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News & Views Most Popular Gartner: NFV Is Dead – the Cloud Killed It By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 The service provider industry is being transformed by enterprise demand for cloud-based wide-area networking, a model Gartner calls Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE. Post a Comment Podcast: 5G, Edge Computing Give SDN & NFV New Focus By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 9/24/2019 As the editors recap Light Reading's event series on network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), technologies like 5G and edge computing arrive just in time to hurry the industry along its path to more modern networks and add plenty of drama. Post a Comment Podcast: The NV & SDN Americas Recap By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 9/24/2019 Light Reading editors Mitch Wagner, Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey gathered to empty their notebooks and recap the NV & SDN event at the Dallas Marriott Las Colinas. Post a Comment Advertisement CenturyLink: Network Infrastructure Is the Real Final Frontier By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/18/2019 NASA was trying to solve the same problems telcos now face when it launched the space shuttle Enterprise, 43 years ago Tuesday. Post a Comment Masergy's Watson: SD-WAN Is SDN's Killer App By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/17/2019 Enterprises demand SD-WAN from telcos, and SD-WAN won't work without SDN, says Ray Watson, Masergy's innovation VP. Post a Comment Comcast Taps 'Trellis' Open Fabric for Distributed Access Architecture By Light Reading, 9/16/2019 The cable giant sees scalability, space and power efficiency as payoffs. Post a Comment John Donovan Out at AT&T By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/26/2019 The top telecom executive at AT&T is leaving the company to spend time with his family. AT&T hasn't named a replacement. Post a Comment Advertisement Podcast: What's Changing in the Competitive World of SD-WAN By The Philter, 8/26/2019 Our series on the state of the SD-WAN market continues with a discussion on what's holding back some companies in the space and how standards and new technologies are advancing the cause of SD-WAN. 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 Harmonic Sheds More Light on Big 'CableOS' Deal With Comcast By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/30/2019 Four-year $175 million enterprise licensing deal covers headend software, with potential to reduce those fees should Comcast opt to buy other products, including nodes and other network hardware, from Harmonic. 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 AT&T & IBM Strike Major Cloud, Networking Alliance By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/16/2019 AT&T Business Solutions will migrate its internal applications to the IBM Cloud. IBM, meanwhile, will use AT&T Business as its primary provider of software-defined networking. Post a Comment ONAP 'Dublin' Lightens Network Orchestration By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/9/2019 The latest release of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) sports enhancements designed to get the software up and running faster, so carriers can get on with sexy innovation. Post a Comment GSMA to Bring Standardization to NFVi Wild West By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 6/28/2019 A collaboration between the industry's largest trade group of mobile network operators and the preeminent open source consortium is aiming to simplify and harmonize dozens of NFVi efforts. Post a Comment Podcast: Why Telcos Are Challenged at the Edge By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 6/25/2019 Building edge computing resources for advanced applications is going to be a big challenge to telcos in terms of how and where to invest, as well as when and where to partner with cloud providers, vendors and others. Post a Comment NTT Challenges Cloud Giants By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 6/3/2019 NTT Communications needed additional flexibility and automation to compete with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Post a Comment 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 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 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 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 More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Gartner: NFV Is Dead – the Cloud Killed It By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 The service provider industry is being transformed by enterprise demand for cloud-based wide-area networking, a model Gartner calls Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Harmonic Revenues Drop 14% in Q2 as CableOS Deployments Rise Monday, July 29, 2019 ONAP 'Dublin' Boosts Scaleability, 5G & Deployment Tuesday, July 9, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Unit 42 Finds the First Cryptojacking Docker Container Larry Loeb, Author, 10/17/2019 Palo Alto Network's Unit 42 has found the first cryptocurrency miner malware that ... (0) Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity: Making It Work for Your Organization 10/16/2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a new frontier in information security. ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: Connecting Africa to Cost $100B – World Bank Report Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/18/2019 Also today, Sparklight Business brightens enterprise WiFi, Eir bites into Apple ... 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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 Is NFV Headed for a Cliff? Mitch Wagner , Executive Editor, Light Reading , 8/7/2019 Are telcos solving NFVs big problems or making them worse? Critics say a ... (6 comments) 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) Calix Gambles on a Software-Defined Reboot Carol Wilson , Editor-at-large , 6/28/2017 Having invested big bucks to become a software company, Calix seems poised for a ... (0) Leading Lights 2017: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/10/2017 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... 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CxO Spotlight - Executive Interviews

10/16/2019

Juniper CTO Talks About the Company's 5G Aspirations

When Bikash Koley jumped ship from Google to become the CTO of Juniper Networks in mid-2017, it was considered quite a win for the networking firm. Koley, who had ...