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By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/18/2018
COLOGNE, Germany -- A new initiative designed to vastly increase the fiber capacity of the cable HFC network is set to come out by the end of this month.
By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/13/2018
COLOGNE, Germany -- ANGA COM -- Following in the gigabit footsteps of their North American counterparts, several major European cable operators are now deploying the new DOCSIS 3.1 spec, ...
By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 4/18/2018
Blind hiring, raising awareness, encouraging dialogue and ending binding arbitration agreements are a few ways the industry can thwart gender discrimination, says former Wall Street executive Karen MacFarlane.
By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 4/11/2018
Gender consultant and author Wendy Bohling shares her thoughts on why we need to create an atmosphere of transparency, authenticity and accountability to make sure the #metoo movement doesn't ultimately backfire.
By Light Reading, 4/9/2018
Alan Breznick, Light Reading's Cable Practice Leader, sits down with Dr. Vikram Saksena, CTO of Cable Markets for NetScout, at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Conference in Denver, Colo. Dr. Saksena discusses trends in the cable market, including cloud, virtualization and virtualizing the edge and SD-WAN.
By Light Reading, 4/5/2018
Adtran and Sumitomo Electric enter into a global alliance securing market-leading MSO EPON business. Adtran's VP of Cable & Wireless Strategy, Hossam Salib, explains the details of the Sumitomo acquisition, and how Adtran will assume sales, customer relationship, distribution, support, manufacturing and development rights for the industry-leading EPON solutions from Sumitomo.
By Light Reading, 4/5/2018
In today's highly competitive market, MSOs need to put the necessary foundation in place to offer the best customer experience possible. Ciena's Elias Cagiannos explains how MSOs need a new toolkit to evolve to a more adaptive network, ensuring they can meet constantly changing bandwidth demands and business dynamics.
By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/2/2018
Who knew 1 Gig services might turn out to be popular even when priced fairly high? Mediacom certainly didn't.
By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 4/2/2018
For every named customer a cable vendor promotes, there are probably a dozen or more that prefer to remain anonymous. And that makes it difficult to assess how fast any particular ...
By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 4/2/2018
Boingo's Derek Peterson discusses use cases and opportunities for cable companies in preparing for 5G.
By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 3/29/2018
Almost everywhere they look these days, Arris executives see the promise of steady growth.
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How Operators Can Reduce Video Bitrates to Meet Subscriber Expectations on 4G
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As video on the mobile network expands, 5G promises immense bandwidth capacity, yet today the vast majority of network traffic is distributed via 4G. Beamr offers the telecom industry perceptual video encoding technology that enables operators to move from legacy codecs such as H.264 to HEVC, and deliver broadcast quality 1080p under 2 Mbit/s.
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The Telecoms.com Podcast: Live* From 5G World
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This week we bring you the pod live (*or at least it was when we filmed it) from 5G World 2018 in London – an event that tested the stamina of our youngest team member. Scott senses a general feeling that everyone should stop moaning about 5G business cases and just get on with it, while Iain notes the current downbeat phase of the 5G hype cycle, Jamie laments a ...
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Matrixx VP Outlines Her Career-Making, Changing Skills
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Technology can be learned, but critical thinking, decision making and verbal communication are the career-making skills that are transferable and crucial in a digital transformation, says Jennifer Kyriakakis, Matrixx Software's co-founder and VP of marketing.
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Interview With Lanner at RSA 2018: Empower Next-Generation Cybersecurity
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The increasing convergence in IoT, cloud, SDN and NFV has led to the unprecedented transformation and revolution of the network environment. The conventional security measures are encountering their limits against the sophisticated, advanced cyber intrusions. As the leader in network security gateways, Lanner strives to innovate product lineups to meet the ...

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Making the Right Geothermal Call to Slash Cooling Costs
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Rygan's Lane Lawless says that geothermal installations are like haircuts -- "People only talk about the bad ones" -- and he has good advice for operators seeking to leverage geothermal to reduce cooling costs by up to 70%. In this video recorded at the recent
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Reliance Jio President Mathew Oommen on India's 4G Phenomenon
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Reliance Jio's Mathew Oommen discusses the market reality and motivation behind one of India's most incredible mobile networks.
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Lanner at BCE: Accelerating SDN/NFV Deployment With Multi-Purpose Network Appliances
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An open architecture allows service providers to efficiently integrate pre-validate hardware platform with best-in-class VNFs and to accelerate service time-to-market. To build a platform for multivendor SDN and NFV deployments, Lanner provides a wide range of white box hardware solutions pre-validated and optimized by major VNF vendors in the market specializing ...
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Vodafone Germany CIO Talks Customer-Centric Digital Transformations
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Light Reading's News Editor, Iain Morris, interviews Frederic Vanoosthuyze, CIO of Vodafone Germany, about their customer-centric digital transformation. Frederic highlights the critical nature of the customer experience and the role of Revenue Management capabilities to the customer experience. He demonstrates a flexible data sharing plan on My Vodafone APP which ...
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Huawei BSS – Enabling HKT's Customer-Centric Digital Transformation
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Light Reading's News Editor, Iain Morris, interviews Peter Lam, Managing Director of Engineering of Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) about their customer experience-driven approach to digital transformation. Peter emphasizes the benefits that their digital transformation project delivered in terms of customer experience and operation efficiency and how the partnership ...
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Why 5G Needs a 3D Perspective – Ovum
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At the 5G World Summit in London, Ovum's Daryl Schoolar explains why the migration from 4G to 5G requires a three-dimensional perspective.
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NFV & Interoperability at Verizon
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Ken Presti, director of the New IP Agency (NIA), talks NFV and interoperability with Anuj Dutia, who is in charge of product management and strategy in cloud networking at Verizon.
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Parallel Wireless Founder Reflects on Tech
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Parallel Wireless is focused on making networks more flexible under the guidance of Co-Founder and VP of Development Kaitki Agarwal, who shares her thoughts on the industry's most game-changing technologies – past, present and future – as well as offering advice for other female founders with a great idea.