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News & Views Most Popular Can Telecom Business Services Bounce Back? By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/16/2018 There was surprising optimism in the sector at the MEF18 event, but will it be reflected in revenues going forward? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Analyst: SD-WAN Not Yet Zero-Touch By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/16/2018 Zero-touch provisioning and plug-and-play are still buzzwords where SD-WAN is concerned, but not reality, says VSG's Erin Dunne. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange Pushing Multivendor SD-WAN By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/16/2018 Orange Business Services is working with several vendors to develop multivendor SD-WAN expertise and counting on MEF application programming interfaces and definitions for SD-WAN to enable a single portal for its SD-WAN offering, says Franck Morales, vice president of marketing of connectivity services for Orange Business Services. In addition, its SD-WAN service will be built on four other pillars: native cloud connectivity, best-of-breed security, global services and future-proof solution. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Nokia Upgrades NFVi for Edge, Containers By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/15/2018 Also, for the first time the vendor is directly sourcing OpenStack from its open source community instead of using RedHat's version. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T: App Focus Driving Enterprises to Managed SD-WAN By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/15/2018 SD-WAN is changing the way customers think about networking, from just routing packets appropriately to looking at application flows, and determining the best approach for each application, says Roman Pacewicz, chief product officer for AT&T. Post a Comment \| Read (0) DT: Pan-Net Producing Multivendor Apps By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/14/2018 Almost four years into building its pan-European cloud, DT is 'very close' to finishing the infrastructure and is rolling out cloud-based multivendor apps. Post a Comment \| Read (0) F&S: Survey Shows Enterprises Prefer Managed SD-WAN Services By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/14/2018 Enterprises are shifting to a carrier-managed version of SD-WAN, with only about a quarter of companies preferring a DIY approach, says Roopa Honnachari, industry director, business services and cloud computing for Frost & Sullivan's ICT practice. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement SES CEO Plugs Satellite's Role in Global Ecosystem By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/14/2018 Satellite access will play a key role going forward in reaching distant locations more quickly than fiber can, providing access and wireless backhaul, enabling disaster recovery and backup and connecting mobile sites including cruise and shipping vessels, airplanes and more, says SES CEO John-Paul Hemingway. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Colt's Voltolini on Service Automation By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/13/2018 Mirko Voltolini, global head of Network on Demand at Colt, talks about how the operator has automated the service delivery aspect of its Ethernet services but is still working on the significant challenge of automating the service assurance lifecycle. Post a Comment \| Read (0) PCCW Global: Blockchain Can Automate Inter-Carrier Connections By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/13/2018 Service interconnection is changing, requiring automation to handle commercial agreements at scale and blockchain can enable that, says Marc Halbfinger, CEO of PCCW Global. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast's O'Toole: SDN Stands Up to the 'Tyranny of the Boxes' By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/1/2018 Moving from legacy technologies like MPLS won't happen overnight, and operators need to find a way for legacy and new technologies to coexist in a hybrid WAN environment, said Comcast's Kevin O'Toole. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Atlantis-dude guess no odd cbls to hardware applnces .. more uniform cbling to srvrs Spectrum, Telus Team on Dynamic Services PoC By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/31/2018 MEF18 demo shows policy-driven dynamic services over multi-carrier networks Post a Comment \| Read (0) MEF Executing on SD-WAN Specs, New APIs & Enterprise Council By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/30/2018 Organization kicks off its annual conference with three key announcements showing progress on multiple MEF 3.0 fronts. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Atlantis-dude that ve implemented these or r planning to? MEF Addressing SD-WAN Challenges to Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation By Ralph Santitoro, Head, SDN/NFV/SD-WAN Services, Fujitsu, 10/25/2018 MEF is creating an SD-WAN service definition to describe the core, baseline capabilities to help buyers and sellers of SD-WAN services. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Is Virtualization a DIY Deal for Telcos? By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/22/2018 Many larger network operators are bringing software development in-house, developing their own orchestrators and other tools, and using more open source to get the results they want, without vendor dependence. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CSPs Still Puzzling Over NFV Business Case By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/18/2018 TM Forum Digital Transformation Tracker shows diversity of views on virtualization, with larger operators moving forward much faster, and many smaller companies struggling to make it pay. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Service Providers Should Adapt to Open Source World By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/16/2018 Four operator executives say open source solves more problems than it causes, and that CSPs need to get with the program. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Arista Challenges Cisco on Campus Networks By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 Arista is extending its Cognitive Campus strategy with networking technology gained from its recent Mojo Networks purchase. Arista says: No more BMOC for CSCO. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Where's Cable Going With Cloud? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/12/2018 In a special, free SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo breakfast roundtable session on Tuesday, October 23, we'll look at where cable stands in its cloud journey. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink Adds Dynamic Cloud Connections By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/9/2018 New Layer 2-based service promises cloud connections in minutes to enterprises in fiber-fed buildings globally. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards 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 ASX4000, 11/2/2018 12:03:33 PM Comcast's O'Toole: SDN Stands Up to the 'Tyranny of the Boxes' Re: tyranny of the boxes Agreeing with the most what has being said in this Article, just wondering how all the SDN stuff is working without "...hardware, plagued by a "million cables hanging out" and hardware that depreciates in value..."? &nb... Atlantis-dude, 11/2/2018 2:32:01 AM MEF Executing on SD-WAN Specs, New APIs & Enterprise Council Re: any leading carriers that ve implemented these or r planning to? 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. ChiefMar76368, 10/4/2018 9:14:16 AM Verizon: Vendor AI Not Ready for Prime Time Re: AI is only ever a part of the solution... Great article, Carol. It should no longer be a surprise to anyone that "AI" isn't the answer. And any AI vendor claiming it is can be quickly be shown the door. For network-related problems, it CAN be PART of the solution,... markhmortensen, 10/3/2018 6:42:48 AM Verizon: Vendor AI Not Ready for Prime Time Re: Network AI - Tomorrow. Customer-focused AI now Matt Tegerdine's experience with the vendors clearly demonstrates that the majority of the current AI use cases have come from the customer interaction side of the enterprise market, not the network side of the CSP market.... James_B_Crawshaw, 10/3/2018 3:10:03 AM Verizon: Vendor AI Not Ready for Prime Time Re: The hard piece isn't getting the AI right, it's understanding the network. Great article Carol. Your interview with Matt Tegerdine has cut through the BS about AI in telecoms. I think one opportunity for vendor tools lies in taking the centralized AI capability that Verizon, and other operators,... Atlantis-dude, 10/2/2018 11:49:26 AM Equinix: Scale or Die Re: well said though eqnx would also be facing presure from pub clouds as they can't match the sw Gabriel Brown, 9/26/2018 4:30:24 AM Vodafone's Heeran: Defining the Telco Cloud Re: Public cloud for telco networking This is a big statement to unpack: "We also have to consider the public cloud -- the closer we are in an architectural sense to the public cloud, the easier that will make it for us." benjaminramsey, 9/22/2018 6:03:27 AM OpenDaylight Expands 2015 Internship Program Re: Program Nice level of information output. Any IT or computer student get tired of development than just touching with the Excellent Wordpress development company. 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... James_B_Crawshaw, 9/6/2018 11:48:09 AM Ericsson Links 5G Hands With Juniper & ECI, Snubs Cisco & Ciena Re: ECI vs Ciena Ericsson had an analyst call today to discuss their new 5G Transport portfolio and they reiterated that ECI was for metro and aggregation while Ciena was for the core and long haul (DWDM, ROADMs, etc). ECI has been integrated... [email protected], 8/31/2018 8:25:34 AM Ciena Eyes More Software M&A Re: Re: Blue Planet is a drop in the ocean for Ciena software sales Thanks James. I will tweak the article to show that software is more than just Blue Planet. Ciena still obvioulsy has high hopes for the role the Blue Planet software can play -- I'm sure there are a number of specialist... More Message Boards		Security Now Geoblocking, Even at Low Levels, Restricts Internet Freedom – Study Larry Loeb, Author, 11/21/2018 A new research paper from the University of Michigan and Cloudflare finds that ... (0) IoT Security Problems Can Cost Enterprises Millions Jeffrey Burt, Editor & Journalist, 11/20/2018 A survey by DigiCert finds that the IoT is a priority for most companies, but ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News EANTC Joins Broadband Forum's Approved Lab List for CloudCO Tests Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/19/2018 The Broadband Forum has been lining up independent test labs for its CloudCO ... (0) Fujitsu's Rundberget Talks Frankly About Open Source Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/16/2018 Kirsten Rundberget, open strategy lead at Fujitsu Network, discusses the ... (0) 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 ... 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 ... (2 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 ... (1 Comment) Amoroso Shares His Security Obsession Carol Wilson , Editor-at-large , 9/8/2016 Retired AT&T Chief Security Officer Ed Amoroso is publishing a free three-volume ... 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