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News & Views Most Popular Huawei Brushes Aside US Blacklist as It Boosts Sales 24% By Robert Clark, 10/16/2019 Chinese equipment giant posts dramatic growth in numbers despite US penalties. Post a Comment 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 Europe Sounds Alarm About 'Single Supplier' 5G Deals By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/10/2019 Recent deals signed by the likes of Telia, Three and Telecom Italia are under an uncomfortable spotlight after the publication of a new report about 5G security. Post a Comment Advertisement Telia Norway Goes All Ericsson on 5G & Dumps Huawei By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/8/2019 The Norwegian operator will eventually have an all-Ericsson radio access network for all the different technologies, a senior executive tells Light Reading. Post a Comment Vodafone CEO 'Fast Tracks' OpenRAN in Challenge to Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/7/2019 One of the telecom's industry's top executives is backing trials of open RAN technology as a way of bringing more competition into the network 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 ETSI Tackles AI Security By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/2/2019 New specification group at ETSI is 'exceptionally important,' says industry analyst. Post a Comment Advertisement Meet ZenKey: Telcos' Doomed Single Sign-On Service By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/2/2019 ZenKey is the new 'single sign-on' service from the nation's four big wireless network operators. If history is any indication, it won't last long. Post a Comment Huawei's 5G Licensing Offer Is Pitched at US Companies, Says Founder By Robert Clark, 9/26/2019 The Chinese vendor would prefer a US company to buy its technology, says Ren Zhengfei, but has so far not had a US response. Post a Comment US Takes Another Step Toward Ripping Huawei Equipment Out of Country By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/25/2019 Legislation in the House is now joining a similar push in the Senate to pay US operators to rip Huawei equipment out of their networks. Post a Comment How to Shrink the Bill for Your Chinese Takeout By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/24/2019 Service providers forced or keen to replace Huawei in their 5G networks might now have several options for reducing the cost. Post a Comment Telefónica's Blanco Blackballs Single-Vendor 5G Core By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/24/2019 The Spanish operator's top technology executive says the operator will definitely not be using a single vendor in its 5G core. Post a Comment Made in China, by a Swedish Robot: Ericsson Gets Smart in Nanjing By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/17/2019 The Swedish telecom equipment maker has been automating one of its Chinese factories as part of an ongoing efficiency drive and overhaul of its global supply chain. Post a Comment Huawei Eyes Sale of 5G Assets to Western Rival – Economist By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/12/2019 Chinese vendor is prepared to sell its 5G knowhow, says the company's founder in his latest interview. Post a Comment Australia's TPG Had No 5G Plan. Does Anyone? By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/12/2019 The legal battle over a proposed merger between two operators shines a bad light on Australia's telecom market. Post a Comment China Spices Things Up With 2-Become-1 5G Plan By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/10/2019 Two of China's operators will come together to build a single 5G network that could be a game changer for the global industry. Post a Comment Trump Is Losing the European War Against Huawei By Iain Morris, News Editor, 9/9/2019 US efforts to have the controversial Chinese vendor banned from Europe's 5G networks are failing. Post a Comment Australia's Huawei Ban Is Hurting TPG & 5G By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/6/2019 A decision to exclude Chinese vendors from the 5G market on grounds of security has taken a heavy toll on TPG and could put Australian 5G at risk. Post a Comment Deutsche Telekom Finally Gets to Launch 5G By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/5/2019 The German operator has been given the spectrum it needs to provide 5G services three months after the country's 5G auction wrapped up. Post a Comment Fastweb, Wind Tre Take 5G Network Sharing to the Limit By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/4/2019 A 5G network-sharing agreement between the Italian operators could help to validate network slicing and provide a new paradigm for Europe's ailing service providers. 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 VMware Reports $2.44B Revenue, Up 12% YoY, Acquiring Pivotal & Carbon Black Thursday, August 22, 2019 Inside Secure Switches Name to Verimatrix Monday, July 1, 2019 India's Vodafone Idea Inks 5-Year IBM Cloud Contract Friday, May 3, 2019 MoCA Introduces New Security Layer for Home Networking Tuesday, April 30, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity: Making It Work for Your Organization 10/16/2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a new frontier in information security. ... (0) Even RATs Need Marketing Larry Loeb, Author, 10/16/2019 Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers have discovered a new and previously ... 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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 ... (16 comments) Amid the Rubble of L'Aquila, ZTE Tries to Rebuild Iain Morris , International Editor , 11/16/2018 China's ZTE is working hard to patch up its customer relationships after US ... (0) Why BT's Security Chief Is Attacking His Own Network Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 7/17/2017 With the cybersecurity threat landscape shifting quickly and continuously, BT's ... (0) ETSI Gets Edgy About Mobile Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/19/2016 Interest is growing in the potential of mobile edge computing. But will it live ... (3 comments) All Prime Reading

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