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News & Views Most Popular Cisco: Service Providers Are Getting Squeezed & We've Got the Cure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco claims it can help service providers break the trap of increasing bandwidth demands and declining revenue per user. Cisco's solution: a new networking architecture spanning silicon to software and services. Post a Comment AT&T Exec Hints That '5G Evolution' Is Faster Than T-Mobile's 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/12/2019 An AT&T executive hinted that forthcoming speed tests will find that AT&T's '5G E' branded connections are faster than T-Mobile's recently launched 5G service in its 600MHz spectrum. Post a Comment Telecom Industry Rift Widens Over Key 5G Security Issue By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/12/2019 Some of Europe's biggest operators are distinguishing between the core and the RAN as they build their 5G networks, but the region's biggest 5G vendor says the boundary is disappearing. Post a Comment Advertisement Cisco Wants to 'Build a New Internet' for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Cisco unveiled new silicon, optics and network operating system software that it says will carry the Internet through the next decade – with its products forming the backbone. Post a Comment Vienna Views: Pics From the 2020 Vision Executive Summit By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/11/2019 Senior executives gathered in the Austrian capital for the latest Light Reading 2020 Vision Executive Summit to discuss what's right, what's wrong and what's next for the telecom sector. Post a Comment 2019: The Year Telecom Went Doolally About 5G By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/10/2019 2019 will be remembered in telecom as the year when 5G arrived and industry hype went into overdrive. Post a Comment Silver Peak Touts SD-WAN on a Global Scale By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/10/2019 New Silver Peak automation tools are designed to help enterprises – and the service providers working on their behalf – deploy networks to hundreds of thousands of locations worldwide. Post a Comment Advertisement Energy Giant Shell Is Not Sold on Private Networks By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/9/2019 One of the world's biggest energy companies is prioritizing 4G and public networks over 5G and private ones. Post a Comment Telcos Let FAANGs Into the Edge at Their Peril By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/9/2019 Given the relative loss of value in the telecom industry, the recent edge deals involving AWS are risky moves for the operators involved. Post a Comment Ovum's Evan Kirchheimer: Enterprises & the 5G Market Opportunity By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 12/6/2019 What's the real opportunity for carriers selling 5G to enterprises? Ovum's enterprise services research director helps us sift through the areas where carriers can expect new revenue, and not just replace existing services. Post a Comment Eurobites: Cellnex Buys 1,500 Tower Sites From Orange Spain By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/4/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: OBS connects Mars employees; broadcasting at the edge; Vodafone tunes into AWS Wavelength; more ETNO grumbling. Post a Comment Orange Targets €1B in Savings & Bigger Enterprise Role By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/4/2019 The French operator has prioritized growth in enterprise, Africa and financial services under its latest five-year plan. Post a Comment Google Names Juniper CTO Koley as Networking Boss By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/4/2019 It's a homecoming for Bikash Koley, who joined Juniper in 2017 from Google. Ex-Googler Raj Yavatkar will join Juniper as CTO, taking Koley's job. Post a Comment Verizon, Vodafone Embrace Amazon's AWS for Edge Computing With 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 12/3/2019 Amazon announced its new AWS Wavelength 5G edge computing platform, with Verizon, Vodafone, SK Telecom and KDDI promising to support it. However, details on a US rollout remain foggy. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telecom Italia Demos 5G-Powered Remote Surgery By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/29/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: 5G's Bastille day; T-Systems gets edgy; O2 does security deal with Sophos; Macron won't pick on Huawei. Post a Comment Telefónica Unveils Major New Strategy, Identifies €2B in New Revenues By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/27/2019 Spanish giant has unveiled a new five-point plan that includes spinning off much of its Latin American assets and a go-to-market strategy that the operator believes can generate €2 billion in new revenues by 2022. Post a Comment AT&T, Verizon Begin Land Grabbing for Flashy 5G Partnerships By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 11/21/2019 Verizon grabbed Snapchat this week, while AT&T grabbed Purdue University and The Washington Post. But does this make 5G innovation inevitable or is it a sign of a technology in search of an application? Post a Comment Top 5G Takeaways From Verizon's Analyst Day By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 11/20/2019 Verizon executives said they are pleased with the company's 5G progress, and promised Verizon would continue on the course it set earlier this year. Post a Comment Vodafone Puts Its Faith in Google Cloud for Big Data Analytics By Iain Morris, International Editor, 11/20/2019 The web giant's AI, analytics and cloud deal with Vodafone continues a trend of operators turning to the major cloud platform players for scale and flexibility. Post a Comment Changing the Game: Edge Computing Slashes Latency in 'Far Cry 5' Test By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 11/19/2019 A new test from edge computing startup Edgegap helps highlight the potential of the technology to dramatically improve the multi-billion dollar video game space. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 2019: The Year Telecom Went Doolally About 5G By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/10/2019 2019 will be remembered in telecom as the year when 5G arrived and industry hype went into overdrive. Post a Comment Cisco Wants to 'Build a New Internet' for 5G By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Cisco unveiled new silicon, optics and network operating system software that it says will carry the Internet through the next decade – with its products forming the backbone. Post a Comment Telecom Industry Rift Widens Over Key 5G Security Issue By Iain Morris, International Editor, 12/12/2019 Some of Europe's biggest operators are distinguishing between the core and the RAN as they build their 5G networks, but the region's biggest 5G vendor says the boundary is disappearing. Post a Comment Cisco: Service Providers Are Getting Squeezed & We've Got the Cure By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2019 Cisco claims it can help service providers break the trap of increasing bandwidth demands and declining revenue per user. Cisco's solution: a new networking architecture spanning silicon to software and services. Post a Comment Telcos Let FAANGs Into the Edge at Their Peril By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/9/2019 Given the relative loss of value in the telecom industry, the recent edge deals involving AWS are risky moves for the operators involved. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Cisco Launches 'Internet for the Future' Strategy & Silicon Architecture Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Eclipse Foundation Launches Edge Computing Working Group Tuesday, December 10, 2019 AWS Launches 'Wavelength' for 5G Edge Tuesday, December 3, 2019 AWS Ships Outposts to Run Cloud Workloads at the Edge Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Verizon Teams With Amazon for 5G Edge Tuesday, December 3, 2019 EdgeConneX Puts Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Into Munich Edge Data Center Tuesday, December 3, 2019 CenturyLink Debuts New Edge Compute-Capable CDN Thursday, November 21, 2019 Wind River Introduces Kubernetes-Based Cloud-Native Platform for 5G vRAN Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Sprint's Curiosity IoT Platform Goes to Detroit With Packet & EdgeConneX Monday, November 18, 2019 Telefonica, Ericsson, InterDigital, Others Team on 5G-DIVE for Intelligent Edge Wednesday, November 13, 2019 AT&T to Deploy 5G, Edge Computing on University of Miami Campus Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Vapor IO Gets Its Edge Computing Software Into Digital Realty Data Centers Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Akamai Adds Security at the Edge Tuesday, October 15, 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 Edge Computing Set for Big Role in 5G Vehicle Automation Stephen Lawson , Contributing Editor , 12/10/2019 If the cars of the future are self-driving, they'll most likely reach autonomy by ... (0) For Self-Driving Cars, Exotic 5G Tech Will Run on Familiar Frequencies Stephen Lawson , Contributing Editor , 11/28/2019 Despite the hype, it looks like cellular bands below 6GHz will be the spectrum of ... (1 Comment) 5G & Autonomous Cars: Flashy Promise Meets Complicated Reality Stephen Lawson , Contributing Editor , 11/25/2019 5G networks could advance autonomous driving, but mobile operators, automakers ... (0) Europe's Big Telcos Are Getting Edgy About 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 3/13/2019 Virtual dodgeball will not happen unless operators cut mobile latency, but that ... (18 comments) All Prime Reading

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