News & Views
Content posted in December 2014
News Analysis | 12/31/2014 | 3 comments Comcast Cable CEO Neil Smit secured a $5 million bonus as part of his new five-year employment agreement.
News Analysis | 12/31/2014 | 5 comments Light Reading is ringing in the New Year by offering up some practical resolutions that can help carriers and vendors better compete, make money and plan their strategic moves in 2015.
DOS Attack | 12/31/2014 | 5 comments VNF, DevOps, IaaS and FTTdp are among the technology acronyms that came into increasingly common usage in 2014.
The Gigabot | 12/31/2014 | 6 comments Communications service providers of all types need to figure out what role they will play in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.
News Analysis | 12/30/2014 | 7 comments ISP demonstrates the capabilities of its fiber network with the launch of a 10 Gbit/s service to select Minneapolis customers.
News Analysis | 12/30/2014 | 3 comments According to the IoTC, consumers are getting smart home info via word-of-mouth referrals and retail recommendations.
LRTV Interviews | 12/30/2014 | 1 comment Comlink COO John Summersett discusses his company's eight-state fiber network from Light Reading's 2020 Vision Executive Summit.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 12/30/2014 | 2 comments The cable industry is embarking on its most ambitious effort ever to cut its energy consumption and associated costs
LRTV Interviews | 12/30/2014 | Post a comment Drew Gilpin, head of sales and marketing at New Zealand telco Kordia, sees SDN as a way to achieve a more efficient use of capital.
News Analysis | 12/29/2014 | 3 comments We take a look back at some of the unique Gigabit Cities stories of 2014 and detail what to look forward to in the coming year.
News Analysis | 12/29/2014 | 1 comment In another world first, the South Korean operator flipped the switch on its tri-band LTE-Advanced network Monday, supported by Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE.
News Analysis | 12/29/2014 | 2 comments The US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan is allowing Aereo to auction off its assets as long as broadcasters agree to the terms of the final sale.
DOS Attack | 12/29/2014 | Post a comment Analysts suggest existing Verizon supplier Ciena is favorite to win a 100G metro spot at Verizon, but several vendors are in the running.
LRTV Interviews | 12/29/2014 | Post a comment AT the 2020 Vision Executive Summit, cloud guru Joe Weinman talks about the strategic advantages that a combination of networks and IT can now deliver.
Shades of Ray | 12/29/2014 | Post a comment We're expecting major news from the Service Provider IT (SPIT) fraternity next year.
Shades of Ray | 12/26/2014 | Post a comment CEO hopes to announce new telco customers in India in the coming year.
Que Sera Sarah | 12/26/2014 | 1 comment The past year validated our 2014 small cell movers and shakers list in a lot of ways, but it also saw several executives leave the small cell market, by choice or otherwise.
News Analysis | 12/26/2014 | 16 comments From the Sprint/T-mobile merger to net neutrality and the Cisco/Arista lawsuit, 2014 saw plenty of blunders for Light Reading's entertainment.
DOS Attack | 12/24/2014 | 2 comments Software programmability, IP and optical integration, metro 100G and other key trends are worth watching in the transport sector in the coming year.
News Analysis | 12/24/2014 | 5 comments It's time to tally up the cable disappointments for 2014.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 12/24/2014 | Post a comment Network functions virtualization (NFV) management and orchestration (MANO) is still early in development and will come to market slowly.
News Analysis | 12/24/2014 | 1 comment Security in the cloud may not be the bugaboo that it's made out to be for mobile carriers.
News Analysis | 12/24/2014 | 1 comment Carrier continues gigabit network expansion, introducing a 1 Gbit/s service in 19 markets across four states.
News Analysis | 12/24/2014 | 1 comment In-home sensors report on seniors' well-being to caregiver remotely, allowing seniors to remain at home and independent longer.
News Analysis | 12/23/2014 | 6 comments Consortium that bought Nortel's patents, including Apple, Microsoft and Ericsson, has sold them to patent house RPX as its fight against Android comes to an end.
LRTV Interviews | 12/23/2014 | 3 comments Amdocs CEO Eli Gelman talks data analytics, NFV, acquisitions and much more in an exclusive video interview.
Column | 12/23/2014 | Post a comment Next year promises to see more product innovation and more implementations of the cable industry's Reference Design Kit software across the globe
News Analysis | 12/23/2014 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: KPN trials VoLTE; TeliaSonera's 4G takes over; Telefónica's fiber dominance in Spain.
LRTV Documentaries | 12/23/2014 | Post a comment EE's Director of Network Strategy David Salam discusses how data growth on its wireless network is driving business transformation and the move to 5G for the UK-based carrier.
Jonestown | 12/23/2014 | 1 comment The FAA has put out a holiday how-to video about the rules surrounding any shiny new drone for you get for Christmas.
News Analysis | 12/23/2014 | 1 comment 'Disruptive' vendors, open source community and academia all play a role in helping major telecom operator reshape its internal culture, says exec
News Analysis | 12/23/2014 | 2 comments Australian operator to acquire subsea network and data center operator to boost its South-East Asia presence.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | 12 comments Google unveiled its first complete prototype car for fully autonomous driving, shortly after reports suggest it's building a version of Android specifically for cars.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | Post a comment Affirmed Networks is lending its NFV cloud to Elephant Talk's SDN software to make a fully virtualized evolved packet core for operators in Europe and the Middle East.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | 3 comments Congress and the FCC are shoring up their positions on net neutrality and the definition of a TV distributor before 2014 comes to a close.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | 3 comments Deployments of small cells, dominated by single-mode LTE indoor base stations, are set to ramp up in the new year.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Swedish M2M specialist being acquired by Sierra Wireless; BT takes its fiber to the basement; and Dutch FTTH operator reaches 2 million homes.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 12/22/2014 | 1 comment New streamlined methodologies for data processing, analysis and storage are needed for testing virtualized network functions.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | 3 comments Internet of Things networking protocol group Thread Group names UL its go-to outfit for IoT product testing.
LRTV Documentaries | 12/22/2014 | Post a comment The CEO and GM of Minnesota rural operator Paul Bunyan Communications discusses the company's 5,000-square-mile gigabit network rollout.
DOS Attack | 12/22/2014 | 4 comments Verizon quietly rolls out 200G on a single route, meeting its timetable and highlighting the next step beyond 100G.
News Analysis | 12/22/2014 | 3 comments Acquisition of regional long-distance operator would add to Australian incumbent's international assets and deliver some SDN experience.
News Analysis | 12/19/2014 | 6 comments There's a whole lotta cramming going on as T-Mobile agrees to pay $90M for unjust billing practices, following AT&T's $105 million settlement and Sprint's ongoing lawsuit.
News Analysis | 12/19/2014 | 28 comments The Android M release is reportedly aimed at putting a Google OS in every dashboard.
News Analysis | 12/19/2014 | 3 comments Cox launches switch to all-digital service in its first market as it seeks to clear more bandwidth for faster broadband speeds, greater on-demand offerings and more video channels.
The Gigabot | 12/19/2014 | 5 comments Google Fiber delays the planned deployment of its gigabit network in its next nine metro targets, as other gigabit hopefuls step up.
News Analysis | 12/19/2014 | 1 comment 4K TV is so 2014. It's all about High-Dynamic Range (HDR) television for 2015.
News Analysis | 12/19/2014 | 2 comments The open source SDN organization has formed a dedicated team following disclosure of a serious security flaw that remained unaddressed for four months.
LRTV Interviews | 12/19/2014 | Post a comment At the 2020 Vision Executive Summit, James Feger, VP, Network Strategy & Development at CenturyLink, talks about how the US operator is approaching virtual network functions from an operational and business case perspective.
News Analysis | 12/19/2014 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Russian operators join forces on LTE; Ob3 satellites lift off; Deutsche Telekom takes extra mobile security measures.
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