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News & Views Most Popular Eurobites: Kirkby Signs Off on a High at Tele2 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/18/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Com Hem socked by Boxer under-performance; Samsung buys Spanish AI startup; KPN invests in CUJO; Colt tunes in to blockchain for LSO Sonata. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ericsson Corruption Scandal Sullies Strong Q3 By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/18/2018 Revelations about a corruption scandal that could land Ericsson with a hefty fine overshadowed the Swedish vendor's return to quarterly net profits for the first time since 2016. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Terragraph: A WiMax in Facebook Clothing? By Iain Morris, News Editor, 10/18/2018 Facebook's Terragraph technology may have a hard time against 5G in the markets it hopes to address. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown Way to go in hard Iain. But a fair question and useful analysis. Thinking... Advertisement AirTies Hikes Hardware-Agnostic Path as Whole-Home WiFi Takes Off By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2018 Hooks WiFi mesh software into cable-backed RDK-B open source software stack for gateways and extenders, claims tier-1 operator has given the greenlight. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Telecom Italia Building vRAN Tech, but Not With Ericsson By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/17/2018 Italian incumbent looks outside the traditional vendor community to solve its latest mobile network challenge. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: iainmorris Telecom Italia contacted Light Reading following the publication of this story... Ericsson Weighs ORAN Alliance Membership By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/17/2018 Swedish vendor confirms involvement with group that wants to end the dominance of the incumbent equipment suppliers in the radio access network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Netflix Tops 130M Paid Subscribers Worldwide By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 Internet video provider Netflix is still having troubles forecasting its subscriber growth, but the company doesn't seem to have problems attracting new customers as it adds more exclusive programming and benefits from increased traction outside the US. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Eurobites: Orange Targets Enterprise With LoRa-Based IoT Offering By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/16/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ARM and Intel kiss and make up; Nokia adds new chipsets to FTTX offerings; Saudi consulate outrage hits SoftBank. Post a Comment \| Read (0) TIP Forms New Edge Computing Unit By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/16/2018 Deutsche Telekom, Intel and MobiledgeX to lead a new Telecom Infra Project (TIP) group focused on APIs that will enable developers to write apps able to run on edge computing resources. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] There needs to be some hard and fast proof (for everyone) that this is going... Has TIP Made Networks Sexy to VCs? By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2018 Two and a half years into its mission, the Facebook-led TIP claims to have made networks exciting for the first time in 20 years. But as it enters the procurement phase, its task may get even harder. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: mvissers "With old-time telecom standards, we have a two-year discussion on use cases... TIP, ORAN Alliance Poised to Join Forces on Open RAN By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2018 Two of the leading industry groups trying to break the stranglehold of big vendors on the radio access network look set to combine their efforts. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/16/2018 There's friction and a fair amount of hot air in the open source NFV MANO world and it's not doing anyone any favors. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: vances History tells us victory goes to the popular choice. Linux was a technically... Why Vodafone Is Betting on Cloud Video By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Major European provider will lay out the strategy behind its new Vodafone TV streaming service at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in London next month. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Telco Big Guns Gather to Train Fire on EU Policymakers By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/15/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: KPN braces for cuts; eSIM pioneer raises £18 million; Eleven Sports challenges UK soccer taboo. Post a Comment \| Read (0) VNFs: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/15/2018 Just like banks, some virtual network functions have become 'too big to fail,' says an executive at Deutsche Telekom's pan-net subsidiary, casting a shadow over efforts to cloudify the telco network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Is Open Source the Right Approach for NFV Orchestration? By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/15/2018 Open source MANO (management and orchestration) developments are providing network operators with something of a conundrum. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Colt Ready for Major NFV Push By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/12/2018 After years of developments and incremental advances, Colt is set for a major three-stage telco cloud deployment that will be a big step in its migration from a legacy hardware architecture to virtualized functions. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Where's Cable Going With Cloud? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/12/2018 In a special, free SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo breakfast roundtable session on Tuesday, October 23, we'll look at where cable stands in its cloud journey. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Orange Goes Subsea With Google By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/12/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom in augmented reality deal; Zayo expands in Europe; Dialog workers transfer to Apple. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Deutsche Telekom Targets 99% 5G Coverage in Germany by 2025 By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/12/2018 Deutsche Telekom becomes the first European operator to make a firm 5G coverage commitment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/16/2018 There's friction and a fair amount of hot air in the open source NFV MANO world and it's not doing anyone any favors. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: vances History tells us victory goes to the popular choice. Linux was a technically... Has TIP Made Networks Sexy to VCs? By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2018 Two and a half years into its mission, the Facebook-led TIP claims to have made networks exciting for the first time in 20 years. But as it enters the procurement phase, its task may get even harder. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: mvissers "With old-time telecom standards, we have a two-year discussion on use cases... TIP Forms New Edge Computing Unit By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/16/2018 Deutsche Telekom, Intel and MobiledgeX to lead a new Telecom Infra Project (TIP) group focused on APIs that will enable developers to write apps able to run on edge computing resources. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] There needs to be some hard and fast proof (for everyone) that this is going... Telecom Italia Building vRAN Tech, but Not With Ericsson By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/17/2018 Italian incumbent looks outside the traditional vendor community to solve its latest mobile network challenge. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: iainmorris Telecom Italia contacted Light Reading following the publication of this story... Terragraph: A WiMax in Facebook Clothing? By Iain Morris, News Editor, 10/18/2018 Facebook's Terragraph technology may have a hard time against 5G in the markets it hopes to address. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown Way to go in hard Iain. But a fair question and useful analysis. Thinking... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards iainmorris, 10/18/2018 7:15:21 AM Telecom Italia Building vRAN Tech, but Not With Ericsson Re: Telecom Italia feedback Telecom Italia contacted Light Reading following the publication of this story with the following comment: "With reference to the article 'Telecom Italia Building vRAN Tech, but Not With Ericsson' TIM denies it has 'turned... vances, 10/18/2018 5:08:03 AM Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check Re: Mindshare History tells us victory goes to the popular choice. Linux was a technically poor and incomplete alternative to BSD but that only lasted as long as they enjoyed a lead in the amount of development tme devoted to the project.... Gabriel Brown, 10/18/2018 4:38:04 AM Terragraph: A WiMax in Facebook Clothing? Re: Terragraph & Facebook Way to go in hard Iain. But a fair question and useful analysis. Thinking about Facebook's target of extending broadband to lower income communities, the price of Terragraph nodes is obviously critical. The hope is... PaulChau, 10/18/2018 3:48:19 AM South Korea's 5G Auction Raises $3.3B Re: Re: edu Companies are always finding ways to win favors of their consumers. They need to ensure that their target audience will constantly be rising. Business will only be deemed as feasible if there is obvious response regardless... [email protected], 10/18/2018 2:27:19 AM Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check Re: good stuff well this was something necessary and i am now hopefull a lot for the betterment. Businesses should open some of their techniques for the betterment of the people. They should prvoide something. Business can proper with... RituGupta, 10/17/2018 9:39:17 PM 5G Transport – Where Do We Start? Re: Re: Regional Differences in 5G technology, I really think that things are getting a little bit out of hand. I mean, I can understand that it's important to work on what infrastructure we have if we want to be competitive, and the more efficient... [email protected], 10/17/2018 12:10:50 PM TIP Forms New Edge Computing Unit Re: Re: Good Questions There needs to be some hard and fast proof (for everyone) that this is going to solve something that no one else is working on and that open source is the best way to do it. miha123, 10/17/2018 9:01:47 AM TIP Forms New Edge Computing Unit Re: Good Questions "But does the industry need another open source group? " Gabriel Brown, 10/17/2018 5:46:04 AM Telecom Italia Building vRAN Tech, but Not With Ericsson Re: A different interpretation of vRAN Having seen (I think) the same session at the TIP event in London yesterday, I interpreted this a little differently. My take is that it is striking that when it came to actually deploying a city-wide network in an... alexblogsite, 10/17/2018 12:00:14 AM Italy Wraps Up Sale of 700MHz Spectrum for 5G, Raises €2B Re: Re: auction of different spectrum It seems sensible to have a great big auction of a bunch of different spectrum, given the imminence of 5G in the wild. Iliad has been guaranteed a nice lot of 700 MHz, which will help a lot with coverage, but it might want... mvissers, 10/16/2018 7:14:35 PM Has TIP Made Networks Sexy to VCs? Re: Open Optical Network "With old-time telecom standards, we have a two-year discussion on use cases and then discussions start about what should be in the standard and then a couple of years later you have the first cut" These times should soon... iainmorris, 10/16/2018 4:46:21 PM Has TIP Made Networks Sexy to VCs? Re: Cisco in The original version of this story mistakenly said Cisco was not a member of TIP. This has now been corrected. Apologies for the error. AHavang, 10/16/2018 9:23:59 AM Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check Re: A Vendor View Ray, Couple of thoughts. As a VNF vendor, we have to support all cloud platforms and all MANOs that customers support, unless we want to be excluded from their business. That is, a vendor can't rely on one single MANO... sj0350, 10/12/2018 12:32:35 PM NFV Struggles With Its Six-Year Itch Re: Re: What'sworng with Slough? Trough is pronounced "troff". Slough (the town) is pronounced "SlOW", the OW sound rhyming with "cow". Slough as a place of trouble ("the slough of despond") is pronounced like the town Slough in UK English. ... darknight, 10/11/2018 11:27:30 AM Where Is the Elon Musk of Telecom? Re: Telecom's Elon Musk A Canadian.....Samer Bishay, Iristel, Ice Wireless, LEO satellites, pilot, entreprenuer, rides a Harley. 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