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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 Making Virtual Business Services Real By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Charter Spectrum Enterprise's Satya Parimi discusses the cableco's rollout of SD-WAN and virtualized security services, the lessons learned and the challenges still ahead. Post a Comment Silver Peak Touts SD-WAN on a Global Scale By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/10/2019 New Silver Peak automation tools are designed to help enterprises – and the service providers working on their behalf – deploy networks to hundreds of thousands of locations worldwide. Post a Comment Advertisement Cable Sizes Up New Business Verticals & Vectors By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2019 Light Reading's Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner look at the future and past of cable business services. Post a Comment Comcast Business Testing 'GameOn' App in Philly By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/4/2019 Developed by a startup linked to the Comcast/NBCU Lift Labs incubator, an app running on a verrsion of X1 tailored for bars and restaurants enables patrons to play an interactive game based on making sports predictions. Post a Comment MEF19: Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin on SD-WAN Adoption By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 11/27/2019 Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin discusses new SD-WAN research he presented at MEF19 in Los Angeles, and why it's significant that cloud providers aren't part of MEF (yet). Post a Comment MEF19: Heavy Reading's Jennifer Clark on SD-WAN & the Edge By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 11/26/2019 Edge computing, 5G and the cloud are drivers of and enablers of multivendor SD-WAN services, said Heavy Reading's Jennifer Clark, in a discussion about the progress of SD-WAN standardization. Post a Comment Advertisement Should SD-WAN Providers Let Enterprises Drive? By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/22/2019 Many enterprise customers want to operate their own SD-WAN, but they risk driving into a ditch. Post a Comment MEF 2019: Vertical Systems Group's Erin Dunne on Standards & Managed Approach to SD-WAN By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/21/2019 Dunne explains why enterprises are interested in utilizing managed SD-WAN services to simplify deployment and continued management of the service. Post a Comment MEF19 Day 2: Are Cloudy Times on the Horizon? By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 11/21/2019 On Day 2 of MEF19, Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin highlights how MEF's carrier members are early adopters in SD-WAN. Meanwhile, Perrin, along with Heavy Reading's Jennifer Clarke discuss the implications of bringing cloud computing providers into the MEF ecosystem. Post a Comment How Is Telco Transformation Like Soylent Green? By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/21/2019 It's all about the people. Post a Comment Carriers Fly the Flag for SD-WAN Service Specs By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/21/2019 But if the industry at large supports MEF specifications and commits to certified SD-WAN services, how will service providers and vendors differentiate in an already crowded market? Post a Comment Microsoft's Ortega: Office 365 Drives SD-WAN Demand By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/21/2019 Microsoft honcho says Office 365 transformed enterprise networks. Bold claim – but partly true. Post a Comment MEF19: Frost & Sullivan's Roopa Honnachari on Hybrid Cloud & Security Trends for SD-WAN By Light Reading, 11/20/2019 The managed SD-WAN market is also predicted to exceed $6.5 billion by 2023 – a massive leap for such a new technology, says Honnachari. Post a Comment Comcast's Victor: SD-WAN Faces 'Baskin-Robbins Problem' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/20/2019 Enterprise customers struggle with too many SD-WAN choices, says Robert Victor, Comcast Business SVP of product management. Post a Comment MEF Heightens SD-WAN Frenzy By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 11/19/2019 By defining and certifying services and service providers, MEF aims to build SD-WAN's market momentum. Post a Comment Aryaka Expands Its SD-WAN Arsenal By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/19/2019 SD-WAN specialist launches suite of 'SmartServices' and introduces a regional connectivity option to complement its global network. Post a Comment Eurobites: Nokia's 5G Juggernaut Rolls On By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/19/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange turns to Fortinet for secure SD-WAN; ADVA interconnects in Austria; UK gets new 5G working group; BT combines with NHS on blood donation. Post a Comment MEF19 Preview: SD-WAN – Defined & Certified By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 11/18/2019 Is it a pizza or a pie? Light Reading's Mitch Wagner and Phil Harvey muse on fun food analogies, MEF's new SD-WAN certifications and why service providers need standards. Post a Comment Podcast: Nuage CEO on the Market Impact of MEF's SD-WAN Standards By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/18/2019 Light Reading's podcast features guest Sunil Khandekar, who examines where the SD-WAN market might be headed in 2020, as well as the potential impact of standards on the market. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Silver Peak Scales SD-WAN Edge to 10,000 Sites & Beyond Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Aryaka Debuts Regional SD-WAN Connectivity Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Verizon Adds Self-Service SD-WAN Option Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Cybera & Apex Join Forces to Accelerate Time-to-Profit for Retailers Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Silver Peak Expands Integration With Microsoft Cloud Services Monday, November 4, 2019 Teridion Introduces Industry's First Compliant Cloud-Based Global SD-WAN Service to Mainland China Thursday, October 24, 2019 Riverbed Names Rich McBee as New President and CEO Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Riverbed Sets New Standard for SD-WAN Monday, October 21, 2019 New Adtran SD-WAN Targets SMBs, Distributed Enterprises Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Altice USA Teams With Cisco on SD-WAN Services Monday, September 30, 2019 SD-WAN Startup Bigleaf Raises $21M Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Trustgrid Touts EdgeNetwork SD-WAN for Banking Transactions Wednesday, September 18, 2019 VMware Boosts Cloud Automation & Touts Hyperscale SD-WAN Tuesday, August 27, 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) Why BT's Security Chief Is Attacking His Own Network Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 7/17/2017 With the cybersecurity threat landscape shifting quickly and continuously, BT's ... (0) All Prime Reading

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