Survey explores what lies in store for operators as the digital lifestyle evolves.

Rima Qureshi appointed senior vice president and chief strategy officer for the Ericsson Group.

Equinix is adding a cloud exchange to its interconnection and data center services so enterprises and service providers can connect to multiple clouds

Carrier bouyed by revenue growth in enterprise and IP/data services.

Western US network operator uses Ciena 6500 packet optical platform and WaveLogic 3 monitoring capabilities on 100G route from Salt Lake City to Sacramento

API specialist expanding in all areas.

Net profits up by more than 300% year-on-year.

Operator claims to have had its best quarterly performance in more than seven years.

Package bundles third-party virtual branch office router, firewall, and VPN functions with Overture's Ensemble OSA software and enablement services.

Launches two key pieces of its open architecture for software-defined services at the metro service edge.

Carrier Hub boasts a 40GigE option, synchronous Ethernet, and advanced clocking/GPS capability.

Net income drops 22.7% year-on-year, partly due to increase in marketing expenses and compensation paid following network failure.

Level 3 Communications will provide private direct connections to the AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds for the data center customers of Digital Realty, a company which provide data center infrastructure in 14 US and European markets.

Underlying profits up to euro 304M at newly handsets-free vendor.

Revenues down 3.8% year-on-year, but mobile subscriber losses in France stemmed.

OpenFlow version 1.4 acts as a hardware-software abstraction protocol to communicate between Pica8 switches and their respective controllers.

Increases funding so far received by a factor of five to help prevent recurrence of bugs such as 'Heartbleed.'

Will sell stake in Tata Teleservices when time is right.

Year-on-year revenue growth of 15% for chip vendor in first quarter.

Broadband and infrastructure were the standout segments for chip vendor in first quarter.

Stronger than anticipated Chinese LTE deployments drive wireless sales.

BT enters into a five-year, GB pound 23M agreement with mapping giant for the supply of a range of data products and services.

Telenor Pakistan was granted 2x5 MHz of 3G spectrum in the 2100MHz band, valid for 15 years, in the country's first-ever next-generation auction.

Orders placed by new customers in Central and Western Europe and South America.

Iliad founder Xavier Niel takes control of Monaco operator.

Internap introduces Managed Internet Router Optimizer software that it says can route cloud traffic up to three times faster than current services.

Dell to resell Big Switch's Switch Light OS and Big Tap SDN controller monitoring application.

Phase II will spend $9B to connect five million more rural residents to broadband networks by subsidizing broadband providers over the next five years.

M2M Spectrum Networks chooses TrueNet Communications to build out a national network to support its planned M2M applications.

Alcatel-Lucent's SDN venture says it has completed more than 30 successful trials with enterprises, cloud providers, and in 'telecoms environments.'

Operating revenues in Q1 2014 $30.8B, up 4.8% year-on-year.

Revenue for the quarter reaches $142.8M, compared with $124.6M in the first quarter of 2013.

First-quarter revenues up 1.4% year-on-year at optical networking vendor.

Acquisition expands Cognizant's multi-platform video capabilities.

S3 Group expands in US and enhances automated service validation functionality.

Up to 300 Mbits/s in some communities.

Chicago data center operator is deploying Ciena's 6500 Packet Optical Platform for 100G connectivity.

Integra offers vXchnge's customers more options for highly scalable and secure bandwidth business connectivity solutions.

Former Sandvine man appointed executive director of Central Europe.

China Mobile selects vendors including ZTE in annual tender for GPON equipment.

Vendor says it has demonstrated the first ever real-time transport and coherent detection of an ultra-100G orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal.

PoPs intended to help propel Chongqing to the forefront of the cloud computing industry in China.

Nordic operator sees first-quarter revenues slip 2.5% year-on-year.

Service broker specialist reports 'best ever' results.

First-quarter revenues up 16% year-on-year at test and measurement vendor.

Ericsson reports a 9% year-on-year decline in revenues but better margins.

Wireless revenues up 7% on best first quarter net postpaid adds in five years.

AT&T announced its first set of vendors for its User-Defined Network Cloud initiative at Mobile World Congress but today added two more

AT&T is teaming up with the Chernin Group, which invests in and manages media businesses including OTT VoD service Crunchyroll

Contract for construction of 25,000km submarine cable spanning Asia, Africa, and Europe comes into force.

UHD 4K Golden Reference tool will enable content creators, service operator technologists, encoder manufacturers, and HEVC promoters to easily decode and display files from storage or from IP networks.

TWC WiFi now spreads from Koreatown to the West Village, the Rockaways to Midland Beach, and Red Hook to Harlem.

Liberty Global Wholesale earns Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification for services across Europe.

China Telecom and Huawei claim world's first successful commercial deployment of a software-defined network in Beijing.

Big Switch Networks names Shaun Page vice president of worldwide sales.

Direct connection through Equinix data centers offer higher-performance, secure, and flexible access to Microsoft cloud.

Group revenue reaches euro 399.8M in first quarter, up 2% year-on-year.

Annual report analyzes threats by industry and finds most segments need to focus on a specific set of predominant threats.

Managed services providers One Source Networks has earned Microsoft's Lync 2013 qualification for its SIP Trunking service

Carrier's Beijing Telecom unit teams with Huawei for SDN support of Internet data center services.

ZTE's first quarter revenues increased by 5.5% to RMB19.5 billion, while net profit climbs more than 200% to RMB622 million.

Fiber network now connects more than 7,000 locations and spans more than 5,800 fiber route miles.

African pay-TV provider goes Clearleap route for management and delivery of content.

Novel architecture enables MIMO configurations up to 8x8, speeds up to 10 Gbit/s and universal support for MU-MIMO clients.

TIME dotcom Berhad joins Asia-Africa-Europe-1 submarine cable consortium, with construction to begin this quarter.

Colt adds its European network presence to Sea Fibre's consortium of fiber network and data center operators.

Burger and fries with WiFi on the side (no gherkin).

Successful trial of existing customer Japan-US Cable Network follows earlier test on a shorter segment of the network.

Enters into partnerships with NEXTDC in Australia, Interxion in Germany and Austria, as well as Pacific Link Telecom in Malaysia.

Zebra says the massive acquisition will position it for a future in The Internet of Things.

Ericsson working with Mirantis to create a carrier-grade OpenStack distribution for virtualized network infrastructure.

SteelFusion fuses branch servers, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure into a single solution.

Regional fiber backbone operator FiberLight is teaming up with Cirracore, a cloud-based provider of data center infrastructure, to offer cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity to its customers.

Alianza launches cloud wholesale VoIP solution for Canadian service providers.

Opera's Skyfire adds video analytics dashboard to Rocket Optimizer platform.

CPRI-over-WDM/OTN solution enables pooled baseband processing for distributed basestations.

Case study explores how Telstra is using MRV's Carrier Ethernet 2.0-certified (CE 2.0) access, aggregation, and management solutions for a nationwide network upgrade in more than 1,700 metro and regional exchange service areas.

After five years guiding strategic development and M&A activities, Douglas Gilstrap set to leave in August.

Built on new WDM/OTN Metro P-OTS platform, new products address edge need for WDM/OTN to handle big bandwidth.

Partnership combines extensive fiber network with Edge Data Centers in seven major metro markets.

Integration of application delivery controllers via Cisco's remote integrated service engine furthers ongoing Cisco-Citrix partnership.

Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform deployed across Network Rail's railway infrastructure in the UK.

Orange unveils its international partnership program and launches its first services with operators in French Polynesia and Portugal.

Swedish SPIT vendor unveils service delivery and execution engine.

Windstream partners with Racemi to use its Cloud Path SaaS platform to help customers migrate servers to the cloud more rapidly

O2 UK's 4G service reaches a third of the UK population indoors as the operator announces a nationwide network modernisation programme.

Joint effort aims to convince FCC not to approve AT&T's proposed test of moving local phone service to IP network

Israeli operator swaps out EMC technology for IBM storage systems as data volumes grow.

Virtualized grid networking specialist teams up with analytics platform vendor to target network operators with SDN aspirations.

ZTE issues guidance for a significant year-on-year increase in net profit and is optimistic about its business prospects.

NeoPhotonics provides Q3 2013 report and outlook for Q4 2013 and Q1 2014 and notes growing demand in China.

Irish incumbent has upgraded most of its 3,000 street cabinets with VDSL2 vectoring technology to enable broadband downstream speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s.

NTT Docomo introduces billing plans that enable residential and corporate customers to set and share monthly data quotas depending on their device type.

Wholesale network operator uses DTN-X to show capacity potential across Southern Virginia for customers.

Lab encourages open innovation and transparency for SDN and will enable developers and users in the region to test and experience ODL projects.

Huawei announces the appointment of its Chief Strategy Marketing Officer, President of Products & Solutions, Vice President of the Carrier Business Group (BG), and Vice President of the Enterprise BG.

New service offers on-demand connections between public and private clouds

Operator will add more than 1,200 4G LTE cell sites.

Cloud services provider names Colin Doherty as president and CEO.

Coalition of rural fiber optic networks and advanced services company team up to deliver complete package for rural areas.

Managed service provider Masergy today acquired Global DataGuard to add managed security services to its porfolio.

AT&T launches Cloud Web Security product for businesses large and small.

Offering chosen by Z-Com for LTE TDD trial and deployments for Chinese mobile operator CMCC.

M2M Spectrum Networks launches nationwide machine-to-machine network in US.

...and it's Dr. Arun Pasrija.

Openreach selected by Next Generation Data to provide further high-speed connectivity to its NGD Europe mega data center in South Wales.

Amdocs VoLTE Controller is designed to support the stringent feature requirements that enable an HD quality and differentiated VoLTE experience.

Pair will establish a core technical team to conduct cooperation in technology architecture, R&D roadmap sharing, and more.

Ericsson predicts 8 million mobile broadband subscriptions and 1.5 billion homes with digital TV worldwide by 2020.

Release the Rhino! OpenCloud's Rhino service layer, that is.

Chinese Ministry of Commerce gives green light to Nokia's devices-business sale to Microsoft.

EXFO Inc. announced today it has acquired the assets of ByteSphere LLC, a privately held software company in the Boston area.

U.S. Cellular will pay early termination fee of anyone who ports their number from another carrier to take up new offerings.

Enter the Snapdragon 810 and 808 processors.

New services focus on mobile strategy and security, application development, and device procurement.

Bluetooth-based 'appcessory' allows users to issue emergency calls and send location information to pre-designated guardians by simply pushing a button.

Snell and Cisco collaborate on IP-enabled broadcast production.

Salvatore Maisano now responsible for overall sales and operations of NSN across the CEWA region in Middle East and Africa (MEA).

Cable group wins out over rival Bouygues bid.

Addition of ARM-based, multicore product family for networking equipment extends Freescale's presence and reach in multiple high-volume segments.

INSIDE Secure acquires Metaforic, gaining access to key technologies for enabling cloud-based mobile payments security with Host Card Emulation (HCE).

Imagine acquires innovator in IP and file-based media processing solutions and software-defined workflow management technologies.

FTB-8830NGE Power Blazer offers test suite for the turn-up, circuit validation and troubleshooting of converged networks.

Adtran is citing slower domestic sales to Tier 2 and 3 carriers for a Q1 revenue droop.

Packet-inspection outfit wins contract from fixed/mobile operator in EMEA region.

Partnership combines extensive fiber network with Edge Data Centers in seven major metro markets.

Windstream aims to reduce cloud provisioning time, improve process with new rapid automation tool.

Will use NAB show in Las Vegas to strut its TV Anywhere stuff.

Latest phase of network expansion brings high-performance services to key enterprise hubs.

Components maker targets achieves 550 meters with 100G solution for inside data centers and enterprise.

Operator has added 30 on-network data centers since October 2013.

Cisco and friends adopt new open, standards-based protocol called OpFlex.

MSO operating in northern Mexican states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas opts for Cisco.

Dish Network's 14 million video subscribers will gain to access live and on-demand news, entertainment and sports programming on computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and connected devices.

Enterprise software leverages MediaCentral framework to enhance workflow processes and revenue.

Intel CEO announces Intel Smart Device Innovation Center in Shenzhen and $100M Intel Capital China Smart Device Innovation Fund.

Access switch and additional network capabilities give IT departments more visibility and control of the network.

Pan-African provider deploys Infinera's DTN-X platform across the company's South African long-distance network.

Users in and around Bangkok should enjoy faster mobile broadband services and better network performance.

Industry's smallest platform for high speed, multi-technology. and optical testing, claims EXFO.

Huawei deploys mobile money platform for Vodafone's first European launch of M-Pesa.

Also launches optional plans offering unlimited data for lower price plan subscribers according to the user's data usage patterns.

Industry veteran Sue Monahan takes the reins.

More than 24 million vulnerable home routers are exposing service providers to DNS-based DDoS attacks which have the power to disrupt networks, enterprises, and websites around the world, says Nominum.

Enterprise WAN service enables temporary bandwidth upgrades to handle high-traffic events.

Nujira raises $20 million in new funding to support the production ramp of its Coolteq chips.

Electric car maker in telematics tie-up with Telefonica.

BT lands major managed network services and IT outsourcing contract from US-based global electronics manufacturing systems firm Jabil.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has joined up with Unisys to offer cloud and hosting services to US, state and local government units under the Unisys contract with the Western States Contracting Alliance, giving Verizon new access to this set of potential customers.

Apple launches TD-LTE iPad Air and iPad Mini for the Chinese market.

Nordic group bags Danish IT and systems integrator.

Vendor's NPT platform products gain Metro Ethernet Forum Carrier Ethernet 2.0 business and wholsale certifications.

Cloud computing startup will become a subsidiary of Telefonica with its headquarters and staff remaining in Barcelona.

Former Spirent CEO to head up SDN outfit.

Numergy chooses Nuage's SDN platform and Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 service router for deployment within and across its datacenters.