures.
Ari Banerjee from Heavy Reading and Cyril Doussau from InfoVista outline the critical role Advanced Network Planning and Automated Network Optimization play in realizing the benefits of mobile operators' backhaul and radio access networks transformation projects
Zhensheng Jia, assistant director, ZTE, introduces the technical advantages of 100G product especially on DSP and SD-FEC modules, a number of field deployments worldwide, and also the pioneered achievements on 400G and 1T research
