New on the site today are two especially interesting items. First, we have Lucent's CEO, Pat Russo, accepting the Leading Lights Award for Industry Statesman, Public Company, last week, as filmed by LRTV.
Second, we've got a poll that attempts to find out what incumbent telephone companies should do now that Google, Microsoft, eBay, and others are offering communications services.
Should they lower prices? Or just give up the ghost and focus on something else?
Take the poll, and find out what everyone else is thinking.
re: Lightie Highlights I thought you guys loved it! What about global carrier adoption of a mechanism for standardizing service delivery and billing of a service as ubiquitous as the internet offerings (i..e Skype) but with the legacy & mobile tie-ins. (Unless you are lumping that under GÇ£Combine with other telcos to control a bigger geographyGÇ¥)
Smart cities are taking shape in small ways, as the technology develops and makes its way to market. Orange Silicon Valley's Will Barkis discusses some of the newer tech he's seeing, where it might be used and privacy concerns that come up.
Ciena's latest acquisition is another piece of a larger back office puzzle for carriers, but the vendor said it's not aiming to become the new OSS stack.
States still have the option of enacting their own net neutrality regulations following today's DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the FCC rollback of net neutrality rules.
Ovum Chief Analyst Ed Barton talks to Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about the services and opportunities 5G unlocks for consumers – and what new capabilities are just around the corner.
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?
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