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News & Views Most Popular How Cable Will Broaden Its Horizons for Biz Services By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 David Strauss of Broadband Success Partners dives into new research that explores which new verticals, such as e-gaming and hospitality, will keep cable's business services engine humming in the years to come. Post a Comment Podcast: The Big Cisco Silicon One Recap By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 12/13/2019 Mitch Wagner brings us coverage of the Cisco Silicon One announcement from San Francisco, where the company announced a single technology platform to serve all its networking customers. Post a Comment Eurobites: Huawei Loses Telenor to Ericsson By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/13/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Labour defeat brings relief for BT; MTS goes all holographic; Orange Belgium launches 5G hub. Post a Comment Advertisement Cisco Bets Its Business on 'Internet for the Future' Strategy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco's audacious new "Internet for the Future" strategy, which comprises completely new silicon, operating system software and a new business model, is either going to drive Cisco's domination of Internet infrastructure for a generation to come -- or flop spectacularly. With a strategy as ambitious as Cisco's, there's no middle ground, says Light Reading's Mitch Wagner. Post a Comment Cisco: Service Providers Are Getting Squeezed & We've Got the Cure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco claims it can help service providers break the trap of increasing bandwidth demands and declining revenue per user. Cisco's solution: a new networking architecture spanning silicon to software and services. Post a Comment Ciena Soars on Bullish Outlook as Sales Top $3.5B By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/12/2019 Ciena stock rocketed as it reported year-over-year sales growth of more than 15% and predicted further market share gains and sales hikes. Post a Comment Ray Mota on Cisco's Network Vision By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Ray Mota, CEO and principal analyst for ACG Research, dives into Cisco's 'Internet for the Future' strategy, noting that the key focus is on helping service providers boost capacity as they roll out 5G and other new services while keeping costs in line. That's important because customers are using more bandwidth but aren't paying more for it, notes Mota. Post a Comment Advertisement 'Small Disruptions' Have Totally Changed Fixed Network Biz, Says Nokia CTO By Robert Clark, 12/12/2019 The arrival of new technologies and growing interest in WiFi have spurred activity in the fixed broadband market, says the Finnish vendor's technology chief. Post a Comment Eurobites: Russia's MTS Does TIP Run By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Keymile lands FTTB deal with Wobcom; BT Sport offers OTT monthly pass; KPN sells consulting arm; Deutsche Telekom nurtures 5G startups. Post a Comment Cisco's SP Chief on 'Silicon One' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Jonathan Davidson, SVP and general manager of Cisco's Service Provider Business, outlines the key takeaways from the company's major new networking portfolio announcements, including the Silicon One chip launch, new router platforms, enhanced operating software and optical plans. Post a Comment Cisco Wants to 'Build a New Internet' for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Cisco unveiled new silicon, optics and network operating system software that it says will carry the Internet through the next decade – with its products forming the backbone. Post a Comment Vienna Views: Pics From the 2020 Vision Executive Summit By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/11/2019 Senior executives gathered in the Austrian capital for the latest Light Reading 2020 Vision Executive Summit to discuss what's right, what's wrong and what's next for the telecom sector. Post a Comment AT&T Targets Labor, Wireline Footprint in New Cost-Cutting Effort By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/10/2019 'Everything is on the table,' AT&T exec John Stankey says, with former Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow hired as the hatchet man to lead its cost-cutting efforts. Post a Comment Eurobites: Orange Secures €700M Loan for High-Speed Broadband Expansion in France By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: KPN outlines FTTH plans for Amsterdam; Amazon's NHS data deal comes under scrutiny; IoT and blockchain combine for green energy. Post a Comment Bernie Sanders Threatens to Break Up Broadband Market With 'High-Speed Internet for All' Plan By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2019 Presidential candidate claims wide-ranging plan will expand access, reduce pricing, eliminate data caps, codify net neutrality and move to 'break up Internet service provider and cable monopolies.' Post a Comment Google Fiber Dumps 100-Meg Service By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2019 Google is going 'All in on a Gig' and exclusively selling uncapped, symmetrical 1Gbit/s service starting at $70 a month, the same price as it's been since 2012. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telefónica Awards 5G Core to Huawei – Report By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/6/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT Ireland trials 1.2Tbit/s transmission with Huawei; TIM and Open Fiber are daggers drawn; Deutsche Telekom enables 'holographic annotation' for field service engineers. Post a Comment Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Orders 5G Freeze Until Heat Is off Huawei By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/5/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: InterDigital files Huawei patents suit in UK; ADVA leads optical research program; 2Gbit/s 5G in Helsinki; Ericsson reassures on corruption costs. Post a Comment Cable Infrastructure Spending Slogs Through Another Tough Quarter By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2019 Q3 spending on cable network tech improved but it's still well below historic levels, Dell'Oro says. Post a Comment CityFibre's David Tomalin: Building a Fab Fiber Future By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/5/2019 CityFibre's Group CTO David Tomalin discusses how an infrastructure provider, making long-term bets, is planning to enable service providers to reshape the UK tech landscape. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive AT&T Targets Labor, Wireline Footprint in New Cost-Cutting Effort By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/10/2019 'Everything is on the table,' AT&T exec John Stankey says, with former Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow hired as the hatchet man to lead its cost-cutting efforts. Post a Comment Cisco Wants to 'Build a New Internet' for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Cisco unveiled new silicon, optics and network operating system software that it says will carry the Internet through the next decade – with its products forming the backbone. Post a Comment Cisco's SP Chief on 'Silicon One' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Jonathan Davidson, SVP and general manager of Cisco's Service Provider Business, outlines the key takeaways from the company's major new networking portfolio announcements, including the Silicon One chip launch, new router platforms, enhanced operating software and optical plans. Post a Comment Eurobites: Russia's MTS Does TIP Run By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Keymile lands FTTB deal with Wobcom; BT Sport offers OTT monthly pass; KPN sells consulting arm; Deutsche Telekom nurtures 5G startups. Post a Comment Cisco: Service Providers Are Getting Squeezed & We've Got the Cure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco claims it can help service providers break the trap of increasing bandwidth demands and declining revenue per user. Cisco's solution: a new networking architecture spanning silicon to software and services. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors CenturyLink Sets Launch of WiFi 6 Gateway Thursday, December 12, 2019 Ciena Reports Fiscal Q4, Full Year Thursday, December 12, 2019 Cisco Launches 'Internet for the Future' Strategy & Silicon Architecture Wednesday, December 11, 2019 DriveNets Teams Up With Broadcom, White Box Vendors Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Sparklight Business Rolls 1-Gig Across Footprint Thursday, December 5, 2019 Broadband Access Revenues Dip 12% in Q3 but Cable Infrastructure Spending Improves – Dell'Oro Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Hengtong, APC Host Cable Conference Tuesday, December 3, 2019 MobiTV Rides Telia Carrier's Backbone Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1-Gig Available to 354M People Globally, Viavi Claims Wednesday, November 20, 2019 MEF Lists Digital Transformation Dossier Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Ciena Lands Open Optical Line System Deal with Telia Carrier Monday, November 18, 2019 CommScope Posts Q3 Revenues of $2.38B, Net Loss of $156M Thursday, November 7, 2019 Infinera Delays Q3 Earnings Report Tuesday, November 5, 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 ... 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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) Leading Lights 2018: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/11/2018 Light Reading is thrilled to announce the finalists for this year's Leading ... (0) Robot Wars: Telecom's Looming AI Tussle Iain Morris , International Editor , 3/14/2018 Telcos performing routine chores will be ripe for AI-based automation. But whose ... (6 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 ... 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