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News & Views Most Popular Follow the Money: Optical Trends From NGON 2019 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/22/2019 The opening sessions of this year's NGON & DCI World event in Nice focused on money matters and automation but there was little appetite to discuss the impact of global trade tensions and the US clampdown on Huawei's supply line. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: EU Must Pull Its 5G Finger Out, Says Ericsson's Ekholm By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/17/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT launches employee share scheme, unveils underwhelming new logo; German trade group distances itself from US stance on Huawei. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: UK Security Report Says Huawei Can't Be Trusted By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Bouygues gets off to a flier; Sunrise raises its earnings guidance; Vodafone/INWIT towers deal set for the summer. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 5G Tests Aim to Disrupt the Economics of On-Location TV Production By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/14/2019 In tests with AT&T, LiveU will equip its portable video production backpacks with 5G, believing that the capabilities of the new network will drive down the costs of on-location news and sporting event coverage. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Potential Is All in the Timing By Stephen Lawson, 5/10/2019 The move to 5G will also disrupt carriers' timing systems as 5G's timing and clock synchronization requirements are much more strict. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: UK's Public Safety Network Project Is a Car Crash, Says Govt Watchdog By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/10/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica's Q1; DT, Ericsson claim microwave breakthrough; Orange invests in fintech company; Telia brings IoT to logistics. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights Winners On Fire! By Light Reading, 5/8/2019 We invited our 2019 Leading Lights awards winners to share their thoughts with the Light Reading video crew. Here's what they had to say: Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Leading Lights 2019: The Winners By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/6/2019 Find out which companies have taken home the 2019 Leading Lights Awards trophies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/5/2019 Six companies – Anritsu, Infovista, Kentik, Netrounds, Spirent and Viavi Solutions – made the cut in the Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor category. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Telecoms Product By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/4/2019 There are 11 (yes, count them!) shortlisted entries in this year's category for Most Innovative Telecoms Product (Optical/IP/Carrier Ethernet/FTTH). Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: daveburstein I know about half of the nominees. They are all interesting. I'll have to look... Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Blockchain for Telecoms Strategy By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/29/2019 Colt, Filament, Mobileum and Synchronoss Technologies all submitted standout entries for most innovative blockchain for telecoms strategy in this year's Leading Lights contest. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: ETSI & Linux Foundation Get Jiggy With IT By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/26/2019 Also in today's regional roundup: Orange Spain tests Huawei 5G smartphone; KPN's numbers are heading south as it makes its 5G vendor decisions; and competitive device manufacturer Oppo is heading to Europe. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: UK Gives Huawei the Nod on 'Non-Core' 5G Network Elements By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/24/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Virgin Media CEO Mockridge departs; Tele2 earnings up, revenue down; Telia lands smart-meter deal; 5G live at Glastonbury. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: UK's Mobile Giants Upstaged by MVNO Minnows, Says Report By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/23/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia gets virtual with 5G testing; Forsway lands 5G contract with European Space Agency; telematics-based car insurance in the fast lane. Post a Comment \| Read (0) DriveNets Boasts Cloud-Native Router Breakthrough By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/17/2019 Israeli startup claims to be first to market with a disaggregated router that supports 400G-per-port throughput as it courts major telcos and takes on the router establishment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nyansa Takes AI-Driven IoT Security to the Cloud By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/15/2019 Networking startup Nyansa is adding Internet of Things security and management to its Voyance cloud-based application assurance service. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: O2 Supplies 5G Boost for Connected Car Trials By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Cisco milks 5G use case in deepest Somerset; KPN amalgamates security units; Dutch agency probes Apple over alleged apps bias. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Can Hike Its Last-Mile Charges – Regulator By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 4/11/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ETNO's vision of telecom loveliness; Three updates on core network upgrade; how Tele2 saved a ton of electricity. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019: The Finalists By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/10/2019 Light Reading is delighted – nay, pumped – to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights Awards program, which is now in its 15th year. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: CRW_Cary Way to go, Wave2Wave team! Four Trends We'll Be Tracking at NAB 2019 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/5/2019 What's new with AV1, OTT and ATSC 3.0, and what does the video and TV industry really think of 5G? We'll find out next week in Sin City. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards daveburstein, 5/7/2019 12:35:01 PM Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Telecoms Product Re: Good selection I know about half of the nominees. They are all interesting. I'll have to look at the rest. DaisyLucas, 4/18/2019 11:16:40 AM Light Reading’s Big Communications Event Returns in 2019 as Big 5G Event Re: Best Shows Big 5G Event is a combination of Light Reading's annual flagship Big Communications Event and KNect365's annual 5G North America event. Cool event, right after this event, I plan to visit the best vegas shows and I want... ErinAlexander, 3/22/2019 10:55:18 AM Mohave Community College Does Disaster Recovery on a Shoestring Re: Main problem In colleges, there should not be such problems as you had. The ministry of education, along with the old-time program, must improve the programs so that there are no such problems. So you can search here for this information... Phil Harvey, 3/15/2019 3:30:47 PM Had a Great Year? Then Enter the Leading Lights Awards Re: entry fee discount DM me for an entry fee discount code. @futurephil Duh!, 3/13/2019 6:13:07 PM Optical Networking Gets the Football Pulled Away Again Re: Re: Yikes My fleece vest was buried in a an un-Kondoed closet across the continent. I got invited to one cool party. Doesn't suggest a correlation one way or the other, does it? Sterling Perrin, 3/13/2019 5:38:17 PM Optical Networking Gets the Football Pulled Away Again Re: Re: Yikes Thanks Duh! I've always found Verizon very pragmatic - at least they know how to present their case. On the sleevless fleece - don't ask me. I'm still not clear on whether that's cool or uncool! Sterling Sterling Perrin, 3/13/2019 5:36:15 PM Optical Networking Gets the Football Pulled Away Again Re: Re: Yikes Bullschuck, Yes, good point, I knew someone would raise that once i hit send. Ultra low latency and ultra high reliability for sure, I should have listed all or just written "5G" without the qualifier. But I also think... Duh!, 3/13/2019 5:28:05 PM Optical Networking Gets the Football Pulled Away Again Re: Re: Yikes I've argued for a while that Verizon has the best approach for that kind of densification. Tree architectures scale better than point-to-point. That remark from the Waymo presentation confirmed what a lot of us strongly... bullschuck, 3/13/2019 5:18:46 PM Optical Networking Gets the Football Pulled Away Again Re: Re: Yikes "all the autonomous vehicle processing would be have to be local - with no role for the big bandwidth of 5G." I thought the big value of 5G in A2X was the low latency. Like lots of IoT (outside cameras), the bandwidth req's... Sterling Perrin, 3/13/2019 4:21:57 PM Optical Networking Gets the Football Pulled Away Again Re: Yikes I didn't expect that the panel would leave people downtrodden, though I must admit I don't get invited to the cool parties and I don't even own a sleeveless fleece to leave a the door. I suppose the point was that the optics... open4g, 3/8/2019 12:50:04 PM US 'Miles Behind' China & UK on 5G, Says Vodafone UK's CTO Re: The 5G War that Isn't The 5G War that Isn't... or 'the Trumped up War on China'. Being a citizen of the USA and industry analyst that worked on the early stages of MIMO OFDMA based mobile networks (WiFi, WiMAX, 4G/4G-Advanced, 5G), I witnessed... [email protected], 2/19/2019 2:28:17 PM Euro 5G Test Regime Would 'Slow Innovation' – Ericsson Re: The devops issue It's been pointed out, rightly, by our friend Keith Dyer, editor of The Mobile Network, that Bansal also noted in his response to the question that such a test program/regime 'giving a snapshot yes/no is of little utility... dwx, 2/18/2019 3:27:01 PM Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al Re: Re: Smart I believe their initial use case is in Internet peering, where they are acting as an off-box control-plane speaking to the peers, and controlling hardware forwarding elements connecting peer to core as if they were a single... TucIm6tx, 2/18/2019 7:05:41 AM Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes on Cisco et al Re: Re: Smart Can you please explain what is the sweet spot the company had found? DNOS (AT&T) and CORD already exist. 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