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News & Views Most Popular At Boingo, Network Cloudification Drives Business Transformation By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 Boingo is best known as the guys who get travelers online at airports, but that's just a small part of the business nowadays. Network virtualization has helped drive the transition. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T & Bell Canada: Know What to Send to the Edge By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/7/2019 Not every workload needs to go to the edge. Operators need to consider which workloads make the most sense to transition. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Company of the Year (Private) By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/4/2019 Several privately held companies – including Versa Networks, CUJO AI, Synamedia and Pluribus Networks – have grown their businesses and set themselves up for success in the last 12 months. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative SD-WAN Product Strategy (Vendor) By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/3/2019 Find out which vendors devised the most innovative SD-WAN product or platform during the past year. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange Taps Dell for 5G Transformation By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2019 Orange and Dell will collaborate on a distributed cloud architecture for 5G cloud networking. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Aryaka Racks $50M Funding for Global SD-WAN Expansion By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2019 Aryaka's war chest now totals $184 million for its SD-WAN service, which runs on its own private network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T Flies 'Airship' to 5G Cloud By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/29/2019 AT&T's 5G network cloud is built using Airship open source cloud infrastructure provisioning software, which goes to version 1 on Monday. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Business Cloud Service By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 4/23/2019 Colt Technology Services, Comcast Business and Vonage all had stand-out cloud service offerings for business customers in the past 12 months. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Telco Cloud Strategy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/23/2019 Three leading operators make the shortlist for telco cloud strategy for this year's Leading Lights. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/4/2019 Nicira co-founder Scott Shenker and other networking visionaries issue a manifesto for technology they say can jump-start development for network functions virtualization (NFV). Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw "The Lean NFV approach relies on two technically straightforward design decisions:... Telefónica on Mission to Kill SDN as We Know It By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/27/2019 Spanish operator wants to get rid of its domain-specific controllers and thinks standardization efforts will make that possible. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Telefónica Wrestles With OSM, SDN as Unica Passes Halfway Point By Iain Morris, International Editor, 3/18/2019 The Spanish operator's big virtualization project is over the halfway point and facing up to a new set of technical challenges. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Dish Network Aspires to Be America's Rakuten in 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/5/2019 Despite analyst skepticism, Dish executives continue to argue that the company will be able to make a splash with a new, nationwide 5G network. And Japan's Rakuten appears to offer some evidence to support those claims. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Equinix Builds 'Network Edge' for Global NFV By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 2/27/2019 Equinix is initially testing virtual router and firewall in the US and Europe, with plans to extend into Asia soon, to help make network connections more agile and responsive for enterprise customers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) VMware Debuts 'Biggest Release Ever of NSX' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 2/27/2019 VMware says new NSX-T is 'completely decoupled from vSphere now,' with significantly improved automation, user interface, scalability and security. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: riyabenjamin With the launch of NSX virtual networking software, VMWare is going to... Vodafone Deal a 'Huge Step' for Sedona Systems By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/21/2019 Transport network visibility and multivendor management startup Sedona has landed a breakthrough deal with Vodafone Group, adding to its Tier 1 successes. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T Inks '8-Figure' Kubernetes & OpenStack 5G Deal With Mirantis By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 2/7/2019 The deal is a vindication for network functions virtualization (NFV), OpenStack and Mirantis, all of which have been taking reputation hits recently. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: komatineni It really sounds like an advertisement for Openstack / K8S. The disruption... Alphabet's Loon Debuts New Telecom Buzzword: 'Temporospatial SDN' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 2/1/2019 Google sister company Loon launches new industry jargon, driven by its recent deal with Telesat to power the company's LEO satellites. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Startup Stateless Goes Loco for Colo, Scores $11.3M By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 1/30/2019 Stateless's SDIX technology helps colocation centers turn themselves into dynamic networking hubs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cisco Promotes 'Data Center Anywhere' Concept By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 1/29/2019 Cisco boasts of 'data center anywhere' capabilities designed to bring data center-class networking, compute and storage to branch and 'edge' sites. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards brooks7, 4/8/2019 10:32:18 AM Verizon, Calix Roll Out Commercial NG-PON 2 Re: Re: Tampa? That is not NG-PON2. It is either BPON or GPON. seven optical Mike, 4/7/2019 11:39:28 AM Verizon, Calix Roll Out Commercial NG-PON 2 Re: Re: Tampa? Interesting they did same here in the Dallas area, I initially had VZ install the ONT and provide service and a couple of years later Frontier took over pretty much seamlessly. I was just excited to get fiber to the home... James_B_Crawshaw, 4/5/2019 7:38:20 AM 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization Re: Lean and mean "The Lean NFV approach relies on two technically straightforward design decisions: using an open-source KV store for coordination within NFV solutions (management components and VNFs), and using a plug-in approach to integration... yarn, 4/4/2019 5:34:43 PM 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization Re: Why would it work this time? If lean NFV is trying to solve a problem that NFV introduced, than perhaps no NFV is even better? It seems to me that NFV with less specifications will only increase integration complexity because it leaves more open to... [email protected], 4/4/2019 4:48:12 PM 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization Re: Update on investors in Nefeli Networks The article has been updated to note that NEA is the lead investor in Nefeli, with Danhua Capital (DHVC) and The House Fund also contributing to its $9.2 million round. riyabenjamin, 3/2/2019 12:08:16 PM VMware Debuts 'Biggest Release Ever of NSX' Re: NSX virtual networking software With the launch of NSX virtual networking software, VMWare is going to disrupt the market. It's hypercloud-class networking agility and scalability to enterprises and service providers is indeed powerful. I... kerryjames, 2/26/2019 4:57:16 AM OpenDaylight Expands 2015 Internship Program Re: OpenDaylight Expands 2015 Internship Open Daylight Project publicized the obtainability of 14 SDN, NFV ... The Open Daylight Mission proclaimed the obtainability of 15 internships as part of its 2019 Placement Program. https://hafiservices.com dmersch, 2/14/2019 3:14:19 PM MWC 5G-Gasm Risks Missing the Big Telecom Issues Re: MWC 5G Great article. It is clear once again many SPs will provision new service but miss the big new revenue opportunities because either a lack of vision or inability to appropriately leverage cloud technologies. komatineni, 2/11/2019 9:59:17 PM AT&T Inks '8-Figure' Kubernetes & OpenStack 5G Deal With Mirantis Re: re: It really sounds like an advertisement for Openstack / K8S. The disruption is great but the claim that Kubernetes is needed for 5G or standard of API (?) or VNF's are designed to run inside VM (to use OpenStack?) is... juliahaiden43, 1/20/2019 11:43:39 PM DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Re: Appreciated Really good article really appreciate your knowledge and found you as expert in it. Mitch Wagner, 1/11/2019 2:24:45 PM Network Virtualization Pioneer Guido Appenzeller Exits VMware Re: Update We updated the article Friday to include VMware comment. Solution12143, 12/27/2018 8:37:33 AM Digital Transformation: Telcos Face the Future Re: Not clear about SD-WAN... I always regarded SD-WAN as carrier network technology, and he told it comes from OTT. Maybe I don't understand something? MindCommerce, 12/26/2018 9:07:20 PM PCCW Global on the Need to Monetize the Edge Re: Need for Carriers to Think Out of Box with Edge Computing "We need to sell to customers directly" (like cloud providers). Do you see that carriers get that model and see a way to adopt it? "We have (speaking of PCCW), developed our own platform...where customers can order on-demand". "We... KanwalLiaquat, 11/9/2018 12:09:26 AM OpenDaylight Expands 2015 Internship Program Re: Internship Program The internship is a great initiative by someone, we can do an internship in any field of interest. Actually, It is the best way for learning and even you get compensated as well. Usually individual go for it after completing... Atlantis-dude, 11/3/2018 10:33:13 AM Comcast's O'Toole: SDN Stands Up to the 'Tyranny of the Boxes' Re: Re: tyranny of the boxes guess no odd cbls to hardware applnces .. more uniform cbling to srvrs More Message Boards		Security Now Zscaler Finds Security Issues Galore in IoT Traffic Larry Loeb, Author, 5/24/2019 The use of plain-text HTTP communication, outdated libraries and weak default ... (0) Strategic Security Equals Faster Digital Transformation Larry Loeb, Author, 5/23/2019 Survey finds that respondents who adopted a more traditional or reactive approach ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News DT's Fiber Invasion, One Partner at a Time Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/24/2019 Deutsche Telekom just signed an infrastructure project with the Gigabit Region ... (0) BBWN Bites: The Law & Order Episode Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/24/2019 Trump's 'calm' walkout – a.k.a. 'tantrum' – will impact investment in ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... 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 ... 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