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Key developments related to the configuration, provisioning, management and orchestration of virtualized network functions (VNFs).

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News & Views Most Popular Ribbon Reels in ECI, Offloads CEO By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/15/2019 No wonder investors have panicked – Ribbon waves goodbye to its CEO as it announces an unexpected merger with transport network equipment specialist ECI Telecom. But why? Post a Comment VMware Unveils 'Project Maestro' to Speed Network Virtualization By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/5/2019 VMware wants to help telcos launch services faster in multi-cloud environments. Post a Comment From Virtualization to Containerization By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/21/2019 A new set of NFV challenges is emerging as operators plan the shift towards cloud-native applications and a container-based strategy. Post a Comment Advertisement AT&T's Wheelus: From Mechanization to Automation By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/9/2019 Much of what's talked about as automation is actually mechanization, says AT&T's Amy Wheelus, and the distinction is key as telcos head into the 5G world. Post a Comment Podcast: SES Networks Takes ONAP Sky-High By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/20/2019 The satellite network operator is looking to the Open Networking Automaton Platform (ONAP) to automate connecting its space-based network with terrestrial operators. Post a Comment SES Takes ONAP to the Final Frontier By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 SES Networks is using Amdocs to implement the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on Microsoft Azure, to allow its telco customers to seamlessly extend to SES's satellite service. Post a Comment Why Telcos Are Going (Cloud) Native By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 7/2/2019 While there is a fair degree of hype around the term 'cloud native' and plenty of misuse by software marketeers, it is clearly an important topic among CSP CTOs and CIOs. Post a Comment Advertisement GSMA to Bring Standardization to NFVi Wild West By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 6/28/2019 A collaboration between the industry's largest trade group of mobile network operators and the preeminent open source consortium is aiming to simplify and harmonize dozens of NFVi efforts. Post a Comment At Boingo, Network Cloudification Drives Business Transformation By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 Boingo is best known as the guys who get travelers online at airports, but that's just a small part of the business nowadays. Network virtualization has helped drive the transition. Post a Comment Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Outstanding Digital Enablement Vendor By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/5/2019 LotusFlare, MATRIXX Software, MYCOM OSI, Netcracker Technology, Openet and Synchronoss Technologies are the six shortlisted companies in this category. Post a Comment Eurobites: ETSI & Linux Foundation Get Jiggy With IT By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/26/2019 Also in today's regional roundup: Orange Spain tests Huawei 5G smartphone; KPN's numbers are heading south as it makes its 5G vendor decisions; and competitive device manufacturer Oppo is heading to Europe. Post a Comment Leading Lights 2019: The Finalists By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/10/2019 Light Reading is delighted – nay, pumped – to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights Awards program, which is now in its 15th year. Post a Comment 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/4/2019 Nicira co-founder Scott Shenker and other networking visionaries issue a manifesto for technology they say can jump-start development for network functions virtualization (NFV). Post a Comment Telefónica Wrestles With OSM, SDN as Unica Passes Halfway Point By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/18/2019 The Spanish operator's big virtualization project is over the halfway point and facing up to a new set of technical challenges. Post a Comment MWC19: ETSI's DG Drills Down Into 5G By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/13/2019 At Mobile World Congress, Luis Jorge Romero, director general of ETSI, talks about the industry body's focus on key areas of 5G R&D, including edge computing, virtualization and automated network management, and provides an update on blockchain and AI efforts. Post a Comment Orange, Vodafone to Unveil Common Approach to NFVi By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 2/27/2019 The two operators have been working to develop a number of NFV infrastructure (NFVi) configurations to meet the needs of different types of virtual network function (VNF) deployments. Post a Comment The Self-Publishing Network – What Can it Do for You? By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 1/28/2019 No, it's not a self-help group for struggling authors... Post a Comment 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 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 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 More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Ciena Reports Fiscal Q4, Full Year Thursday, December 12, 2019 Common NFVI Telco Taskforce (CNTT) Boasts Reference Milestone Monday, September 23, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Hardware Is the New Attack Surface – Forrester 12/12/2019 Attackers have already begun to breach security at the BIOS level, according to a ... (0) Snatch Is Both Novel & Evil Larry Loeb, Author, 12/11/2019 The Sophos Managed Threat Response team found out that, where the Snatch ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: No Free Broadband for Brits Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/13/2019 Also today, AT&T sets date for new national OTT-TVoffering, CenturyLink hooks up ... (0) BBWN Bites: 'Internet Para Todos' Translates Into Mexican Opportunity for Viasat Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/12/2019 Also today, Windstream Wholesale signs mega-capacity deal, MTS joins TIP, Comcast ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase CSPs Living in a Multicloud World Protecting the Mobile Network Core During Transition ... Amdocs: Redefining & Accelerating 5G Rollouts Antronix: Industry Leader for 40 Years & Counting Network Rising: DriveNets Adapts Hyperscaler Approach to ... New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... 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 DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/13/2018 Deutsche Telekom's once-ballyhooed Terastream initiative, which turned seven this ... (3 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) 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 ... (5 comments) All Prime Reading

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(Technology Review) The Path to 5G: The Case for Automation

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(Paper) Edge Computing and 5G – Harnessing the Distributed Cloud

(Research Brief) Orchestrating multi-vendor SD-WAN: Part of CSP long term edge platform strategy

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