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News & Views Most Popular EdgePresence Joins Rush to Build Mini Data Centers for Tower Companies By Sue Marek, Special Contributor, 10/21/2019 EdgePresence is joining a number of other data center providers in looking to build mini data centers in locations around the country. Post a Comment Crown Castle: No Plans for Edge Data Centers By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/18/2019 Crown Castle's CEO said he doesn't see edge computing data centers 'playing a significant role in our long-term strategy.' Crown Castle's main rivals, American Tower and SBA Communications, are taking a different path. Post a Comment M&A Creeps Up on Edge Computing Players By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/16/2019 While edge computing in the mobile and 5G space remains a nascent area, companies such as Intel, EQT, SBA and EdgeConneX are all linked to deals or merger-and-acquisition chatter in this burgeoning sector. Post a Comment Advertisement 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 At Vonage, It's Not Just About Technology By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2019 Sanjay Srinivasan, Vonage VP and chief architect, talks with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner about the company's VoIP strategy and explains why SD-WAN is important to Vonage. Post a Comment HFC May Never Die By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/1/2019 The cable industry, in partnership with CableLabs, is exploring how to deliver services at 6GHz and beyond, Cox exec says. Post a Comment Eurobites: ADVA Joins the Dots on Optical Transceivers By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/24/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Cellcom Israel plans job cuts; Orange builds cloud for Chinese consumer goods company; CityFibre on target in Stirling. Post a Comment Advertisement The Complexity of Edge Computing By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/20/2019 There are many tough questions for telcos looking to build out edge computing resources, including what they should deploy in terms of IT hardware from day one, notes Heavy Reading Analyst Simon Stanley. Post a Comment Telcos Should Invest in Edge App Developers – Academic By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/19/2019 Creating an investment fund to fuel edge computing developments would be a good move for the telco community, argues Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Mahadev 'Satya' Satyanarayanan. Post a Comment CenturyLink: Network Infrastructure Is the Real Final Frontier By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/18/2019 NASA was trying to solve the same problems telcos now face when it launched the space shuttle Enterprise, 43 years ago Tuesday. Post a Comment Eurobites: Orange & Ericsson Test 5G in Warsaw By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/11/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone goes deeper in Kaltura's cloud; ADVA lands Russian data center contract; Deutsche Telekom revs up its blockchain scooters. Post a Comment Deconstructing the Telco Cloud By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 9/4/2019 The term 'telco cloud' is used often, but it can mean different things to different people. Post a Comment VMware Splashes $4.8B on Strategic Acquisitions By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/23/2019 VMware is bolstering its developer support and security capabilities with the acquisitions of Pivotal Software and Carbon Black. 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 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 It's Groundhog Day! Explaining AT&T's Microsoft & IBM Deals By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/25/2019 AT&T recently cut a big cloud deal with IBM. Then AT&T cut a big cloud deal with Microsoft the next day. That doesn't mean we're caught in a timeloop – the deals are different, and have plenty of unanswered questions. Post a Comment BT Taps Canonical OpenStack for Cloud-Native 5G Network By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/24/2019 BT is using Canonical OpenStack on Ubuntu Linux to move its global network to a cloud-native, microservices architecture. Post a Comment Arrcus Scores $30M & Takes Network 'Democratization' to the Edge By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/23/2019 Arrcus is extending its architecture from the data center to the edge, using high-density 100G/400G white box networking hardware based on Broadcom Jericho2 processors. Post a Comment CenturyLink Adds Fiber to Fuel Datacenter, Cloud Growth By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/23/2019 Why more fiber? Cloud data center demand from webscale service providers, says CenturyLink's CTO. Post a Comment Podcast: ClearSky Data CEO Ellen Rubin Knows Where Your Data Is By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/16/2019 Ellen Rubin joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss edge computing and the new need for data management in more places as the world goes from static storage to mobile, multicloud madness. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Akamai Adds Security at the Edge Tuesday, October 15, 2019 SAP CEO McDermott Steps Down, Morgan & Klein Named Co-CEOs Thursday, October 10, 2019 VMware Reports $2.44B Revenue, Up 12% YoY, Acquiring Pivotal & Carbon Black Thursday, August 22, 2019 Equinix Reports $1.385B Quarterly Revenue, Up 10% YoY Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Google Cloud & VMware Partner to Run VMWare Workloads on Google Cloud Monday, July 29, 2019 BT Names Canonical Ubuntu for Next-Generation 5G Cloud Core Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Arrcus Raises $30M, Expands to Network Edge Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Microsoft Invests $1B in OpenAI for Ethical, Trustworthy AI Monday, July 22, 2019 AT&T & IBM Partner on Cloud, SDN Tuesday, July 16, 2019 IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Equinix-GIC Data Center JV Will Go Big in Europe Monday, July 1, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now FireEye Finds Mitigation of CVE-2019-19781 Comes With a Price Larry Loeb, Author, 1/20/2020 One threat actor is taking advantage of the current problems with Citrix ... 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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 ... 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Podcast: NTT CTO Ettienne Reinecke on the Edge Evolution

Network operators have been making investments in high-bandwidth, high-frequency 5G technologies and it could take years for those investments to pay off. While ...