Entropic-based MoCA 2.0 Netgear home networking gear is first to receive MoCA 2.0 certification.

RDK license adds broadcast software stack to enhance 10-bit 4K HEVC SoC.

Time Warner Cable Business Class earns Metro Ethernet Forum CE 2.0 certification for wholesale Ethernet service types.

NSN, Optus build world's first 'Gigasite,' achieving 1.7 Gbit/s downlink in a live network.

Interconnekt maximizes cloud growth opportunities with new SDN-eanbled infrastructure from Brocade.

3 doubles its operating profit from £101M to £207M, with total revenue increasing by 5% to £2.04B.

Solvay reduces costs with hybrid network from BT and Ipanema Technologies.

Vello expands footprint into European markets.

The likes of Facebook, Skype, Twitter and Google are squeezing telcos' margins and forcing them to invest more in data networking capabilities, notes ratings agency Fitch.

Telefónica's R&D unit workd with Infinera to demonstrate network-as-a-service (NaaS) capabilities using SDN techniques.

Communications service providers are using more IT services suppliers than ever, according to a survey commissioned by Amdocs.

SkyLife chooses Alticast Cloud Media Platform for cloud PVR service.

Procera Networks and Qwilt Partner to launch online video delivery and analytics solution for network operators.

Comarch adds a dash of SDN into its OSS.

'Strong headwinds' in certain markets depress earnings of test and measurement technology vendor.

Group's net profit rises by 16.9%, to €4,59 billion.

NSN lands five-year deal from Vodafone that builds on existing relationship and covers radio access network and professional services.

Vyve chooses TiVo to develop advanced capabilities for its subscribers using Digital Transport Adapters.

Cbeyond opens datacenter in Las Vegas to expand reach of its cloud services for SMBs.

CenturyLink Cloud, the newly integrated combination of acquisitions Savvis and Tier 3, rolls out its first service expansion to support distributed workloads in higher volume

Optical vendor Xtera will demonstrate unrepeatered 100G at 500 km, among other plans for next month's OFC 2014 in San Francisco.

SSE Telecoms launches its LIGHTNOW 10G optical wavelength service by linking 21 datacenters in London.

Industry visionaries in SDN share expertise at annual event.

Elephant Talk migrates more than 600,000 Iusacell subscribers in Mexico onto its Software DNA 2.0 platform.

New Sprint service expands indoor voice and messaging coverage using existing Wi-Fi networks.

Test and service assurance specialist adds VoLTE monitoring capabilities to its BrixWorx system.

Vodafone Germany and Ericsson trial a unique video broadcast in Borussia Mönchengladbach's football stadium.

AT&T intros international call rates from US at 1¢ per minute for 35-plus countries.

DynaMO is latest incarnation of Openwave Mobility's congestion control software.

Portugal Telecom sets up a cloud environment for SAP Business One Cloud.

Showcases Context Platform that utilizes diverse smartphone functions to predict the user situation.

Elephant Talk announces completion of initial rollout of newly enhanced SDN platform known as Software DNA 2.0.

No problems, only solutions. SDN ones.

CSL switches on Hong Kong's first LTE Advanced 300Mbit/s network.

TE Connectivity displays range of distributed antenna systems (DAS) and optical infrastructure solutions at Mobile World Congress.

Acision re-aligns strategy with launch of first operator focused OTT app and developer platform.

Launch provides seamless access to a secure Wi-Fi network for monthly subscribers and roaming partners using the industry's latest technologies.

Cloud-based, real-time notifications for events and promotions.

Deal expands product collaboration agreement with NQSky Enterprise Mobile Management Platform integration.

SoftBank Mobile will test Ericsson's small cells.

Arcadyan chooses AirHop's eSON system software to be integrated with its LTE small cell product family.

Revenues in the fourth quarter 2013 reach $1.19 billion.

Libon will now allow users to chat and share with all of their contacts, regardless of whether they have the app installed.

Qosmos Service Aware Module (SAM) adds service awareness to virtual switches.

CEO claims a banner year, with 10.4% increase in adjusted EBITDA.

NEC helps operators simplify LTE network densification and accelerate LTE deployments with a one-stop-shop for ultivendor HetNets.

Artesyn Embedded Technologies joins ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) industry specifications group.

4G customer base surges 816,000 in fourth quarter.

Airtel's 17 operators in Africa will deploy BICS' range of value-added roaming services.

New active optics platform boosts data transmission speeds and lowers power consumption, claims TE.

Radisys unveils commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), open standards-based ATCA platform designed for SDN and NFV deployments.

Huawei is to release what it claims is the world's first ultra wideband Active Antenna Unit (AAU) at MWC 2014.

Juniper unveils strategy to cut costs, be more innovative, and return cash to investors.

The Sailfish OS for Jolla smartphones is due to be commercially ready in March and set for global distribution.

Belgacom customers in Mechelen can now experience broadband connection speeds of 70 Mbit/s over existing copper lines.

TEOCO integrates its geolocation Mentor Sparks solution with ASSET, AIRCOM's radio network planning tool.

Supports a new nationwide wireless broadband public access service.

Solution allows Cable/MSOs to upgrade business services with value-added SLAs.

Deployment of Ciena's Application Assurance Managed Service solution helps energy firm monitor, maintain peak network performance.

Live streaming 60 channels of premium HD and multiscreen content for one of South Asia's largest pay-TV operators.

Wind River to create carrier-grade NFV-ready server platform with HP.

Multi-year global framework agreement worth more than $6M.

RAD conducts first public demo of distributed NFV for business services.

Intel booth will feature demo of ETSI NFV proof of concept efforts featuring Cyan, Red Hat and Connectem

Flexi Zone controller apps in macro base stations can now run a large number of nearby small cells.

Telefónica demonstrates technology readiness to offer 4G/LTE roaming services throughout the world with pioneering pilot at MWC.

Kontron to integrate OpenStack to deliver cloud management platform.

NSN's new small cells boost capacity and coverage.

EE creates new UK jobs by bringing them back from abroad.

TeliaSonera International Carrier expands with Point of Presence for the Middle East with Omantel.

Alcatel-Lucent delivers suite of virtualized network functions, ushering in the next phase of mobile ultra-broadband for service providers.

INSIDE Secure announces availability of second-generation VaultSEcure secure element.

Global wireless services firm to expand mobile accessory portfolio and increase profile in Japan.

MTN Nigeria and Ericsson sign major five-year managed services agreement.

LTE Enhanced coverage solution 2T4R widely recognized by industry.

China Mobile and Alcatel-Lucent demonstrate progress of mobile NFV development with voice and video demo via a cloud-based LTE network.

ADVA's new AnyCell system is designed to support CE backhaul and managed fronthaul requirements for maximum fiber-to-the-tower flexibility.

NSN has expanded the capabilities of its hosted OSS software.

Centralized RAN links multiple LTE base stations to work directly with one other to reduce interference between neighboring cells.

AT&T and IBM create a global alliance to develop technology for the Internet of Things.

Ericsson named as the sole supplier of online charging and control solution for Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom.

Cash consideration of $37M seals the deal.

Say hello to the Grand Memo II and the ZTE Open C.

World's first 100GE network policy control element in a two-rack unit (2RU) form factor, claims vendor.

Alcatel-Lucent and Tunisie Telecom sign three-year agreement to extend ultra-broadband services throughout Tunisia.

Alcatel-Lucent enables Swisscom to deliver 1Gbit/s access to one 1 million households in Switzerland.

Andrew SiteRise Standard Interface intended to simplify interface between basestation antenna and virtually any remote radio unit (RRU) technology.

Former BT Wholesale CEO joins growing team to help deliver 'Gigabit City' vision.

Launches six industry-specific telematics products with CEplus.

Ultra Broadband Remote Radio Unit currently achieves 365MHz transmitting bandwidth through a single channel.

Demonstration at Mobile World Congress to highlight the benefits of virtualized infrastructure.

Industry-leading prototype will be demonstrated at Europe FTTH COUNCIL in Sweden.

Plans to build additional 1.8GHz basestations to secure nationwide coverage for LTE and LTE-Advanced networks.

New study says M2M sector is on course for massive growth.

GSMA partners with AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, KT and Vodafone to demonstrate the potential of M2M technology at Mobile World Congress.

Ericsson and Ciena sign strategic global agreement for joint development of IP-optical convergence.

Platform, already in use at China Mobile, simplifies the implementation of big-data infrastructure.

Calsoft Labs announces the availability of high-performance NFV solutions.

Current deployment provides BTC with the largest 4G LTE network footprint in the Caribbean region.

Rakuten accelerates its digital strategy by entering global messaging and VoIP.

Real-world network emulation for benchmarking SDN controllers.

Vodafone India awarded spectrum licenses in 11 telecom circles in the Indian government's 900MHz and 1800MHZ spectrum auction.

Organic RGU growth of 1.3 million, including 413,000 in Q4.

Light Reading heads to the Mobile World Congress and OFC shows with a renewed focus on the components sector that is critical to the global telecom community.

Pertino names sales and product execs for its Cloud Network Engine, which targets the SMB market with cloud-based VPN and network access devices.

GCF approval for conformance test system.

Transmode claims industry first with all-pluggable packet-optical metro 100G solution supporting Coherent optics.

ETSI and CEN give the green light (see what we did there?) to standards for 'connected cars' development.

European Commission to pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet governance.

European operators have to drastically change their cost-reduction strategies in order to survive, finds AlixPartners survey.

WiFi mavens report Q4 revenue of $73M.

Verizon expands the reach of the network it built for the financial vertical to more than 50 new markets.

RacoWirechosen to supportAudi's new lineup of 4G LTE connected vehicles in the Audi connect program.

Comcast is to acquire Time Warner Cable (TWC) in an all-stock deal that values TWC at $45.2 billion: The resulting merged company will boast 30 million customers.

Mavenir announces its Virtualized Evolved Packet Core for operators moving to 4G.

Ciena enables Saudi Arabia's Mobily to pursue bandwidth-on-demand.

BSS systems vendor opens new European office in Copenhagen.

China Telecom and Huawei carry out world's first Embedded OTDR field tests.

Uses low-powered, short-range radio access nodes to supplement existing telecom networks and increase capacity in traffic hot spots.

Ericsson says it's bringing NFV to "an industrial scale."

Huawei and NSN sign OSS interoperability agreement.

High growth attributed to breakthrough deployments in China, Russia and European countries, including the UK and France.

Norway-based group sees revenues and EBITDA edge up in fourth quarter.

Austrian academic network trials ADVA's 100G Metro gear for data transfer.

Transition Networks achieves MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification for its 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Device and Access Switch.

Diminishing Windstream business hits Cyan's fourth-quarter revenues.

New Z-Series and Blue Planet enhancements aim for greater network scale, flexibility, and service automation while first northbound interface builds on MEF CE 2.0 specs.

New document offers ideas for the best way to migrate to SDN based on early experience of Google, NTT and others.

Funambol incorporates antivirus technology in its white-label personal cloud solution.

Envivio Muse encoders and Halo network media processors power live channels for Blink OTT service.

New Verizon FiOS customers offered two-year price guarantee, with our without a contract.

But still makes an operating loss of $576M.

Tellabs unveils new edge router portfolio optimized for LTE-Advanced networks at Mobile World Congress 2014.

ZTE helps ETB launch FTTH broadband network in Colombia.

New K-BOW system to optimize data traffic being launched at Mobile World Congress.

Fiber-to-the-Distribution-Point technology tested in Warsaw.

Vantrix expands congestion management options for video optimization.

Virtual Edge solution allows service providers to more cost-efficiently offer the SMB market virtualized networking benefits.

Canoe certifies This Technology's metadata asset management product to streamline on-demand ad insertion.

Colleen Abdoulah to continue as Board Chair, Steven Cochran named CEO/President, Cathy Kuo named COO.

Veteran telecom industry analyst will specialize in telecom datacenter technology issues.

Greek operator invests in core network infrastructure from Ericsson to improve performance and enable innovative mobile broadband offerings to subscribers.

Nokia & HTC enter into a patent licensing and technology collaboration deal.

CSG Invotas is intended to help clients combat cyber attacks in a new way.

Metaswitch Networks' Clearwater Core is a hardened, supported version of Project Clearwater, the open-source IMS core designed for the cloud.

Will supply CR-100D receiver for provider's 100G optical transport network equipment.

Revenues slip 5% year-on-year at Irish operator.

Acquisition expands Aeroflex into next generation network test and measurement market.

NTT launches collaborative study with Alcatel-Lucent Japan and Fujitsu to develop server architecture for future networks.

J.D. Power ranks MetroPCS highest among non-contract carriers.

CenturyLink delivers up to 1-gigabit fiber service for Salt Lake City business customers located in multi-tenant unit office buildings.

Partnership lands PCRF deal with Eastern European Tier 1 telecom operator.

New 4,500sqm datacenter in Madrid offers services from the ground to the cloud and across the continent via Europe's largest fiber network.

Strong take-up of TV offer but Swisscom's net income drops 6.6% year-on-year.

Vendor's 'Shift Plan' takes effect as it posts €134M profit in fourth quarter.

European operations put a brake on operator's growth.

Project based on Cyan technology delivers new Carrier Ethernet network to support e-government services.

Topics include software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, small-cell architectures, next-generation policy and charging, big-data analytics, and mobile network security.

3 upgrades backhaul network in multi-million-pound deal.

Khosla Ventures leads $10.5M Series B funding round for mobile shopping pioneer Tapingo.

Q4 revenues up to $43.1M, up from $31.9M a year earlier.

Session border controller uses NFV and SDN technologies to help operators move towards the 'telco in the cloud' model, says vendor.

Ten-year partnership develops advanced connectivity for Idah and surrounding states.

Touchscreen, WiFi-connected 'smartphone' on the home landline blocks up to 80% of nuisance calls, according to operator.

Tektronix video test and network monitoring equipment to enable NBC Olympics to ensure signal quality and integrity during its coverage of 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

Highly respected tech journalist joins world's largest telecom community, Light Reading, as West Coast Bureau Chief.

The OpenDaylight Project today announced an open-source platform for SDN controllers, including a service provider edition that supports security and network management.

Harmonic server systems to support remote fast-turn content creation for NBC coverage of Winter Games.

NBC Olympics' production of 2014 Sochi Winter Games to utilize Ericsson content delivery solutions.

SDN vendor hires ex-Juniper Networks executive Joe Palazola to lead operations and customer support.

Telefónica Digital to deploy Funambol personal cloud offering globally.

Ericsson to create community lab for OpenDaylight group to enable testing and verification of equipment and applications.

New offering enables fixed and mobile operators to provide individual subscribers with real-time and historical score cards detailing application performance and traffic management impact.

Time Warner Cable Business Class becomes first North American service provider to achieve MEF CE 2.0 certification for all six retail Ethernet service types.

Lower prices for 'family-sized bucket' of data and unlimited talk and text on 4G LTE network.

Leading Internet entrepreneur takes the world's leading telecommunications brand private, implements immediate expansion plans.

NSN prepares ground for various product launches in run-up to Mobile World Congress.

Research project has convoluted acronym.

NSN and F-Secure establish partnership to protect mobile users from continuously increasing security threats.

Connector obviates the need for high-precision polishing of fiber tips, says vendor.

Luxembourg provider signs three-year application management deal with Amdocs.

Service will enable AT&T customers to enjoy roaming with Docomo's high-speed LTE mobile service, Xi.

Vendor announces number of customer wins for mobile network optimization capabilities resulting from its recent acquisitions of Actix and Celcite.

Deal extends Monitise's mobile money capabilities in Europe and the Middle East.