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News & Views Most Popular Eurobites: Nokia Touts Its Terabit in UAE By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/30/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UK government promises £5 billion for broadband and mobile rollout in the sticks; private equity firms vying for Vivacom; Telefónica agrees deal with Spanish labor unions. Post a Comment Eurobites: Ireland's Cubic Gets €23.5M Funding Boost By Iain Morris, International Editor, 7/19/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: CityFibre takes fiber gig into 14 more cities; Millicom boosted by M&A; Hungary kicks off 5G auction process; Qualcomm fined. Post a Comment D3.1 Finally (Really) Debuts Down Under By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/17/2019 Australian government-backed wholesale broadband provider concludes successful D3.1 field trial on a retail operator's HFC network in Victoria, achieving download speeds of nearly 1 Gig. Post a Comment Advertisement Shaw Bets on BlueCurve for Broadband By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/15/2019 As part of its broad product syndication deal with Comcast, big Canadian MSO is counting on new home WiFi app, DOCSIS 3.1 rollout and IPTV launch to trigger fresh subscriber and revenue growth. Post a Comment RJio May Make Stock Market Debut In 2020 – Reports By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 6/26/2019 India's fastest-growing operator is preparing for an IPO, according to press reports. Post a Comment Telecom Italia in Talks With Open Fiber to Create Broadband Giant By Iain Morris, International Editor, 6/21/2019 Italy's biggest phone company is in talks with a government-backed broadband venture about tie-up options including a possible merger. Post a Comment BoJo & Brexit Bother BT's Broadband Boss By Iain Morris, International Editor, 6/19/2019 UK plans to provide universal fiber coverage by 2025 would be challenging, says Clive Selley, not least because the Brexit decision has made recruitment a lot harder. Post a Comment Advertisement Brexit-Bound Britain's Broadband Blues By Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/18/2019 The UK will desperately need better connectivity once it is outside the European Union, say technology leaders. Getting there is another matter. Post a Comment Cable Techies Eye 25-Gig Path By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/6/2019 Even though cable's 10-Gig-enabling broadband spec, Full Duplex DOCSIS, hasn't hit the streets yet, some leading industry engineers are already laying the groundwork for a future DOCSIS spec that would support symmetrical speeds of up to 25 Gigs. Post a Comment Liberty Global Grapples With Revenue Slump By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 Even as it carries out its phased retreat from the European continent, Liberty Global is trying to stem video sub losses and spur fresh revenue growth with a slate of new product and service offerings. Post a Comment Google Fiber to Pay $3.84M to Clean Up Mess It Left in Louisville By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/16/2019 Google Fiber ceased service on Monday following decision to exit the market because of technical issues discovered with shallow trenching techniques it used there. Post a Comment Delivering Apple's Promise: A Premium Streaming Service By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 3/27/2019 The launch of Apple TV+ assumes great broadband service, and that buzz may help savvy service providers connect with new customers. Post a Comment Charter, US Ignite Spark Smart Cities Project By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/25/2019 Spectrum Enterprise unit and non-profit group team on exploration and rollout of apps and services that use mix of wired and wireless connectivity options underpinned by a data management platform. Post a Comment Podcast: Let's Not Talk About 5G at MWC19 By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 3/1/2019 The Light Reading podcast, in video form, from the InterDigital booth at MWC19 in Barcelona. Phil 'Captain Jetlag' Harvey and Ray Le Maistre discuss telco business models and how the industry is changing, even without ubiquitous 5G. Post a Comment Windstream Woes: Hedge Fund Prevails in Bond Fight By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 2/18/2019 Windstream may end up owing 310M to a hedge fund if a court ruling made on Friday is allowed to stand. That could force the company into bankruptcy. Post a Comment Google Fiber: A Timeline of the Good, the Bad & the Ugly By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/14/2019 Google's fiber initiative is almost exactly nine years old. Following its embarrassing setback in Louisville, here's a look back at Google Fiber's moments of hype, glory, achievement and disappointment. Post a Comment Sprint Gets Cozy With 5G Enterprise Testbeds By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 1/11/2019 Jan Geldmacher, president of Sprint Business, gets his customers ready for 5G applications with testbeds that help businesses put low-latency and high-bandwidth network applications to the test, giving them a leg up on IoT and other business deployments. Post a Comment Verizon Faces $6.7B in Q4 Charges on Oath Biz & Layoffs By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 12/11/2018 Verizon says charges on its Oath business and severance charges will be reported in Q4. Post a Comment ADVA Moves In on Small Cell Backhaul By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 12/5/2018 New tinier gateway is hardened for deployment on street furniture to provide backhaul for small cells, WiFi hotspots that will blossom with 5G densification, smart cities and more. Post a Comment BT Needs a Kick in the Ducts By Iain Morris, News Editor, 11/12/2018 The legal separation of BT and Openreach is a farce. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Stealth Offers Pop-Up Fiber Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Expands Gigabit Deployments Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Deploys Gigabit More Widely Wednesday, July 17, 2019 SCTE-ISBE, CABA to Partner on Smart Homes, Smart Cities Initiatives Wednesday, July 17, 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 Prime Reading Calix Gambles on a Software-Defined Reboot Carol Wilson , Editor-at-large , 6/28/2017 Having invested big bucks to become a software company, Calix seems poised for a ... (0) Don't Put a Cap on Capex Just Yet Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 9/15/2016 Vendor forecasts suggest capex spending in the telecom sector is still headed up, ... (4 comments) BT, Ofcom & the Battle of Britain Iain Morris , International Editor , 8/18/2016 The structural separation of BT would not have propelled the UK up international ... (2 comments) CityFibre Aims High in BT Battle Iain Morris , International Editor , 5/23/2016 CityFibre might be small but its efforts to create an infrastructure rival to BT ... 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