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News & Views Most Popular Comcast Finds More Work for X1 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/7/2018 Cloud-powered video platform is in 'extended trial period' with hotels, with more business- and sports-venue deployment models in the works. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How AI Is Being Put to Work at Vodafone By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/6/2018 Jayshree Kottapalli, group head of Analytics CoE (AI, Automation and Analytics) at Vodafone, talks about how Vodafone is using AI tools to mine the enormous volumes of data the operator collects. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Swisscom Rolls Into Private Blockchain By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/6/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Huawei finds solace in Portugal; French fiber pushes on; Colt expands in central and eastern Europe; VEON's new man in Ukraine; Nokia gets busy in China and Brazil. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Here's How CenturyLink Is Cutting Capex By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2018 'Robust' spending scrutiny combined with synergies from its Level 3 merger is helping CenturyLink significantly reduce capital expenditure, its CFO says. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Architec73447 CTL is one of the top Cloud Enablers for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure,... Charter Unit Checks In With Up-Market Video Move By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2018 Spectrum Enterprise teams with Moviebeam to beef up video offering for hotels. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Altice USA's Mobile Service to Be 'BYOD-Heavy' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2018 But cable operator is still evaluating its pricing and business model for mobile as it prepares to launch service in 1H 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (0) SMB Mobility: Cable's Next Big Chance? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/3/2018 In this video interview, Independence Research's Matt Davis examines the potential for cable operators to deliver mobile services to small-to-midsized businesses. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Cloud Dynamics Underpin MYCOM OSI's Acquisition By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/30/2018 Why would a private equity company buy a telecom network assurance and optimization company? Because the cloud is where the money is. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw There is an interesting comment from the CEO in that article you linked to... So What Is a Telco These Days? By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/29/2018 Should a telco be a bank? Should they own media companies? Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: mhui0 But that keeps their equipment suppliers flush with orders. AWS Takes Aim at Oracle & Microsoft – With Telco Assistance By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/27/2018 AWS CEO Andy Jassy says enterprise are 'looking to flee' Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server – and the Philippines' Globe Telecom says they're one example of a company that moved off Oracle. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/27/2018 Broadband homes that consume 1 Terabyte-plus of data per month more than doubled, Cisco data shows. Will ISPs raise their data ceilings? Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: nelly.frd Cisco is forecasting that 4K/Ultra HD video will account for about 22% of global... MEF CTO Sees Key Role in Automation By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/26/2018 Pascal Menezes says defining key APIs between carriers and setting SD-WAN standards is MEF's way of helping drive automation and digital transformation process. Post a Comment \| Read (0) BT's McRae: Huawei Is 'the Only True 5G Supplier Right Now' By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/21/2018 Huawei gets the BT man's praise as he urges the other main mobile network vendors to shake off their legacy telco thinking. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The 5G Enterprise Conversation By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 11/20/2018 For enterprises, 5G opens up a new conversation with carriers – not just about what's possible on their new networks, but what they can do now to help businesses beyond providing connectivity. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast's Industrial IoT Platform Has Global Potential By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/16/2018 'We're effectively IoT over the top,' machineQ exec says. 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) DT: Pan-Net Producing Multivendor Apps By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/14/2018 Almost four years into building its pan-European cloud, DT is 'very close' to finishing the infrastructure and is rolling out cloud-based multivendor apps. 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) Colt's Voltolini on Service Automation By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/13/2018 Mirko Voltolini, global head of Network on Demand at Colt, talks about how the operator has automated the service delivery aspect of its Ethernet services but is still working on the significant challenge of automating the service assurance lifecycle. Post a Comment \| Read (0) VMs, Containers & the Lumpy Cloud Evolution By Yaron Aboodaga, Product Management Head - CloudBand Infrastructure Software, Nokia, 11/12/2018 Network operators will each take their own unique journey to becoming more cloud-native. This heterogeneous, 'lumpy' universe will be with us for quite a while. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Here's How CenturyLink Is Cutting Capex By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2018 'Robust' spending scrutiny combined with synergies from its Level 3 merger is helping CenturyLink significantly reduce capital expenditure, its CFO says. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Architec73447 CTL is one of the top Cloud Enablers for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure,... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Architec73447, 12/6/2018 1:52:57 PM Here's How CenturyLink Is Cutting Capex Re: Great article CTL is one of the top Cloud Enablers for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloudm Oracle Cloud, ... The article explains why CTL's CTO Andrew Dugan recently received 4031 votes and ranks the No 1 - 300 more votes... mhui0, 12/2/2018 1:51:27 AM So What Is a Telco These Days? Re: Re: Debt Accumulation Machines But that keeps their equipment suppliers flush with orders. James_B_Crawshaw, 11/30/2018 5:49:54 PM Cloud Dynamics Underpin MYCOM OSI's Acquisition Re: Public Cloud hosted OSS There is an interesting comment from the CEO in that article you linked to Ray. He says "the company is likely to see 70% to 80% of its revenue stemming from the public cloud in the next few years." That's a surprisingly... Scott Raynovich, 11/30/2018 10:44:07 AM So What Is a Telco These Days? Re: Debt Accumulation Machines Ray, They are debt accumulation machines designed to pay very large exeutive bonsues and shareholder dividences with absolutely no long-term strategic direction. Guess I could file a story for that on LR next week, if... larrysm015, 11/30/2018 6:47:24 AM 8 Things We Didn't Know About Telecom Automation Until Last Week Re: HP Printer Error Hi, It's your blog posting is a very good response for any user or blogger. While using the HP printer, there is a time when a user faces some kind of issues. You can contact our website to click on HP Printer... nelly.frd, 11/29/2018 11:45:32 AM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Re: clipart png 2019 calendar printable calendar Cisco is forecasting that 4K/Ultra HD video will account for about 22% of global IP video traffic by 2022, compared to a mere 3% in 2017. Cisco also predicts that 62% of flat-panel TVs will be 4K-capable by 2020, a CAGR... cypherstream, 11/29/2018 10:05:59 AM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Re: Maybe not unreasonable? Game consoles will chew through 1TB+ easy these days. For example Microsoft's Xbox game pass is like the Netflix of Xbox one. You pay $10 a month for access to 100+ Games to play but the caviat is whatever games you want,... Duh!, 11/27/2018 1:55:11 PM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Maybe not unreasonable? Quick back-of-the-envelope calculation. Assuming an equal mix of HD and UHD, we can use 11.3 Mbit/s as the average video data rate. That said, 1 TB of data equates to just short of 200 hours of video, or six and a half hours... RituGupta, 11/26/2018 10:36:12 PM Mobileum Snaps Up Mobile Security Specialist Re: If you want your company to do well If you want your company to do well, you've got to have good people managing your company! I reckon that being able to court and attract the best experts in the field for any sort of industry is key to moving your business... 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... John Eliter, 11/4/2018 12:04:46 PM The Mobile Network Is Becoming a Cloud Service Re: Re: Web clouds cannot replace smart cric telco clouds This sort of offering combines all the things we love about the cloud, with the freedom of mobile computing. It creates an opportunity for service providers but also adds some pressure on them to deliver services at different,... alesasimpson, 10/31/2018 11:48:31 PM Ericsson Corruption Scandal Sullies Strong Q3 Re: Findings of corruption Ericsson has not commented on previous media reports that U.S. authorities were investigating its business practices in Romania and in China. "We believe that the resolution of these matters will likely result in monetary... DHagar, 10/29/2018 5:47:24 PM IBM To Acquire Red Hat for $34B Re: Re: IBM's Acquisition fo Red Hat I highly applaud IBM's commitment to the open platform design. I think this is a strong foundation for the company and open platform's going forward. My only hesitancy is whether or not the business lines will fill... sarvendra, 10/26/2018 3:32:35 AM IoT Startup Actility to Add 3GPP Support in 2016 Re: I just clear Well, I have check different website on the 3GP support while surfing the internet but your content is just informative. More Message Boards		Security Now Cloud, Compliance & the Death of the IT Checklist Sanjay Kalra, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Lacework, 12/7/2018 For years, IT could rely on various checklists to ensure that systems and ... (1 Comment) Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Larry Loeb, Author, 12/7/2018 The latest version of the Google Chrome browser squashes numerous bugs and adds ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge Cisco's Yvette Kanouff: How We Get Real Results From ... 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 ... 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