News & Views
Content posted in March 2016
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | 1 comment New Azure Functions allow applications to automatically respond to events, useful in Internet of Things applications as well as web, mobile and big data.
Rewired | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment FCC proposes forcing broadband ISPs to get explicit consent from customers before using browsing data, ignoring the real online privacy threats.
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | 4 comments Although it's been trying hard for several years, Huawei has still not managed to sign up any large or midsized US MSOs for its next-gen cable equipment.
Between the CEOs | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment Pankaj Patel, Executive Vice President of Cisco, sits down with Steve Saunders, Founder and CEO of Light Reading, in the midst of MWC 2016 to discuss Cisco's success, the future of telecom and the big technology shift to virtualization and the cloud.
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | 10 comments Frontier will take over the Verizon footprint in California, Florida and Texas on April 1. More than half of those systems support FiOS customers.
LRTV Interviews | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment Light Reading's Carol Wilson and Mitch Wagner discuss how industry leaders such as AT&T and Facebook are making making SDN (as Wilson says) 'day-to-day deployable.'
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange/Bouygues talks drag on; Ericsson and Telefónica demo LTE-U; Sigfox hires a Wolff.
LRTV Interviews | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment Frontier Communications is checking out the potential of open networking as it seeks to scale its triple-play network without adding more boxes, says David Curran, director of strategic planning.
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | 1 comment Huawei names Ken Hu, currently the chairman of Huawei USA, as its latest acting CEO.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 3/31/2016 | 3 comments In this first part of a new sponsored blog series, AT&T's Bill Smith explains how AT&T hopes to complement its GPON-powered GigaPower rollout with additional technologies, such as G.fast.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/31/2016 | 1 comment Bringing "man and machine" together isn't just about retraining telecom folks to embrace IT skills, it's about carefully structuring organizational teams, says Travis Ewert, SVP of global network software development at Level 3 Communications. Those teams have to be able to embrace a variety of skills but also get direct exposure to customer need, and learn new ways of working together.
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment South Korean operator completes trials of 28GHz-based 5G services in partnership with Samsung.
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment It has started now but it could be months before mobile operators start bidding, which makes 600MHz another candidate for 5G, according to the FCC.
News Analysis | 3/31/2016 | Post a comment Software player lands new deal with Filipino operator SMART and raises another $5 million in funding.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | 1 comment A trial partnership that had Comcast streaming EA Games titles to X1 set-top boxes appears to be on the verge of shutting down.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | Post a comment Executive with experience in broadcasting and energy sectors will be under pressure to cut costs and meet new digital challenges.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | 2 comments Not so much a stream, but a trickle.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/30/2016 | 1 comment CTO Ihab Tarazi explains how Equinix is already moving to Open Compute Platform hardware and open source orchestration software in its multi-tenant data centers.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 3/30/2016 | 6 comments Mobile World Congress served to underline how 2016 will be a pivotal year for the Internet of Things.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: key Vodafone exec to retire in June; Tilgin looks for partners; EE takes TV everywhere; SoundCloud goes mainstream.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | 9 comments Comcast Engineer Chris Luke wants to make engineering cool for girls to create a more fair and equitable future workforce for his 10-year-old daughter.
LRTV Interviews | 3/30/2016 | Post a comment SK Telecom is mobilizing Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) to take advantage of virtualization, faster responsiveness to user needs, reducing the load on the backhaul and moving content closer to the network edge, says Kang-Won Lee, SVP of Research and Development at SK Telecom.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | Post a comment India's RJio is poised to launch a 4G service covering 70% of the country's population.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | 1 comment By improving automation for network operations, Brocade hopes to make its VDX switches more attractive to the biggest enterprises as well as low-end cloud providers.
News Analysis | 3/30/2016 | 1 comment A takeover of YOU Broadband would bolster Vodafone's fixed-line capabilities and could help to support its introduction of 4G services.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment Brocade is looking to bring DevOps style automation to its networking technology, storage, compute and security.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | 5 comments You can't fight the triple play.
Shades of Ray | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment There's still time to enter this year's Leading Lights awards -- here are the details you need.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment Video optimization meets video encoding in Beamr deal to acquire Vanguard.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | 1 comment Alierta names chief operating officer José María Álvarez-Pallete as his successor from early April.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment Chinese telecom players flag strategic alliance to support future network evolution.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment Adds support for OpenStack Kilo and Liberty as well as management tools to its Open Networking Suite.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Etisalat appoints new group CEO; Orange puts Brahmaputra to the test; OTT trends in France and the UK.
LRTV Interviews | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment AT&T's Ken Duell explains how white box switches and routers based on merchant silicon will deliver a 'huge payoff' for the operator.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | Post a comment The ailing web player is reported to have set a deadline for bids for its assets as a shareholder vote on board membership draws closer.
News Analysis | 3/29/2016 | 10 comments AT&T is hoping to lure other network operators into its effort to drive SDN down to the optical layer and greatly increase network flexibility.
News Analysis | 3/28/2016 | 5 comments T-Mobile is the latest US carrier to ask the FCC for a 5G millimeter wave radio test license.
News Analysis | 3/28/2016 | 1 comment Sprint voice and LTE data suffers 'issues' Monday in the most densely populated area of the US.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/28/2016 | 2 comments Verizon spent 18 months, working in rapid fashion, to turn up its first five production pods for its virtualized networks, deploying software-defined networking and network functions virtualization. Chris Emmons, director of network infrastructure planning, offers a look inside that effort and its challenges.
News Analysis | 3/28/2016 | 1 comment The Taiwanese foundry will be joining the likes of Intel, Samsung and Hynix in siting advanced wafer fabs in the country.
News Analysis | 3/28/2016 | 4 comments The sell-off of the former Perot Systems unit will help Dell fund its $67B acquisition of EMC.
MariNation | 3/28/2016 | 6 comments Everything you ever wanted to know about Gigabit Cities at our Gigabit Cities Live event on April 5.
Mentor Monday | 3/28/2016 | 1 comment Technology can be a boon and a blessing to achieving a work-life balance, especially when you're head of sales for an entire continent.
Slide Shows | 3/28/2016 | 3 comments Dazzling venue and entertainment helps convince Google cloud users that it should be taken seriously in the enterprise – the company hopes.
LRTV Interviews | 3/28/2016 | Post a comment NCTC's John Childress discusses how smaller cable operators are integrating OTT video, multiscreen and TiVo apps into their offerings.
Column | 3/28/2016 | Post a comment To ensure the best possible customer experience, service providers must find ways to make more performance metrics available to users.
News Analysis | 3/25/2016 | 1 comment AT&T's Ed Amoroso warned about this possibility in 2014.
News Analysis | 3/25/2016 | 4 comments Is national broadband definition really only 25 Mbits/s?
News Analysis | 3/25/2016 | Post a comment Open ROADM group already includes Ciena, Fujitsu and Nokia in effort to create software and hardware specs.
News Analysis | 3/25/2016 | 1 comment Service provider details how investment in expansion is helping it earn Uptime's M&O Stamps of Approval at unprecedented rates.
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