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News & Views Most Popular WiCipedia: Boardroom Diversity, Bombastic Mansplaining & Women of Color By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/17/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: California revamps boardroom diversity policies; women of color are barely represented in tech; VC survival tips; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Magyar Telekom's AI Trial Success Baffles Engineers By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/8/2018 The Hungarian operator is trialing AI tech from startups including Uhana and Anodot, and the results have so far been compelling. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: markhmortensen AI systems cannot explain WHY they recommend something without an "explanation... The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly By Scott Raynovich, Founder and Principal Analyst, Futuriom, 6/15/2018 There is nothing wrong with large amounts of debt if you methodically expand a business, but what are these guys doing? Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: brooks7 I just to point out 2 errors in what you are saying: 1 - Most of the... Advertisement WiCipedia: Programmer Motivators, Affordable Childcare & All-Female Panels By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 5/4/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Chinese women hired to 'calm' programmers; diversity pays off for companies; are all-female panels good for women?; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Female Founders Find Funding & Automotive Careers for Women By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 4/27/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: The NY Times' first female CIO; female founders get funding; women are needed in connected car jobs; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: A Female-Only Island, Gender Quotas & Twitter's Oprah By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 4/20/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Are quotas the answer to diversity?; women in tech on Twitter get an influx of new followers; is the tech gender gap akin to the lack of men in ballet?; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Parental Leave Pressure & Canning Cultural Fit By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 3/30/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Parental leave is pressurized; the only woman in the room sees all; getting rid of cultural fit; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: ErynLeavens That's such a good point! It doesn't leave any room to grow or evolve as an... Advertisement Dell CTO: Public Cloud Is 'Way More Expensive Than Buying From Us' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/19/2018 Keeping applications on-premises, rather than going all-in on public cloud, will save enterprises money, claims John Roese, Dell EMC chief technology officer. Post a Comment \| Read (10 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym Yes, we'll have to be careful not to fall for alternative facts or attribute... WiCipedia: Secret Courts, Public Lists & Quantifying the Gap By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 3/16/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: IWD2018 makes a statement; Facebook's 'secret courts'; a VC accountability list; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Moms as Breadwinners & Black Panther a Win for WiT By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 2/23/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Motherhood is on the rise; Damore gets shut down; Hollywood gets something right; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: 'Perceived Gender Bias' & Google/YouTube CEOs on Diversity By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 2/2/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Federal IT needs women; CEOs under spotlight for views on diversity; 'perceived gender bias' in schools; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Uber Hires New Diversity Exec & AI Comes for Jobs By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 1/26/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: The second Women's March brought out hundreds of thousands of women and some pretty great signs; Finnish telecom boss puts foot down; the 'u-turn' factor in gender equality; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Herstory, Apple Diversity Stagnates & Queen Bees By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 11/17/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: Apple's diversity efforts fall flat; Uber under fire again for not protecting passengers; women in tech in China break glass ceiling; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiCipedia: Momism, Lead With Values & Demand Equality By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 11/3/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: 'Momism' puts mothers at a disadvantage; lead with values when opening shop; telecom industry comes in last for diversity; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T's Chow: Work-Life Balance Is Bogus By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 10/30/2017 AT&T's Anne Chow discusses her leadership philosophy, approach to navigating business transformations and why she thinks more women should pursue the C-suite. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym With a strong background in sales and management one would assume she would... WiCipedia: Int'l Day of the Girl & Sephora Shows the Ropes By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/13/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: The wearables market brings back convention models; racial inequalities faring worse than gender differences; BBC goes to the Valley; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym Interesting to read "compared to ten years ago, there are fewer African-American... WiCipedia: Twitter Threats, Diversity Hires & Oracle in Hot Seat By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/6/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: Female founders face Twitter harassment; Amazon needs a new opener; Oracle has lawsuit battle ahead; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym It is still surprising to see such bad behavior happening is places where one... WiCipedia: Endangered Species, 'the Pao Effect' & Bad Actors By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 9/22/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: Recruiting in a time of upheaval; how Ellen Pao's Reset affects Asian women; and advice from female founders. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Austin Idol didn't Pao sleep around with executives and co-workers? WiCipedia: Podcasts, Charity Tech & Micro-Aggressions By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 8/11/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: A guide to podcasts by and for women; college women in STEM experience gender exclusion; harassment in tech is the norm in Oz/NZ; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: ErynLeavens Agreed about the LearnVest article, Kelsey. Definitely something that we've... WiCipedia: 'Build Up, Never Tear Down' By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 7/28/2017 This week in our WiC roundup: Uber's saving grace; 'boys will be boys'; gaming without prejudice; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards 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. markhmortensen, 8/9/2018 4:27:48 PM Magyar Telekom's AI Trial Success Baffles Engineers Re: AI "Explanation Systems" are too hard to do AI systems cannot explain WHY they recommend something without an "explanation system," which is harder to do than recommending! If a person made a recommendation, but could not explain why they made it, would YOU believe... 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. brooks7, 6/19/2018 4:47:44 PM The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly Re: Re: Is Comcast in the same boat? I just to point out 2 errors in what you are saying: 1 - Most of the purchases are actually for network assets. You can argue that they overpaid for them or whatever. Outside of DirectTV, AOL, and Yahoo are... Duh!, 6/19/2018 3:55:16 PM The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly Re: Re: Is Comcast in the same boat? To reiterate the words of the late, great Ken Olsen, "stick to your knitting". Duh!, 6/19/2018 3:52:27 PM The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly Re: Re: Nobody Worried? I started to write a long-winded response, but it was taking too long. Short version: T and VZ are two different companies, with different managements, different strategies, different rationales for their largest acquisitions,... Scott Raynovich, 6/19/2018 10:16:47 AM The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly Re: Re: Is Comcast in the same boat? Ray, Yes indeed, Comcast should be added. More debt-laden pipes. And no, it does not seem very different. The history of a bunch of suits in NY trying to manage mega-empires is not good. It's something the... [email protected], 6/19/2018 6:34:05 AM The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly Re: Is Comcast in the same boat? Could Comcast's pursuit of Fox also be added to this debate? History shows us that these marriages/mergers don't work out and yet.... here we are again. Is there anything that COULD be different this time around?... Scott Raynovich, 6/18/2018 1:32:39 PM The Telco Debt Binge May End Badly Re: Nobody Worried? So, I dropped a couple bombs on the industry here and ... <crickets> any thoughts? Raanan10, 6/14/2018 1:47:25 AM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: ‘NFV is not down yet’: save it by doing it right While obviously not all of NFV's promise has materialized, concluding that NFV has failed to deliver is far reaching. The values of NFV for service providers and enterprises can still be achieved when... brooks7, 6/5/2018 11:39:01 AM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: Re: We've realized a third of the savings. We need to get to a factor of ten rocket, I think that you are missing the notion a bit. He is talking about 30% savings over doing the service without NFV. For a telco, that is a bare minimum for adopting a new vendor. The big problem... rocket101, 6/4/2018 5:03:27 PM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: We've realized a third of the savings. We need to get to a factor of ten >>We've realized a third of the savings. We need to get to a factor of ten. Does anyone on this board can share any example where a company was able to realize savings by a factor of ten in ANY business??? If the... Joe Stanganelli, 5/29/2018 11:36:42 PM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: Re: "I pay people like Red Hat all of a sudden for OpenStack," @yarn: TCO isn't everything, even if it should be more emphasized. Investors in public companies want to see increased profits quarter over quarter -- not increased expenditures. And the executives and lower-level employees... Joe Stanganelli, 5/29/2018 11:30:46 PM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: Re: So does Gedeon from TELUS expects NFV to be FREE???? Even executives can fall for marketing -- and the open-source community's long-time messaging has been "It's free!" The unspoken part of that: "As long as you don't want support lol." Joe Stanganelli, 5/29/2018 11:28:36 PM NFV Is Down but Not Out Re: Local EPCs Yeah, vEPC really fizzled out from all the hype a couple of years ago, huh?Of course, we can't say we weren't warned for all that hype for those willing and able to read between the lines. As Gabriel noted in a 2016... 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 ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Smart Home Residents Tend to Have Some Security Savvy Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/18/2018 A study by Internet firewall vendor Cujo AI hints that residential IoT consumers ... (1 Comment) ADTRAN's 'Single Biggest EPON Award' Sets Stage for Growth Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/17/2018 Networking vendor beats analysts estimates, in part due to new 10-Gig EPON deal ... (1 Comment) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase 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 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 ... 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! 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