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Top News & Views All News & Views Why Pay-TV Needs OTT Video Now By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/22/2018 Given the growth of cord-cutting and the streaming video market, it's no longer a question of whether pay-TV providers should incorporate OTT video services into ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Why SD-WAN Is Taking Off Now By Scott Raynovich, Founder and Principal Analyst, Futuriom, 6/22/2018 For many years, software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) was thought of as a niche market for a bunch of startups. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Telco Job Prospects Go From Bad to Worse By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/22/2018 These are worrying times for many ordinary telecom workers. In the last few weeks, five of the world's biggest service providers have collectively announced plans to ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: Duh! I'm not getting your point. Surely, you don't think that network infrastructure... Advertisement In Search of 5G's Rationale By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/22/2018 The race is on to build the first commercial 5G networks, but beyond providing ever faster mobile broadband connectivity, what type of applications and services will ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mendyk Ray -- Can any mobile operator stay out of the 5G game at this point? Seems... Eurobites: Ericsson, MTN Put the Skids Under 5G By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/22/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: CityFibre goes private following acquisition; Orange offers Earth data; copyright rules may get tougher for FANG gang. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Are Fembots a Boon or Bane for WiT? By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 6/22/2018 This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Fembots 2.0; Google's diversity battles; women's voices aren't heard; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ThousandEyes Scans Multi-Cloud Performance By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 6/22/2018 In the cloud, as with real estate, location is paramount. Applications need to be located near their users to ensure fast responsiveness, whether the users are people ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement DT Will Cut 10k Jobs at T-Systems – Report By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 Germany's Deutsche Telekom reportedly plans to cut as many as 10,000 jobs at its ailing T-Systems unit, which sells IT services to business customers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Transport – Where Do We Start? By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/21/2018 With initial 5G launches looming ever nearer, network operators are running out of time to make critical decisions about the transport network infrastructure that ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: petercf Optical or microwave in 5G access/aggregation networks? Optics is the go-to... 5G Still More Like Rocket Fuel Than a Mission to Mars By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 "Mind the gap" is an automated, verbal warning issued to customers disembarking London's crowded tube trains, lest travelers half disappear into the darkness between ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: schlettie The "mission to Mars" arguments for 5G have always been bizarre. Do you... Intel CEO Resigns After Employee Relationship Revealed By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 6/21/2018 Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, has abruptly resigned over a relationship with an employee, the chipmaker said Thursday. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Telecoms.com Podcast: Live* From 5G World By Light Reading, 6/21/2018 Live (when they filmed it) from 5G World in London, this week's podcast gauges the 5G mood across industry. Once it's got the beers in. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Telenor Fined $96.5M for Freezing Out Rivals By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/21/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Dixons Carphone profits slide; Telecom Italia considers fiber tie-up; Nokia outsources to India's HCL. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Altice to Sell French, Portuguese Towers for €2.5B By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 Altice Europe is selling stakes in its towers businesses for the sum of €2.5 billion (US$2.9 billion) in an effort to reduce debts and open up new revenue streams in ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mendyk Next move will be to sell blood. Then kidneys. After that, options to pay down... New Ruckus Chief Won't Risk a Rumpus By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/21/2018 Look for Ruckus Networks to focus even more intently on the emerging markets of edge computing IoT and next-gen mobile services when Ian Whiting takes over as ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Petty's Grievances: The 5G Hopes & Fears of Vodafone UK's CTO By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 Switch on your smartphone and tiny letters at the top of the screen handily indicate whether you are using a 3G or 4G data network. How soon 5G pops up could depend ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Xiaomi IPO Will Value Smartphone Firm at Up to $70B By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/21/2018 Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has started on the road towards an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange that could value the company at up to US$70 billion. Post a Comment \| Read (0) For Cloud-Based Call Centers That Might Kill IVR, Press or Say 2 By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 6/20/2018 Digital transformation won't soon end the common use of annoying interactive voice response (IVR) technology to provide customer service, but a new survey by ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Larry Ellison Laughed at the Cloud, Now the Cloud Is Laughing Back By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 6/20/2018 In an era when bigger competitors are growing much faster in the cloud, Oracle turned in lackluster quarterly earnings, and it's getting beat up on Wall Street as a ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: rocket101 >>John DiFucci asked how investors could "get comfortable" that Oracle... AT&T Buckles Down to Deploy NB-IoT in 2019 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 6/20/2018 AT&T now says it will deploy Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) to support extremely low-power LTE machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, after extensive testing -- and some ... 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Surely, you don't think that network infrastructure... In Search of 5G's Rationale By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/22/2018 The race is on to build the first commercial 5G networks, but beyond providing ever faster mobile broadband connectivity, what type of applications and services will ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mendyk Ray -- Can any mobile operator stay out of the 5G game at this point? Seems... Eurobites: Ericsson, MTN Put the Skids Under 5G By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/22/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: CityFibre goes private following acquisition; Orange offers Earth data; copyright rules may get tougher for FANG gang. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Are Fembots a Boon or Bane for WiT? By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 6/22/2018 This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Fembots 2.0; Google's diversity battles; women's voices aren't heard; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ThousandEyes Scans Multi-Cloud Performance By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 6/22/2018 In the cloud, as with real estate, location is paramount. Applications need to be located near their users to ensure fast responsiveness, whether the users are people ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) DT Will Cut 10k Jobs at T-Systems – Report By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 Germany's Deutsche Telekom reportedly plans to cut as many as 10,000 jobs at its ailing T-Systems unit, which sells IT services to business customers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Transport – Where Do We Start? By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/21/2018 With initial 5G launches looming ever nearer, network operators are running out of time to make critical decisions about the transport network infrastructure that ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: petercf Optical or microwave in 5G access/aggregation networks? Optics is the go-to... 5G Still More Like Rocket Fuel Than a Mission to Mars By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 "Mind the gap" is an automated, verbal warning issued to customers disembarking London's crowded tube trains, lest travelers half disappear into the darkness between ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: schlettie The "mission to Mars" arguments for 5G have always been bizarre. Do you... Intel CEO Resigns After Employee Relationship Revealed By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 6/21/2018 Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, has abruptly resigned over a relationship with an employee, the chipmaker said Thursday. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Telecoms.com Podcast: Live From 5G World By Light Reading, 6/21/2018 Live (*when they filmed it) from 5G World in London, this week's podcast gauges the 5G mood across industry. Once it's got the beers in. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Telenor Fined $96.5M for Freezing Out Rivals By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/21/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Dixons Carphone profits slide; Telecom Italia considers fiber tie-up; Nokia outsources to India's HCL. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Altice to Sell French, Portuguese Towers for €2.5B By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 Altice Europe is selling stakes in its towers businesses for the sum of €2.5 billion (US$2.9 billion) in an effort to reduce debts and open up new revenue streams in ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mendyk Next move will be to sell blood. Then kidneys. After that, options to pay down... New Ruckus Chief Won't Risk a Rumpus By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/21/2018 Look for Ruckus Networks to focus even more intently on the emerging markets of edge computing IoT and next-gen mobile services when Ian Whiting takes over as ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Petty's Grievances: The 5G Hopes & Fears of Vodafone UK's CTO By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2018 Switch on your smartphone and tiny letters at the top of the screen handily indicate whether you are using a 3G or 4G data network. How soon 5G pops up could depend ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Xiaomi IPO Will Value Smartphone Firm at Up to $70B By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/21/2018 Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has started on the road towards an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange that could value the company at up to US$70 billion. Post a Comment \| Read (0) For Cloud-Based Call Centers That Might Kill IVR, Press or Say 2 By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 6/20/2018 Digital transformation won't soon end the common use of annoying interactive voice response (IVR) technology to provide customer service, but a new survey by ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Larry Ellison Laughed at the Cloud, Now the Cloud Is Laughing Back By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 6/20/2018 In an era when bigger competitors are growing much faster in the cloud, Oracle turned in lackluster quarterly earnings, and it's getting beat up on Wall Street as a ... Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: rocket101 >>John DiFucci asked how investors could "get comfortable" that Oracle... AT&T Buckles Down to Deploy NB-IoT in 2019 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 6/20/2018 AT&T now says it will deploy Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) to support extremely low-power LTE machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, after extensive testing -- and some ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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 Jesigne, 6/22/2018 3:22:01 PM Leading Lights 2017: The Finalists Re: Great Great story!! Duh!, 6/22/2018 3:12:30 PM Telco Job Prospects Go From Bad to Worse Re: Re: Job cuts I'm not getting your point. Surely, you don't think that network infrastructure self-assembles? Mitch Wagner, 6/22/2018 3:03:30 PM Telco Job Prospects Go From Bad to Worse Re: Re: Job cuts Similarly for COBOL programmers and mainframe operators in the enterprise. Duh!, 6/22/2018 3:01:58 PM Telco Job Prospects Go From Bad to Worse Re: Re: Job cuts MEanwhile, positions for tower climbers, fiber splicers, RF technicians, OSP engineers and software engineers are going begging. Mitch Wagner, 6/22/2018 1:18:43 PM Telco Job Prospects Go From Bad to Worse Re: Job cuts It seems possible that increased demand for bandwidth, driven by IoT, might well offset the job cuts caused by automation and M&A. Anecdotally: While farm jobs are down precipitously, the same effect didn't occur... mendyk, 6/22/2018 10:29:05 AM In Search of 5G's Rationale Re: Ante up, big boys Ray -- Can any mobile operator stay out of the 5G game at this point? Seems like 5G is now table stakes for competing in the 2020s. Phil_Britt, 6/22/2018 9:05:21 AM Big Telcos Have Slashed 107K Jobs Since 2015 Re: Re: Trend Will Continue The broader economy in general, at least in the U.S. continues to have a wider divide between the haves and have-nots with fewer in the middle. According to a recent report, the middle class has been dwindling since the... kq4ym, 6/22/2018 8:52:59 AM Big Telcos Have Slashed 107K Jobs Since 2015 Re: Re: Trend Will Continue That's probably true, the job loss has been ongoing for a long time. And as noted "Much of the attrition during the past year was the result of takeover activity ," but one might wonder what the net loss might be and how... kq4ym, 6/22/2018 8:48:08 AM Will Trump Make a Deal With Huawei? Re: Re: Why...??? It will be interesting watch how Congress opposes or not Trump's proposals and whether there's enough tech wisdom in the halls of the legislature to understand all the issues that may fall under the umbrella of foreign tech... kq4ym, 6/22/2018 8:44:14 AM US Topples China for Top Supercomputer Bragging Rights Re: Re: Cold as the Rockies Going from a ranking o fifth to first should merit some praise for the super computing race. I wonder how many of the projects there at the lab are super secret and may be intelligence agency or military sponsored? Guess... Leab, 6/22/2018 8:41:26 AM MWC 2018: Ovum IDs the IoT Hotspots Re: Re: shop The better area of the light reading where you can get the better material in this phase. You can also get the better part in this section with domywriting reviews which is a good thing for you. Just combine your work... kq4ym, 6/22/2018 8:40:50 AM Verizon Names Vestberg as New CEO Re: Re: “No collusion” And it probably does make sense that the "best time to transition a CEO is when things are going well." although that of course could be a convenient reply when a CEO is being replaced and the company just happens to be... kq4ym, 6/22/2018 8:37:55 AM BT Waves Goodbye to Gorgeous Gavin Re: Re: Least shocking news of 2018 It still continues to amaze me at the amounts of pay and bonuses the top folks pocket. It would be interesting to hire someone at a more "normal" level and see how company profits and sales change or not. I would suspect... ChiefMar76368, 6/22/2018 7:34:27 AM Investors Unmoved by New Telstra 4-Year Plan Re: Telstra InfraCo = BT Openreach? Is the establishment of Telstra InfraCo more or less equivalent to BT's Openreach? Wonder what Day 1 lessons that might give Telstra a head start on? suhanawilliams21, 6/22/2018 6:53:57 AM MWC 2018 Threatens to Be 5G New Radio Bore Re: Statistics Assignment Help Assignmenthelp.us will be there for you and with you from your early school years till you earn your PhD. We are fully aware of the fact that educational qualification is not the only thing that matters when writing an online... JeroldWinslow, 6/22/2018 6:38:05 AM MWC 2018 Threatens to Be 5G New Radio Bore Re: Programming assignment help Students Assignment Help is the best programming assignment help service provider agency all over the world. Our experts help students to complete their assignment task at the lowest cost. Our services are provided... ChiefMar76368, 6/22/2018 6:02:11 AM ETSI's Networked Intelligence Group Starts to Get Real Re: Great! Great writeup, James, and good to see this initiative growing. ESTI ENI may not have had a high profile launch, but the range of vendors and operators involved mean this is definitely one to watch. ChiefMar76368, 6/22/2018 5:42:44 AM Investors Unmoved by New Telstra 4-Year Plan Re: Whatever happening to the other plan? Robert - whatever happened to this plan (from 2016!) to address the issues? That seemed to be authored by the great & the good... http://www.lightreading.com/gigabit/fttx/telstra-coo-exits-after-spate-of-network-cra... annashetty, 6/22/2018 5:34:56 AM Altice USA Names Jean-Charles Nicolas SVP, Altice Mobile Re: thanks Interesting and you have very nice way of expressing the article.The author clearly describe all the parts of the article with good language and information.Looking forward to another article. run 3 annashetty, 6/22/2018 5:32:39 AM Can Silicon Photonics Add Spark to Hardware? Re: nice I am grateful to have opened this discussion. This question is quite interesting to me. Finally the answer was found combat reloaded merry.d, 6/22/2018 4:16:21 AM Mavenir's Billion-Dollar Blueprint Re: Re: You can almost see the $500 Million in additional revenue But given the strength of the competition, does Mavenir have any chance of making an impact with its virtualized mobile network proposition, especially in a market that is so dominated by influential and powerful incumbent... sansa2020, 6/21/2018 10:49:37 PM Comcast Ready for Clash With Hulu Re: Great race at Silverstone Watch F1 British Grand Prix live from Silverstone Circuit. Stream qualifying and practice races, and get live results on NBC Sports and the NBC Sports app. sansa2020, 6/21/2018 10:48:13 PM Comcast Ready for Clash With Hulu Re: Excellent blog post 2018 Tour de France live stream on PC, Mac, Android, PS4, Apple TV, Roku, or iOS. ... Stream Le Tour de France 2018 Free Live Online. petercf, 6/21/2018 6:38:18 PM 5G Transport – Where Do We Start? Re: Microwave has lower latency than fibre Optical or microwave in 5G access/aggregation networks? Optics is the go-to option to deliver the bandwidth and latency needed for 5G - but microwave offers lower latency than fibre? Sterling Perrin, 6/21/2018 4:55:53 PM 5G Transport – Where Do We Start? Re: Regional Differences Thanks Ray. I'm also very interested in undertsanding regional differences in how operators are planning for 5G transport. Verizon, for example, makes a strong case for C-RAN and NG-PON2. But are European operators interested... mendyk, 6/21/2018 3:36:37 PM Altice to Sell French, Portuguese Towers for €2.5B Re: Drop by drop Next move will be to sell blood. Then kidneys. After that, options to pay down that ridiculous debt narrow. Sharjeel07, 6/21/2018 3:06:04 PM CableLabs: New Optical Spec Almost Here Re: Agreed Thanks for providing information. <a href="www.westcables.com">West Cables</a> schlettie, 6/21/2018 2:20:09 PM 5G Still More Like Rocket Fuel Than a Mission to Mars Re: Mission to Mars The "mission to Mars" arguments for 5G have always been bizarre. Do you want the safety of your self-driving car to depend on the quality of your cellular connection? Operating rooms won't have ethernet jacks? ... More Message Boards		Security Now Tesla Lawsuit Claims Insider Breached Company Security Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 6/22/2018 Tesla has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, claiming he violated company ... (1 Comment) Google, Roku, Sonus Rush Out Patches for DNS Vulnerability Larry Loeb, Author, 6/22/2018 DNS rebinding might be ancient in security terms, but it's scary enough that ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Frontier CFO Resigns, Stock Price Drops Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 6/21/2018 With the resignation of R. Perley McBride, Frontier stock drops to lowest point ... (2 comments) Sprint CTO: Rural Ripe for Disruption With Fixed Wireless Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 6/21/2018 Using fixed wireless, a merged Sprint/T-Mobile could reach about 85% of those the ... (5 comments) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... 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Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Heavy Reading Building the 5G Transport Network By Sterling Perrin, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading, 10/25/2017 Next-gen wireless will require next-gen wireline fronthaul and backhaul solutions that must be put in place within the next 2 years. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiFi Prospects in a 5G World June 2018 Just like 3G, 4G and LTE, 5G isn't kicking WiFi to the curb. Mixing WiFi with LTE and 5G networks offers mobile operators numerous market opportunities. This report explores recent patterns in WiFi deployment and improvements to the technology. It reviews the likely impact of business models, installed base of legacy infrastructure and vested interests – all of which will influence the evolution of the market – exploring how WiFi and 5G are likely to fit together. See Details B/OSS Transformation Focus Group: B/OSS Automation Plans Equate to Cautious Optimism June 2018 Service providers on our Thought Leadership Council are cautiously optimistic about B/OSS automation, with more than half already taking steps to automate B/OSS. This focus group was asked 10 questions about their deployment plans, technology, drivers and obstacles for B/OSS automation. These service providers clearly have realistic goals and expectations for this technology, but they're also cognizant of the challenges they face as they continue to integrate automation. See Details Universal CPE: The Ultimate CPE Solution? May 2018 uCPE systems are a key market opportunity created by the development of SDN and cloud services. They are continuing to develop with new processors, better system integration and more efficient virtualization solutions. This report covers 18 vendors that offer uCPE hardware platforms, software platforms or integration services. It also covers the leading processors for uCPE platforms and service provider approaches to uCPE systems, with specific information on AT&T uCPE platforms. See Details All Heavy Reading Reports Prime Reading NFV Is Down but Not Out Iain Morris , News Editor , 5/22/2018 NFV has failed to live up to the original expectations five years after it was ... (32 comments) Leading Lights 2018: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/11/2018 Light Reading is thrilled to announce the finalists for this year's Leading ... (0) Robot Wars: Telecom's Looming AI Tussle Iain Morris , News Editor , 3/14/2018 Telcos performing routine chores will be ripe for AI-based automation. But whose ... (4 comments) Atrinet Pivots, Tackles Hybrid Network Headaches Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 2/13/2018 Network management vendor revamps its strategy to promote itself as a telco cloud ... 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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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