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News & Views Most Popular DT's Access 4.0 Team Loses Its Cherry & Hits the Eggnog By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/21/2019 The German operator has a long list of vendors identified for its software-enabled broadband access project. What could possibly go wrong? Post a Comment 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 Advertisement 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 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 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 Advertisement 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 Forward Networks Raises $35M to Help Operators Check On Enterprise Networks By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 10/8/2019 Startup is hoping to sell telcos new technology to peek into the operations of enterprise networks. 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 Facebook's TIP Is Desperate to Add Friends By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/3/2019 Three and a half years after its birth, the Telecom Infra Project is trying to be more collaborative than confrontational. 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: Ericsson's Latest Smart Factory Nears Completion By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/1/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Colt hires new marketing boss; ADVA trumpets its eco-commitments; Zain Jordan upgrades its billing systems. Post a Comment Infinera: Making Optical Interesting Again By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 9/30/2019 The vendor's new XR Optics technology could cut carrier opex and capex in service providers' metro networks. But can the company get everyone else to buy into coherent optical sub-carrier aggregation? Post a Comment Verizon CEO Hints Private 5G With Edge Computing Is Coming – Real Soon By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/27/2019 Verizon's CEO said company campuses and manufacturing facilities should be among the first to deploy private 5G networks with edge computing capabilities. Post a Comment After Pan-Net Blunders, DT Embarks on Journey to 5G Core By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/24/2019 The German operator must be careful to avoid making a mess as it builds a 5G core network based heavily on microservices and open source technology. 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 Migrating OSS/BSS to the Public Cloud By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 9/23/2019 As operational models evolve, telcos are turning to public cloud platforms to host their OSS and BSS systems, but there are still hurdles to overcome. Post a Comment Telefónica Highlights Edge Vendor Shortcomings, Picks Holes in ETSI's Specs By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/20/2019 The Spanish operator does not sound happy with the results of a request for information and says ETSI's edge group must improve its deliverables. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive DT's Access 4.0 Team Loses Its Cherry & Hits the Eggnog By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/21/2019 The German operator has a long list of vendors identified for its software-enabled broadband access project. What could possibly go wrong? 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 Equinix & GIC Launch $1B+ European Data Center JV Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Equinix Enters Mexico, Acquiring 3 Data Centers for $175M Friday, October 4, 2019 Common NFVI Telco Taskforce (CNTT) Boasts Reference Milestone Monday, September 23, 2019 Equinix Taps Uber Vet for CTO Slot Monday, September 23, 2019 Infinera Debuts Component for Coherent Subcarrier Aggregation Monday, September 23, 2019 Acacia Unveils Coherent 1.2T Single-Chip, Single-Channel Module Thursday, September 12, 2019 ONF Announces 'Stratum' Switch OS Project Now Available as Open Source Tuesday, September 10, 2019 RDX Completes Purchase of Charter's Navisite Unit Monday, September 9, 2019 Open Eye Consortium Unveils Single-Mode Spec Friday, September 6, 2019 IHS: Red Hat Container Strategy Is Paying Off Wednesday, September 4, 2019 VMware Reports $2.44B Revenue, Up 12% YoY, Acquiring Pivotal & Carbon Black Thursday, August 22, 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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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 ... 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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 ...