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News & Views Most Popular 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 Eurobites: Telia & Nokia Launch 5G FWA in Finland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nuage Networks finds SD-WAN love in Bahrain; Vodafone closes stores, but not in the UK; MegaFon sets up e-commerce JV with Alibaba and friends. Post a Comment Advertisement Eurobites: Openreach Trials New Approaches to FTTP By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UAE's du happy with Huawei; Vodafone trials OpenRAN in the UK; Ericsson upgrades in Madagascar. 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 Eurobites: Ericsson's Latest Smart Factory Nears Completion By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/1/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Colt hires new marketing boss; ADVA trumpets its eco-commitments; Zain Jordan upgrades its billing systems. Post a Comment Why AT&T's Latest Open Source Contribution Matters By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/30/2019 AT&T has shared its distributed router specifications with the Open Compute Project and a leading disruptive data networking startup is flagging its support for the model. Post a Comment Advertisement 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 Ericsson Expects $1B US Fine for Corruption, Warns Non-US Investigations May Follow By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/26/2019 The Swedish vendor could suffer reputational damage in connection with a global corruption scandal. Post a Comment Eurobites: ADVA Joins the Dots on Optical Transceivers By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/24/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Cellcom Israel plans job cuts; Orange builds cloud for Chinese consumer goods company; CityFibre on target in Stirling. Post a Comment Eurobites: Is the UK Heading for a Big Copper Switch-Off? By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/19/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom takes back control of enterprise telecom from T-Systems; ADVA lands Kuwaiti gig; TalkTalk cleans up its act; coffee gets connected. Post a Comment Eurobites: Dennelind Lands CEO Role at Du By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: It's crunch time for Apple versus the EU; Infinera deployed for Greece-Italy link; TIM gets new multimedia boss; why Netflix should be worried. Post a Comment Add Sub-Prime 5G to the UK's Broadband Woes By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/13/2019 A new ranking of maximum 5G speeds puts the UK right at the bottom, a familiar position for the Brexit-bound nation. Post a Comment Apple TV+ to Debut November 1, Fetch $4.99 Per Month By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/10/2019 Apple to offer a free year of the new subscription VoD service with purchase of any new iPhone, Mac or Apple TV. Post a Comment Eurobites: Vodafone UK Challenges Ofcom Over Openreach Ruling By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/30/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson invests in Polish plant; Sparkle launches Italy-UAE roaming link; Telia takes on the Baltic's poisonous algae. Post a Comment ZTE H1 Profits Up, but Sales Stuck in a Rut By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 8/27/2019 As it focuses more on developing its own components, cost-cutting is helping ZTE report improving profits but its revenues are not as impressive. Post a Comment Eurobites: Nokia Hires Ericsson Insider By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 8/22/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson tweaks top table; silly job titles just got sillier; Drei Austria schutz the Internet. Post a Comment Eurobites: Brits Head Online for TV Fix By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Magyar Telekom names new CTIO; Turkcell hits more than 2 Gbit/s in 5G speed test; Ericsson reaches 24 live 5G networks; mobile money in South Sudan. Post a Comment Eurobites: GSMA Blasts Space Industry for Hogging 5G Spectrum By Iain Morris, International Editor, 7/30/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Proximus guides for 'nearly stable' results; Ooredoo sees revenues shrink; Giffgaff fined; MTS gets new board members; and more. Post a Comment Eurobites: Virgin Media Raises Gigabit Stakes in UK By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/25/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: CityFibre sucks up to BoJo; O2 confirms 5G launch; Telefónica's net income slips in Q2, though its revenues rise. 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, AirTies Broaden Their Data Deal Monday, October 14, 2019 AirTies Debuts WiFi 6 Portfolio for Service Providers Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Cujo AI Passes 500M Monitored, Protected Devices Tuesday, October 8, 2019 DriveNets Touts Distributed Disaggregated Chassis Design Monday, September 30, 2019 Despite Rough Q2 for Cable, Global Broadband Access Gear Revenue Rises 3% Thursday, September 26, 2019 Protected Media Launches Ad Fraud Detection for TV & OTT Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Motion Picture Association Goes Global Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Ciena Reports Sales Hike in Fiscal Q3 Thursday, September 5, 2019 CenturyLink Courts EMEA Partners Thursday, September 5, 2019 AirTies Enhances Cloud-Powered Home WiFi Platform Thursday, September 5, 2019 Aviat Reports Revenue Increase Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Altice Europe Connects Amazon Prime Video to the Set-Top Box Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Quickline, AirTies Team on Whole-Home WiFi Thursday, August 15, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Two Threat Actors, One Targeted Threat Larry Loeb, Author, 10/22/2019 By combining, two threat actors leveraged their own specific areas of expertise ... 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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 ... 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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 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) Atrinet Pivots, Tackles Hybrid Network Headaches Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 2/13/2018 Network management vendor revamps its strategy to promote itself as a telco cloud ... (0) How Radcom's Pricing Model Is Set to Disrupt the Market Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 2/7/2018 Radcom's VNF pricing model looks set to excite network operators and drain the ... 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CxO Spotlight - Executive Interviews

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 ...