News & Views
Content posted in September 2018
News Analysis | 9/28/2018 | 3 comments
The 'father of fiber optics' has passed away at 84.
News Analysis | 9/28/2018 | Post a comment
Maintaining visibility into the network is among the challenges faced as processing and compute creeps toward smaller and more numerous facilities and out to the CPE.
The Bauminator | 9/28/2018 | Post a comment
Operator's set-top-free, app-based 'Instant' offering is also part of the company's prepaid service portfolio.
Slide Shows | 9/28/2018 | Post a comment
Microsoft made Florida even hotter.
WiCipedia | 9/28/2018 | Post a comment
This week in our WiC roundup: A new series shows the tech boom's consequences; our WiC event was a huge success; a sobering look at women's progress in STEM; and more.
News Analysis | 9/28/2018 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: the smell of 5G; augmenting the grim reality of Michael Bublé; Ericsson and Qualcomm claim 28GHz band breakthrough.
Rewired | 9/28/2018 | 1 comment
Here's a quick snapshot of my impressions from this week's NFV-Carrier SDN: Automation and Monetization event in Denver.
News Analysis | 9/28/2018 | 1 comment
Ciena has been riding high in India's optical equipment market, but a wave of consolidation and government steps to bring manufacturing back home could make life difficult in the months ahead.
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
Pivot to remote PHY and distributed access architectures is paving the way to Full Duplex DOCSIS, engineering exec says.
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | 1 comment
Updated LED street lighting will be a harbinger of smart cities in the US, says AT&T GM Zeto.
LRTV Interviews | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
5G is bringing the industry a new mechanism for delivering services, said Jonathan Davidson, Cisco's new service provider boss. In the run-up to 5G, Davidson said Cisco is helping enterprises partner with service providers to deliver application services with just the right level of policy and security. He also updates us on Cisco's role in building out T-Mobile's virtual packet core in preparation for 5G.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/27/2018 | 2 comments
To really get the benefits of the applications that are possible in a 5G world, the industry first needs to transition to software-defined testing and assurance solutions that are flexible and efficient.
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
The telco cloud community is excited about the impending shift towards cloud-native, but Deutsche Telekom's Axel Clauberg has raised a big warning flag.
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
With the Bolt OTA, TiVo will try to jolt the market and separate itself from new DVR combo products focused on cord-cutters from Amazon and AirTV.
Shades of Ray | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
ONAP has been a hot topic at the Open Networking Summit Europe event in Amsterdam and it's clear it has a lot of issues as well as a lot of carrier support.
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | 1 comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson takes NB-IoT to the max in Oz; cybersecurity laggards get left behind; is Gavin's potential BT successor gorgeous enough?
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
NFV isn't where it should be but it's clear that cloud-native approaches offer the promise of automation and scale, says Bryce Mitchell.
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | 1 comment
With NFV still unable to deliver agility and scale, Orange launches public cloud-based, OTT enterprise services in Spain with Red Hat as its platform partner. Is this the future for SME communications and networking services?
News Analysis | 9/27/2018 | Post a comment
Vodafone has finally launched an NB-IoT network in the UK and is carrying out trials with energy provider Scottish Power.
LRTV Interviews | 9/26/2018 | 2 comments
Light Reading's dynamic trio wind down from the NFV & Carrier SDN event by answering the question: Which wines pair with telecom acronyms?
News Analysis | 9/26/2018 | 1 comment
Spectrum Enterprise's Scott Fairchild says business service providers should borrow from the customer experience playbooks of Apple, Tesla and Bose.
LRTV Interviews | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
Telefónica's Antonio Elizondo says its common information model and orchestration layer will enable network slicing for 5G.
News Analysis | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
Will sell its 39% holdings in UK pay-TV and media company in light of Comcast's 'premium' offer.
Column | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
At analyst event in Philadelphia, Comcast's business unit launches new branding strategy to promote SD-WAN and other services that go beyond high data speeds.
News Analysis | 9/26/2018 | 1 comment
Telcos are referencing NFV less these days and are talking more about cloud-native functions. But what's the difference, and why are cloud-native applications any better?
LRTV Interviews | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
At MWCA earlier this month, Ericsson North America CEO Niklas Heuveldop discussed Ericsson's market advantage in securing 5G wins in North America and said the industrial IoT space could open up new opportunities in the enterprise in the coming months.
LRTV Documentaries | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
Ericsson's Keith Shank gives us a quick tour of the vendor's sprawling stand at Mobile World Congress Americas, including a look at new medical device applications, city infrastructure and a holographic 'phone' call.
News Analysis | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
Qualcomm has accused Apple of pinching its software and providing this to Intel.
News Analysis | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Mobolize gets mobilized in Europe; Tele2 trumpets new IoT platform; Deutsche Telekom shares cybersecurity know-how with Germany army.
Wagner’s Ring | 9/26/2018 | Post a comment
Scott Richert, Mercy Technology Services chief technology officer, describes the organization's transformation from the IT shop of Mercy healthcare system into a service provider for multiple healthcare organizations. (See Mercy Fills Virtualization Prescription.)
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
Says thousands of on-net buildings can be used to distribute network functions virtualization closer to the edge.
UBB Forum News | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
Huawei joined hands with leading parties in the UHD industry to form a new collaboration initiative.
UBB Forum News | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
At the fifth Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2018), Huawei released the Cloud VR Solution White Paper, providing an overview of the architecture and detailing the solution from the perspectives of the cloud, pipe, and terminal ecosystems.
UBB Forum News | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
India's telecom service provider Idea Cellular and Huawei recently announced that they had successfully built converged, efficient, future-oriented and sustainable ultra-broadband networks.
UBB Forum News | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently announced the official release of the RFC 8453 Framework for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN) and RFC 8454 Information Model for ACTN.
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
ETSI open source organization will also have single point of entry to manage network services and network slices with release later this year.
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | 4 comments
Moves seen as major effort to cut employee rolls, particularly US-based jobs as management is among the targets.
LRTV Interviews | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
Nokia's head of North America, Rick Corker, gives us an update on the vendor's technical achievements in 5G, its announced wins with carriers and why the North American market is going to be so challenging and competitive as these networks roll out.
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | 2 comments
AT&T is replacing Ericsson with Nokia and Samsung as it rolls out a 5G network, according to Michael Genovese of MKM Partners.
CxO Spotlight | 9/25/2018 | 1 comment
Vodafone's head of cloud and automation wants to define the telco cloud so that everyone's singing from the same hymn sheet.
LRTV Documentaries | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
At the Ovum Digital Futures summit, the pod-squadders talk media consumption, artificial intelligence and voice activation. And they upset a security guard.
LRTV Documentaries | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
We took a quick walk around the Nokia stand at Mobile World Congress Americas earlier this month and enjoyed some virtual reality pitches, lessons in network demand forecasting and a discussion of decomposing network functions (I think).
The Bauminator | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
CEO Mike Fries says he's 'excited for the competition' in wake of the Comcast-Sky deal.
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telia tees up 5G test network in Estonia; Vodafone brings Juniper into its SD-WAN fold; new blood for Ofcom.
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | 1 comment
CEO Satya Nadella gives the side-eye to Amazon Web Services, saying Microsoft won't compete with its enterprise customers.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
Issues relating to services orchestration have still not entirely been resolved.
Column | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
OTT has changed everything and now 5G is on the way. How can cable operators stay ahead?
News Analysis | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
With a contribution into ONAP that also involved Huawei, Vodafone and China Mobile take the lead on defining service orchestration and automation across carrier network borders. But they're not the first to do so.
News Analysis | 9/24/2018 | Post a comment
MetroPCS will become 'Metro by T-Mobile' in October.
News Analysis | 9/24/2018 | Post a comment
The new-look Emergency Services Network will be in no position to replace the ageing Airwave system next year, as originally intended.
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