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News & Views Most Popular Vodafone Pooh-Poohs Ofcom's Dark Fiber Deal as 5G Looms By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/24/2019 With 5G around the corner, the UK mobile operator has complained about the latest regulatory effort to improve access to the Openreach network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Terabyte Broadband Homes Continue to Climb By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 OpenVault report finds that consumers in that 'power user' group doubled in Q1 2019, a growth rate that could cause some cable operators and other ISPs to consider upping their monthly data ceilings. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Optical's Shifting Sands By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/21/2019 The global optical networking market has been worth in the region of $15 billion for the past year, but while that number has varied only slightly year to year, what has changed is the nature of the investments and who's splashing the cash. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Sprint Goes Loco for 'Low Code' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/21/2019 Sprint is using a 'low code' development platform to streamline business processes, including getting wireline customers online faster. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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 \| Read (0) BT's Workforce: It's Not Shrinking as Fast as You Might Think By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/10/2019 The UK incumbent remains one of Europe's most bloated telecom operators, and that is unlikely to change under current cost-cutting plans. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How BT Is Applying AI to Support Its Programmable Network By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 5/10/2019 AI and machine learning are already key components in the closed-loop control of BT's programmable network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Eurobites: Orange Buys SecureLink for €515M By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/8/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: US consortium lands Ireland's National Broadband Plan gig; Telefónica sells 11 data centers; UK broadband speeds creep up. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019: The Winners By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/6/2019 Find out which companies have taken home the 2019 Leading Lights Awards trophies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) DOCSIS 3.1 Still Rules the Cable Roost By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 5/6/2019 In our latest poll about cable's next-gen options, DOCSIS 3.1 barely nudged out DAA and FTTH as the industry's biggest tech priority for 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: wilfredbarry Have you compared your findings with the performance of Adara's SDN offered... Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Company of the Year (Public) By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/6/2019 Four companies have made the 2019 shortlist for this coveted award. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/5/2019 Six companies – Anritsu, Infovista, Kentik, Netrounds, Spirent and Viavi Solutions – made the cut in the Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor category. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Three's Broadband 'Toy' Gets Set for 5G Push By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/3/2019 A tiny broadband business that Three bought in 2017 is set to play a big part in the UK operator's 5G plans. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter Exploring 'Dual SIM' Technology By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/30/2019 Charter, which added 176,000 mobile lines in Q1, is testing dual SIM capabilities, but deployments are not expected in 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Security Strategy By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 4/28/2019 Fortinet, ZTE, CUJO AI and Colt all had standout entries for most innovative security strategy in this year's Leading Lights contest. Post a Comment \| Read (0) FCC Commissioners Waver Over C-Band Details for 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 4/26/2019 Two of the FCC's five commissioners don't quite see eye-to-eye on exactly how to shift C-Band spectrum from the satellite industry to the 5G sector. Billions of dollars are at stake. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Suffers 5G Blues in Q1, Stock Slumps By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/25/2019 When the CEO and CFO say the quarter was 'weak,' you know it was bad: investors agreed. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Swisscom & Ericsson Flip the 5G Switch By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/17/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone ad bends the giga-truth; Nokia and Nordic Telecom get mission-critical with LTE; Orange teams up on cyberdefense; Amazon hits trouble in Italy. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Who Else Should Be in the Light Reading Hall of Fame? By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 4/16/2019 Know your role. Take our poll. Help our editors finish arguing which set of executives, inventors and luminaries will be among this year's inductees into the Light Reading Hall of Fame. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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 \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Sr.Embed22197 WWP, and later Ciena, had the original contract for Triple Play Services in... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards mdrejhon, 5/22/2019 5:15:22 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News I am in Canada too and I use a 1TB consumer dropbox account to sync my entire computer (My Documents, Photos, Videos, etc) while also being able to remotely access it on other devices. It conveniently doubles... MikeP688, 5/18/2019 3:39:48 PM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... Thanks for the thought--what is interesting iw how Verizon has now pretty much "zero'd out" this play--hasn't it? Cheers... jonsnow1221, 5/18/2019 12:37:53 AM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... By the post, we get to know how the Verizon is doing many changes in the field of technology and the thing is that I have also tried the application related to the 5g services. Epson error code e-01 wilfredbarry, 5/6/2019 10:58:28 AM DOCSIS 3.1 Still Rules the Cable Roost Re: Data transmission speed Have you compared your findings with the performance of Adara's SDN offered on AWS? DaisyLucas, 4/18/2019 11:16:40 AM Light Reading’s Big Communications Event Returns in 2019 as Big 5G Event Re: Best Shows Big 5G Event is a combination of Light Reading's annual flagship Big Communications Event and KNect365's annual 5G North America event. Cool event, right after this event, I plan to visit the best vegas shows and I want... Sr.Embed22197, 4/16/2019 1:34:10 PM Google Fiber to Pay $3.84M to Clean Up Mess It Left in Louisville Re: Louisville right back to 2008 again WWP, and later Ciena, had the original contract for Triple Play Services in Louisville, I worked on the gear we were selling to them when we were WWP. Ciena focused on AT&T, I just started hearing less and less about... brooks7, 4/8/2019 10:32:18 AM Verizon, Calix Roll Out Commercial NG-PON 2 Re: Re: Tampa? That is not NG-PON2. It is either BPON or GPON. seven optical Mike, 4/7/2019 11:39:28 AM Verizon, Calix Roll Out Commercial NG-PON 2 Re: Re: Tampa? Interesting they did same here in the Dallas area, I initially had VZ install the ONT and provide service and a couple of years later Frontier took over pretty much seamlessly. I was just excited to get fiber to the home... Davidgille, 4/5/2019 2:12:32 AM Eurobites: ARM Eyes $600M Data Analytics Deal – Report Re: report on Eurobites The post offers a report on Eurobites: ARM Eyes $600M Data Analytics Deal. It says that in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom starts next stage of "super vectoring" squash; BT gives a boost to cyber security... mahjbeen, 4/4/2019 7:48:03 PM The Cable DAA Vendor Race Begins Re: best latex mattress This is the thing that makes the best latex bedding such a joy to rest on. Manufactured mixes will give you a decent sleeping cushion at a to some degree better cost. best latex mattress ... Phil Harvey, 3/27/2019 10:59:10 AM Delivering Apple's Promise: A Premium Streaming Service Re: Re: quid pro quo re: Comcast -- could be. I'd be surprised if Apple hasn't had some kind of exploratory talks with AT&T, Comcast and the other top five broadband providers. For smaller ISPs, I can see the Apple TV, with the new streaming... Jeff Baumgartner, 3/27/2019 8:57:21 AM Delivering Apple's Promise: A Premium Streaming Service Re: quid pro quo It's been interesting to see Apple start to embrace other streaming platforms (Fire TV, Roku some smart TVs) for the TV app and this coming, new premium streaming service. It's clearly an admission that Apple believes it'll... brooks7, 3/25/2019 11:51:23 AM Ready Player Stadia: Google's Gaming Platform a Scary Prospect for Telcos Re: Re: Stadia Impact @Duh!, As kids move to watching their own streams on their phones, why will people invest in technologies that only work on very large screens? Can you imagine a home say 10 years from now that has no TV and no phone... Duh!, 3/25/2019 10:40:35 AM Ready Player Stadia: Google's Gaming Platform a Scary Prospect for Telcos Re: Re: Stadia Impact "I think that 4K and 8K video are DOA, so I don't think this is as big a deal as others. As we head to personal streaming services, I think screen sizes are going to shrink and we may see the end of the central TV... Gabriel Brown, 3/25/2019 7:27:26 AM Ready Player Stadia: Google's Gaming Platform a Scary Prospect for Telcos Re: Re: Stadia Impact Some good points seven. I don't game much, but look over my kids' shoulders now and again Is it the case that multi-platform games are finally starting to take hold? Is there any chance that this can break the power of... More Message Boards		Security Now Zscaler Finds Security Issues Galore in IoT Traffic Larry Loeb, Author, 5/24/2019 The use of plain-text HTTP communication, outdated libraries and weak default ... (0) Strategic Security Equals Faster Digital Transformation Larry Loeb, Author, 5/23/2019 Survey finds that respondents who adopted a more traditional or reactive approach ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News DT's Fiber Invasion, One Partner at a Time Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/24/2019 Deutsche Telekom just signed an infrastructure project with the Gigabit Region ... (0) BBWN Bites: The Law & Order Episode Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/24/2019 Trump's 'calm' walkout – a.k.a. 'tantrum' – will impact investment in ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... 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 ... 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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 DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/13/2018 Deutsche Telekom's once-ballyhooed Terastream initiative, which turned seven this ... (3 comments) Leading Lights 2018: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/11/2018 Light Reading is thrilled to announce the finalists for this year's Leading ... (0) Light Reading's 2017 Survey of Women in Comms Sarah Thomas , Director, Women in Comms , 9/18/2017 The results are in from Light Reading's first-of-its-kind survey, taking the ... (1 Comment) Europe's Backhaul Black Hole Looms Above 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/18/2017 The poor availability of fiber for mobile backhaul spells trouble for some of ... 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