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News & Views Most Popular VMware Wraps $2.1B Carbon Black Acquisition By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/9/2019 VMware says adding the endpoint security provider to its cloud stack will help network operators prevent attacks, rather than reacting to them. Post a Comment ETSI Tackles AI Security By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/2/2019 New specification group at ETSI is 'exceptionally important,' says industry analyst. Post a Comment Silver Peak Heats Up SD-WAN Telco Romance By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/1/2019 The SD-WAN vendor is looking to increase sales through service providers, as enterprises turn to SPs to outsource networking needs. Post a Comment Advertisement Aryaka Learns to Love SD-WAN Over the Public Internet By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/24/2019 Aryaka launches SD-WAN service over the public Internet for cases where 'best effort' is good enough for enterprise connectivity, complementing its existing global, private network that offers guaranteed SLAs. 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 Masergy Puts a 'Virtual Engineer' in Enterprise Networks By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/10/2019 Masergy provides an AI boost for enterprise network management. Post a Comment Huawei: 'I Know What You Are, but What Am I?' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/3/2019 After years of defending itself against US spying accusations, Huawei claims the US government is spying on it. Post a Comment Advertisement VMware Splashes $4.8B on Strategic Acquisitions By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/23/2019 VMware is bolstering its developer support and security capabilities with the acquisitions of Pivotal Software and Carbon Black. Post a Comment Mobileum Parachutes Into 'New Ballgame' With $70M WeDo Takeover By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/16/2019 Private equity-backed roaming and security specialist has a new line-up of senior executives to manage a business that has just doubled in size. Post a Comment Podcast: Prof. Nick Feamster Explains Machine Learning for Telcos By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 8/13/2019 Machine learning is primed to help service providers run more efficient and effective networks, but first the good ideas have to make their way from the lab to the real world – and that's a big challenge, according to the University of Chicago's Nick Feamster. Post a Comment BICS Is Building a Global IoT Business By Robert Clark, 8/5/2019 The international carrier division of Belgium's Proximus is using its roaming network to develop an IoT business. Post a Comment Juniper Debuts Security That Won't Slow You Down By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 Juniper is integrating security into its high-performance MX routers and cSRX containerized firewall, to fit 5G and edge applications. Post a Comment Microsoft Teams With MSPs to Hook Enterprises Into Azure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/15/2019 Microsoft is partnering with eight managed service providers, including SD-WAN startup Aryaka, to connect enterprises with applications in the Azure cloud. Post a Comment Colt CEO: US Customers Growing in the Cloud By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/8/2019 Colt CEO Carl Grivner said its business in the US – providing enterprise connectivity – is still growing thanks to continued enterprise cloud adoption. Post a Comment Broadcom Set to Acquire Symantec – Reports By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 7/4/2019 A $15 billion deal is in the works, according to market speculation. Post a Comment Protecting Enterprises From State-Sponsored Hackers By Mike O’Malley, Vice President of Carrier Strategy and Business Development at Radware, 6/28/2019 Cloud service providers and network operators have the scale and talent to help protect enterprises from state-sponsored hacking attempts. Post a Comment Cybereason Details Operation Soft Cell: A Telco Security Disaster By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 6/25/2019 Security firm reveals an ongoing global attack against telecommunications providers that has been active since at least 2017 and involves a group believed to be working on behalf of the Chinese government. Post a Comment Telcos: Security Is Not In Your DNA By Patrick Donegan, Founder and Principal Analyst, HardenStance, 6/25/2019 Telcos are in denial if they think they are security experts, says outspoken industry analyst Patrick Donegan. Post a Comment Eurobites: Kudelski, Sequans Chip In on IoT Security By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/19/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT opens SOC in Paris; HMD Global sends user data to Google's cloud; Nokia beefs up leadership team, negotiates eco-loan. Post a Comment Cybersecurity Expert Sees Opportunity in Internet Growth, Consolidation By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 6/14/2019 The way to defend against DDoS and other attacks is changing, says Nokia's Craig Labovitz. That's because the Internet is getting bigger and smaller at the same time. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Colt Brings Virtual Networks to Enterprise Premises Thursday, October 10, 2019 VMware Completes $2.1B Carbon Black Acquisition Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Telus to Acquire ADT Canada for CAD$700 Tuesday, October 1, 2019 VMware Reports $2.44B Revenue, Up 12% YoY, Acquiring Pivotal & Carbon Black Thursday, August 22, 2019 Broadcom to Acquire Symantec Enterprise Security for $10.7B Thursday, August 8, 2019 Masergy Bundles SD-WAN & Security Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Aryaka Partners With Microsoft on Azure Networking Services Monday, July 15, 2019 Inside Secure Switches Name to Verimatrix Monday, July 1, 2019 Cisco Q3 2019: $13B Revenue Up 6% Annually, Despite Service Provider Decline Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Arista Delivers 400G Routers for Cloud Network Transformation Tuesday, May 14, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Two Threat Actors, One Targeted Threat Larry Loeb, Author, 10/22/2019 By combining, two threat actors leveraged their own specific areas of expertise ... (0) Cylance Discovers WAV Files Can Hide Malware Larry Loeb, Author, 10/21/2019 BlackBerry Cylance threat researchers Anuj Soni, Jordan Barth and Brian Marks ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: New Broadband Map Uses Census Blocks, Adds Prices Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/22/2019 Also today, TM Forum and friends tackle IoT interoperability; Wilson, N.C., gets ... (0) UNH-IOL Updates on CloudCO at #BBWF Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/22/2019 At the recent Broadband World Forum 2019 event, Lincoln Lavoie from the ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Network Rising: DriveNets Adapts Hyperscaler Approach to ... New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected 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 ... 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 Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia Are Facing an 'Oil Crisis' Upheaval Iain Morris , International Editor , 7/31/2019 Years of consolidation have left the global mobile network market largely in the ... (10 comments) Why BT's Security Chief Is Attacking His Own Network Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 7/17/2017 With the cybersecurity threat landscape shifting quickly and continuously, BT's ... (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 ... (5 comments) All Prime Reading

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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 ...