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News & Views Most Popular Network Virtualization Pioneer Guido Appenzeller Exits VMware By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 1/10/2019 Appenzeller says he's probably leaving the networking industry. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Mitch Wagner We updated the article Friday to include VMware comment. Digital Transformation: Telcos Face the Future By Stan Hubbard, Director, Communications & Research, MEF, 12/27/2018 How MEF's work impacts telco businesses, SD-WAN and digital transformation, from the perspectives of AT&T, PCCW and Verizon. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Solution12143 I always regarded SD-WAN as carrier network technology, and he told it comes... Digital Transformation: Telecom Executives Sound Off By Stan Hubbard, Director, Communications & Research, MEF, 12/26/2018 Thought leaders from AT&T, PCW and Verizon Partner Solutions talk with MEF about their priorities for now and the coming year. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Eurobites: Telenor Uses Nokia for Cloud-Native Core By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/17/2018 In today's regional round-up: Nokia secures core role at Telenor; Elliott Management eyes Telefónica; mobile subscribers in the EU have made the most of the abolition of roaming charges; Tele2 banks a NIM loan; and Synamedia tackles 'credentials sharing.' Post a Comment \| Read (0) Arista Extends Its Reach Into Containers By Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research, 12/14/2018 Networking containerized environments is tough; Arista wants to help. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Orange Preps 5G Launch in 17 European Cities By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/12/2018 In today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange unveils initial 5G plans; the latest boardroom shenanigans at TIM; Turkcell builds TV App Store with Metrological; ADVA unveils its Ensemble Controller. Post a Comment \| Read (0) PCCW Global on the Need to Monetize the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/10/2018 On the sidelines of Light Reading's 2020 Vision executive summit in Lisbon, PCCW Global's Shahar Steiff talks about the key challenges facing network operators as they figure out their edge computing strategies. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: MindCommerce "We need to sell to customers directly" (like cloud providers). Do you see... Advertisement Cisco: Here's How 5G Accelerates Service Provider Opportunities By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/10/2018 Michael Glickman, SVP of Cisco's service provider business, talks with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner about the range of opportunities for service providers -- and Cisco -- to reinvent their business. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ADVA Moves In on Small Cell Backhaul By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 12/5/2018 New tinier gateway is hardened for deployment on street furniture to provide backhaul for small cells, WiFi hotspots that will blossom with 5G densification, smart cities and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ONAP's Casablanca Focuses on Deployability By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 12/4/2018 No romance here, just a software release with practical features to put this automated orchestration platform into use globally. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Operators Using PoCs to Drive APIs to Market Faster By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/28/2018 Real-world experience using live networks in MEF proofs-of-concept is allowing operator members to shape technical specs faster. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Spectrum Enterprise: Virtualized Services Virtually Here By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/28/2018 In this video interview, Charter Spectrum Enterprise's Gunnar Peters talks about the MSO's efforts to build an SDN/NFV framework for delivering virtualized services to commercial customers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MEF CTO Sees Key Role in Automation By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 11/26/2018 Pascal Menezes says defining key APIs between carriers and setting SD-WAN standards is MEF's way of helping drive automation and digital transformation process. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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) 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) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards 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 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. 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