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News & Views Most Popular Like Deadpool, ZTE Is Hideously Disfigured but Alive By Iain Morris, News Editor, 10/22/2019 The Chinese equipment vendor has lost 20% of staff and is smaller than it was four years ago, but it keeps on going. Post a Comment T-Mobile Flips Colorado in Pursuit of Sprint Merger By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/21/2019 After receiving new promises from both Dish Network and T-Mobile, Colorado joined Mississippi in reversing its position and supporting the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Why Women Leave Tech, Gen Z Wants to Disconnect & Aviation Equality By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/18/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Gen Z is skeptical of the future of tech; growing the number of women in aviation; women don't leave tech industry because of the actual work; and more. Post a Comment Advertisement Broadband World Forum: What's Beyond the Fiber? By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/17/2019 I've been in Amsterdam this week at the annual Broadband World Forum event – here's what sunk into my grey matter. Post a Comment IBM Touts Cloud & Red Hat Growth By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/17/2019 But IBM is still growing slowly compared with the cloud market overall and that's a turnoff for telcos as potential customers and partners. Post a Comment Juniper CTO Talks About the Company's 5G Aspirations By Sue Marek, Special Contributor, 10/16/2019 Juniper's CTO hails from Google, and is now working to steer the vendor through topics ranging from 5G to edge computing. Post a Comment Optiva CEO Danielle Royston Uses the Cloud to Stand Out From the Crowd By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/16/2019 For Royston, the path to becoming a more profitable telco starts by revitalizing the company's approach to billing, charging and business intelligence. Post a Comment Advertisement 5G Signal Boosters Show Up Ahead of Regulations By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/15/2019 FCC regulations haven't yet caught up with startups' 5G plans. Post a Comment Telefónica's OnLife Is Growing Long in the Tooth By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/15/2019 The Spanish operator's ambitious OnLife project is now in field trials with residential and enterprise customers – and several use cases already look compelling. Post a Comment Eurobites: Our 5G Door Is Open, Germany Tells Huawei By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/15/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: CityFibre wants to engage on UK's FTTH future; KKR buys majority stake in Hyperoptic; Eurofins targets media industry. Post a Comment Startup Celona Targets Private LTE & 5G for Enterprise By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 10/15/2019 Celona, a startup stemming from CommScope's purchase of Ruckus, is targeting the market for enterprises building their own private 5G and LTE wireless networks, eschewing WiFi. Post a Comment NTT's Mega-Merger, Brand-Cutting Plan for Another $4B in Sales By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/14/2019 Japan's NTT is uniting 28 enterprise-focused brands in its bid to grow at twice the market rate and deliver a boost to profitability. Post a Comment Gartner: NFV Is Dead – the Cloud Killed It By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 The service provider industry is being transformed by enterprise demand for cloud-based wide-area networking, a model Gartner calls Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Tech's Litigation 'Wake-Up Call' & Gates Donates $1B for Gender Equality By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/11/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Lawsuits may be tech's 'wake-up call'; coming out as trans in tech; Melinda Gates dedicates cash for a cause; and more. Post a Comment Eurobites: Openreach Talks Up the Fiber Effect By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/11/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT launches 5G service; Amsterdam Internet Exchange upgrades with Pluribus; Ericsson helps fight diabetes in the UAE. Post a Comment Equinix Debuts $1B+ Hypercloud Gambit By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Equinix is looking to host data centers for hypercloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, in a joint venture with a Singaporean investment fund. Post a Comment Apollo Proposes DirecTV Spinout, Combo With Dish – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 Private equity firm has pitched a restructuring that would spin off DirecTV and combine it with Dish under a new company that would be controlled by AT&T, Fox Business says. Post a Comment SUSE Dumps OpenStack By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The open source vendor is giving up its OpenStack business to focus on application delivery. Post a Comment BT Gives Convergence Another Bash, but 'Halo' Looks Far From Heavenly By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/9/2019 A push into bundles is not going to guarantee success for the ailing UK telco amid a blizzard of competitive and regulatory challenges. Post a Comment VMware Wraps $2.1B Carbon Black Acquisition By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/9/2019 VMware says adding the endpoint security provider to its cloud stack will help network operators prevent attacks, rather than reacting to them. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Juniper CTO Talks About the Company's 5G Aspirations By Sue Marek, Special Contributor, 10/16/2019 Juniper's CTO hails from Google, and is now working to steer the vendor through topics ranging from 5G to edge computing. Post a Comment Optiva CEO Danielle Royston Uses the Cloud to Stand Out From the Crowd By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/16/2019 For Royston, the path to becoming a more profitable telco starts by revitalizing the company's approach to billing, charging and business intelligence. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Riverbed Names Rich McBee as New President and CEO Tuesday, October 22, 2019 IBM Reports Q3 Revenue $18B Down 3.9% Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Net Insight Appoints New CEO Monday, October 14, 2019 SAP CEO McDermott Steps Down, Morgan & Klein Named Co-CEOs Thursday, October 10, 2019 Equinix & GIC Launch $1B+ European Data Center JV Wednesday, October 9, 2019 VMware Completes $2.1B Carbon Black Acquisition Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Oracle Adding 2,000 Employees for Cloud Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Names President Monday, October 7, 2019 Equinix Enters Mexico, Acquiring 3 Data Centers for $175M Friday, October 4, 2019 Comcast's Marchetti, Charter's Monaghan to Co-Chair Cable-Tec Expo 2020 Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Telus to Acquire ADT Canada for CAD$700 Tuesday, October 1, 2019 KDDI Picks Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung for 5G Monday, September 30, 2019 Charter's Tom Adams Elected Chair of SCTE/ISBE Board Monday, September 30, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Two Threat Actors, One Targeted Threat Larry Loeb, Author, 10/22/2019 By combining, two threat actors leveraged their own specific areas of expertise ... 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10/16/2019

Juniper CTO Talks About the Company's 5G Aspirations

When Bikash Koley jumped ship from Google to become the CTO of Juniper Networks in mid-2017, it was considered quite a win for the networking firm. Koley, who had ...