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News & Views Most Popular EdgePresence Joins Rush to Build Mini Data Centers for Tower Companies By Sue Marek, Special Contributor, 10/21/2019 EdgePresence is joining a number of other data center providers in looking to build mini data centers in locations around the country. Post a Comment Crown Castle: No Plans for Edge Data Centers By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/18/2019 Crown Castle's CEO said he doesn't see edge computing data centers 'playing a significant role in our long-term strategy.' Crown Castle's main rivals, American Tower and SBA Communications, are taking a different path. Post a Comment Eurobites: AWS Cloud Is a Drug, Says French Minister By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UK skeptical on 5G; Brussels gets tough with Broadcom; giving small cells a makeover. Post a Comment Advertisement 5G Signal Boosters Show Up Ahead of Regulations By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/15/2019 FCC regulations haven't yet caught up with startups' 5G plans. Post a Comment Startup Celona Targets Private LTE & 5G for Enterprise By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 10/15/2019 Celona, a startup stemming from CommScope's purchase of Ruckus, is targeting the market for enterprises building their own private 5G and LTE wireless networks, eschewing WiFi. Post a Comment ZenFi CEO: More Small Cells on the Way in NYC By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/11/2019 ZenFi's CEO says that 1000s more small cells are waiting to be approved in the NYC area. Post a Comment Key Takeaways From 5G Transport & the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/11/2019 What were some of the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City? Two sober (just) editors chew the fat... Post a Comment Advertisement Eurobites: Cellnex Buys Arqiva's Towers Unit for £2B By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/8/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Netcracker lands OSS deal with Deutsche Telekom; Nokia hopes to make squillions from Quillion chipset; Telia Norway goes all in with Ericsson for 5G RAN. Post a Comment Like Politics, All 5G Is Local By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/4/2019 Denver city officials acknowledge that 5G could dramatically improve residents' lives, but ongoing concerns over permitting for and radiation from 5G cell sites remain obstacles. Post a Comment Charter Envisions a Fixed Wireless Triple-Play With CBRS By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/2/2019 Charter's Craig Cowden expands on the MSO's interests and intentions involving the CBRS band and provides updates on the company's recent set of fixed wireless, mobile-facing 'dual-SIM' market trials. Post a Comment Eurobites: Openreach Looks Further Down the Fiber Road By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/2/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone UK shares 4G spectrum to help bridge rural connectivity divide; Finnish president endures face-time with Trump to thrash out 5G options; smart lighting gets a bit smarter. Post a Comment Alaska's Rakuten Preps for 4G Launch By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 10/1/2019 Japan's Rakuten isn't the only operator in the world building a new, greenfield wireless network with an open, software-powered architecture: OptimERA is working to do the same in a tiny part of Alaska. Post a Comment Tower Visionary Marc Ganzi on 5G, Small Cells & Edge Computing By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/30/2019 Marc Ganzi is described as a 'leading visionary and entrepreneur' in his company's biography, and given his recent investments its easy to see why. Here's what he has to say about hot topics like 5G, build to relocate, small cells and edge computing. Post a Comment GSMA Seeks Way to Boost RAN Vendor Options By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/25/2019 The industry body is concerned at the small number of radio access network (RAN) system vendors and is looking at ways to address that scarcity, says executive. Post a Comment T-Mobile Relies on LTE for 5G Launch By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/25/2019 New tests of T-Mobile's 5G network in New York City raise plenty of questions about how exactly it works. However, the operator is pushing aside those questions and instead is embarking on a 5G advertising campaign against Verizon. Post a Comment Operators May Move to Standalone 5G Faster Than Anticipated By Sue Marek, Special Contributor, 9/23/2019 Operators continue to test their initial 5G networks, and are finding a number of surprises that could hasten changes like a move from non-standalone 5G to standalone 5G. Post a Comment Verizon Eyes Intersection of Private Networks, CBRS, 5G & Edge Computing By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/16/2019 As Verizon's initial 3.5GHz CBRS deployments get going, the operator is looking toward a future that would combine private networks, CBRS, 5G and edge computing. Post a Comment It's Time to Get Excited About 3.5GHz CBRS By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/12/2019 We're days away from initial commercial deployments in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band, often called 'Goldilocks spectrum' because of its propagation characteristics. It certainly appears to be just right, given the diversity of initial commercial applications. Post a Comment What to Expect From Altice Mobile By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/10/2019 Analysts expect Altice USA to collect 1.7 million mobile customers by 2023, and pay Sprint around $2.50 for each GB those customers consume. Post a Comment Altice Mobile Expects to Be in the Black Within 12 Months By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/5/2019 'We wouldn't be in this business if we didn't think it would become a profitable standalone business,' Altice USA CEO Dexter Goei says. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors NSF Adds Advanced Wireless Research Platform in North Carolina Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Mobilitie Gets $1B for 5G From Unnamed 'Foreign Investment Fund' Friday, August 16, 2019 Ericsson Reports Q2 Sales Growth Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Small Cell Forum Opens Interface Between Physical Layer, MAC Layer on Path to Virtualized RAN Thursday, July 11, 2019 Casa Systems Completes NetComm Acquisition Monday, July 1, 2019 GCI Picks Ericsson for 5G Rollout Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Digital Colony Creates $4.05B Investment Fund Targeted at Towers, Small Cells, Fiber & Data Centers Wednesday, June 5, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Hardware Is the New Attack Surface – Forrester 12/12/2019 Attackers have already begun to breach security at the BIOS level, according to a ... (0) Snatch Is Both Novel & Evil Larry Loeb, Author, 12/11/2019 The Sophos Managed Threat Response team found out that, where the Snatch ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: No Free Broadband for Brits Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/13/2019 Also today, AT&T sets date for new national OTT-TVoffering, CenturyLink hooks up ... (0) BBWN Bites: 'Internet Para Todos' Translates Into Mexican Opportunity for Viasat Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/12/2019 Also today, Windstream Wholesale signs mega-capacity deal, MTS joins TIP, Comcast ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase CSPs Living in a Multicloud World Protecting the Mobile Network Core During Transition ... Amdocs: Redefining & Accelerating 5G Rollouts Antronix: Industry Leader for 40 Years & Counting 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 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) ETSI Gets Edgy About Mobile Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/19/2016 Interest is growing in the potential of mobile edge computing. But will it live ... (2 comments) Ericsson Still Seeking M&A Targets Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 12/1/2015 The Swedish giant's head of strategy, Rima Qureshi, is always looking for new M&A ... (2 comments) 5G: Meet the Influencers , 4/23/2015 A primer on the numerous organizations – some standards-oriented, some regional ... (0) All Prime Reading

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