News & Views
Content posted in March 2018
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | 4 comments Ma Bell wants to show off 5G tech at its SHAPE conference this year.
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | 8 comments Network engineers are often musicians, says Ticketmaster principal architect Francis Arigo, and he demonstrated it by opening his keynote at Open Networking Summit with a song about the public cloud.
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | 4 comments And it's all because of smart cities.
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | 2 comments Windstream's Layne Levine addresses the recent $37.5 million acquisition of MassComm, and Windstream's plans for a 'very acquisitive' year.
WiCipedia | 3/30/2018 | 2 comments This week in our WiC roundup: Parental leave is pressurized; the only woman in the room sees all; getting rid of cultural fit; and more.
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | Post a comment Company comes out of stealth mode with prototype compute platform for drones, light posts, gateways and more that promises security.
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | 1 comment Ticketmaster looked to hybrid cloud to meet extreme demand bursts brought by its business model, says Ticketmaster principal architect Francis Arigo, who literally sang a song about the subject.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 3 comments In their annual Investor Day conference, Arris executives extol opportunities in DOCSIS 3.1, CCAP, DAA, advanced WiFi, CBRS and other next-gen wireline and wireless gear while playing up more M&A prospects.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | Post a comment vRealize update lets cloud operators optimize to meet service-level agreements, maximize performance or save money.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | Post a comment Network operator took service logic from ONAP and repackaged it, now preparing to upstream what it developed.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 5 comments Top management musical chairs leaves cloud and AI even more ascendant than it was before.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | Post a comment Funding could help to keep the French IoT maker afloat as it wrestles with commercial challenges on several fronts.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 5 comments Solomon Hykes is stepping down to make room for an enterprise-focused CTO, after co-founding the container management company a decade ago.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 1 comment Cox Communications' David Hicks explains where the MSO has focused its virtualization efforts, and lessons learned along the way.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 1 comment The combination will bring together two unified communications players with a strong presence in the Microsoft ecosystem.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 1 comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia connects Poland's rail network; BT cuts prices for landline-only customers; Ericsson under pressure to cut costs faster.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 1 comment In a radical move, the world's biggest maker of Internet switches and routers will start selling its service provider software on a standalone basis.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | 1 comment E8 technology will become part of VMware's Workspace One platform.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | Post a comment Uber depends on its network to stay in business, and uses homegrown software and automation to keep it running optimally, says Justin Dustzadeh, Uber's head of global network and software platform.
News Analysis | 3/29/2018 | Post a comment But can Arris be sure that FCC will support localized spectrum plans yet?
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Multiple open source initiatives are looking at what it takes to put clouds at the network edge.
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment A Belgium startup with academic roots is starting to make waves in the market for management and network orchestration.
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Windstream has acquired CLEC MASS Communications in a $37.5 million all-cash deal.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Join Light Reading on April 9 at the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas for a FREE VR Video breakfast workshop, where we address the state of VR video, the technology opportunities/challenges and the path ahead.
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Sky strikes fiber deal in Italy; Ofcom rules on ducts, poles and more; roaming subscriptions in the EU; Orange news.
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | 2 comments Google debuts Stackdriver tools for application performance optimization, while reminding everyone that it pioneered hypercloud and microservices and invented Kubernetes, like Google was ever going to let us forget that.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Want to know how major players such as Verizon, CenturyLink, Telstra, Windstream, PCCW Global and EdgeConneX are advancing their process automation strategies? Then get yourself to the Automation Everywhere event in Dallas on April 4.
Women in Comms Introduction Videos | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Female representation on company boards can set the tone for company culture and help companies perform better, says Small Cell Forum CEO.
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | 1 comment Verizon thinks it can get public safety business even as 50 states have opted in to FirstNet.
News Analysis | 3/28/2018 | Post a comment Oracle releases the next iteration of its autonomous cloud database as cloud revenue growth slows (but it's still growing fast).
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Expansion into AI, network operating systems for white box and edge computing are built into efforts to collaborate more across industry groups.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Operator announces 60,000 white boxes will be deployed using DANOS, a new open source OS built on AT&T seed code.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment A white paper, funded by Linux Foundation, finds major opportunities for vendors in orchestration and edge technologies over next five years.
Column | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment It's easy to get caught up in the negative side of the tech sector, but don't forget we're making some progress with equality as well.
Jonestown | 3/27/2018 | 2 comments Verizon is undertaking more fixed wireless 5G tests in Atlanta and Sacramento.
Shades of Ray | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Austin, Texas, is the place to be May 14-16 when Light Reading will host BCE 2018 and dig deep into automation, security, machine learning, the impact of open source, intent-based networking, 'the edge', SD-WAN, IoT and more... Join me at the Big Communications Event (BCE) -- for more information, click here.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment The ON2020 panel at this year's OFC provided insight into the challenges faced by network operators and the technologies that will be required in future optical networks.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | 1 comment Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom goes large on FTTH; Hrvatski Telekom gets symmetrical in Croatia; Facebook faces European flak.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | 1 comment Three German startups have been asked to join a new German facility backed by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook and TIP.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | 1 comment It's a bird, it's a plane...
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Shaw's Carol Santerre explains the challenges and lessons learned in deploying the MSO's new BlueSky TV service.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Russia's Sistema has reportedly emerged as the leading bidder for what remains of Reliance Communications.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Looking to raise up to $100 million to automate enterprise workflows and team collaborations.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment This week: Cambridge Analytica, 5G and Vodafone. Oh, and Star Wars.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment Chairwoman Ursula Burns will step into the CEO role until a permanent replacement for Jean-Yves Charlier can be found.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | Post a comment AT&T exec encourages ONF Vision Summit attendees to focus on changing the process and making operators more responsible for what happens.
News Analysis | 3/27/2018 | 1 comment AT&T looks to expand its white box router approach to macro sites and small cells for 5G.
Morris Lore | 3/27/2018 | 9 comments The Cambridge Analytica scandal caps a bad period for the social network. Bouncing back will not be straightforward.
News Analysis | 3/26/2018 | Post a comment Red Hat topped a $3 billion annual run rate in its fourth fiscal quarter, driven by cloud and digital transformation, the company says.
LRTV Documentaries | 3/26/2018 | 2 comments Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in an hexagonal lattice. Its unique properties make it the most exciting tech material of the future. At MWC 2018, Light Reading went for a tour of the Graphene pavilion, looking at the wonder material and its applications for the telecommunication industry.
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