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By Light Reading, 9/20/2018
Brian Bronson, Radisys president and CEO, and Gabriel Brown, principal analyst at Heavy Reading, meet at MWC Americas to discuss the pending acquisition of Radisys by Reliance Industries and how it enables Radisys to accelerate its strategy to help global operators to disrupt their networks.
By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 9/18/2018
At Mobile World Congress Americas, the cloud and 5G loomed large and, frequently, were part of the same story.
By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 9/11/2018
LOS ANGELES -- Mobile World Congress Americas -- I haven't been here long enough to see the ocean yet, but the talk about the coming waves of mobile bandwidth enabled by 5G has already ...
By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/10/2018
Taking a step toward commercial deployment, Federated Wireless has filed an application to the FCC for a big commercial deployment in the shared 3.5GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service ...
By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 9/10/2018
If 5G really lives up to its hype, will it make edge computing irrelevant?
By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 8/22/2018
As North American operators prepare to deliver new services and enter new markets with the onset of 5G, service providers have a number of infrastructure and technology challenges to ...
By Light Reading, 4/20/2018
China Unicom shares successful experience in mobile video experience management.
By Light Reading, 4/19/2018
Kelly Ahuja, President and CEO of Versa Networks, discusses Versa's latest developments over the past year, how technologies such as SD-WAN impact the service provider's business model and market, and if these innovations are taking away opportunities and revenue from them.
By Light Reading, 4/13/2018
CDO introduces Turkcell's video-centric digital transformation strategy and how to help Turkcell achieve business success.
By Light Reading, 4/13/2018
The Turkcell video director shares the success experience of digital service transformation, including the success factors of Turkcell TV+ services and TV+ service value conversion.
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The Telecoms.com Podcast: Innovation, OTTs & the Smart Home
10|16|18   |     |   (0) comments

Scott and Jamie are joined by special guest Mary Clark -- CMO of Synchronoss -- this week. Playing to some of Mary's many strengths, they focus on the relationship between operators and their customers, especially in the areas of product innovation and customer experience. Mary offers insights into how this stuff gets discussed at the top table and the challenges ...
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Jack Burton: Cable's 5G Network Opportunity
10|15|18   |     |   (0) comments

Broadband Success Partners Principal Jack Burton says 5G represents a great opportunity for cable MSOs to work with 5G network operators and provide not only backhaul, but facilities -- real estate on poles, towers in headends and central offices. Cable's proximity to the customer could provide them a revenue source tied to 5G and edge computing, as well as a ...
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Meeting the Challenges of Multicloud Service Provider Deployments
10|15|18   |     |   (0) comments

As service providers move enterprise applications from centralized, monolithic architectures into distributed, microservice applications running in data centers, private/public clouds and uCPE assuring not only the network but the application-level experience becomes paramount. Verifying that new 5G services are realizing higher bandwidth, increased reliability ...
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Zayo's Brian Daniels: Getting Fiber in Place to Feed 5G Services
10|12|18   |   07:36   |   (0) comments

The legislative environment now seems to have roadblocks up against fiber deployment, according to Brian Daniels, Zayo's senior VP of strategic networks. He said there's a need for standard fees and permanent processes to help multiple tenants use a city's light poles and other infrastructure so several carriers can efficiently provide competitive services in cities.
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Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock: 5G Becomes the New Home Broadband
10|12|18   |     |   (0) comments

Verizon's director of optical transport network architecture, design and planning talks about why millimeter wave technology works so well to deliver a home broadband service, and how Verizon intends to reach more places with 5G even where adding new fiber isn't feasible.
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AT&T's Gordon Mansfield: Focusing on Mobile 5G
10|11|18   |     |   (0) comments

AT&T's VP of converged access and device technology discusses the 5G network buildout and how the carrier's focus on mobile experiences shapes its decisions on fiber use and edge networking as it races to deliver an 'immersive consumer experience.'
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PCCW's Hughes: Carriers Shouldn't Cling to the 'Standards Snuggie'
10|10|18   |   07:55   |   (0) comments

DENVER -- Snuggies may be warm and familiar but PCCW Global's David Hughes says it's time for telcos to ditch the security blanket of clinging to legacy operations. As carriers move forward with their cloud transformations, Hughes explains the biggest challenge is adapting company culture to new technologies. While operators have historically relied on standards ...
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Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World Congress Americas 2018 – Part 2
10|10|18   |     |   (0) comments

Accenture's Jeff Wang and Tejas Rao talk to Light Reading's Phil Harvey about how Accenture is helping clients make the most of the investments needed to evolve and deploy their 5G networks.
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PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network Automation
10|10|18   |     |   (0) comments

Jezzibell Gilmore, co-founder and SVP of Business Development at PacketFabric, provides an overview of PacketFabric's fully automated network-as-a-service platform, explaining how its customers are succeeding with network automation, and talks about how PacketFabric is growing.
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The Telecoms.com Podcast: Cheeky China, Real 5G & Net Neutrality
10|9|18   |     |   (0) comments

Jamie, Iain and Scott take a look at the emerging story regarding allegations that some tech kit coming out of China contains a tiny chip which enables some degree of espionage. Everyone involved in the report is denying it but someone must be lying. On that note the debate moves on to what constitutes a genuine 5G launch as opposed to the many '5G firsts' being ...
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The Ever Growing Hunger for Data, 5G & the Challenges Operators Face
10|9|18   |     |   (0) comments

Ira Palti, President & CEO of Ceragon Networks, talks about subscribers' endless hunger for data, the consequent challenges mobile operators face and the role 5G plays in overcoming those challenges.
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CenturyLink's Kevin McBride: On-Net Buildings & a Better Cloud
10|9|18   |     |   (0) comments

CenturyLink has more than 100,000 on-net, "lit" buildings in its network. That's a massive advantage in a world where new services require the distribution of virtualized network functions as close to customers as possible, according to Kevin McBride, CenturyLink's principal architect of SDN & NVF technologies.