Kontron’s Symkloud converged infrastructure platform future-proofs data centers with modular design and integrated compute, storage, and switching for wireless, video and IoT/data analytic workloads
Communications service providers know it’s imperative to adopt network functions virtualization and software-defined networks, but it’s a difficult transition given the...
Look inside AT&T's Austin Spectrum Lab with RCRtv
AUSTIN, Texas – In an unassuming building in Austin, Texas, AT&T engineers can recreate virtually any network condition in the high-tech Austin Spectrum Lab, which will also serve as ground zero for the carrier’s upcoming trials of "5G."
RCR...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Accedian Networks about network QoS related to SDN, NFV and 5G
On today’s show we have an interview with Scott Sumner, VP of...
Network virtualization technologies using SDN and NFV platforms have slowly begun to creep across networks. This report garners insight from telecom operators, industry analysts and vendors to look at where carriers are focusing their initial deployments; which network segments are seeing improved efficiencies from...
Network virtualization technologies using SDN and NFV platforms have slowly begun to creep across networks. This webinar will garner insight from telecom operators, industry analysts and vendors to look at where carriers are focusing their initial deployments; which network segments are seeing improved efficiencies...
Three major trends currently shaping the telecom industry -- the mobile data tsunami, cloud computing and software-defined networking -- are all fueled by availability of bandwidth. As service providers evolve their network architectures to support these trends and enable the promise of network virtualization,...
Ericsson and NEC tout their support for NTT DoCoMo’s multivendor NFV deployment
Ericsson and NEC both came out as vendor partners for NTT DoCoMo’s network functions virtualization plans, including the telecom giant’s recently announced multivendor NFV platform.
Ericsson said its platform is based on the Open...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with A10 about DDoS attack security for NFV- and SDN-powered networks
On today’s show we have an interview with Rene Paap, product marketing manager...
OPNFV unveiled its second NFV platform, promising greater interoperability and testing
The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform Network Function Virtualization Project launched its second platform release dubbed Brahmaputra.
OPNFV, which teased the platform late last year, said Brahmaputra is the organization’s “first full experience with a massively...
Affirmed Networks, Procera, ACG Research, Vasona weigh-in on NFV
Network functions virtualization has come a long way in the last year, according to experts, who have noted movement from discussion to actual deployments on live networks.
ACG Research CEO Ray Mota joined Affirmed Networks CEO Hassan...
The Japanese firm plans to start deploying the NFV technology on its network this month
NTT DoCoMo said it has completed development of what it claims to be the world's first network function virtualization technology that can run evolved packet core software from multiple vendors.
NTT...
Huawei offers systems integration solutions to help operators quickly commercialize NFV
Tier 1 operators accelerate adoption of NFV to increase agility and openness while reducing operating costs
The growing need for operators to increase service agility, while reducing the cost of service, is causing them to...
ETSI said it has tasked its OSM group to use open source software for MANO tied to NFV
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute this week said it have begun work on using open source software for management and orchestration of network functions virtualization in connection...
Huawei and partners show use cases of digital transformation to demonstrate importance of agile, elastic operations
BARCELONA, Spain – With a focus on enabling a customer-centric business model, Huawei representatives and clients gathered during Mobile World Congress to discuss the importance of digital business transformation.
Transformation has been...
Huawei, Linux Foundation, China Mobile among members of open-source project; touted as first of its kind initiative for China
BARCELONA, Spain – In order to lend agility and innovation to mobile operators, the Linux Foundation, China Mobile and Huawei announced the Open-O Project, which will...
Seattle, WA and Vienna, Austria -- Kapsch CarrierCom and Opanga Networks are pleased to announce today the formation of a new strategic partnership to bring the next generation of network optimization solutions to mobile operators throughout Europe. Kapsch CarrierCom is a leading, global producer,...
Like a number of global operators, Ooredoo is in the process of transforming its network architecture to a next-generation infrastructure. Ooredoo’s UNIFY strategy is about driving ICT transformation to deliver a digital customer experience through more simple and agile IT. As part of the...
Seattle Washington --Â Opanga, the leader and pioneer of Traffic Densification Technologyâ„¢ (TDT), is pleased to announce today the commercial availability of its second generation product, Network Coordinated Super Schedulerâ„¢ (NCSS), providing mobile operators with a unique, disruptive network optimization solution and game-changing economic value.
Building...
The move to real-time processing and virtualization is widening the opportunities for service and revenue generation, improving QoE by managing mobile traffic more efficiently and optimizing the use of the existing RAN infrastructure. The report assesses how new technologies and solutions are changing the...
In 2016, analysts project that 400K Enterprise cellular nodes will be shipped, but over 12 million Wi-Fi APs will be used in the Enterprise LAN. We all know that Wi-Fi cannot provide the quality of service and security that enterprises need, but enterprises are...
5G plan includes Ericsson, Intel; field trials planned for Austin
AT&T today announced a roadmap for research, development and ultimate commercialization of next-generation 5G mobile networks in partnership with Ericsson and Intel.
The U.S.-based mobile network operator pointed to millimeter wave, software-defined networks and network functions virtualization...
Drive network agility and cost efficiency through IP monitoring
Consumer demand for mobile data, driven by a constant stream of new applications and advanced services coming to market, creates numerous challenges for network operators. Our all-IP world puts competitive pressure on service providers working to...
The move to real-time processing and virtualization is widening the opportunities for service and revenue generation, improving QoE by managing mobile traffic more efficiently and optimizing the use of the existing RAN infrastructure.
This webinar will assess how new technologies and solutions are changing the...
At the RAN USA conference in San Francisco at the end of January, Chih-Lin I from China Mobile reminded us ETSI its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) framework span the entire network, from the core to the RAN. The RAN is an essential part of...
