AT&T claims fiber passes twice as many businesses as any other provider.
Microsoft reported quarterly revenue of $28.9 billion, up 12% year-over-year, with commercial cloud revenue growing 56% year-over-year to $5.3 billion.
New strategic investors include Columbia Pacific, Deutsche Borse, Ericsson, Google, and New York Life along with participation from existing investors Accel, Cathay Innovation, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, and Ridge Ventures.
Acquisition will bring increased capacity to deliver enhanced digital content capabilities for network operators, video distributors, OTT companies, content owners and content producers.
Ericsson's revenues decreased by 12% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Ericsson has created a new unit, called Business Area Emerging Business, and has shuffled its top team, including shifting Ulf Ewaldsson away from Digital Services.
Ericsson is selling a 51% stake in its Media Solutions division to One Equity Partners and will set up a new independent company in which the vendor will retain 49% of the shares.
Sigma Systems has appointed Steve Pozzobon as Vice President of Sales for North America.
Amdocs reports fiscal first quarter revenues of $978 million and the acquisition of Vubiquity.
The $250 million acquisition consolidates two leading Kubernetes vendors for container management.
Net revenues for Juniper were $1.239.5 million, down 11% year-over-year and 1% sequentially.
Viu signs JTBC's largest content deal in Asia.
Strong fiscal growth and innovation leads hundreds of companies to transform their networks with Cato's converged SD-WAN.
MYCOM OSI and Red Hat have collaborated to offer automated assurance across hybrid networks.
MATRIXX banks a $40 million round led by Sutter Hill Ventures and including CK Hutchison and Spring Lake Equity Partners.
Altice One, the company's connectivity platform, is now available across the full Optimum footprint and includes integrated access to Netflix service.
Nokia unveils its Future X network architecture for 5G that, it claims, will boost performance and cut costs.
Nokia claims its ReefShark chipsets will deliver significant performance gains in 5G networks.
Huawei's NE9000 4T routing line card has passed a set of tests conducted by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC).
Huawei's 5G-oriented new Generation BBU5900 basestation verified on a commercial network in Antalya, Turkey.
It's time to enter Light Reading's Leading Lights awards.
Acquisition of proven fiber network significantly expands company's reach for enterprise and carrier-level services.
Verizon announces successful 400G technology interoperability trial using standards-compliant Ciena and Juniper Networks equipment.
Enterprise customers can now buy SBCs as a service, paying a subscription for that critical piece of real time communications infrastructure.
German operator, Intel and Huawei say they have achieved multivendor network-to-device interoperability based on 3GPP R15 specifications.
SteelFusion solved the problem of backups spilling into the work day and degrading application performance; also enables greater use of technology across the county.
Singtel has named Arthur Wong as its first CEO of Global Cyber Security.
The New IP Agency is rallying industry leaders to drive the virtualization market forward through proven interoperability of multi-vendor solutions.
Tech Mahindra will also use the solution internally in addition to making it available to its global clientele.
New capabilities support L-Band frequencies.
Tennessee-based service provider opts for Calix Cloud offering.
For streaming without tears.
AT&T and Equinix expand relationship to make AT&T Switched Ethernet Service with Network on Demand available to businesses in IBXs.
#VanWiFi becomes one of the largest free public WiFi networks in North America.
Network solution enables remote users to securely connect to Internet and private network resources, avoiding risks of unsecured WiFi.
Claims first network automation use case in production leveraging the Linux Foundation's Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP).
New eVUE-TV features include improved trick play, enhanced filtering and more.
State-owned ISP and OTT provider selects Telia Carrier's Internet backbone for dedicated Internet access at gigabit speeds.
Colt plans to extend its On Demand SDN service into new markets across the Asia-Pacific region as part of its aim to offer a global service.
Epsilon has established interconnect points at the Continental Edge facility in Long Island, N.Y., and at Wall, N.J.
China Telecom, Huawei and China's State Grid have unveiled a report, 5G Network Slicing Enabling Smart Grid, that details results of a 5G network slicing project.
Verizon rollout of Calix's AXOS technology marks the first major deployment of NG-PON2 technology and is the latest step along its Intelligent Edge Network strategy.
Japanese operator to integrate Nokia's 3GPP-compliant 5G New Radio-based hardware into its network, enabling a smooth evolution from 4G to planned launch of 5G in 2020.
Multi-year agreement with Canada's largest television provider includes Ericsson's MediaFirst TV Platform.
Tele Columbus will be able to accelerate billing and charging processes, claims vendor.
New deal between Sprint and Cox will help the wireless carrier densify its network to support small cell deployments and increased demand for wireless services.
Tivo's licensing agreement with Google has now expanded to include the use of Tivo's patents with YouTube TV.
Select iPhones can now be transferred to a new Xfinity Mobile account without the need for a user to a buy a new phone to switch to Comcast's mobile service.
ADTRAN reported revenues of $126.5 million and a net loss of $11.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2017.
Verizon has bought the rights to stream NBA League Pass games in the US via Yahoo Sports and other media properties.
Partnership with DLVR adds routing flexibility to its CDN-agnostic Origin service and open source CDN.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wants to reform the universal service fund.
The teams completed what they say is the world's first trial of GSM/LTE (GL) 900MHz dynamic spectrum sharing on Vodafone's commercial networks in the Black Coast city of Trabzon.
Amdocs says it has developed a 5G-ready cloud-based charging system that enables service providers to monetize the services made possible by 5G network slicing.
Research into the 2018 Best Workplaces in Technology reveals that tech companies struggling to create an inclusive workplace should foster an environment where each employee can be their own authentic self.
Allot to expand its security offering with the acquisition of fellow Israeli firm Netonomy, a developer of software-based cybersecurity applications for the connected home.
NXP's vCPE solution successfully completed a China Mobile Communications networking trial.
Sigfox has announced the appointment of Franck Siegel as its Chief Delivery Officer.
Park previously held the role of vice president of business development for Alticast US for the past two years.
Swedish provider rises to Promoter membership status.
Australian operator Optus to benefit from 'extreme automation' during its five-year managed services deal with Nokia.
Network monitoring specialist InfoVista and test services firm P3 are expanding their relationship to jointly offer mobile network benchmarking services worldwide.
Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DoCoMo, OKI and Qualcomm Technologies announce the first cellular V2X trials in Japan.
Telstra offers NB-IoT coverage in major Australian cities and many regional towns, adding to its existing Cat M1 IoT coverage.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) reported a 9.1% year-on-year increase in revenues to US$4.79 billion.
Joint exploration of NG TV business opportunity, development, and plans to expand the service to India for globalization.
ZTE has unveiled its 5G core product, Cloud ServCore, which is based on the Service-Based Architecture (SBA) that is compliant with the 3GPP R15 standard.
Idea Cellular is to upgrade its optical transport network with technology from ECI Telecom, including the vendor's access DWDM system.
Engineering and R&D services firm Altran is collaborating with UBiqube, to deliver integrated SDN and NFV solutions to joint customers.
Telefonica and Huawei have successfully completed lab tests of a Transport Software-Defined Network controller that helps to improve the planning, management, monitoring and diagnosis of Telefonica Espana's photonic mesh.
Calix reports promising initial deployment of its Mesh-enhanced Carrier Class Wi-Fi and Calix Cloud combination.
German cable operator cuts data center power consumption in half while delivering four times the bandwidth to meet today's web-scale demands, claims vendor.
Smart home specialist gets on board with new voice remote control for Dish.
Indian operator has successfully deployed three radio technologies on the 900MHz band within an 8.8MHz spectral bandwidth by using Huawei's innovative CloudAIR solution.
Syniverse has appointed for CenturyLink executive Dean Douglas as its president and CEO starting February 1.
Comcast Business Connection Pro offers businesses complete Internet reliability with automatic back-up.
The custom-developed RF-enhanced remote is the first voice remote for TiVo developed by Universal Electronics.
Cisco unveils licensing program for its cBR-8 CCAP platform.
The Wi-Fi Alliance enhances security features in WPA2 and readies the launch of WPA3.
Latest AT&T smart cities news has the telco providing LTE sensors to monitor the safety of transportation infrastructure.
Mary Clark has joined Synchronoss as its new chief marketing officer.
Huawei says it achieved 'outstanding' 5G core network performance results in a China Mobile Technical Verification Test.
Altice is to spin off its US operations and create a new Altice Europe structure comprising Altice France, Altice International and a newly-formed Altice Pay TV subsidiary.
Global cloud connectivity provider buys privately held carrier-neutral connections provider based on Amsterdam.
Semtech targets new markets as different types of verticals integrate LoRa Technology in their IoT applications.
Designed for big data, distributed storage and ARM native applications.
IEEE 802.3bs, the standard for 200G and 400G Ethernet, arrives.
Las Vegas deployment ahead of CES includes support for geolocation.
New job position goes to content veteran Katherine Pope.
Zayo says its SD-WAN service for enterprise users provides virtual network management, flexibility and resilience.
Starry's millimeter-wave broadband service is now available in parts of Los Angeles and Washington DC.
Peraso sees wireless virtual reality applications beginning to take off in 2018.
New 802.11ax solution from Celeno is designed to help with the migration of 802.11ac WiFi.
Atlantic Broadband will expand its operations across 11 states on the east coast of the US.
Cable and telco veteran Michel Combes assumes his new roles on January 6.
Simplifies delivery of pay-TV services to smart TV sets.
Video AI solution to help automate precise identification of inappropriate content and facilitate search and retrieval from video footage for video player.
New Tivo platform marries cable, IP and OTT technologies.
Video experience cloud platform powered more than 300 million users in 2017.
AT&T says it will launch mobile 5G services in 12 cities before the end of 2018.
The value of data center M&A deals hit $20 billion in 2017, according to a report from Synergy Research Group.
AI-powered capability enables interaction between virtual assistants and popular IoT assistants, third-party content services and more, boasts Nuance.
The split-off of Liberty Latin America forms a 'pure-play' independent telecomm company focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.
CenturyLink has appointed executive VPs for Marketing and Product Management, both of whom will report to COO Jeff Storey.
The project launch seminar of the LTE network based Vehicle to Everything (LTE-V2X) city-wide trial (Wuxi IoV Phase II) was held in Wuxi, a city famous for IoT.
