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News & Views Most Popular MEF Seeks to End SD-WAN Confusion By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/21/2019 The MEF 70 standard looks to clarify the definition of SD-WAN and pave the way for carrier interoperability, certification and faster deployment times for SD-WAN services. Post a Comment Podcast: SES Networks Takes ONAP Sky-High By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/20/2019 The satellite network operator is looking to the Open Networking Automaton Platform (ONAP) to automate connecting its space-based network with terrestrial operators. Post a Comment Light Reading Packs Double Wallop at Cable-Tec Expo By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 For the first time, Light Reading will offer two breakfast roundtables on key tech topics at this fall's SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans – the first on network virtualization and the second on cable and 5G. Post a Comment Advertisement Dell Flying to 5G Cloud on AT&T-Led 'Airship' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2019 Dell is working with AT&T to bring hardware automation to the Airship open source cloud provisioning project. Post a Comment Reliance Jio & Microsoft Launch 'Comprehensive' 10-Year Cloud Team-Up By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/13/2019 The telco giant and Microsoft are joining forces to bring cloud services to India, and Reliance Jio will also build data centers for Microsoft on that subcontinent. Post a Comment CenturyLink Drops 'Several Hundred Million' Dollars on Edge By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/12/2019 CenturyLink is building out more than 100 initial edge compute locations across the US and providing hybrid cloud and managed services. Post a Comment VMware Looks to Startup Acquisitions for Telco Cloudification By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/8/2019 VMware's been shopping this summer, buying three cloud and networking startups that will bolster its telco strategy. Post a Comment Advertisement After Dominating Broadband, HKBN Takes On Enterprise By Robert Clark, 8/7/2019 The Hong Kong operator is taking aim at rival HKT as it looks to shake up the enterprise sector. Post a Comment Altice USA Adds Smart Speaker to Home Lineup By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/7/2019 Operator to sell Devialet-made 'Altice Amplify' device to Optimum and Suddenlink customers at a discount and lease it to Altice One users for $10 per month. Post a Comment CableLabs Looks Outward With '4Front' Event By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 Organization hopes to draw 1,500 for 4Front, a cross-industry event set for June 23-24, 2020, in Denver that will span areas such as gaming, broadband, healthcare, AI, automotive and security. Post a Comment SES Takes ONAP to the Final Frontier By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 SES Networks is using Amdocs to implement the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on Microsoft Azure, to allow its telco customers to seamlessly extend to SES's satellite service. Post a Comment For Arista, Service Providers Are #5 By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/5/2019 Service providers rank in fifth place for vertical markets served by the switch powerhouse. Number one? The hypercloud guys. Post a Comment For Equinix, Interconnect Outpaces Colo By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 Equinix racked up its 66th consecutive quarter of revenue growth, and saw its interconnect business grow significantly faster than colo. Post a Comment Big Blue Turns Red for Multicloud By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 IBM reveals details of how it's using Red Hat software as the foundation for its multicloud strategy, following its $34 billion Red Hat acquisition. Post a Comment TiVo 'On Track' to Split Its Product & Licensing Businesses By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 Work underway to reorganize and streamline its product unit as TiVo prepares to separate itself by the second half of 2020. Post a Comment Podcast: The Fast-Moving World of SD-WAN By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/30/2019 Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser discusses the world of SD-WAN, why there are so many vendors and whether enterprise 'white glove' services are handled by butlers. Post a Comment VMware Expands to Google Cloud By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/30/2019 VMware scores a hybrid cloud trifecta, bringing its workloads to Google Cloud, following previous deals with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Post a Comment AT&T's $984M Justice Department Deal Heats Up Rivalry By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/30/2019 AT&T nabs multi-year expansive agreement to modernize Justice Department networks, giving CenturyLink and Verizon black eyes. Post a Comment Comcast Looks Skyward for Success By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/29/2019 Comcast sees streaming video opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic, with both its Sky and NBCUniversal units now cooking up content for OTT video. Post a Comment The Cord Cutters Are Right By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/29/2019 The pay-TV feature set has finally met its match and, even if you don't cut the cord for budget reasons, you should give some other options a try. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive MEF Seeks to End SD-WAN Confusion By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/21/2019 The MEF 70 standard looks to clarify the definition of SD-WAN and pave the way for carrier interoperability, certification and faster deployment times for SD-WAN services. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors MEF Publishes SD-WAN Standard 5 hours and 50 minutes ago Quickline, AirTies Team on Whole-Home WiFi Thursday, August 15, 2019 Cisco Deals for Voicea Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Red Hat Launches Enterprise Linux 7.7 Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Mesosphere Shifts Focus to Kubernetes, Changes Company Name to D2iQ Monday, August 5, 2019 SES Automates Satellite Network Services With ONAP Monday, August 5, 2019 IBM Builds Multicloud Strategy on Red Hat Thursday, August 1, 2019 Arista Reports $608.3M Q2 Up 17% YoY Thursday, August 1, 2019 Equinix Reports $1.385B Quarterly Revenue, Up 10% YoY Wednesday, July 31, 2019 GTT Enhances SD-WAN With Universal CPE to Improve Agility & Performance Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Armstrong Plugs In Plume for 'Zoom' Whole-Home WiFi Service Tuesday, July 30, 2019 New SSIMWAVE Cloud Tool Tackles Video Quality Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Google Cloud & VMware Partner to Run VMWare Workloads on Google Cloud Monday, July 29, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Fintech Startups Get Sloppy With Application Security Larry Loeb, Author, 8/20/2019 Some startups need to shape up or ship out. (0) New Industry Drives Renewed Interest in Embedded Security Larry Loeb, Author, 8/20/2019 Hardware for security may just get hot. (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News ADTRAN CEO Tom Stanton Q&A: All Access All the Time Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 8/21/2019 In a one-on-one interview with Broadband World News, ADTRAN Chairman and CEO Tom ... (0) Why FTTH May Trump Fiber Deep for Cable Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 8/20/2019 In a provocative new BBWN webinar, Broadband Success Partners' Jack Burton will ... (1 Comment) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs Sonus in VellOS Mellanox Open Composable Networks Network Security Orchestration Sonus in the Cloud Sonus Strategy Netronome's Server-based Networking Platform Nexius: The Strategy & Science of Data Analytics Overture Networks NFV Solutions ECI's Elastic Network Masergy: Transforming Enterprise IT Arbor Networks on ISP Traffic Visibility ECI's LightSec: Comprehensive Cyber Security Solution ECI’s LightApps: Intelligence for Networks Service Gateway Virtual Edition SDN Management & Orchestration in the WAN Sedona Systems: Multi-Layer Applications Platform NFV – a Catalyst for Business Services Growth Telefónica: In Search of Virtual Simplicity Affirmed Networks Highlights NFV in Mobile Core Close-up on ConfD NetNumber Founder on Managing Signaling Control Tail-f, Cisco & What the Future Holds Sonus Shakes Up SD-WAN Automate, Scale & Create With Juniper's vCPE Solution Metaswitch's New CEO Martin Lund Discusses His Role ActiveVideo's Cloud Virtualization Technology Nominum on Leveraging the Power of DNS to Deliver ... Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading Europe's Big Telcos Are Getting Edgy About 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 3/13/2019 Virtual dodgeball will not happen unless operators cut mobile latency, but that ... (3 comments) Not Business as Usual: Open Source Changes IT Operations Mitch Wagner , Executive Editor, Light Reading , 1/11/2019 Open source doesn't just change software: It changes how IT does its job. (0) Taking It Slow: Enterprises Use Open Source, but Are Cautious About Contributing Mitch Wagner , Executive Editor, Light Reading , 1/9/2019 Enterprises are still mostly open source consumers rather than contributors to ... 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Three CEO: We'd Rather Take Huawei Risk Than Miss 5G Rewards

Three UK has just launched a major 5G-led assault on the living room. If all goes to plan, the smallest of the country's four mobile network operators will emerge ...