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News & Views Most Popular Eurobites: Kirkby Signs Off on a High at Tele2 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/18/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Com Hem socked by Boxer under-performance; Samsung buys Spanish AI startup; KPN invests in CUJO; Colt tunes in to blockchain for LSO Sonata. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ericsson Corruption Scandal Sullies Strong Q3 By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/18/2018 Revelations about a corruption scandal that could land Ericsson with a hefty fine overshadowed the Swedish vendor's return to quarterly net profits for the first time since 2016. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown Ericsson ended the day 5% up, on a down day for the OMX. It's good see one... A Deep Dive Into CenturyLink's Operations Transformation & Roadmap By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/18/2018 For CenturyLink, transformation is about enhancing its business in terms of effectiveness, cost efficiency and customer experience. So how is it trying to achieve that? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 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) How to Prevent Your Data Lake From Turning Into a Swamp By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/10/2018 Collecting large volumes of data is one thing. Making sense of it is another. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement PCCW's Hughes: Carriers Shouldn't Cling to the 'Standards Snuggie' By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 10/10/2018 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. Post a Comment \| Read (0) NFV Struggles With Its Six-Year Itch By Iain Morris, News Editor, 10/10/2018 Anyone attending this year's SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague could be forgiven for thinking it was a re-run of last year's show. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: sj0350 Trough is pronounced "troff". Slough (the town) is pronounced "SlOW",... 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) Telia Carrier Vies to Be Prime Cloud Connector By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/5/2018 Cloud connections, not video or 5G, will be the global network operator's growth drive. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink: NFV Meeting (Modest) Expectations By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/5/2018 Bill Walker says carrier never expected NFV to cause massive shifts early on, adding that it's replacing legacy at a pace that makes financial sense. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Open APIs: The Key to the Platform Business Model By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/5/2018 Communications service providers (CSPs) are working towards more open architectures as they develop their next-generation networks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2018 Thirty companies, including Amazon and Apple, and the US government are threatened in the attack, according to a bombshell investigative report from Bloomberg. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: brooks7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXEQYW0RSQ Some more follow-up on... Spirent CEO: Engineers Are Human, Too By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/4/2018 In the second part of his CXO interview, Eric Hutchinson talks about AI, cybersecurity and the humanizing factor of the test company's strategic shift. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Vishnu Goel Mr Hutchison as the new CEO of Spirent brings a fresh approach and vision to... Eurobites: Beeline & Huawei Demo 5G's Potential With Russian Holocall By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/4/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange extends telematics deal; Telia goes smart metering; Ireland guns for Facebook. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: GypsumFantastic What about Holo Messaging, Princess Leia style? And I know which industry... Orange's Yves Bellego on Automation, Virtualization Progress By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/4/2018 Yves Bellego, director of network strategy at Orange, explains how the operator is approaching automation, how it has developed a data lake and the ongoing challenges associated with NFV. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Broadband Providers Attack California Net Neutrality Law By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/3/2018 USTelecom, CTIA, NCTA and ACA band together to file suit challenging California's tough net neutrality law. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: brooks7 1 - It is not true that there is no regulation. 2 - I still ask (again)... Orange Issues Telco Cloud Rallying Cry By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/3/2018 'It's a standard, Jim, but not as we know it.' Orange pleads for operator consensus around NFV infrastructure, orchestration and automation requirements, but will that be enough to create scale and meet developer needs? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Verizon: Vendor AI Not Ready for Prime Time By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/2/2018 Verizon's wireline unit is developing its own machine learning internally using open source tools and 'agile' development methods. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: ChiefMar76368 Great article, Carol. It should no longer be a surprise to anyone that "AI"... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 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... Ericsson Corruption Scandal Sullies Strong Q3 By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/18/2018 Revelations about a corruption scandal that could land Ericsson with a hefty fine overshadowed the Swedish vendor's return to quarterly net profits for the first time since 2016. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown Ericsson ended the day 5% up, on a down day for the OMX. It's good see one... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Gabriel Brown, 10/18/2018 11:43:33 AM Ericsson Corruption Scandal Sullies Strong Q3 Re: Ericsson back in profit Ericsson ended the day 5% up, on a down day for the OMX. It's good see one of the systemically important wireless companies operating at a profit. 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... ChristopherJames, 10/16/2018 12:23:02 AM Avere Raises $20M for Hybrid Cloud Storage R&D Re: hi I think that it would be very interesting to see where some of these research findings will bring us. I imagine that there is a lot of potential in the cloud systems because of how it's associated with the future IoT systems.... sj0350, 10/12/2018 12:32:35 PM NFV Struggles With Its Six-Year Itch Re: Re: What'sworng with Slough? Trough is pronounced "troff". Slough (the town) is pronounced "SlOW", the OW sound rhyming with "cow". Slough as a place of trouble ("the slough of despond") is pronounced like the town Slough in UK English. ... PaulERainford, 10/11/2018 4:17:50 AM NFV Struggles With Its Six-Year Itch Re: Re: What'sworng with Slough? It's Slough as in Slough of Despond. There's a town near where I live on the Isle of Wight that is bigged up on the tourism website as having 'vibrant multicultural cuisine'. The grim reality is a strip of dodgy-looking... James_B_Crawshaw, 10/10/2018 2:13:57 PM NFV Struggles With Its Six-Year Itch Re: Re: What'sworng with Slough? For the benefit of our international readers, is it pronounced sloff like trough of despair or slou like Wow? [email protected], 10/10/2018 12:23:10 PM NFV Struggles With Its Six-Year Itch Re: What'sworng with Slough? Slough is a thriving, multi-cultural town with a solid culinary culture. I would ask you to recoonsider the benchmark used for "more boring than.." Suggestions: Clermont-Ferrand, Wurzburg or Zagreb. If you insist on remaining... brooks7, 10/8/2018 5:50:32 PM Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg Re: Re: Apple, Amazon & Chinese denials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXEQYW0RSQ Some more follow-up on this. seven Mitch Wagner, 10/5/2018 1:32:21 PM Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg Re: Apple, Amazon & Chinese denials Apple and Amazon's denials, in response to the Bloomberg article, are unusually vehement and specific. Apple: Over the course of the past year, Bloomberg has contacted us multiple times with claims, sometimes vague and... GypsumFantastic, 10/5/2018 6:17:48 AM Eurobites: Beeline & Huawei Demo 5G's Potential With Russian Holocall Re: Holo Messaging? What about Holo Messaging, Princess Leia style? And I know which industry could make the most money out of that...the one that has always been a front runner on the internet :-) . Vishnu Goel, 10/5/2018 1:16:48 AM Spirent CEO: Engineers Are Human, Too Re: Transformation of T&M business to Human Assurance! Mr Hutchison as the new CEO of Spirent brings a fresh approach and vision to his role.He not only outlines the test process and methodology of test assurances and end to end satisfaction,he goes a major step forward in linking... brooks7, 10/4/2018 12:03:58 PM Broadband Providers Attack California Net Neutrality Law Re: Re: Didn't the FCC go the other way? 1 - It is not true that there is no regulation. 2 - I still ask (again) why people are so focussed on an issue that has yet to happen and not universal broadband availability. When is the last time anybody... Jeff Baumgartner, 10/4/2018 10:21:18 AM Broadband Providers Attack California Net Neutrality Law Re: Re: Didn't the FCC go the other way? Yes, the big battle there centered on cutting down heavier-handed Title II classification on broadband, but agree that the rollback did leave a big void with respect to rules of the road that net neutrality advocates want. ... More Message Boards		Security Now GreyEnergy Group Tied to Power Plant Attacks in Ukraine & Poland Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2018 Research from ESET has uncovered a new group called GreyEnergy, which appears to ... (0) Your People Can't Secure Your Network? Try Tier 0 Automation Alan Zeichick, Principal Analyst, Camden Associates, 10/18/2018 Keeping up with modern security requirements requires a multi-prong approach. One ... 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