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News & Views Most Popular BT & the Unbearable Lightness of 5G-ing By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/23/2019 A press conference to announce the UK's first 5G service failed to pack much punch. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: PaulERainford I knew I'd find your true level, James. Comcast Sizing Up Plan to Syndicate a Virtual CMTS – Sources By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 Comcast says it's premature to talk about how its network virtualization strategies will take shape, but industry sources say Comcast has discussed the idea of licensing its new tech to other MSOs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink Sharpens Up Its Ethernet Portfolio By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 CenturyLink broadens its Ethernet service portfolio as it tidies up loose ends from its Level 3 acquisition. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement BT Lines Up Western Vendors to Replace Huawei as 5G Goes Live By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/22/2019 BT is now in core network trials with Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia, its CTO tells Light Reading, and may need to introduce a new RAN vendor. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Optical's Shifting Sands By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/21/2019 The global optical networking market has been worth in the region of $15 billion for the past year, but while that number has varied only slightly year to year, what has changed is the nature of the investments and who's splashing the cash. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink Dives Into Services Deployed at the Deep Edge By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/21/2019 CenturyLink's Kevin McBride explains why it's a 'great time to be wireline.' Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Investment Up but Revenues Down for French Operators in 2018 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/21/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ZTE opens cybersecurity lab in Rome; coaxial startup lands Vodafone Germany deal; payback time for UK mobile operators? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Ailing Telecom Italia Gets Serious About Cuts By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/21/2019 The Italian phone incumbent is now so ruthlessly focused on efficiency it has started referring to employees as units. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Sprint Goes Loco for 'Low Code' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/21/2019 Sprint is using a 'low code' development platform to streamline business processes, including getting wireline customers online faster. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google & Tech Giants Cut Huawei Adrift By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/20/2019 The Chinese equipment giant is sent packing by a host of the world's biggest technology companies and faces a huge threat to its consumer business after Google holds back some Android goodies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/16/2019 Failure to transform their businesses, highlighted at this week's Digital Transformation World event in Nice, is fast catching up with the telcos. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash"... CenturyLink's Walker: More Edges, More Efficiency By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/16/2019 Bill Walker explains how edge computing has allowed operators to decompose applications and distribute them on the network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: UK Security Report Says Huawei Can't Be Trusted By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Bouygues gets off to a flier; Sunrise raises its earnings guidance; Vodafone/INWIT towers deal set for the summer. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cisco's Happy, Despite Service Provider Decline By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Cisco's service provider business declined 13% in the third fiscal quarter, but overall revenue was up, so it was (metaphorical) high fives for everyone on Cisco's quarterly earnings call. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Volta Bigs Up Its Cloud Router, Claims 90% Savings vs Legacy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Volta claims that moving routing intelligence to the cloud and running white boxes can slash costs compared with legacy equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Rakuten CTO: We're Stronger, Faster & Cheaper Than You By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/15/2019 Japan's Rakuten is building what it says will be the first truly cloud-native mobile network, and its existing operators should be worried. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/14/2019 The messages emerging from this week's Digital Transformation World sound depressingly familiar. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: susansem There are some vendors who do offer cloud-native software in the core but the... Arista Ships Smarter 400G Routers By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/14/2019 Arista's second-generation 400G routers support built-in security, automation and telemetry for reduced capex and opex. Post a Comment \| Read (0) At Boingo, Network Cloudification Drives Business Transformation By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 Boingo is best known as the guys who get travelers online at airports, but that's just a small part of the business nowadays. Network virtualization has helped drive the transition. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: BT Maintains Dividend Despite Revenue Slip By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom powers on in Q1; Sky invests in You.i.TV for cross-platform app development; back-of-the-net for BT Sport! Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive BT & the Unbearable Lightness of 5G-ing By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/23/2019 A press conference to announce the UK's first 5G service failed to pack much punch. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: PaulERainford I knew I'd find your true level, James. More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards PaulERainford, 5/24/2019 7:49:54 AM BT & the Unbearable Lightness of 5G-ing Re: Re: Milan Kundera I knew I'd find your true level, James. James_B_Crawshaw, 5/24/2019 7:29:31 AM BT & the Unbearable Lightness of 5G-ing Re: Re: Milan Kundera I'm a big fan of Wil Smith. "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" is one of my faves. Not sure about the other one. Is it a brand of ice cream? PaulERainford, 5/24/2019 7:22:38 AM BT & the Unbearable Lightness of 5G-ing Re: Re: Milan Kundera Milan Kundera indeed. OK you two, that's enough tone-raising for this year. Only Wilbur Smith references are allowed until 2020 kicks in. Or Harold Robbins at a pinch. James_B_Crawshaw, 5/24/2019 5:14:58 AM BT & the Unbearable Lightness of 5G-ing Re: Milan Kundera One of his other novels was called "The Festival of Insignificance". Could be apt ... susantem, 5/17/2019 9:39:51 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Re: No reference to low latency in China Telecom presentation It's hard to see anything that domestic operators in China (or elsewhere) are doing as a geo-political/industrial policy threat. It's not as if they are in direct competition with Verizon, Telfonica or NTT. It really doesn't... Gabriel Brown, 5/17/2019 4:54:54 AM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash" seems an unlikely scenario for the telecom industry. There isn't evidence in this direction. Some challenges? Yes, for sure. Like always. On consumer... brooks7, 5/16/2019 7:43:46 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist @James_B_Crawshaw So, is it your opinion that Cell Phone bills are going to go up with the deployment of 5G? Otherwise, it is unclear to me how money gets made. We already have essentially 100%... James_B_Crawshaw, 5/16/2019 6:08:08 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Chief Paleontologist Given the dinosaur reference perhaps we should be talking about paleontology instead of archaeology. But if you compare with the energy (electricity and gas) sector or financial services then telco IT doesn't actually look... susansem, 5/15/2019 11:30:04 PM Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims Re: Re: takes time for Core Software to be cloud native and to be mainstream. There are some vendors who do offer cloud-native software in the core but the trust, expertise and ability to offer end to end solutions across the network are lacking. Finally, the investments required to change over... komatineni, 5/15/2019 8:20:06 PM Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims Re: takes time for Core Software to be cloud native and to be mainstream. It's rather easier to blame each other but it's all about money and business case. Operators want 'cheap' so to justify the transition or business case while vendors and current technology doesn't match the needs. Added... Duh!, 5/10/2019 3:40:26 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals I have to correct myself: Prop through fiber is 4.9 µs/km, not 98. Somehow my brain crossed Prop delay with attenuation. Max of 200 km to a data center is reasonable. [imitates Emily Litella] Never mind. Duh!, 5/10/2019 2:50:55 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Seven, The 10 ms is just for the one-way network portion of latency. Compute comes out of another piece of the end-to-end budget. Dan brooks7, 5/10/2019 1:52:39 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Duh!, I think you will find compute time is actually longer than you think...especially if any scale of data is involved that requires retrieval from a disk. seven Duh!, 5/10/2019 1:35:45 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals That only counted first-order affectors. At >10 Gbit/s, all of those are in the noise. brooks7, 5/10/2019 1:20:11 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Duh!, And that assumes that modulation delays and group delays are essentially 0. 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