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News & Views Most Popular Aryaka's New CEO: We Need to Be More Than a Face in the SD-WAN Crowd By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 IPO plans are on hold as Aryaka builds its business. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Netsurion's SD-WAN Plays to MSPs By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/10/2018 Managed service provider developed its own combined connectivity-security solution that it's selling direct and to other MSPs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) When Making SD-WAN Plans, Don't Shirk Security By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2018 Security requirements 'can change the design of your overall network dramatically,' says Orange Business's John Isch. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Key Takeaways From NFV & Carrier SDN By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/28/2018 Here's a quick snapshot of my impressions from this week's NFV-Carrier SDN: Automation and Monetization event in Denver. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw I thought it was meant to run on pizza and cola. No wonder these projects are... NFV & SDN Event Wines Down in Denver By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/26/2018 Light Reading's dynamic trio wind down from the NFV & Carrier SDN event by answering the question: Which wines pair with telecom acronyms? Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: PaulERainford But which one had the most amusing nose? (Of the wines, I mean.) Design Matters – Even for Business Service Providers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/26/2018 Spectrum Enterprise's Scott Fairchild says business service providers should borrow from the customer experience playbooks of Apple, Tesla and Bose. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: ChristopherJames Of course there is a certain aesthetic to providing service in your business.... Comcast Business Positions Itself 'Beyond Fast' By Matt Davis, Founder and Principal Analyst, Independence Research LLC, 9/26/2018 At analyst event in Philadelphia, Comcast's business unit launches new branding strategy to promote SD-WAN and other services that go beyond high data speeds. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement CenturyLink's McBride: NFV 'Introduces a New Kind of Cloud' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/25/2018 Says thousands of on-net buildings can be used to distribute network functions virtualization closer to the edge. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: TIM, Fastweb Fire Up 5G With Help From Huawei By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/25/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telia tees up 5G test network in Estonia; Vodafone brings Juniper into its SD-WAN fold; new blood for Ofcom. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Vodafone & China Mobile Lead New Charge Towards Automated, Cross-Domain VPNs By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/25/2018 With a contribution into ONAP that also involved Huawei, Vodafone and China Mobile take the lead on defining service orchestration and automation across carrier network borders. But they're not the first to do so. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink Goes Global With SD-WAN By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/24/2018 Taking SD-WAN service beyond the US to 36 additional nations. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia's Nuage Takes On Cisco & VMware With 'SD-WAN 2.0' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/21/2018 Offers a single network and management interface unifying branch, data center and public clouds. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Apple Stumps Up €14.3B in Unpaid Taxes to Ireland (But Doesn't Really Mean It) By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/19/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia's Nuage trumpets 'SD-WAN 2.0'; Wind Tre uses Open Fiber's FTTH network in Matera; Sky bundles in Netflix; UK mobile operators carry on charging. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange Business Services Targets Cloud Leadership as Telco Rivals Flounder By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/19/2018 Orange Business Services looks in much better shape than its European telco rivals, but can it now become an 'Internet of enterprises' market leader? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Windstream Adds PCI Compliance to SD-WAN By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/18/2018 Service provider says the independent compliance is important not just to its retail segment customers but also many other market segments. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Nigeria Has MTN in Its Crosshairs Again – This Time for a $2B Tax Bill By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/5/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT makes SNAP decision on SD-WAN; Telefónica Deutschland is sweet on Netcracker; DT's Langheim gets new US board role. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] -- According to the report, factors affecting London's dismal showing include... McBride on Why CenturyLink Delivers 'Home-Brewed' Flavors of NFV & SDN By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 8/31/2018 During his keynote at Light Reading's NFV & Carrier SDN event in Denver next month, CenturyLink's Kevin McBride plans to address real-world challenges for service providers in monetizing and scaling the deployment of SDN/NFV and cloud technologies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) VMware Sees 'Enormous' Telco Opportunity By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/29/2018 SD-WAN is driving deals where VMware partners with telcos to sell to enterprise customers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) SDN & NFV: Convergence & Divergence Down in Denver By Sterling Perrin, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading, 8/27/2018 Since the launch of Light Reading's NFV & Carrier SDN event, the trajectories of SDN and NFV have continued to converge while also diverging and separating more than we expected. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Jeff McElfresh Is New Face of 5G at AT&T By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/23/2018 Succeeding Melissa Arnoldi in the role, the AT&T vet is the company's new president of technology and operations and will helm the company's mobile 5G rollout. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards tojofay, 10/10/2018 2:22:15 PM CenturyLink Launches Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections Re: sounds like... ...Infinera's capabilities have enabled CenturyLink to offer these features. The point about service time activation in right out of INFN's marketing. ChristopherJames, 10/8/2018 4:30:15 AM Design Matters – Even for Business Service Providers Re: hi Of course there is a certain aesthetic to providing service in your business. Design is not purely isolated to products you know. You have to have a certain style and representation of your company and what it can do in... James_B_Crawshaw, 9/28/2018 2:37:28 PM Key Takeaways From NFV & Carrier SDN Re: Open source runs on beer I thought it was meant to run on pizza and cola. No wonder these projects are taking so long ... PaulERainford, 9/27/2018 12:33:52 PM NFV & SDN Event Wines Down in Denver Re: Re: Beers and broadband techs But which one had the most amusing nose? (Of the wines, I mean.) iainmorris, 9/27/2018 6:51:05 AM NFV & SDN Event Wines Down in Denver Re: Beers and broadband techs This is definitely the way forward. I smell a beer opportunity at the upcoming Broadband World Forum... James_B_Crawshaw, 9/13/2018 5:22:08 PM DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Re: Re: Beer reference Kölsch - a clear, top-fermented beer with a bright, straw-yellow hue. Nothing cloudified there Axel :) axelc, 9/13/2018 11:36:56 AM DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Re: Beer reference I won't comment on the rest of the content, but for someone who studied and worked for a long time in Cologne, this comment on the start section of the article is key: my favorite beer is Koelsch (this is brewed inside the... [email protected], 9/6/2018 7:06:16 AM Eurobites: Nigeria Has MTN in Its Crosshairs Again – This Time for a $2B Tax Bill Re: London cellular coverage -- According to the report, factors affecting London's dismal showing include the large number of tall buildings (calling all city planners and architects: is it time for a re-think in the mobile data era?) and the "vast... PaulERainford, 9/5/2018 10:02:02 AM Eurobites: Nigeria Has MTN in Its Crosshairs Again – This Time for a $2B Tax Bill Re: Re: Personalized, contextual experiences Oh. I was hoping it might have something to do with joss-sticks in a yurt. James_B_Crawshaw, 9/5/2018 9:01:28 AM Eurobites: Nigeria Has MTN in Its Crosshairs Again – This Time for a $2B Tax Bill Re: Personalized, contextual experiences For example, you are a regular traveler from Germany to US but forget to buy a data roaming package before setting off so you leave your mobile data off. Next time you connect to the airport basestation in Munich the operator... mathew456, 8/31/2018 4:07:57 PM Cisco Blends Viptela SD-WAN Into Router Stack Re: Router I have read the post and it is very much helpful as I have got to know about the SD WAN which might help you to router stack. The Cisco has become a great advantage in the router industry. Contact in Router Supports... Atlantis-dude, 8/17/2018 2:09:56 AM Aryaka CMO Sets Sights on IPO in 2019 Re: Re: IPO will be no go at what rate is revenue/profit growing and are they expanding in new mkts? lightreceding, 8/13/2018 10:15:18 PM Aryaka CMO Sets Sights on IPO in 2019 Re: IPO will be no go I doubt that Aryaka will ever do an IPO. More likely they will get bought for cheap by a Telco. As the SD-WAN market grows the major Telcos will get more interested in offering a service and they are better positioned to... James_B_Crawshaw, 8/9/2018 11:53:40 AM Windstream Claims US SD-WAN Leadership Re: SD-WAN Leadership Last quarter they said that SD-WAN was less than 1% of their revenue while MPLS was 14%. It is important to have a strong SD-WAN offering but it is perhaps premature to call it a leadership position. Do they currently lead... Atlantis-dude, 7/25/2018 2:59:58 AM Viptela's Kingpins Have a New Stealth Startup Re: after exploiting ciscos low marketshare of iwan they must be taking a shot at the nexxt cisco product. how they comapre to arrcus More Message Boards		Security Now Security Needs to Start Speaking the Language of Business Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At the Gartner Symposium/ITXPO, upcoming security trends for the next year ... (0) Privacy & AI Changing the Digital Transformation Game Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At Gartner's Symposium/ITXPO, analysts have come up with the term ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Coop Gives a Damn About Infrastructure Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/16/2018 Beaver Creek Cooperative Telephone Co. needs to replace its legacy system with a ... (0) AT&T Suffering Service Outage in Dallas-Ft. Worth Area Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Company says fire at facility caused by lightning strike is the culprit. Update: ... (4 comments) 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 ... 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