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News & Views Most Popular Canonical Girds Its Cloud-Native Loins as Containers Gain Traction By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 1/9/2019 Canonical's head of NFV is bullish about the shift towards cloud-native functions and the appetite for containers among network operators, but others are waiting to gain from that development too. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Digital Transformation: Telcos Face the Future By Stan Hubbard, Director, Communications & Research, MEF, 12/27/2018 How MEF's work impacts telco businesses, SD-WAN and digital transformation, from the perspectives of AT&T, PCCW and Verizon. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Solution12143 I always regarded SD-WAN as carrier network technology, and he told it comes... ONAP's Casablanca Focuses on Deployability By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 12/4/2018 No romance here, just a software release with practical features to put this automated orchestration platform into use globally. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Operators Using PoCs to Drive APIs to Market Faster By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/28/2018 Real-world experience using live networks in MEF proofs-of-concept is allowing operator members to shape technical specs faster. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange Pushing Multivendor SD-WAN By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/16/2018 Orange Business Services is working with several vendors to develop multivendor SD-WAN expertise and counting on MEF application programming interfaces and definitions for SD-WAN to enable a single portal for its SD-WAN offering, says Franck Morales, vice president of marketing of connectivity services for Orange Business Services. In addition, its SD-WAN service will be built on four other pillars: native cloud connectivity, best-of-breed security, global services and future-proof solution. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Upgrades NFVi for Edge, Containers By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/15/2018 Also, for the first time the vendor is directly sourcing OpenStack from its open source community instead of using RedHat's version. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Acumos AI Project Is On Track but Lacking 'Apps' By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 11/14/2018 The Linux Foundation's Acumos AI Project has issued its initial release on schedule but its 'app store' is still rather bare. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement How Red Hat Could Give IBM's Telco Strategy a New Lease of Life By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/5/2018 With telco cloud and open source developments playing a key role in network operator strategies, Red Hat's acquisition could bolster IBM's opportunities with communications service provider customers. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: bosco_pcs This CSP angle is a more substantive than most the run-of-the-mill IBM + Red... Orchestrator Startup Inmanta Raises Funding, Bolsters Team By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/29/2018 Startup boasts some impressive results from a proof of concept with a Belgian operator and remains confident about landing commercial deals. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ericsson CTO Talks 5G, Edge Computing & Machine Learning By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/23/2018 Ericsson's Group CTO Erik Ekudden discusses 5G partnerships, the growing importance of edge computing and the use of machine learning (ML) tools. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: peter morris Excellent post. It was really informative. please keep sharing more Essay... Is Virtualization a DIY Deal for Telcos? By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/22/2018 Many larger network operators are bringing software development in-house, developing their own orchestrators and other tools, and using more open source to get the results they want, without vendor dependence. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CSPs Still Puzzling Over NFV Business Case By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/18/2018 TM Forum Digital Transformation Tracker shows diversity of views on virtualization, with larger operators moving forward much faster, and many smaller companies struggling to make it pay. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Service Providers Should Adapt to Open Source World By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/16/2018 Four operator executives say open source solves more problems than it causes, and that CSPs need to get with the program. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/16/2018 There's friction and a fair amount of hot air in the open source NFV MANO world and it's not doing anyone any favors. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: vances History tells us victory goes to the popular choice. Linux was a technically... Is Open Source the Right Approach for NFV Orchestration? By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/15/2018 Open source MANO (management and orchestration) developments are providing network operators with something of a conundrum. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Colt Ready for Major NFV Push By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/12/2018 After years of developments and incremental advances, Colt is set for a major three-stage telco cloud deployment that will be a big step in its migration from a legacy hardware architecture to virtualized functions. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Netsurion's SD-WAN Plays to MSPs By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/10/2018 Managed service provider developed its own combined connectivity-security solution that it's selling direct and to other MSPs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) DoCoMo Capex Down 10% Thanks to NFV, Says Exec By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/10/2018 Japanese telco says investments in NFV have already led to cost reductions and better service reliability as it plots the next phase of investment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink's Kevin McBride: On-Net Buildings & a Better Cloud By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 10/9/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Netcracker Launches Telco Cloud-as-a-Service By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/8/2018 Vendor offers an enterprise services software stack that can run on any cloud platform and already has Mexico's Telefónica Movistar as a reference customer. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Solution12143, 12/27/2018 8:37:33 AM Digital Transformation: Telcos Face the Future Re: Not clear about SD-WAN... I always regarded SD-WAN as carrier network technology, and he told it comes from OTT. Maybe I don't understand something? peter morris, 11/6/2018 6:00:32 AM Ericsson CTO Talks 5G, Edge Computing & Machine Learning Re: Peter morris Excellent post. It was really informative. please keep sharing more Essay Writing services bosco_pcs, 11/5/2018 3:29:34 PM How Red Hat Could Give IBM's Telco Strategy a New Lease of Life Re: Great report w/ originality This CSP angle is a more substantive than most the run-of-the-mill IBM + Red Hat doing hybrid cloud bhah bhah bhah on TV. Those folks are suppose to be analysts who know everything about IBM and Red Hat but they are more... FranP, 10/28/2018 8:35:25 AM Is X by Orange Showing Us the OTT Future for Telcos? Re: x by Orange shows a change in the intention to have an own cloud service offer? Interesting news!, does this mean that Orange is abandoning their intention to have an own cloud service offer and start relying and using AWS?, at least this is what they are doing for this criticial service. Or... vances, 10/18/2018 5:08:03 AM Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check Re: Mindshare History tells us victory goes to the popular choice. Linux was a technically poor and incomplete alternative to BSD but that only lasted as long as they enjoyed a lead in the amount of development tme devoted to the project.... [email protected], 10/18/2018 2:27:19 AM Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check Re: good stuff well this was something necessary and i am now hopefull a lot for the betterment. Businesses should open some of their techniques for the betterment of the people. They should prvoide something. Business can proper with... AHavang, 10/16/2018 9:23:59 AM Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check Re: A Vendor View Ray, Couple of thoughts. As a VNF vendor, we have to support all cloud platforms and all MANOs that customers support, unless we want to be excluded from their business. That is, a vendor can't rely on one single MANO... markhmortensen, 9/27/2018 2:12:33 AM NFV 1.0 Is Passé; Cloud Native Is Coming Re: CNFs will require unprecedentedly tight standards The movement to cloud native virtual network functions (called CNFs in the article), based on microservices will require that the VNFs be decomposed into sets of stateless microservices. This will require "breaking up" the... Gabriel Brown, 9/26/2018 4:30:24 AM Vodafone's Heeran: Defining the Telco Cloud Re: Public cloud for telco networking This is a big statement to unpack: "We also have to consider the public cloud -- the closer we are in an architectural sense to the public cloud, the easier that will make it for us." jylliannesiga, 9/25/2018 4:46:07 AM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: So does Gedeon from TELUS expects NFV to be FREE???? Some of these comments look stark in text in a news report, but it's hard to judge context and tone from here. James_B_Crawshaw, 9/13/2018 5:22:08 PM DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Re: Re: Beer reference Kölsch - a clear, top-fermented beer with a bright, straw-yellow hue. Nothing cloudified there Axel :) axelc, 9/13/2018 11:36:56 AM DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Re: Beer reference I won't comment on the rest of the content, but for someone who studied and worked for a long time in Cologne, this comment on the start section of the article is key: my favorite beer is Koelsch (this is brewed inside the... Joe Stanganelli, 8/30/2018 11:57:34 PM CSPs Brace for Changes in Assurance Wrought by Virtualization, Automation Re: Automation and virtualization > the growth of virtualized networks will increase the need for proactive, automated testingWhich is kind of funny, considering that the growth of virtualization enables this automation to begin with. It's almost like... microcaptechinvestor, 8/24/2018 1:34:11 PM Telefónica's Elizondo on UNICA's Promise of Network Automation Re: Feed the disruptors These telco's talk a lot, but I'm not seeing a commensurate level of action. At some point, these guys need to sign a contract, and give the disruptors some money. Atlantis-dude, 8/3/2018 1:23:03 PM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: depends on what kind of technology team is built inhouse. If that handles development and support of nfunctions then 10x possible. bUt building such a team is tough and xpensive for telco. More Message Boards		Security Now Vulnerability Puts Millions of Fortnite Players at Risk, Check Point Finds Jeffrey Burt, Editor & Journalist, 1/18/2019 Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, fixed vulnerabilities in its web ... 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(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 ... (5 comments) All Prime Reading Newsfeed MYCOM OSI Acquired by Inflexion Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Nokia Releases Updates CloudBand NFV-I Software Thursday, November 15, 2018 Ekinops Unveils New OneAccess 10G Ethernet Access Device Tuesday, October 30, 2018 ADVA Reports Q3 Improvements Thursday, October 25, 2018 TM Forum Survey Finds Digital Transformation Going Slowly Thursday, October 18, 2018 Linux Foundation Networking & Cloud Native Computing Foundation Get Jiggy Thursday, September 27, 2018 ADVA Beefs Up Ensemble MANO Suite Wednesday, September 5, 2018 F5's VNF Manager Enhances, Simplifies NFV Wednesday, August 15, 2018 VMware Agrees to Acquire Dell EMC's Service Assurance Suite Friday, August 10, 2018 More Newsfeeds

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