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News & Views Most Popular MEF Seeks to End SD-WAN Confusion By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/21/2019 The MEF 70 standard looks to clarify the definition of SD-WAN and pave the way for carrier interoperability, certification and faster deployment times for SD-WAN services. Post a Comment Podcast: SES Networks Takes ONAP Sky-High By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/20/2019 The satellite network operator is looking to the Open Networking Automaton Platform (ONAP) to automate connecting its space-based network with terrestrial operators. Post a Comment Orange's Isch on Keeping SD-WAN Secure & Simple By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 8/15/2019 In a recent podcast with Light Reading, John Isch discusses how Orange 'co-innovates' with SD-WAN customers, and shares several case studies on what this process looks like by describing collaborations with its SD-WAN customers Siemens and Sony. Post a Comment Advertisement Bell Canada's Ely: Market Demands Scalable, Co-Managed SD-WAN By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 8/7/2019 As 5G takes off, service providers must plan ahead for its impact on SD-WAN. In addition, Ely says growing demand for 'co-managed' SD-WAN services creates challenges around scalability. Post a Comment SES Takes ONAP to the Final Frontier By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 SES Networks is using Amdocs to implement the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on Microsoft Azure, to allow its telco customers to seamlessly extend to SES's satellite service. Post a Comment Podcast: The Fast-Moving World of SD-WAN By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/30/2019 Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser discusses the world of SD-WAN, why there are so many vendors and whether enterprise 'white glove' services are handled by butlers. Post a Comment AT&T's Chokshi: Why Carriers Need Disaggregation at the Edge By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 7/29/2019 AT&T's Rupesh Chokshi says the case for disaggregated routers at the edge goes beyond the usual examples of increased business agility, network visibility and performance. Post a Comment Advertisement QOS Networks Secures SD-WAN Contract With the Golden State By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 7/22/2019 QOS Networks' contract with the State of California is its first foray into the government space for SD-WAN. Post a Comment Cato Debuts 'Hands-Free' SD-WAN By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/16/2019 Cato offers self-service, co-managed and now fully managed options for its cloud SD-WAN service. Post a Comment Microsoft Teams With MSPs to Hook Enterprises Into Azure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/15/2019 Microsoft is partnering with eight managed service providers, including SD-WAN startup Aryaka, to connect enterprises with applications in the Azure cloud. Post a Comment Will Standards Lessen SD-WAN's Growing Pains? By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 7/11/2019 Ovum and Heavy Reading explain how MEF has stepped in to create SD-WAN specifications to provide clarity in the market, and how this service definition could impact the industry. Post a Comment Epsilon Revamps Its Back Office to Support Pivot to Enterprise Services By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 7/10/2019 International wholesale operator wants to play a bigger role with enterprise customers but adding services such as data center interconnect and SD-WAN requires additional operational and business support tools. Post a Comment SD-WAN Update: 5G Impact Still to Come, as the Market Consolidates By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 7/2/2019 In addition to kicking around the idea of 5G's impact on SD-WAN, Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin shares insights on how the SD-WAN market might evolve this year. Post a Comment BT Leverages Open Source for Fifth Generation of Network Monitoring By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 7/2/2019 Telcos need new ways to monitor their services and networks and some are turning to the open source community for inspiration. Post a Comment NTT Revamps to Form Single Giant Global Service Provider By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 7/1/2019 Japanese operator pulls together multiple units to form a single international ICT service provider with annual revenues of $11 billion. Post a Comment Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins Answers All the Questions By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/18/2019 During Cisco's recent corporate trade event, Cisco Live, the company's CEO Chuck Robbins devoted roughly half an hour to a Q&A session with reporters, covering everything from Cisco's position on the world's geopolitical stage to the company's latest networking products. Post a Comment Cisco's SP Chief Eyes the 5G Opportunity By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/17/2019 Cisco's Jonathan Davidson is the chief executive of the company's service provider business. During the company's Cisco Live event, he offered some commentary on how Cisco is looking at the nascent but potentially explosive 5G opportunity, and how that might play into Cisco's business, including its SD-WAN activities. Post a Comment From 5G to Huawei to SD-WAN: A Tour of Cisco Live By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/14/2019 Light Reading attended the recent Cisco Live event, where 28,000 people descended on San Diego's convention center to learn everything they could about Cisco's products and business strategy. Post a Comment How Orange Business Services Is Pursuing the SD-WAN/5G Intersection By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/13/2019 John Isch of Orange Business Services said the company is talking about SD-WAN with virtually all of its multinational clientele. However, he said the 5G part of that conversation is still at a very early stage. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telefónica Hops on Google's Cloud By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica and Fortinet combine on Virtual Firewall service; Telia offers comfort to Swedish bus passengers; Orange connects Russian shipping fleet. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive MEF Seeks to End SD-WAN Confusion By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/21/2019 The MEF 70 standard looks to clarify the definition of SD-WAN and pave the way for carrier interoperability, certification and faster deployment times for SD-WAN services. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors MEF Publishes SD-WAN Standard Wednesday, August 21, 2019 GTT Enhances SD-WAN With Universal CPE to Improve Agility & Performance Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Masergy Bundles SD-WAN & Security Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Cisco, VMware, Silver Peak & Nokia Nuage Top SD-WAN Market Wednesday, July 24, 2019 QOS Networks Wins State of California Contract as Exclusive SD-WAN Provider Thursday, July 18, 2019 Cato Intros Full-Service SD-WAN Support Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Aryaka Partners With Microsoft on Azure Networking Services Monday, July 15, 2019 SD-WAN Goes Mobile, as Revenue Expands 8% in Q1 Sunday, July 14, 2019 Orange Business Services to Transform Sony's Global Network to Drive Business Efficiency Monday, July 8, 2019 Extreme to Buy Aerohive in $210M Deal Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Riverbed Strikes OEM Deal With Versa Monday, June 17, 2019 Open Systems & Equinix Partner to Accelerate Global Digital Transformation Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Tech Papers Picked for Cable-Tec Expo Monday, June 10, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Nuclear Plant Security Compromised by Financially Motivated Insiders Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Equipment at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was used to mine cryptocurrency. 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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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Three CEO: We'd Rather Take Huawei Risk Than Miss 5G Rewards

Three UK has just launched a major 5G-led assault on the living room. If all goes to plan, the smallest of the country's four mobile network operators will emerge ...