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Top News & Views All News & Views Post-ECOC 2019: Optical Networking Beyond the Thunderdome By James Kisner, Contributing columnist, 10/14/2019 It's like Mad Max in the optical networking space, with every group of participants – optical transceiver vendors, chip manufacturers, systems OEMs and even end customers – all fighting their own war. Post a Comment ZenFi CEO: More Small Cells on the Way in NYC By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/11/2019 ZenFi's CEO says that 1000s more small cells are waiting to be approved in the NYC area. Post a Comment Maine Returns Serve in Cable TV à la Carte Lawsuit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Says a preliminary injunction against Maine's new law sought by Comcast and programmers is based on 'purely hypothetical' allegations, as state towns have no present plan to act upon or enforce the new law. Post a Comment Advertisement Comcast's Virtual Access Network Rolls Into Multiple Markets, Spans 100K+ Customers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Top Comcast execs discuss the benefits and capabilities of the company's new virtual access network and how Comcast is applying lessons from its cloud-based X1 platform. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Tech's Litigation 'Wake-Up Call' & Gates Donates $1B for Gender Equality By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/11/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Lawsuits may be tech's 'wake-up call'; coming out as trans in tech; Melinda Gates dedicates cash for a cause; and more. Post a Comment 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 Advertisement Key Takeaways From 5G Transport & the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/11/2019 What were some of the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City? Two sober (just) editors chew the fat... Post a Comment Comcast Blames Software Glitch for Broadband Data Meter Error By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 In a small edge case that affected about 2,000 customers, Comcast says it fixed the technical issue and is crediting affected accounts for any erroneous charges and giving those subs an additional $50 credit. Post a Comment Verizon to Use 'Integrated Access Backhaul' for Fiber-Less 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/10/2019 Verizon plans to make use of a new technology that would allow the operator to deploy 5G transmitters into locations where fiber is not available. Post a Comment T-Mobile Takes Sprint Merger Battle Down to State Level By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/10/2019 T-Mobile recently inked two separate agreements with two state attorneys general to get support for its proposed merger with Sprint. How far will T-Mobile go to get the deal approved? Post a Comment Apollo Proposes DirecTV Spinout, Combo With Dish – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 Private equity firm has pitched a restructuring that would spin off DirecTV and combine it with Dish under a new company that would be controlled by AT&T, Fox Business says. Post a Comment TM Pitches to Build Malaysia's National 5G Network By Robert Clark, 10/10/2019 Malaysia's fixed-line incumbent wants to be the country's only operator of a 5G network. Post a Comment Europe Sounds Alarm About 'Single Supplier' 5G Deals By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/10/2019 Recent deals signed by the likes of Telia, Three and Telecom Italia are under an uncomfortable spotlight after the publication of a new report about 5G security. Post a Comment SUSE Dumps OpenStack By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The open source vendor is giving up its OpenStack business to focus on application delivery. Post a Comment Eurobites: Sunrise, Huawei Claim 5G Speed Record By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/10/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: MVNO Effortel lands bank job; EU considers new 'security paradigm'; European lobby groups want more flexibility on privacy regulations. Post a Comment MWC Los Angeles Won't Get a 5G Bump By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/10/2019 The GSMA expects to attract roughly the same number of attendees to its Los Angeles event – between 22,000 and 23,000 – this year as it did in 2018, despite the introduction of 5G in the US market. Post a Comment Seven Things We Learned at Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The 10G future is in sight, HFC has gas in the tank, Comcast is getting serious about network virtualization, DOCSIS's pioneers get recognized and more from last week's show in The Big Easy. Post a Comment Altice Cooks Up RDK-Powered Broadband Gateways By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 Altice Labs has introduced a family of broadband gateways for DOCSIS and FTTP networks that utilizes an open source software platform managed by a joint venture of Comcast, Liberty Global & Charter. Post a Comment AT&T to Begin Standalone 5G Rollout Next Year By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/9/2019 AT&T plans to deploy standalone 5G in 2020, which will boost enterprise applications for 5G. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Post-ECOC 2019: Optical Networking Beyond the Thunderdome By James Kisner, Contributing columnist, 10/14/2019 It's like Mad Max in the optical networking space, with every group of participants – optical transceiver vendors, chip manufacturers, systems OEMs and even end customers – all fighting their own war. Post a Comment ZenFi CEO: More Small Cells on the Way in NYC By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/11/2019 ZenFi's CEO says that 1000s more small cells are waiting to be approved in the NYC area. Post a Comment Maine Returns Serve in Cable TV à la Carte Lawsuit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Says a preliminary injunction against Maine's new law sought by Comcast and programmers is based on 'purely hypothetical' allegations, as state towns have no present plan to act upon or enforce the new law. Post a Comment Comcast's Virtual Access Network Rolls Into Multiple Markets, Spans 100K+ Customers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Top Comcast execs discuss the benefits and capabilities of the company's new virtual access network and how Comcast is applying lessons from its cloud-based X1 platform. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Tech's Litigation 'Wake-Up Call' & Gates Donates $1B for Gender Equality By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/11/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Lawsuits may be tech's 'wake-up call'; coming out as trans in tech; Melinda Gates dedicates cash for a cause; and more. Post a Comment 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 Key Takeaways From 5G Transport & the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/11/2019 What were some of the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City? Two sober (just) editors chew the fat... Post a Comment Comcast Blames Software Glitch for Broadband Data Meter Error By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 In a small edge case that affected about 2,000 customers, Comcast says it fixed the technical issue and is crediting affected accounts for any erroneous charges and giving those subs an additional $50 credit. Post a Comment Verizon to Use 'Integrated Access Backhaul' for Fiber-Less 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/10/2019 Verizon plans to make use of a new technology that would allow the operator to deploy 5G transmitters into locations where fiber is not available. Post a Comment T-Mobile Takes Sprint Merger Battle Down to State Level By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/10/2019 T-Mobile recently inked two separate agreements with two state attorneys general to get support for its proposed merger with Sprint. How far will T-Mobile go to get the deal approved? Post a Comment Apollo Proposes DirecTV Spinout, Combo With Dish – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 Private equity firm has pitched a restructuring that would spin off DirecTV and combine it with Dish under a new company that would be controlled by AT&T, Fox Business says. Post a Comment TM Pitches to Build Malaysia's National 5G Network By Robert Clark, 10/10/2019 Malaysia's fixed-line incumbent wants to be the country's only operator of a 5G network. Post a Comment Europe Sounds Alarm About 'Single Supplier' 5G Deals By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/10/2019 Recent deals signed by the likes of Telia, Three and Telecom Italia are under an uncomfortable spotlight after the publication of a new report about 5G security. Post a Comment SUSE Dumps OpenStack By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The open source vendor is giving up its OpenStack business to focus on application delivery. Post a Comment Eurobites: Sunrise, Huawei Claim 5G Speed Record By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/10/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: MVNO Effortel lands bank job; EU considers new 'security paradigm'; European lobby groups want more flexibility on privacy regulations. Post a Comment MWC Los Angeles Won't Get a 5G Bump By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/10/2019 The GSMA expects to attract roughly the same number of attendees to its Los Angeles event – between 22,000 and 23,000 – this year as it did in 2018, despite the introduction of 5G in the US market. Post a Comment Seven Things We Learned at Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The 10G future is in sight, HFC has gas in the tank, Comcast is getting serious about network virtualization, DOCSIS's pioneers get recognized and more from last week's show in The Big Easy. Post a Comment Altice Cooks Up RDK-Powered Broadband Gateways By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 Altice Labs has introduced a family of broadband gateways for DOCSIS and FTTP networks that utilizes an open source software platform managed by a joint venture of Comcast, Liberty Global & Charter. Post a Comment AT&T to Begin Standalone 5G Rollout Next Year By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/9/2019 AT&T plans to deploy standalone 5G in 2020, which will boost enterprise applications for 5G. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Zain KSA Cooperates With Whale Cloud on Launching Its Public Cloud Services Friday, October 11, 2019 Whale Cloud & Alibaba Cloud Showcase Digital Transformation Enablement at 2019 GITEX Technology Week Friday, October 11, 2019 Effnet Licenses NB-IoT Compression Tech to US Company Friday, October 11, 2019 Telenet Taps Vector for DOCSIS 3.1 Upgrade Friday, October 11, 2019 CommScope Buys Fractus to Add Antenna Tech, End Patent Lawsuit Friday, October 11, 2019 ESPN Set to Offer Select College Football Games in 4K Thursday, October 10, 2019 Colt Brings Virtual Networks to Enterprise Premises Thursday, October 10, 2019 SAP CEO McDermott Steps Down, Morgan & Klein Named Co-CEOs Thursday, October 10, 2019 Altice Labs Embraces RDK Broadband Gateways Thursday, October 10, 2019 You.i TV Nets UI Deal With Australia's Network 10 Thursday, October 10, 2019 Smart Transportation Testbed Gets Government Support Thursday, October 10, 2019 Equinix & GIC Launch $1B+ European Data Center JV Wednesday, October 9, 2019 AT&T to Sell Puerto Rico, US Virgin Island Operations to Liberty Latin America for $1.95B Wednesday, October 9, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now New 'Reductor' Malware Intercepts Browser Traffic Larry Loeb, Author, 10/11/2019 Encrypted traffic from both Chrome and Firefox shown to be vulnerable. (0) Encoding the Analyst: Why AI Security Tools Are Thinking Like an Expert – Only Faster Justin Fier, Director, Threat Intelligence & Analytics, Darktrace, 10/10/2019 Despite our best efforts, human defenders simply cannot process information at ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: Consumer Tech Spending to Climb to $2.06T by 2023 – IDC Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/11/2019 Also today, Comcast is really virtualizing, Verizon counts on emerging backhaul ... (0) BBWN Bites: 60% of US Farmers Have Inadequate Broadband — Study Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/10/2019 Also today, Liberty LatAm to acquire AT&T's assets in Puerto Rico and the US ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Network Rising: DriveNets Adapts Hyperscaler Approach to ... 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 Heavy Reading New Open Workgroup to Accelerate Edge Computing By Simon Stanley, 1/2/2019 Developing an open architecture for domain-specific accelerators could empower service providers to accelerate edge computing and related applications. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CORD and VCO: Paths to the Next Generation Central Office March 2019 The CORD AND VCO Report examines the NGCO phenomenon, prominently including the progress of CORD and the emergence of VCO as operator open-source reference designs See Details An SD-WAN Overview: Issues and Prospects February 2019 An SD-WAN Overview: Issues and Prospects provides an overview and reviews significant issues in relation to the emergence of SD-WAN. It looks at the meaning of SD-WAN, its major drivers and benefits, and the structure of the market and its participants – especially between software and hardware vendors and service providers (SPs). See Details The Rise of PAM4 and 64QAM: A Competitive Analysis of Optical Modules & Components February 2019 The Rise of PAM4 and 64QAM: A Competitive Analysis of Optical Modules & Components identifies key networking, optical module, and semiconductor technologies, and details their application to 25G, 100G, 200G, 400G, and 600G ports, identifying and analyzing the full spectrum of vendors developing optical modules and components. See Details All Heavy Reading Reports Prime Reading Vodafone's 5G Network in London: A User Review Gabriel Brown , Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading , 9/5/2019 Never mind the hype, how does this next-generation network actually perform in ... (18 comments) Is NFV Headed for a Cliff? Mitch Wagner , Executive Editor, Light Reading , 8/7/2019 Are telcos solving NFVs big problems or making them worse? Critics say a ... (18 comments) A User Review of EE's 5G Network in London Gabriel Brown , Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading , 8/1/2019 Everyone's talking about 5G services, but do they measure up to the hype? We ... (6 comments) Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia Are Facing an 'Oil Crisis' Upheaval Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/31/2019 Years of consolidation have left the global mobile network market largely in the ... (15 comments) All Prime Reading