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News & Views Most Popular Key Takeaways From the UK Network Operators' Forum By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 1/16/2019 IPV6, security, DNS evolution and automation were all on the agenda at the UK Network Operators' Forum gathering in London. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia to Slash 350 Finnish Jobs in Savings Drive By Iain Morris, International Editor, 1/15/2019 Latest cuts form part of the Finnish vendor's plan to reduce annual operating costs by €700 million in the next two years. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: UKCloud Seeks to Make Hay From Post-Brexit Mayhem By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/15/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia's Nuage Networks powers sports data analysis; BT Global Services turns to SevOne; Helios enters South African market. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement The Leading Lights Awards Are Back! By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 1/11/2019 Yes, it's that time of the year again already, folks! Get cracking on your submission for Light Reading's annual awards before you catch MWC fever – there's a category (or three) for everyone! Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Proximus Slims Down for Its Svelte Digital Future By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/10/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Colt targets the enterprise; Deutsche Telekom trials NB-IoT in apartment blocks; changes at the top of Eurofiber; Telenor settles Thai trouble. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 1/10/2019 CenturyLink's President and CEO Jeff Storey, in a meeting with investors this week, said his company's December 2018 network event was minimized, in part, because of the carrier's network architecture and how it integrates acquisitions. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris Well, call it what you like, but anytime there's equipment that fails in Denver... Masergy CEO: How We'll Get to $1BN By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 1/8/2019 James Parker steps in with a mandate to triple the company's managed services revenue, even as competition in the space grows. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Mikesgv I've been following Masergy for years and they are doing some great work within... Advertisement Eurobites: Pressure Grows on German Govt to Sell Stake in Deutsche Telekom By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/3/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Apple downgrade causes ripples in Europe; Accedo raises another $17 million; DZS completes Keymile buy. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Christmas Hangover By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 1/2/2019 A 'bonkers' network management card had too much eggnog and caused a wave of service outages, including 9-1-1 service, in several states for several days during the last week of 2018. Post a Comment \| Read (19 comments) Latest Comment: f_goldstein Like many bugs in complex software, it is hard to test for and you don't know... Eurobites: Nokia Appoints New Fixed Networks Supremo By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/2/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia completes sale of IP video unit; merger of T-Mobile and Tele2 in the Netherlands signed and sealed; Sigfox helps save the rhino. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Light Reading's 41 Most Popular Stories in 2018 By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 12/31/2018 Everything from enterprise strategies to 5G devices caught our audiences' attention during 2018. At a time when so many changes are bearing down on the telecom world, it's clear that a lot of us still have our heads in the cloud. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Huawei Expects 2018 Revenues of $108.5B By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/27/2018 In its annual message to the industry, a defiant Huawei boasts of an annual sales increase of 21%. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Analyst Upgrades Ericsson as Huawei Backlash Intensifies By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/20/2018 In today's regional roundup: Huawei's troubles could be good news for Ericsson; Enea lines up another acquisition; Orange Business Services lands smart meter IoT deal; Ciena heads to the UK countryside; and more Ericsson. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Duh! All of Huawei's major western competitors stand to benefit from Huawei and... Podcast: Ciena CEO Gary Smith Plans for More Growth By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 12/19/2018 With its competitors stumbling, its largest customers remaining stable and its markets outside of telecom growing, Ciena is enjoying relatively smooth sailing in CEO Smith's 17th year at the helm. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cisco Sees Optics Innovation, Manufacturing Automation in Luxtera By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 12/18/2018 Why spend more than $600M on a company that makes optical transceivers? It wasn't just one product, but an entire automated manufacturing process that may help Cisco stay ahead of future bandwidth bottlenecks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: CityFibre Secures £1.12B for Fiber Rollout By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/18/2018 In today's regional EMEA roundup: CityFibre celebrates fiber funds; BT revamps its CEO bonus assessment scheme; ETSI launches a blockchain group; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] there's always one that sl;ips through the net.... Happy Crimbo!! Huawei's Hu Hits Back By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/18/2018 Vendor is on the counter-offensive, claiming strong 5G momentum, a clean security record and expected milestone revenues. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Infinera Restructures as It Absorbs Coriant By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 12/14/2018 The optical networking vendor said in a filing with the SEC that it will take a charge against earnings related to severance and other related costs. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Duh! I stand corrected. Credit for that observation should go to Scott Wilkinson... Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Joins Caravan of Concern Over Huawei By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/14/2018 In the spirit of German Christmas markets, where supersized hot dogs are sold from souped-up garden sheds in snow-starved town squares across Europe, today's Eurobites is mainly about Deutsche Telekom. Oh, and there's a bit about UK broadband. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ciena Signals Steady Growth & Smooth Sailing Ahead By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 12/13/2018 The optical networking specialist is benefiting from 5G buildouts and webscale traffic monsters, and doing what it can to avoid sitting on a lead. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 1/10/2019 CenturyLink's President and CEO Jeff Storey, in a meeting with investors this week, said his company's December 2018 network event was minimized, in part, because of the carrier's network architecture and how it integrates acquisitions. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris Well, call it what you like, but anytime there's equipment that fails in Denver... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Mikesgv, 1/10/2019 6:26:32 PM Masergy CEO: How We'll Get to $1BN Re: Interesting article! I've been following Masergy for years and they are doing some great work within the space of Hybrid Networking and Enterprise Security. Wish James and the rest of the team the best of luck, getting to $1B will... Clifton K Morris, 1/10/2019 5:31:04 PM CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger Re: Re: Is the issue based on unregulated “information service” delivering a regulated service? Well, call it what you like, but anytime there's equipment that fails in Denver Colorado, it should probably not interfere with emergency services in Boston Massachusetts... that's not the right kind of redundancy. Still,... brooks7, 1/10/2019 5:10:33 PM CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger Re: Re: Is the issue based on unregulated “information service” delivering a regulated service? I had an off-forum conversation with Duh! about a network that I was in recently that had gear in it that was EOL before Cisco was formed. That was I was musing about in the other thread. In this case, I was... Clifton K Morris, 1/10/2019 4:07:42 PM CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger Re: Re: Is the issue based on unregulated “information service” delivering a regulated service? Well, one would think so. However, this isn't the first time I read about a line card going bad. Another issue, is that many manufacturers thought lasers and LED diodes won't dim after thousands of hours of use; and they... brooks7, 1/10/2019 2:40:57 PM CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger Re: Re: Is the issue based on unregulated “information service” delivering a regulated service? Theoretically, there is greater redundancy in the ip network than in the voice network. seven Clifton K Morris, 1/10/2019 2:00:04 PM CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger Re: Is the issue based on unregulated “information service” delivering a regulated service? This is one of those reasons why voice services for 9-1-1 are generally provided on dedicated, redundant circuits. When a "information services" provider such as Level(3) or CL translates those calls to VoIP or data service,... Duh!, 1/10/2019 1:36:07 PM CenturyLink CEO: Outage Could Have Been Bigger Re: More clarity The story changed subtly since the day after the event. Now the misfunction was in one of the vendor's cards, not in a third-party's. That plus some additional bits gives credence to Fred Goldstein's theory that it was a... xmlzeo, 1/7/2019 10:31:09 AM Wireless Prices Under Pressure Re: Bluetooth Personal Area Networks A personal location network, or PAN, is a collection of interaction technology devices like cordless phones within the series of someone. When interaction in between these devices is wireless, the acronym ends up being WPAN,... f_goldstein, 1/4/2019 9:28:43 AM Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Post-Christmas Hangover Re: Re: Reminiscent of TARP storms of old Like many bugs in complex software, it is hard to test for and you don't know it's there until it's too late. Especially when it's triggered by a hardware failure. There's a hardware failure mode in some routers wherein... Sterling Perrin, 1/4/2019 8:49:30 AM Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Post-Christmas Hangover Re: Re: Reminiscent of TARP storms of old f_goldstein, Your explanation seems the most reasonable of the ones I've seen so far - i.e., the explanation does fit the cryptic CTL commentary. IF this is the explanation, one thing that puzzles me is that GMPLS is well-entrenched... Phil Harvey, 1/3/2019 6:48:34 PM Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Post-Christmas Hangover Re: Re: Reminiscent of TARP storms of old CTL said it "can't confirm its authenticity and don't have any additional information to share." Which is not the same as, that's a fake, we didn't write it. Phil Harvey, 1/3/2019 6:02:55 PM Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Post-Christmas Hangover Re: Re: Reminiscent of TARP storms of old I'll have to ask CTL but it has some of the exact phrases that they sent me in their email replies to my questions. f_goldstein, 1/3/2019 5:59:09 PM Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Post-Christmas Hangover Re: Re: Reminiscent of TARP storms of old GMPLS comes to mind, because they were losing optical streams, and that's the usual approach to treating optical streams like BESQR cat videos. I am guessing that "third party" simply means the hardware vendor, not a real... Phil Harvey, 1/3/2019 5:40:04 PM Why CenturyLink's Network Suffered a Post-Christmas Hangover Re: Re: Reminiscent of TARP storms of old And, if so, do you interpret CTL's statement of "third-party network management card" as someone who built a protocol stack for the systems vendor? 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