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By Iain Morris, News Editor, 9/19/2017
Nokia's plans to cut about 600 jobs in France are on hold after French government officials requested a meeting with the Finnish vendor on October 2, according to a ...
By Iain Morris, News Editor, 9/19/2017
LONDON -- Managed Services World Congress -- Existing contractual laws affecting telecom operators are failing to address the questions posed by the rapid development ...
By Aditya Kishore, Practice Leader, Video Transformation, Telco Transformation, 9/19/2017
AMSTERDAM -- IBC 2017 -- Online viewing is growing in leaps and bounds for UK's largest commercial broadcaster, according to Faz Aftab, director, commercial, ...
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By Craig Matsumoto, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 9/18/2017
Verizon's new chief strategy officer will be Rima Qureshi, the former head of Ericsson's North America business.
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/18/2017
Two years ago, SD-WAN was still a relatively new category of services. A year ago, it had become a must-have service for network operators, and today it's not about ...
By Craig Matsumoto, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 9/18/2017
Most of us who follow Cisco, and certainly most of the people working there, have never known the company without John Chambers at the helm, either as CEO or more ...
By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 9/18/2017
It might not surprise you that 80% of women in comms have seen incidences of unconscious bias play out in their company. But it should be a shock to learn that 64% ...
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By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 9/15/2017
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has made accelerating broadband deployment one of the top priorities of his administration. However, leaders in several of the nation's ...
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By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 9/15/2017
This week in our WiCipedia roundup: The pay gap is real at Google; are blondes taken seriously?; Apple event has no gender balance; and more.
By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/13/2017
AT&T has upped the ante once more in the cloud connection game, adding cloud-to-cloud connectivity to its AT&T NetBond for Cloud product. The new feature lets ...
By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 9/13/2017
VeloCloud reached a new service provider milestone today, announcing it now has 50 Tier 1 and Tier 2 service provider partners, in addition to 1,000 enterprise ...
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Can a Government Fund the Next Silicon Valley?
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New York is Silicon Alley. Israel? Silicon Wadi. And in Santiago, it's Chilecon Valley. Thirty years after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile has become one of South America's most vibrant economies. For the past six years, the government has given interest-free loans of up to $40,000 to entice startups to move to Santiago. Light Reading traveled to Chile ...
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VMware VP Brings Women Up With Her
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It's an art and a science to make mentorship, inclusive leadership, diversity and promotion of high-potential women work, says Honore' LaBourdette, vice president of Global Market Development at VMware.
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Fujitsu's Women Band Together to Help Girls Do STEM
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Supporting women both inside and outside of Fujitsu is a top priority of the telecom vendor. Yanbing Li, Fujitsu Network Communication's director of System Software Development & Delivery, shares why it's important, but why there's still a long road ahead.
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AT&T's Tech President Preps Workforce for the Future
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AT&T is focused on the software-defined network of the future and is reskilling its workforce to get ready too, according to AT&T's President of Technology Development Melissa Arnoldi.
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Cisco: Mentoring Critical to Attract & Retain Women
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Liz Centoni, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Computing System Product Group, shares why mentoring in all its forms is important for women and what Cisco is doing that's made a difference for women in tech.
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Verizon VP Talks Network, Career Planning
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Heidi Hemmer, vice president of Technology, Strategy & Planning at Verizon, shares how bold bets and the future of tech define her career.
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Global Capacity: Bandwidth Demand Driving Ethernet Growth
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At Light Reading's Big Communications Event in Austin, Texas, Global Capacity's VP of Marketing Mary Stanhope talks about how the demand for bandwidth is changing the way service providers deliver broadband services.
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BT VP: Women Should Fill Security Talent Gap
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By 2020 there will be six security jobs for every qualified worker, and Kate Kuehn, vice president of Security for BT in the Americas, says BT wants to encourage women to fill the shortage in jobs.
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Intel Ushers in the Revolutionary 5G Era
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5G will bring job opportunities for women in telco and IT, as well as a whole new era of communications for consumers and industries of all kinds, says Caroline Chan, vice president and general manager of the 5G Infrastructure Division at Intel.
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Infinera's Sales Director Paints Tech's Big Picture
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Shannon Williams, Infinera's director of sales, shares how she achieves work's many balancing acts -- between her role and the broader company, today and tomorrow's tech and more.
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Parallel Wireless Founder Takes the Non-Traditional Path
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And that's made all the difference for Kaitki Agarwal, who shares her story and advice, as well as her perspective on wireless network evolutions with WiC in Austin.
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Ciena Takes a Broad View of Diversity
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Building the best team at Ciena and opening up new market opportunities means incorporating diversity of all kinds, according to its director of business development, Emmanuelle Cahane.