Diameter routing news, analysis and opinion | Light Reading

Welcome

Advertise with us

Key developments related to the evolution and deployment of Diameter signaling and routing platforms.

Optical/IP / Diameter routing


News & Views Most Popular Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 5/23/2017 Genband & Sonus to finally merge, as exclusively predicted by Light Reading a year ago. Post a Comment \| Read (12 comments) Latest Comment: Kevin Mitchell And so it is Ribbon Communications Nortel would have been better with all... Mitel to Offload Mobile Unit to Xura for $350M+ By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/19/2016 Less than two years after buying its mobile unit, Mitel is selling to Xura, the messaging and UC business owned by Siris Capital. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] I think that qualifies as the most concise analysis of the year... Light Reading Beyond By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 7/28/2016 Light Reading today starts a new voyage as part of a larger Enterprise. Post a Comment \| Read (34 comments) Latest Comment: freehe Light Reading has great expertise and offers great expertise to the IT community.... Advertisement Leading Lights 2016: There's Still Time By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/29/2016 There's still time to enter this year's Leading Lights awards -- here are the details you need. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Activist JDSU Shareholder Now Stalks Viavi By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 9/8/2015 A JDSU shareholder who once wanted JDSU to sell now wants JDSU spinoff Viavi to do the same. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: nasimson Technology landscape has always been very active when it comes to merger &... CEO Chat With Doug Suriano, Oracle By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 8/10/2015 Steve Saunders met up with Oracle's Doug Suriano, who talked about why Oracle bought Tekelec and Acme Packet, how it's creating tailored cloud services for different vertical industries, the state of virtualization, why Oracle won't get into systems integration and more. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: mhhf1ve Oracle doesn't just do database software anymore -- it does whole datacenter... ADVA Clocks an Acquisition, Eyes 2 More By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 8/3/2015 ADVA's timing unit absorbs a specialist in small form factor clock technology, but ADVA may have more deals in mind. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DOShea To be clear about the usage, these acquisition targets would be companies small... Advertisement Farewell to Longtime Tellabs Chief Birck By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 7/13/2015 Mike Birck guided Tellabs for more than 30 years over a span of five decades. Post a Comment \| Read (0) BTE 2015: Virtualization Goes Commercial By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 5/29/2015 Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Jim Hodges sees new network virtualization deployments on the horizon in 2015. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli Already, companies like ThingWorx are boasting that their app-based platform... Leading Lights Finalists 2015: Company of the Year (Private) By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/18/2015 Find out more about the players that made it onto our awards shortlist for company of the year (private). Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights Awards: It's Now or Never! By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/30/2015 Deadline extension means there are still a few more days to submit those winning entries, but don't delay -- April 10 is the final deadline and then the judging begins. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Mitch Wagner Sonus Stock Crashes on Lost Orders By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/24/2015 Order fallout prompts slashing of revenue projections by 33% and trading is halted as Sonus shares tumble. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights Awards: Only Days Left to Enter! By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/19/2015 The deadline for the 2015 Leading Lights awards is March 27, so get your skates on if you think you could be a winner! Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: [email protected] Here is a tip for anyone entering the awards. Do not cut and paste press reelases... BTE 2015 Is Bigger & Even Better By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 2/25/2015 This year's Big Telecom Event (BTE) in Chicago is going to provide more opportunities than ever for networking, getting to grips with key industry challenges and opportunities and, equally as important, having some fun. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: nasimson Thats much bigger and much better. Sounds like there'll be many exciting moments... MWC: Let the Madness Begin By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/23/2015 Are you all strapped in? Then let's talk 5G, NFV, IoT, security and anything else that rhymes with LTE… oh, and tapas… Post a Comment \| Read (11 comments) Latest Comment: Susan Fourtané nasimson, I didn't save those articles. I'll see if I can find them again.... CEO Chat With Doug Ranalli, NetNumber By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 2/2/2015 Light Reading founder and CEO Steve Saunders talks with Doug Ranalli, the founder of signaling specialist NetNumber. Post a Comment \| Read (8 comments) Latest Comment: JustTheFaxMaam Let's take a good honest look at Mr. Ranalli and his past. Fax International... Mavenir Spends $20M on Ulticom for Signaling By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 1/13/2015 Mavenir to acquire Ulticom for its NFV-ready signaling business, while its partner Radisys announces an important new contract with Nokia Networks. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: sarahthomas1011 Mavenir's acquisition is timely in light of the NetNumber article published... NetNumber Decrees the End of Signaling Silos By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 1/13/2015 As operators deploy NFV, NetNumber says it becomes more important to have a single interface for dealing with all flavors of signaling. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Kevin Mitchell NetNumber has good people and good product. The concept of a centralized routing... What China Mobile Wants From 5G By Joanne Taaffe, 9/30/2014 With 4G still to deliver so much, the world's largest mobile operator wants more than just another industry standard when it comes to 5G. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: danielcawrey Most of its high-margin subscribers are based in the cities, however. Offering... What's With AT&T's Capex Dip? By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 6/2/2014 Analyst George Notter says that AT&T slowed its capital spending this spring. Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym Yes, it would seen that the DirecTV deal would certainly be a large influence... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards JustTheFaxMaam, 12/27/2017 4:23:27 PM CEO Chat With Doug Ranalli, NetNumber Re: Reality Check Let's take a good honest look at Mr. Ranalli and his past. Fax International ("FI") --> ran dry in the early-to-mid-1990s --> assets, employees, intellectual property mysteriously bought up for pennies on the dollar... Kevin Mitchell, 11/1/2017 9:04:45 AM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Nortel would have been better... And so it is Ribbon Communications Nortel would have been better with all the 80s and 90s nostalgia zeitgeist. Kevin Mitchell, 11/1/2017 9:04:44 AM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Nortel would have been better... And so it is Ribbon Communications Nortel would have been better with all the 80s and 90s nostalgia zeitgeist. kq4ym, 6/8/2017 8:13:49 AM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Well at least "Soband" or "Genus" will get some savings along the way as noted "Genband and Sonus also share some significant customers, notably AT&T Inc." Looks like there's lots of possibilities for the new name on... DanJones, 5/24/2017 5:41:08 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Woah! yeah, interesting idea. Kevin Mitchell, 5/24/2017 5:34:28 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? If Sonus office is the new HQ, it's moving north. The name Nortel could be brought back. Or even Northern Telecom! DanJones, 5/24/2017 5:30:55 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Genous! Kevin Mitchell, 5/24/2017 5:25:44 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Definitely could spawn a new curse: Son of a Gen! DanJones, 5/24/2017 1:07:56 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? GenSon? Bandus? SonBand? They all sound a bit like "Side effects may include..." OldStyle, 5/23/2017 5:09:18 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Where is the Old LR When You Need It? The LR of days gone by would be providing some much-needed comedic relief here. Like, what do you get when you combine two, 21 year old companies that have never posted one quarterly profit? Or, Help, someone... softwizard, 5/23/2017 4:20:44 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Norqua? DanJones, 5/23/2017 3:25:22 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Good question! Kevin Mitchell, 5/23/2017 2:54:10 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Name? The press release states that "Sonus and GENBAND will combine under a newly formed holding company." What's the resulting company's name? Time for a new LR contest? suerudd, 1/27/2017 3:36:34 PM The New Strategy for Broadband Re: Full Report available here with Registration Multi-billion dollar market opportunities may be lost unless Next Generation Broadband meets Seven Key Challenges Snapshot Strategy Analytics lays out seven challenges that could be 'show stoppers' for the major markets... freehe, 12/30/2016 6:42:42 PM Light Reading Beyond Re: Light Reading Light Reading has great expertise and offers great expertise to the IT community. This is an awesome resource for novices, intermediates and experts. More Message Boards		Security Now Security Needs to Start Speaking the Language of Business Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At the Gartner Symposium/ITXPO, upcoming security trends for the next year ... (0) Privacy & AI Changing the Digital Transformation Game Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At Gartner's Symposium/ITXPO, analysts have come up with the term ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Coop Gives a Damn About Infrastructure Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/16/2018 Beaver Creek Cooperative Telephone Co. needs to replace its legacy system with a ... (0) AT&T Suffering Service Outage in Dallas-Ft. Worth Area Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Company says fire at facility caused by lightning strike is the culprit. Update: ... (5 comments) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase 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 Cisco's Yvette Kanouff: How We Get Real Results From ... 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 Prime Reading 10 SPIT Vendors to Watch in 2015 Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 12/29/2014 Virtualization has sparked renewed interest in the OSS and BSS sectors -- here ... (6 comments) Confessions of an Oracle Shopaholic: Pt II Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 8/19/2013 In the second part of his exclusive interview with Light Reading, Bhaskar Gorti, ... (3 comments) Confessions of an Oracle Shopaholic: Pt I Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 8/14/2013 The head of Oracle Communications, Bhaskar Gorti, has a shopping habit. In the ... (2 comments) All Prime Reading Newsfeed

Educational Resources

sponsor supplied content

Mobile Network Operator Use Case Handbook

Extended Application-Layer Visibility Across Multiple Mobile Network Peering Points

Build Consistent Security throughout NFV Evolution

Look What’s Riding your Network

Network Based Security for the IoT Value Chain

Educational Resources Archive

CxO Spotlight - Executive Interviews

Spirent CEO: Engineers Are Human, Too

Eric Hutchinson's goals as CEO of Spirent are nothing if not ambitious. He is seeking to not only move the long-time testing and assurance vendor into a new strategic ...

Post a Comment | Read (1 Comment)

Vodafone's Heeran: Defining the Telco Cloud

Virtualization is a term the telecom industry has wrestled with for the past six years, since network functions virtualization (NFV) became a "thing," but it's time ...

Post a Comment | Read (1 Comment)

MORE INTERVIEWS

Partner Perspectives - content from our sponsors

One Size Doesn't Fit All – Another Look at Automation for 5G
By Stawan Kadepurkar, Business Head & EVP, Hi-Tech, L&T Technology Services

Prepare Now for the 5G Monetization Opportunity
By Yathish Nagavalli, Chief Enterprise Architect, Huawei Software

Huawei Mobile Money: Improving Lives and Accelerating Economic Growth
By Ian Martin Ravenscroft, Vice President of BSS Solutions, Huawei

Dealer Agent Cloud – Empower Your Dealer & Agent to Excel
By Natalie Dorothy Scopelitis, Director of Digital Transformation, Huawei Software

China Unicom Henan's Smart TV: Bringing You the World on Demand
By Huawei

All Partner Perspectives

Featured Video

Flash Poll

All Polls

Upcoming Webinars

October 23, 2018
Your 5G Network needs 5G Transport

October 23, 2018
The Future Is Configurable: The Evolution of VNF Management

October 24, 2018
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with Three Intent-Driven Campus Networking Innovations

October 24, 2018
Tackling New Assurance, Test Challenges In 5G

October 25, 2018
Innovate With Usage Data – Evolve to a Monetization Broker Instead of Being Just a Network Pipe

October 25, 2018
Three UK & EXFO Talk About The Journey To Achieving Visibility Into Virtualized Networks

October 30, 2018
How Network Slicing, Microservices & Open Source Technologies Will Make 5G Services Profitable

November 1, 2018
Why IPTV and App-based TV Make Sense for Video Operators

November 8, 2018
The Next Frontier – From Communication Service Provider to Digital Service Provider

November 9, 2018
Managing Customer Portfolio Data with a New Type of Inventory

November 14, 2018
Cellular IoT: A Consensus Around Leadership Emerging

November 27, 2018
DAA - Headend Considerations Before the First Remote Unit is Turned Up

January 23, 2019
Crossing The R-PHY Finish Line – RPU Installation, Cutover and Ongoing Maintenance 

Webinar Archive

Upcoming Live Events

Virtualizing the Cable Architecture @ SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo

October 23, 2018, Georgia World Congress Centre, Atlanta, GA

Cable Next-Gen Europe

November 6, 2018, London, United Kingdom

Software Defined Operations & the Autonomous Network

November 7-8, 2018, London, United Kingdom

Global Telecoms Awards

November 8, 2018, The Montcalm by Marble Arch, London

The Future of Cable Business Services

November 15, 2018, The Westin Times Square, New York

2020 Vision Executive Summit

December 4-6, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

Cable Next Gen-Technologies & Strategies

March 12-14, 2019, Denver, Colorado

Telco Automation Everywhere

April 2, 2019, New York, New York

Automating Seamless Security in Enterprise & Carrier Networks

April 16, 2019, Chicago, Illinois

May 6-8, 2019, Denver, Colorado

All Upcoming Live Events

Slideshows

Microsoft Ignite Slideshow: Stay Away From the Agony Booth

Post a Comment | Read (0)

The Many Faces of Digital Transformation

Slideshow: Behind the Scenes at Sprint's 5G 'Split'

More Slideshows

Infographics

Huawei Wins World's First Tier IV-Ready Certification

After years of development, data center construction gradually goes standard and modular.

Post a Comment | Read (2 comments)

The Power of SmartNICs

A View of the Future Mobile Threat Landscape

Infographic Archive | Sponsored Infographic Archive

To save this item to your list of favorite Light Reading content so you can find it later in your Profile page, click the "Save It" button next to the item.

If you found this interesting or useful, please use the links to the services below to share it with other readers. You will need a free account with each service to share an item via that service.
Digg
Del.icio.us
Reddit
Tweet This
[close this box]