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News & Views Most Popular India's RJio Is Still Adding 10M Customers a Month By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/21/2019 The Indian operator continues to record dramatic increases in subscriber numbers, but customers are spending less. Post a Comment Netflix Pushes Past 158.3M Global Streaming Subs as New OTT Rivals Emerge By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2019 Netflix's Q3 numbers were in-line, but OTT video giant warns of 'some modest headwind' to near-term growth as a batch of new, major streaming services such as Disney+ and Apple TV+ near launch. Post a Comment Chill Out! Netflix Is Fine, Analyst Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 Concerns about new direct-to-consumer competition alongside pressure on Netflix's pricing power is misunderstood or overblown, contends LightShed Partners analyst Richard Greenfield. Post a Comment Advertisement India Opens 5G Door to Huawei at IMC By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/14/2019 Authorities have allowed the controversial Chinese vendor to participate in demos at an industry event, suggesting it may be allowed into the country's 5G market. Post a Comment For Trump's Attack Dogs, There's No Stopping Huawei By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/4/2019 Most governments and operators have shown little inclination to heed US warnings about the consequences of using Chinese suppliers. Post a Comment Facebook's TIP Is Desperate to Add Friends By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/3/2019 Three and a half years after its birth, the Telecom Infra Project is trying to be more collaborative than confrontational. Post a Comment Indian Telcos Want 5G Auction Postponed By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 9/27/2019 India's debt-burdened operators are lobbying hard against plans for a 5G auction before the end of the year. Post a Comment Advertisement Airtel Plans NB-IoT Network in India By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 9/24/2019 Airtel will follow rival Reliance Jio into the NB-IoT game. Post a Comment RJio Set to Disrupt India's Wired Broadband Market By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 9/6/2019 The operator that wreaked havoc in India's mobile market has now launched its fixed-line broadband service. Post a Comment Even AT&T Can't Fly Solo to the Cloud By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/6/2019 This week's Tech Mahindra partnership shows that even a Tier 1 behemoth like AT&T needs help moving to the cloud. Post a Comment AT&T Hires Tech Mahindra for Cloud Move By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/6/2019 Tech Mahindra will help AT&T migrate its back office applications to the cloud, building a business foundation for 5G. Post a Comment Fresh Trouble for Huawei in India By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 8/23/2019 A right-wing organization wants India's government to ban Huawei and promote indigenous firms. Post a Comment Guavus Takes Jio's Big Data Challenge By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 8/22/2019 Jio's competitive market, fast growth and expanding customer base present some interesting machine learning and analytics challenges for Guavus, its newly announced analytics partner. Post a Comment Vodafone Idea Swaps CEO Amid Reports of 'Turf War' By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/20/2019 Indian operator speedily finds a replacement for Balesh Sharma, who has presided over a massive fall in the company's share price and the loss of millions of subscribers. Post a Comment Reliance Jio Plans Major NB-IoT Launch in India in Jan. 2020 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/15/2019 The operator plans to have at least a billion IoT devices operating on the network within 2 years. Post a Comment RJio Vs Vodafone Idea: Who Will Rule India? By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 8/13/2019 RJio has overtaken Bharti Airtel to become India's second-largest operator. Can it challenge Vodafone Idea for the top spot? Post a Comment Reliance Jio & Microsoft Launch 'Comprehensive' 10-Year Cloud Team-Up By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/13/2019 The telco giant and Microsoft are joining forces to bring cloud services to India, and Reliance Jio will also build data centers for Microsoft on that subcontinent. Post a Comment Tough Times: SingTel, China Mobile, HKT Issue Weak Results By Robert Clark, 8/8/2019 Some of Asia's biggest telcos have had a difficult start to 2019. Post a Comment After Towers Sale, RJio Looks to Fiber Spinoff By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 8/7/2019 India's youngest service provider is turning itself into a more asset-light company. Post a Comment Ciena Hopes to Accelerate Growth Under New Leadership in India By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 7/24/2019 The optical equipment maker has a new Indian boss with an eye on growth opportunities. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Netflix Pushes Past 158.3M Global Streaming Subs as New OTT Rivals Emerge By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2019 Netflix's Q3 numbers were in-line, but OTT video giant warns of 'some modest headwind' to near-term growth as a batch of new, major streaming services such as Disney+ and Apple TV+ near launch. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Cujo AI Passes 500M Monitored, Protected Devices Tuesday, October 8, 2019 ZEE5 Chooses Kaltura TV Platform Player Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Motion Picture Association Goes Global Wednesday, September 18, 2019 NOS Teams With Tata Elxsi on RDK-B DOCSIS 3.1 Router Monday, September 16, 2019 Dish TV India, Broadpeak Connect on Mobile Video Service Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Reliance Jio & Microsoft Team Up on Cloud Monday, August 12, 2019 Tejas Boosts US Team With Hire From Infinera Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Yvette Kanouff Joins JC2 Ventures Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Tomia Intros Cloud-Based Blockchain Settlement Platform Monday, June 24, 2019 Smartphone Display Shipments Slow Amid US-China Trade Friction Monday, June 24, 2019 Retooled Apple TV App Debuts in 100+ Countries Monday, May 13, 2019 India's Vodafone Idea Taps Ericsson for Cloud Packet Core Friday, May 3, 2019 India's Vodafone Idea Inks 5-Year IBM Cloud Contract Friday, May 3, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Cylance Discovers WAV Files Can Hide Malware Larry Loeb, Author, 10/21/2019 BlackBerry Cylance threat researchers Anuj Soni, Jordan Barth and Brian Marks ... 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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 Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia Are Facing an 'Oil Crisis' Upheaval Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/31/2019 Years of consolidation have left the global mobile network market largely in the ... (10 comments) Piecing Together the 5G Big Picture Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 9/10/2018 For network operators, the evolution to a 5G architecture requires a strategy ... (4 comments) NFV Is Down but Not Out Iain Morris , International Editor , 5/22/2018 NFV has failed to live up to the original expectations five years after it was ... (33 comments) Robot Wars: Telecom's Looming AI Tussle Iain Morris , International Editor , 3/14/2018 Telcos performing routine chores will be ripe for AI-based automation. 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10/16/2019

Juniper CTO Talks About the Company's 5G Aspirations

When Bikash Koley jumped ship from Google to become the CTO of Juniper Networks in mid-2017, it was considered quite a win for the networking firm. Koley, who had ...