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Top News & Views All News & Views Boingo Hits Hard Times, Lays Off 16% of Workforce By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Boingo said it would stop investing in its retail and advertising business units and eliminate 80 positions as part of a cost-cutting restructure. Post a Comment Millimeter Wave Spectrum Auction Blasts Past $1.5B, Shows No Signs of Cooling By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Bidding doesn't show signs of cooling in the FCC's ongoing mmWave spectrum auction. However, it appears that the event isn't generating the same demand that the agency's two prior mmWave auctions did. Post a Comment Trial Shockers: Comcast Courted Sprint, T-Mobile Attempted Merger With Dish By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Each day of the antitrust trial against Sprint and T-Mobile brings new revelations, including an attempted merger between T-Mobile and Dish Network in 2015 and MVNO negotiations between Comcast and Sprint in 2017. Post a Comment Advertisement How Cable Will Broaden Its Horizons for Biz Services By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 David Strauss of Broadband Success Partners dives into new research that explores which new verticals, such as e-gaming and hospitality, will keep cable's business services engine humming in the years to come. Post a Comment Podcast: The Big Cisco Silicon One Recap By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 12/13/2019 Mitch Wagner brings us coverage of the Cisco Silicon One announcement from San Francisco, where the company announced a single technology platform to serve all its networking customers. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Glass Ceiling Justice, Tech on TV & the Dark Ages of Advertising By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 12/13/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Women take companies to court in droves over unfair pay; TV isn't done with tech parodies; is the glass ceiling getting lower?; and more. Post a Comment Cellular IoT's Top 400 Projects Account for 279 Million Devices By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 12/13/2019 The Chinese State Grid, General Motors and BMV operate three of the largest cellular IoT projects. Post a Comment Advertisement Rockbot CEO Aims to Shake Up B2B TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 Google-backed startup boots up OTT-delivered video service for restaurants, retail shops and other businesses that can complement (or possibly replace) TV services from cable and satellite TV providers. Post a Comment How Wireless Carriers Might Bring Private CBRS Networks Into the Fold By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Private wireless networks in the 3.5GHz CBRS band are all the rage, but they also represent an opportunity for the likes of AT&T and Verizon to dramatically improve their coverage inside smaller buildings. Post a Comment Starry Eyes Commercial Market By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 Starry Internet COO Alex Moulle-Berteaux discusses the fixed-wireless player's ambitious expansion strategy with 5G, including plans to pursue small business owners and people who work from their homes. Post a Comment Eurobites: Huawei Loses Telenor to Ericsson By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/13/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Labour defeat brings relief for BT; MTS goes all holographic; Orange Belgium launches 5G hub. Post a Comment Looking Back at 2019 in India: 5G Miss, AGR, Price Hikes & More By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 12/13/2019 India's telecom sector has witnessed a year of major developments in 5G, pricing, competition and M&A activity. Post a Comment AT&T TV Streaming Service Going National in February By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Acquisition costs for new OTT-delivered pay-TV service, which runs on an Android TV box, are expected to be half of AT&T's legacy satellite TV product. Post a Comment Cisco Bets Its Business on 'Internet for the Future' Strategy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco's audacious new "Internet for the Future" strategy, which comprises completely new silicon, operating system software and a new business model, is either going to drive Cisco's domination of Internet infrastructure for a generation to come -- or flop spectacularly. With a strategy as ambitious as Cisco's, there's no middle ground, says Light Reading's Mitch Wagner. Post a Comment Cisco: Service Providers Are Getting Squeezed & We've Got the Cure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco claims it can help service providers break the trap of increasing bandwidth demands and declining revenue per user. Cisco's solution: a new networking architecture spanning silicon to software and services. Post a Comment AT&T Exec Hints That '5G Evolution' Is Faster Than T-Mobile's 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/12/2019 An AT&T executive hinted that forthcoming speed tests will find that AT&T's '5G E' branded connections are faster than T-Mobile's recently launched 5G service in its 600MHz spectrum. Post a Comment Liberty Global Taps Teltoo's P2P Tech to Blunt OTT Video Spikes By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cable op taps startup's P2P-assisted CDN platform to manage bandwidth and optimize OTT video quality amid streaming surges and unpredictable events that cause demands on the network to rise. Post a Comment Ciena Soars on Bullish Outlook as Sales Top $3.5B By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/12/2019 Ciena stock rocketed as it reported year-over-year sales growth of more than 15% and predicted further market share gains and sales hikes. Post a Comment Ray Mota on Cisco's Network Vision By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Ray Mota, CEO and principal analyst for ACG Research, dives into Cisco's 'Internet for the Future' strategy, noting that the key focus is on helping service providers boost capacity as they roll out 5G and other new services while keeping costs in line. That's important because customers are using more bandwidth but aren't paying more for it, notes Mota. Post a Comment 'Small Disruptions' Have Totally Changed Fixed Network Biz, Says Nokia CTO By Robert Clark, 12/12/2019 The arrival of new technologies and growing interest in WiFi have spurred activity in the fixed broadband market, says the Finnish vendor's technology chief. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Boingo Hits Hard Times, Lays Off 16% of Workforce By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Boingo said it would stop investing in its retail and advertising business units and eliminate 80 positions as part of a cost-cutting restructure. Post a Comment Millimeter Wave Spectrum Auction Blasts Past $1.5B, Shows No Signs of Cooling By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Bidding doesn't show signs of cooling in the FCC's ongoing mmWave spectrum auction. However, it appears that the event isn't generating the same demand that the agency's two prior mmWave auctions did. Post a Comment Trial Shockers: Comcast Courted Sprint, T-Mobile Attempted Merger With Dish By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Each day of the antitrust trial against Sprint and T-Mobile brings new revelations, including an attempted merger between T-Mobile and Dish Network in 2015 and MVNO negotiations between Comcast and Sprint in 2017. Post a Comment How Cable Will Broaden Its Horizons for Biz Services By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 David Strauss of Broadband Success Partners dives into new research that explores which new verticals, such as e-gaming and hospitality, will keep cable's business services engine humming in the years to come. Post a Comment Podcast: The Big Cisco Silicon One Recap By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 12/13/2019 Mitch Wagner brings us coverage of the Cisco Silicon One announcement from San Francisco, where the company announced a single technology platform to serve all its networking customers. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Glass Ceiling Justice, Tech on TV & the Dark Ages of Advertising By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 12/13/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Women take companies to court in droves over unfair pay; TV isn't done with tech parodies; is the glass ceiling getting lower?; and more. Post a Comment Cellular IoT's Top 400 Projects Account for 279 Million Devices By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 12/13/2019 The Chinese State Grid, General Motors and BMV operate three of the largest cellular IoT projects. Post a Comment Rockbot CEO Aims to Shake Up B2B TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 Google-backed startup boots up OTT-delivered video service for restaurants, retail shops and other businesses that can complement (or possibly replace) TV services from cable and satellite TV providers. Post a Comment How Wireless Carriers Might Bring Private CBRS Networks Into the Fold By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/13/2019 Private wireless networks in the 3.5GHz CBRS band are all the rage, but they also represent an opportunity for the likes of AT&T and Verizon to dramatically improve their coverage inside smaller buildings. Post a Comment Starry Eyes Commercial Market By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 Starry Internet COO Alex Moulle-Berteaux discusses the fixed-wireless player's ambitious expansion strategy with 5G, including plans to pursue small business owners and people who work from their homes. Post a Comment Eurobites: Huawei Loses Telenor to Ericsson By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/13/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Labour defeat brings relief for BT; MTS goes all holographic; Orange Belgium launches 5G hub. Post a Comment Looking Back at 2019 in India: 5G Miss, AGR, Price Hikes & More By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 12/13/2019 India's telecom sector has witnessed a year of major developments in 5G, pricing, competition and M&A activity. Post a Comment AT&T TV Streaming Service Going National in February By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Acquisition costs for new OTT-delivered pay-TV service, which runs on an Android TV box, are expected to be half of AT&T's legacy satellite TV product. Post a Comment Cisco Bets Its Business on 'Internet for the Future' Strategy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco's audacious new "Internet for the Future" strategy, which comprises completely new silicon, operating system software and a new business model, is either going to drive Cisco's domination of Internet infrastructure for a generation to come -- or flop spectacularly. With a strategy as ambitious as Cisco's, there's no middle ground, says Light Reading's Mitch Wagner. Post a Comment Cisco: Service Providers Are Getting Squeezed & We've Got the Cure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco claims it can help service providers break the trap of increasing bandwidth demands and declining revenue per user. Cisco's solution: a new networking architecture spanning silicon to software and services. Post a Comment AT&T Exec Hints That '5G Evolution' Is Faster Than T-Mobile's 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/12/2019 An AT&T executive hinted that forthcoming speed tests will find that AT&T's '5G E' branded connections are faster than T-Mobile's recently launched 5G service in its 600MHz spectrum. Post a Comment Liberty Global Taps Teltoo's P2P Tech to Blunt OTT Video Spikes By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cable op taps startup's P2P-assisted CDN platform to manage bandwidth and optimize OTT video quality amid streaming surges and unpredictable events that cause demands on the network to rise. Post a Comment Ciena Soars on Bullish Outlook as Sales Top $3.5B By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/12/2019 Ciena stock rocketed as it reported year-over-year sales growth of more than 15% and predicted further market share gains and sales hikes. Post a Comment Ray Mota on Cisco's Network Vision By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Ray Mota, CEO and principal analyst for ACG Research, dives into Cisco's 'Internet for the Future' strategy, noting that the key focus is on helping service providers boost capacity as they roll out 5G and other new services while keeping costs in line. That's important because customers are using more bandwidth but aren't paying more for it, notes Mota. Post a Comment 'Small Disruptions' Have Totally Changed Fixed Network Biz, Says Nokia CTO By Robert Clark, 12/12/2019 The arrival of new technologies and growing interest in WiFi have spurred activity in the fixed broadband market, says the Finnish vendor's technology chief. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors PlaceIQ, FourthWall Team to Analyze Effectiveness of In-Store TV Ads Friday, December 13, 2019 AT&T Flips the Switch on Lowband 5G in 10 Markets Friday, December 13, 2019 Didja's LocalBTV Service Launches in Philly, With NYC & San Diego on Deck Thursday, December 12, 2019 FCC Moves Toward Releasing 3.1-3.55GHz Band for 5G Thursday, December 12, 2019 FCC Votes to Split 5.9 GHz Band Between C-V2X & WiFi Thursday, December 12, 2019 NCTA Cheers FCC 5.9GHz Spectrum Vote Thursday, December 12, 2019 CenturyLink Sets Launch of WiFi 6 Gateway Thursday, December 12, 2019 Qualcomm Invests $8M Into Augury for 5G & Industrial IoT Thursday, December 12, 2019 Viasat Lights Up Home Satellite Broadband in Mexico Thursday, December 12, 2019 Ciena Reports Fiscal Q4, Full Year Thursday, December 12, 2019 Fleet Complete Acquires CSI in Mexico Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Cisco Launches 'Internet for the Future' Strategy & Silicon Architecture Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Minnesota Public Schools Adopt CalAmp Bus Tracking App Wednesday, December 11, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Hardware Is the New Attack Surface – Forrester 12/12/2019 Attackers have already begun to breach security at the BIOS level, according to a ... (0) Snatch Is Both Novel & Evil Larry Loeb, Author, 12/11/2019 The Sophos Managed Threat Response team found out that, where the Snatch ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: No Free Broadband for Brits Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/13/2019 Also today, AT&T sets date for new national OTT-TVoffering, CenturyLink hooks up ... (0) BBWN Bites: 'Internet Para Todos' Translates Into Mexican Opportunity for Viasat Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/12/2019 Also today, Windstream Wholesale signs mega-capacity deal, MTS joins TIP, Comcast ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase CSPs Living in a Multicloud World Protecting the Mobile Network Core During Transition ... Amdocs: Redefining & Accelerating 5G Rollouts Antronix: Industry Leader for 40 Years & Counting 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 Edge Computing Set for Big Role in 5G Vehicle Automation Stephen Lawson , Contributing Editor , 12/10/2019 If the cars of the future are self-driving, they'll most likely reach autonomy by ... (0) For Self-Driving Cars, Exotic 5G Tech Will Run on Familiar Frequencies Stephen Lawson , Contributing Editor , 11/28/2019 Despite the hype, it looks like cellular bands below 6GHz will be the spectrum of ... (1 Comment) 5G & Autonomous Cars: Flashy Promise Meets Complicated Reality Stephen Lawson , Contributing Editor , 11/25/2019 5G networks could advance autonomous driving, but mobile operators, automakers ... (0) A Kodak Moment May Await Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia Iain Morris , International Editor , 10/31/2019 There is a sudden urgency in service provider calls for more open and virtualized ... (2 comments) All Prime Reading