As the wireless industry gears up to deploy hundreds of thousands of small cells in the US over the coming years, a cottage industry is developing around the need to hide all this equipment.
Senior executives gathered in the Austrian capital for the latest Light Reading 2020 Vision Executive Summit to discuss what's right, what's wrong and what's next for the telecom sector.
The annual Tour de France is not just the world's most challenging bike race; it's also a feat of endurance for the service provider at the heart of the technical action.
Hey, did Sprint just become the first US carrier to offer true mobile 5G?
20 select shots from the week that was in Denver, Colo.
Behold! Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Check out some pics and caps from this week's video tech-fest in Sin City.
Edge computing remains a hot topic in the wireless industry, but what does it actually look like? Startup EdgeMicro showed off its new mobile edge computing testing facility and explained how it is using the site.
With a few snapshots and snappy captions, we've breezed through some of the big themes at MWC19, and tried to call attention to some of the more impressive displays of technology and showmanship in Barcelona.
Microsoft made Florida even hotter.
Digital transformation is a complex challenge but one that will help service providers revitalize their businesses, as we found out at this year's Operations Transformation Forum (OTF) in Munich.
LR checks out Sprint's 5G deployment plans in LA.
Tattoos, 80s nostalgia and Game of Thrones characters were highlights of VMware's sizzling annual Las Vegas customer/analyst confab.
At the Operations Transformation Forum 2018, operators and industry experts explained how the shift to digital platforms and new operations processes are essential for 5G.
Executives in whimsical footwear and oversized gadgets of balls and tubes were side-by-side with the latest open source, AI, IoT and hybrid cloud technology at Google's annual cloud conference.
Cows, coffee and rock 'n roll were some of what we saw at Light Reading's big annual conference.
Enterprise container support, partnerships with Microsoft and IBM, and an alarming lack of baked goods and non-dairy coffee whiteners were highlights of Red Hat Summit.
Canines conquer computer company's customer confab.
Kansas City hosted this year's Smart Cities Connect conference and showed off some of its own smart city projects.
Many cloud users aren't thinking about optimizing their spending because they are still experimenting with cloud, and enjoying the first flush of savings from moving off-prem.
Berkeley, Calif. is exploring the launch of an initial coin offering; Louis Dreyfus Co. uses blockchain to trade soybeans; and more blockchain developments.
The cloud migration is driving traffic to the data center, and data centers are booming as a result, according to the annual Cisco Global Cloud Index.
And the photos really don't do it justice.
As 2017 comes to an end, Enterprise Cloud News takes a look back at the last 12 months to get a sense of which cloud stories best captured the spirit of this growing market.
Stranger things happening in Las Vegas, as Amazon goes to the Upside Down.
Salesforce Dreamforce is a tech conference as envisioned by the unholy spawn of Walt Disney and Hunter S. Thompson.
A photo tour of the net neutrality rally outside the FCC.
Since it's Thanksgiving, Enterprise Cloud News decided to look at five cloud technologies we're thankful to have explored this year in our coverage, and what the next year may hold.
A peek at the new OTT streaming TV service, Philo.
Cisco preached the gospel of network intuitive and multicloud to its partners in Dallas recently. Also, jazz, dragons – and a serious moment of sober reflection for a lost friend.
AT&T unveiled a new AI platform, microservices supplier program, all-weather drone and more at the first AT&T Summit for its business customers.
Developers gather at GE's Minds + Machines to learn how to connect industrial IoT to the cloud.
Dapper fashions and race wheels were the order of business at Tibco's user conference, along with data integration, analytics and the cloud. See the sights on our photo slideshow.
DAA forced Arris and Cisco into each other's booths at the SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo... and other tales of cable fun.
Larry Ellison rants, networked cars look cute, dogs nap, and more!
Microsoft Ignite is the company's big enterprise show of the year. Here's the view from the show floor.
The significant shift towards becoming a lean, digital operator was the focus of the recent Operations Transformation Forum in Hong Kong.
The inaugural Mobile World Congress Americas drew 21,000 attendees, focused on strategies for 5G, and showcased the latest innovations around IoT, smart cities, connected cars and more.
Highlights from Huawei's annual event that focuses on how network operators are transforming their operations and corporate processes.
For 25 years, the ThinkPad has dominated the enterprise computing space. Enterprise Cloud News looks back at the laptop.
Light Reading's SD-WAN event featured expert speakers and panelists who examined the future of and business case for SD-WAN, and a whole lot of rubber ducks.
IoT is starting to make its way into the real world, as reflected at the HPE Discover conference this week.
Check out the pictures from this year's Leading Lights awards dinner.
No drones, darling.
Virtual reality, AI, drones and more.
Highlights from 2017's SXSW, including tons of great content for women, people who are definitely helping keep Austin weird and a lot of waiting in long lines.
Sprint, Motorola & Qualcomm show off the dawn of 'Gigabit Class LTE' in the US at The Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.
Small and mostly odd touches of cuteness bring a whimsical lightness to the otherwise impersonal, vacuous, hard-edged Mobile World Congress.
If it wasn't about 5G at Mobile World Congress, it was definitely about cloud.
Virtual reality, drones and power rangers: the big reveals at CES 2017.
Located 85 feet under the surface of the Earth in a decommissioned limestone mine, Bluebird Underground enjoys reduced cost and enhanced security. See it for yourself in this slideshow.
2016 has been a crazy year for women in tech, but we're so done picking apart what went wrong. Here are our 8 best moments of a very strange year.
It's the second day of the Mobile Broadband Forum 2016 in Tokyo and there's one clear theme running through every presentation and discussion – the need to develop partner ecosystems.
Some photographic highlights from this week's IoT World show in Dublin.
This year's Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBB Forum) is being held just outside Tokyo, where operator executives, host Huawei and the Chinese vendor's partners have converged to discuss the evolution of 4G LTE, the transition to 5G and the key applications driving the industry's transformation.
We've rounded up the top eight Women in Comms turkeys of 2016... so far.
Service providers and industry experts gather in Wuzhen to talk about digital transformation and why it is so critical for telcos.
Huawei's Operations Transformation Summit 2016 is underway in Wuzhen, China.
Salesforce's annual customer conference this year was like a comic book convention. In a good way.
The ODL crowd broke out of Silicon Valley to bring their annual summit to the software mecca of Bellevue, Wash.
We spent two fantastic days at our NFV & Carrier SDN conference in Denver, getting our fix of virtualization chat in the 'Mile High City.' But we had some fun too...
See the faded glory of Super Mobility Week in a selection of photos from the recent event.
Top speed through Las Vegas for two intense days of VMworld 2016.
Light Reading visits San Diego's Petco Park to see how the Padres baseball team is using IoT to slash operations costs.
Adtran's annual media and analyst event focused on network and business changes required to meet the demands of an 'Uber-like' customer experience.
Photos from a costume party with more than 100,000 of my closest friends.
Light Reading and its camera goes to the annual geek festival in San Diego.
Futuristic technology was on display at the Cisco Live conference. And service providers have to provide the bandwidth to make it go.
A sweep of the show floor at Mobile World Congress Shanghai made it quite clear which technologies are at the top of the agenda for operators in the world's largest single market.
Sprint and Ericsson get cookin' with a 5G test outside a football stadium.
More sights from Austin, the site of Light Reading's Big Communications Event.
Revisit the Leading Lights awards dinner with pictures from the big event, including pics of our three winners accepting their trophies.
Taking in the sights on two wheels, wearing a helmet.
At BCE in Austin, Upskill U moved out of the virtual classroom and hosted two Upskill U LIVE sessions on 5G and mobile video.
See who picked up the 2016 Leading Lights awards at the gala dinner in Austin, Texas.
Good times and good learning in Austin at Light Reading's annual flagship event.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Big Communications Event -- One of the indisputable stars at this year's Big Communications Event (BCE) in Austin was the New IP Agency's Live NFV Interoperability Demos, which drew standing room only crowds to the busy exhibition floor.
Now in its second year of being known as the Internet & Television Expo, the once-sprawling Cable Show is trying to adapt to a new age.
From Sunday's Board of Advisors dinner to Monday's luncheon, job fair and Leading Lights celebration, WiC's biggest event was also its best yet.
At the TM Forum Live! 2016 in Nice, France, executives from service providers and others shared their views on the emerging Digital Operations Ecosystem.
Snapshots from the TM Forum Live! 2016 event in Nice, France.
We're in Hong Kong for the first leg of the Ultra-Broadband Summit World Tour.
Vodafone and Huawei are hoping to spur the development of NB-IoT through a new lab facility at the UK operator's Newbury headquarters.
Dazzling venue and entertainment helps convince Google cloud users that it should be taken seriously in the enterprise – the company hopes.
Take a walk on the Vegas side.
This entrepreneurial unit is expanding its responsibility to include wholesale services and agents, but keeping its agile method of operating within the bigger AT&T.
Editors are known as an incorrigible bunch. Our soft spot? Definitely animals.
What I saw before, after and during conference and meetings in 2015.
In a moment of pre-holiday levity, Light Reading presents the best cat selfies (catsies!) of 2015. Meow.
The TVOT conference in NYC showed just how far TV has come over the last decade.
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.
Service providers and vendors came together in London to tackle tricky issues around OSS for virtualized networks.
Further pictorial coverage from the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2015 in Hong Kong.
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.
Falafel, weird sculptures, small planes, and more.
Beer, broadband and supersized snacks: Photos from Light Reading's first Gigabit Europe event and Oktoberfest
Top female leaders from Intel, AT&T, Verizon and GenBand share their experiences, perspectives and advice for women in the industry, who convened in Dallas this week.
Take a photographic peek at a recent National Press Club event featuring NASA astronauts – including twin brothers Captains Scott and Mark Kelly – and stunning Ultra HD footage from space.
From its gigabit smart grid to its wealth of 3D printing companies to the best tech camp ever, Chattanooga is a hotbed for innovation.
GM brings two connected Corvettes with Apple CarPlay to Chicago and talks up the success of LTE via its partnership with AT&T.
The conference was splendid. Accommodations were not.
