Amazon could pull off a coup in the living room this holiday shopping season.

Open source helps companies enhance infrastructure, undermine competitors' advantage and teach collaboration. But there are problems.

India's biggest operator is to embark on a major network upgrade as mobile broadband competition intensifies.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ADVA bags optical monitoring team; Orange in African energy deal; BT offers link to HP cloud.

The co-inventor of the power MOSFET thinks it's possible to make CMOS logic in gallium nitride. If he's successful, everything really does change.

A full merger between China Mobile and China Tietong represents another step forwards in China's broadband strategy.

Mary Clark says to have a real seat at the table, women need to pursue career paths that lead to jobs that affect revenue at their companies.

As we'll explore at the Future of Cable Business Services event, business services keep producing big dividends for MSOs, even though fresh challenges loom.

While some operators have warmed to Facebook's zero-rating model, others still see it as a threat.

India's operators are committing ever-greater sums to the expansion and modernization of data networks.

Also in today's 'Black Friday' regional roundup: Turkcell bids for TeliaSonera's stake in Fintur; Polkomtel trials voice-over-WiFi with Nokia; Cosmote achieves 500Mbit/s LTE; Altice lands rights to English Premier League.

Adding virtualized local content delivery capabilities to broadband networks would bring content closer to consumers and boost OTT quality.

I was lucky enough to be in Hong Kong for a few days recently – here are a few views I managed to capture on my phone.

Alternative fiber network operator in Ireland has a 'get rich slowly' approach to building out its wholesale fiber network.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: MTS launches 3G in Kiev; Ericsson opens its 5G Garage; OTE looks to raise euro 350 million on debt market; Israeli big data startup bags $15 million in Series A.

Centec CEO James Sun talks to Steve Saunders about Ethernet switching and the white box revolution.

Network traffic shows that Internet service returned to Aleppo, Syria in November.

As OTT video traffic soars, CSPs can use new probing tools to measure and improve their data customers' quality of experience more effectively.

South Korean giant says no sale, cites continued investment in 5G, SDN and NFV.

Not the publicly traded incumbents, say two of the industry's veteran financial analysts.

TiVo's big growth is in international markets and new data analytics services.

Deutsche Telekom is looking at introducing its hybrid routers in markets outside Germany, where it also operates both fixed and mobile networks.

Huawei summit offers insights into how Asia-Pacific operators are evolving their networks for the emerging challenges of LTE, LTE-A and ultimately 5G.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Virgin Media fears repercussions of BT/EE merger; French auction bid details; fiber-to-the-second-home?

Full-year revenues for 2015 came in at $103.4 billion, 7% less than in 2014, but networking sales were up 35%.

Wind River gains a significant partner, while Huawei takes another step toward disaggregation.

Telefonica faces both a surge in infrastructure-based competition and more intrusive regulations.

Steve Saunders provides an overview of white box networking and introduces a new "slim line" version of the OSI 7-layer model.

Skyworks gets an $88 million fee and will move on -- possible to consider acquiring any of a number of other semiconductor companies that might be available.

Frontier intros IPTV service in Durham, N.C. for customers on both its copper and fiber-to-the-home networks.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia Networks demos LTE breakthrough; AlcaLu upgrades Orange in Romania; European Commission nods through Avago/Broadcom deal.

Open source, SDN, and NFV are looking inevitable - but performance, standards proliferation and regulatory capture could derail the movement.

Draft regulations appear to have left Deutsche Telekom's latest vectoring plans in disarray.

IP networking sales were up in the fourth quarter while SAN sales declined. And Brocade predicts a sharp downturn for the first quarter of 2016.

Samsung is said to be mulling selling its wireless networking business as the industry consolidates and competition gets hotter.

Zayo continues its acquisition spree, this time picking up AllStream to build its Canadian presence.

Comcast and Liberty Global share CPE strategies.

The partnership between Cisco and Ericsson has divided opinion amongst the Light Reading community.

Christina Richards, AOptix's VP of Marketing, crossed the bridge from electrical engineering to marketing, and she shares her advice to women looking to do the same.

Chip-making giant recruits top executive from its biggest mobile rival.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Huawei joins 5G Exchange project; Bulgaria's Vivacom sold; Cisco snaps up UK teleconferencing firm.

With the rollout of higher-speed and costlier networks, India's operators are being forced to look more seriously at SDN and NFV.

$1.2B deal, brokered by SoftBank and friends, should take the financial pressure off Sprint somewhat.

The 802.11ac Wave 2 access points that are on the way are too fast for enterprise IT networks. Broadcom's 2.5G switches will be able to handle Wave 2's faster data rates.

The acquisitive "bandwidth infrastructure" player sees a bright future in providing dark fiber services to Europe's mobile operators.

A parade of SDOs pledged cooperation in the effort to figure out service delivery over virtual and physical networks, but many questions remain.

Windstream is light on details, but says it will launch its first gigabit market in December.

Light Reading founder and CEO Steve Saunders talks with Zayan Sadek, Regional Manager at Cisco Systems, about the competitive communications services market and advance of virtualization in Saudi Arabia.

Prototype space-division multiplexed technology opens up the potential to dramatically boost optical network capacity, according to Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: eir in talks to buy Setanta; lawyers smell TalkTalk blood; Deutsche Telekom bans phones for Christmas.

Competition in the US mobile business means cuts to more than just the cost of your data plan.

Diane Greene will head up Google For Work, Cloud Platform and Google Apps.

The company gets back to broadband speeds with a new modem offered only to new customers and only in some markets.

NetCracker's Mervat El Dabae headlines an inspiring morning in London with help from leading women from Vodafone, TalkTalk, Hyperoptics and Ciena.

UK's biggest operator believes cloud services companies will continue to see the benefits of a partnership approach.

Storied IC manufacturer Fairchild has agreed to be purchased by ON Semiconductor for $2.4 billion in cash. The combination will create a one-stop shop for power ICs.

Light Reading's Steve Saunders reports from Saudi Arabia, a hyper-competitive market desperate to embrace the next generation of communications technologies and services.

Comcast's Stream TV and Charter's Spectrum TV Stream prove thin is in.

As Alcatel-Lucent's Steve Vogelsang points out, it's the massive workloads that traverse the network between data centers that are driving SDN development.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TeliaSonera connects cars; Ericsson connects ships; AlcaLu connects Cape Town.

And you thought mobile price battles in the US couldn't get more cut-throat.

Comments to the FCC highlight concerns over Charter's influence on the programming landscape if it succeeds in acquiring Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.

Network security is becoming an ever bigger deal for communications service providers and the vendor community is reacting accordingly.

White box networking helps service providers achieve flexibility and differentiation.

The edge router's days are numbered, argues Scott Sumner.

Mobile operator carries out first carrier aggregation of licensed and unlicensed spectrum on a commercial 4G network.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Huawei creates more R&D jobs in Ireland; French 4G auction closes; Sky bigs up new set-top box.

CEO Tom Rogers is stepping down even as TiVo faces challenges ahead.

An increase in the creation of 'security-threat-in-a-box' kits by skilled hackers is an alarming trend, according to vendor, which has just published its latest DNS Threat Index.

T-Mobile lines its coffers and asks the FCC to pull Verizon from 12 markets in the 600MHz auction in 2016.

Orange exec Christos Kolias tells Light Reading audience that white boxes hold great promise but there are major integration challenges to address.

White box networks disaggregate into software, hardware and maintenance; AT&T procures each separately.

Spirent tools test network core and the network edge.

New platform creates intelligence layer between SDN controllers and SDN-based applications using real-time route intelligence.

The uptake of 5G will be even faster than 4G, predicts Ericsson's internal market research team – but what exactly is a 5G connection?

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: French spectrum auction bids reach euro 2.7 billion; Cellcom profits plunge; Vodafone Wallet teams up with MasterCard.

Cisco is enhancing its router operating system, while Arista adds router capabilities to its leaf and spine switches.

Carol Wilson and Packet Design CTO Cengiz Alaettinoglu discuss CSPs' SDN service delivery and assurance requirements. Learn about a modular approach to building automated control, orchestration and management functions for the WAN that are policy- and analytics-driven.

Intel is looking to comms networking to drive future growth, as its PC business flattens.

Move will bolster the cable operator's presence in the Caribbean and Latin America and could support further takeover moves in future.

Executive director of AT&T's Digital Life says trials on offering discounts to those home owners that opt in to share their data were well received and likely will be an option going forward.

Law enforcement officials fear that it is harder to monitor terror communications with encryption on mobile devices and apps.

No one has yet been able to loosen Intel's stranglehold on the data center processor business, but IBM has been feverishly positioning Power as a legitimate option, especially at the high end. A strategic partnership with Xilinx announced today will help.

Light Reading gets the scoop on new Comcast WiFi Pro product launching soon.

A delay to the launch of 4G services by India's RJio could be an opportunity for its rivals.

Connectivity deal goes beyond the usual to offer an application delivery service.

Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders analyzes the reasons behind, and impact of, the new strategic relationship between Cisco and Ericsson.

Deutsche Telekom has recently warmed to G.fast, but could recent technology developments persuade it to make a firmer commitment?

Everything is changing in the comms space and Helena Norrman, Ericsson's CMO, says that having a diverse workforce is one way to ensure companies can transform and thrive.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson denies Cisco M&A rumors; Vivendi wants bodies on Telecom Italia board; Yandex takes Google case to EU.

Rocket Fiber in Detroit is beta testing a new residential broadband service with speeds up to 10 gigabits per second.

Mobily CEO Ahmad Farroukh talks to Steve Saunders about the realities of being a mobile operator in Saudi Arabia.

Even as MSOs roll out integrated CCAP systems, cable engineers are heating up the debate over next-gen approaches that would shift at least part of the CCAP gear and functions from the headend to the network.

If this week's coverage of 'Ciscosson' left you digitally indigested, as if you'd swallowed a John Chambers-sized meatball, then here's a tasty roundup.

The debate over whether to create a common information model for virtualization management is pushing some standards development organizations (SDOs) to come together and some vendors/SPs to try something else.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: AlcaLu spreads the cloud in west Africa; Bouygues returns to revenue growth; former competition boss favors Openreach spin-off.

Ori Gerstel, CTO of Sedona Systems, on Sedona's multi-layer control solution.

Successful open source communities cultivate people.

The planned acquisition of EZchip by Mellanox has resulted in a fractious war of words between EZchip and investors and a delayed shareholder vote.

If you work at a telco or a vendor that sells to traditional communications service providers, you need to watch this short video interview.

T-Mobile's latest Un-carrier move is more strategic than altruistic.

In its Q1 report, Cisco said it is still profiting from its hybrid cloud approach. And it expects sales of next-gen data center equipment to eclipse its previous line sometime in 2016.

WiFi and cell service coming to initial Brooklyn stations and downtown Manhattan next.

Plunging into the 4K era despite a lack of HDR and WCG standards is risky, and might come back to bite the TV industry in the ass.

Marcus Weldon will be the CTO of Nokia and continue as the President of Bell Labs once the Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent acquisition is complete.

Malcolm Orr, senior platform architect at Colt, says OSSs don't have to be microservices themselves but need to adopt some of those principles.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant still holds the tech industry under its spell but some companies have had enough of what they allege is a flawed process that at least one company describes as a 'pay-to-play' model.

Components can go down but the service needs to stay up.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefonica offers Cyanogen phone; Iliad revenues up; Swisscom says 'get on myCloud'.

The days of trusting vendors to provide innovation are at an end.

With the help of NFV, cable operators can offer new managed services, roll out other services quicker, reduce their equipment load and cut operational costs.

Will Saudi Telecom's experience of running live M2M services over a vEPC persuade it to make a much bigger push into virtualization?

Comcast's X1 video solution is getting a major boost with news that Cox is licensing the platform and plans to deploy it nationally in 2016.

Now that Cisco has Ericsson and its Radio Dot as a powerful partner, does it need its reseller agreement with small cell vendor SpiderCloud?

With rival Analog Devices said to be considering a linkup with Maxim, TI was bound to come sniffing around.

Service providers and vendors came together in London to tackle tricky issues around OSS for virtualized networks.

OPNFV gets a lot of love, but it has a big job to do.

There's no shortage of bad decisions in online video.

Tier 1 operator claims massive efficiencies from a new global approach to new product and technology R&D, starting with a new ONT that can be used for FTTH rollouts across Europe and Latin America.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: hack-soiled TalkTalk surprises with dividend; new MTN boss may challenge mega-fine; Google faces EU heat over mapping.

Cisco and Ericsson have been dismissive of their rivals but their partnership could flounder in a number of ways.

Speaking at the Wells Fargo Conference this morning, CFO Fran Shammo said the enterprise unit's efforts are still core to Verizon.

Partnerships are all the rage and not just in the vendor community – Google and Time Inc. want to team up with telcos, while China Mobile is seeking international support.

For its latest trick, T-Mobile says that streaming video from HBO, Hulu, Slingshot and others won't eat into its users' available data bucket.

As broadband speeds rise, a shake-out looms in the home networking market.

Cisco executive chairman John Chambers explains the rationale behind the 'next-generation strategic partnership' with Ericsson – it's all about speed.

Who's king rat of the low-power, proprietary IoT networks in the US?

UK-based operator says there is more value in remaining a single organization but hints it is still open to asset-swap talks with Liberty Global.

Designed to help service providers offer flexible networks and managed services to meet enterprise customer needs.

Don't panic – the platform isn't burning but is evolving quickly through open source, writes OPNFV director Heather Kirksey.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson forecasts growth; Orange sells Kenyan stake; posh watches get smart.

Many vendors are developing programmable transport network platforms to help operators control dynamic virtualized resources but the industry lacks a unified approach as early adopters move forward.

Microsemi announced that PMC-Sierra's board said Microsemi's offer to buy the company is superior to the previous offer tendered by Skyworks.

The new multi-core SoCs are designed to help accelerate data center communications, all in the service of network virtualization.

Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders analyzes the reasons behind, and impact of, the new strategic relationship between Cisco and Ericsson.

Stock is down following announced team up of competitors.

At the same time Verizon is rumored to be divesting its enterprise operations, a regular report shows that cloud is being used to transform businesses.

Marcello Claure earned nearly $22M for fiscal 2014.

Cisco and Ericsson have been forced into each other's arms by that other courting couple, Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent.

US giant's willingness to divest what was once a core business and key to profits is a sign of what web-scale competition is doing to this space.

New partners Cisco and Ericsson will need to persuade customers they are committed to a long-term relationship and not just a brief encounter.

UK incumbent modifies its UC offering to include support for Skype for Business as OTT challenge grows.

The FCC is ostensibly tackling content security but it's really about to make a lot of enemies parsing how broader web access to content will happen.

The global partnership between Cisco and Ericsson will require some very close and sensitive management, notes Heavy Reading's chief analyst.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UK government offers 10 Mbit/s for all; Telenor/VimpelCom latest; 3/O2 deadline pushed back.

IP and wireless networking giants announce strategic relationship that includes joint SDN and NFV developments.

Network operator seeks to replace centralized orchestration with less complex choreography of distributed domain intelligence.

Hyperscale data center equipment gets obsolete so fast, upgrades are upending the old rules about how markets develop and innovation gets deployed.

Kirksey, director of the OPNFV, is passionate about improving the gender balance in comms, and she's bringing men into the equation with an event with WiC next week.

TIA, USTelecom set to announce new North American trade show plans Monday, Light Reading hears.

Comcast takes on more MDU customers with the option to offer gigabit broadband.

The complete story of EANTC's independent test of Cisco's NFV infrastructure (NFVi) is now available as a PDF download.

HP Enterprise insists it is playing a leadership role in NFV orchestration but admits it does not have a recipe to address all of the challenges that operators face.

At a time when the big traditional media companies are under assault from new-media upstarts, how can the fat compensation packages of top execs still be justified?

A WiC panel says that encouraging women to consider STEM careers and making it easier for them to enter the workforce may be better options than firm quotas to address the gender imbalance in senior technology jobs.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefonica sees recovery in Spain; Telecom Italia disappoints; DT's down on the Farm 2.0.

YouTube's Android app offers support for virtual reality, even as Google and The New York Times kick off a new series of VR news stories.

Verizon is getting creative with 5G, Light Reading hears, and examining new ways to deliver broadband to the home.

The UK operator argues for more work on standardization and theory to aid NFV rollout.

Cisco has once again set the bar and challenged the New IP networking sector by opening its doors and welcoming independent testing, something more vendors should be doing.

One of the world's biggest operators says the 'five-nines' concept has no place in a virtualized world.

Netflix wants to win at the TV Everywhere game, but not when it comes to sports.

Heavy Reading Analyst Caroline Chappell sees telecom network operators moving away from centralized management toward smarter network elements.

Also in today's EMEA regional rollout: Deutsche Telekom soars in Q3; Cellcom Israel agrees to buy Golan Telecom; Finnish emojis.

ParStream and Lancope provide tools for analytics and security for Internet of Things networks.

The service has brought more than 1 million people online in India alone, but still has a long way to go, Zuckerberg says.

Research shows CSPs haven't got an operations strategy for NFV yet, even as more of them say they are deploying.

Atos is making a play in the growing market for unified communications offerings with a takeover of Siemens' Unify business.

The Dolan family may be selling at the right time.

China's operators are moving away from WiFi as 4G adoption continues to rocket.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: trouble in Uzbekistan; surveillance laws revamped in UK; Vivacom boss slams EU 'hodgepodge.'

On a recent visit to Israel, Light Reading Founder and CEO Steve Saunders had a chance to speak with Ori Gerstel, CTO of Sedona Systems, about Sedona's multi-layer control solution.

Anadigics, Macom, and Qorvo are turning to gallium nitride to support the performance improvements that MSOs need to add bandwidth to their HFC networks with a minimum of fuss.

No stone will be left unturned in Sprint's quest to cut operating expenses.

Further pictorial coverage from the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2015 in Hong Kong.

The latest LTE components support the LTE-A functions required to deliver high bandwidth up to 600 Mbit/s at one extreme, and very low-power, sub-1 Mbit/s for IoT/M2M applications at the other.

FreedomPop will use a GSM partner -- either AT&T or T-Mobile -- to support Intel's SoFIA's phones in the US.

Descartes is a new machine-learning system developed by Comcast. Call it algorithms for innovation.

Sckipio plans to use funding from Intel Capital to make G.fast improvements, allowing operators to use the technology over much longer distances.

Juniper threw ambivalence to the wind Tuesday and fully embraced white box networking and NFV.

Core Network Dynamics is one of a new breed of virtualization suppliers whose technology could spur a shake-up in the mobile sector.

Also in today's EMEA roundup: Volvo boost for Nokia's HERE; TDC's profits down in third quarter; 'blingphone' company sold to Chinese.

Cisco has once again set the bar and challenged the New IP networking sector by opening its doors and welcoming independent testing, something more vendors should be doing.

UPDATED! Find out which top level industry executives graced this year's Global Mobile Broadband Forum in Hong Kong and the hot topics they discussed during the first day of the event.

A new Star Trek series is boldly going to CBS All Access, with access only available to subscribers.

Once the very definition of closed and proprietary, the cable industry is slowly coming around to open source technologies.

Watch Justin Paul, Head of Network Product Marketing in Amdocs, talk about the opportunities cable operators have in the business services domain leveraging NFV (network functions virtualization) technology. Hear about the challenges operators face in introducing, delivering and operating services for their enterprise customers and how great opportunities await those who act quickly to roll out virtualized services. Find out more now.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone customers exposed in UK; M&A moves in Israel; Nokia's cmWave trial; movie-streaming heaven.

South Korean operator is looking to strengthen its broadband and TV services as revenues from traditional service offerings decline.

A long-awaited tie-up between Reliance Communications and MTS India could trigger a wave of consolidation in India's telecom market.

Vodafone Germany's WDM Team Leader Jakob Pojda talks about the catalysts for metro 100G deployments and other trends in the optical transport market.

Quotas backed up by KPIs are the best way to level the playing field for women in comms, SAP's SVP says as she provides a global perspective.

Keeping talented tech staff local is a predicament when 60% of college graduates leave Michigan within 60 days.