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News & Views Most Popular Podcast: 5G & Hollywood Are the New SVoD Couple By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/22/2019 In this podcast, Disney takes full control of Hulu and that could pose a bigger threat to traditional pay-TV providers. Also, nearly every single mobile network operator has a different angle on providing video services to consumers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink Dives Into Services Deployed at the Deep Edge By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/21/2019 CenturyLink's Kevin McBride explains why it's a 'great time to be wireline.' Post a Comment \| Read (0) Big 5G Event Keynote: Sprint's Mishka Dehghan By Light Reading, 5/21/2019 Mishka Dehghan is vice president of 5G development for Sprint Business, and she talked about the future that we can enable with 5G at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Securing 5G Networks: Control Plane Evolution By Jim Hodges, Principal Analyst – Cloud and Security, Heavy Reading, 5/20/2019 NetNumber's Jee Alkebsi and Heavy Reading's Jim Hodges discuss the recent 5G Security Market Leadership Study (MLS) and what network operators are doing to offer managed security services. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MetTel's Fox: Enterprises Need to Find Business Case for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Many initial 5G deployments will be private networks on enterprise premises, and service providers will need to accommodate those needs, says MetTel CTO Ed Fox in conversation with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner. Also, Fox talks about how MetTel is going big on network functions virtualization (NFV). Post a Comment \| Read (0) Big 5G Event Keynote Panel: We Need to Talk About Edge Computing By Light Reading, 5/17/2019 Ibrahim Gedeon from Telus, Jim Poole from Equinix and Tom Tofigh from QCT discuss edge computing as part of the telco cloud at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/16/2019 Failure to transform their businesses, highlighted at this week's Digital Transformation World event in Nice, is fast catching up with the telcos. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash"... Advertisement CenturyLink's Walker: More Edges, More Efficiency By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/16/2019 Bill Walker explains how edge computing has allowed operators to decompose applications and distribute them on the network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) HR's Steve Bell on FUD in a 5G World By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/16/2019 Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Steve Bell highlights some of the fear, uncertainty and doubt related to 5G's return-on-investment cases and regulatory environments. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Big 5G Event: Photos By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/15/2019 20 select shots from the week that was in Denver, Colo. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Ericsson Boasts of Progress in CDN-to-Edge Pivot By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/15/2019 Ericsson's Edge Gravity essentially represents a pivot by the company from selling CDN services to selling edge computing services. And though the process hasn't been completely smooth, Ericsson is boasting of progress. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Volta Bigs Up Its Cloud Router, Claims 90% Savings vs Legacy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Volta claims that moving routing intelligence to the cloud and running white boxes can slash costs compared with legacy equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Rakuten CTO: We're Stronger, Faster & Cheaper Than You By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/15/2019 Japan's Rakuten is building what it says will be the first truly cloud-native mobile network, and its existing operators should be worried. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/14/2019 The messages emerging from this week's Digital Transformation World sound depressingly familiar. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: susansem There are some vendors who do offer cloud-native software in the core but the... Arista Ships Smarter 400G Routers By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/14/2019 Arista's second-generation 400G routers support built-in security, automation and telemetry for reduced capex and opex. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T's Igor Glubochansky: Businesses Need Lower Latency Networks By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 5/14/2019 AT&T sees big promise in manufacturing, healthcare and retail, even before mobile 5G becomes available everywhere. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Where Is the 5G Edge? Tomorrow's Apps Depend on the Answer By Stephen Lawson, 5/10/2019 To build the edge computing capabilities that 5G applications need, carriers need to find out where more processing is needed – and that's not terribly clear at the moment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Big 5G Event Keynote: Ibrahim Gedeon, Telus By Light Reading, 5/10/2019 Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon shared his views of the industry's progress at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019, and was one of the big hits of the week. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: jfpigeon Hello Ibrahim, Good to watch you speak with self-depreciating humor about... Public Safety Agencies Don't See a Clear Path to 5G By Paul Kapustka, 5/10/2019 5G technology offers promise and potential to public safety agencies, but a long road ahead looms for implementation, according to panelists at the Big 5G Event. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/9/2019 Edge computing, particularly in the 5G world, faces a series of serious obstacles, according to several in the mobile network and data center industries. Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Duh! I have to correct myself: Prop through fiber is 4.9 µs/km, not 98. Somehow... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry By Iain Morris, News Editor, 5/16/2019 Failure to transform their businesses, highlighted at this week's Digital Transformation World event in Nice, is fast catching up with the telcos. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Gabriel Brown I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash"... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards susantem, 5/17/2019 9:39:51 PM China Telecom's Bid for 'Leading' 5G Latency Should Unsettle US Re: Re: No reference to low latency in China Telecom presentation It's hard to see anything that domestic operators in China (or elsewhere) are doing as a geo-political/industrial policy threat. It's not as if they are in direct competition with Verizon, Telfonica or NTT. It really doesn't... Gabriel Brown, 5/17/2019 4:54:54 AM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist I tend to agree with James that the headline is inflammatory. A "car crash" seems an unlikely scenario for the telecom industry. There isn't evidence in this direction. Some challenges? Yes, for sure. Like always. On consumer... brooks7, 5/16/2019 7:43:46 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Re: Chief Paleontologist @James_B_Crawshaw So, is it your opinion that Cell Phone bills are going to go up with the deployment of 5G? Otherwise, it is unclear to me how money gets made. We already have essentially 100%... James_B_Crawshaw, 5/16/2019 6:08:08 PM 5G Car Crash Looms for Telecom Industry Re: Chief Paleontologist Given the dinosaur reference perhaps we should be talking about paleontology instead of archaeology. But if you compare with the energy (electricity and gas) sector or financial services then telco IT doesn't actually look... susansem, 5/15/2019 11:30:04 PM Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims Re: Re: takes time for Core Software to be cloud native and to be mainstream. There are some vendors who do offer cloud-native software in the core but the trust, expertise and ability to offer end to end solutions across the network are lacking. Finally, the investments required to change over... komatineni, 5/15/2019 8:20:06 PM Nice Turns Nasty as Vendors Face Fire Over Cloud-Native Claims Re: takes time for Core Software to be cloud native and to be mainstream. It's rather easier to blame each other but it's all about money and business case. Operators want 'cheap' so to justify the transition or business case while vendors and current technology doesn't match the needs. Added... jfpigeon, 5/11/2019 2:00:51 AM Big 5G Event Keynote: Ibrahim Gedeon, Telus Re: Enjoyed it... Hello Ibrahim, Good to watch you speak with self-depreciating humor about a topic that is much talked about. Lots of good insights there. Love the style! Duh!, 5/10/2019 3:40:26 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals I have to correct myself: Prop through fiber is 4.9 µs/km, not 98. Somehow my brain crossed Prop delay with attenuation. Max of 200 km to a data center is reasonable. [imitates Emily Litella] Never mind. Duh!, 5/10/2019 2:50:55 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Seven, The 10 ms is just for the one-way network portion of latency. Compute comes out of another piece of the end-to-end budget. Dan brooks7, 5/10/2019 1:52:39 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Duh!, I think you will find compute time is actually longer than you think...especially if any scale of data is involved that requires retrieval from a disk. seven Duh!, 5/10/2019 1:35:45 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals That only counted first-order affectors. At >10 Gbit/s, all of those are in the noise. brooks7, 5/10/2019 1:20:11 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Duh!, And that assumes that modulation delays and group delays are essentially 0. This would mean that processing times are 0 as well. seven pete123, 5/10/2019 12:09:36 PM Telus CTO: 5G Is Letting Us Down Re: Not inspiring He is not very happy as a CTO and not inspiring. Maybe because he needs to replace his Huawei in his network. Shareholders wont be happy with him. Duh!, 5/10/2019 11:11:01 AM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals Propagation through fiber is a bit less than 100 µs per km, so 1 ms is a bit more than 10 km. Does he claim that he has an existing data center within 10 km of every gNB (assuming that's where the micro-data... komatineni, 5/9/2019 4:50:29 PM Data Center Firms, Mobile Operators Pour Cold Water on Edge Computing Re: Good one. Finally and hope the hype curve flattens soon and we can focus on real challenges and goals "Deploying in tens-hundreds-thousands of micro-data centres would only improve latency by 1ms or less, and in some cases introduce latency depending on where the peering occurs" This summarizes the challenge with EDGE compute... More Message Boards		Security Now Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Larry Loeb, Author, 5/22/2019 If Android is to 'fork' following Huawei's isolation, the enterprise needs to ... (3 comments) Does 'Client Hints' Leave Fingerprints? Larry Loeb, Author, 5/21/2019 New web standard allows third-party services to obtain in-depth details about ... (5 comments) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News BBWN Bites: ARM & BT Guard Against Huawei Ban Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/22/2019 British heavyweights ARM and BT opt to shut out Huawei: BT will not include the ... 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