Cisco, Digicel sketch digital vision for Caribbean countries with new agreement
Cisco and Digicel announced they have signed a Caribbean Countries Digitalization Frame Agreement, detailing each company's plans for advancing the digital agenda and policies for 26 countries in the Caribbean and Central America. As...
Network slicing and dicing
Network slicing is poised to play a pivotal role in the enablement of 5G. The technology allows operators to run multiple virtual networks on top of a single, physical infrastructure. With 5G commercialization set for 2020, many are wondering to what...
End-to-end network slicing holds promise as the key to unlocking new business opportunities with 5G to drive revenue growth. So exactly how will service providers benefit from slicing? And how can they overcome technical challenges?
This webinar, developed by Strategy Analytics, will discuss where business...
NFV and SDN deployments require automated service assurance that won’t compromise reliability
Service assurance is a crucial and increasingly complex task for communications service providers. Without granular insight into network performance metrics, a CSP cannot gauge customer experience, network reliability, find and fix failures or...
Big Switch addresses data center scaling issues with SDN
Big Switch Networks, a data center networking company, unveiled a new capability of its SDN-based Big Monitoring (Big Mon) Fabric called GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) correlation. According to the company, Big Switch will provide the GTP...
Huawei and Vodafone announce collaboration
Vodafone announced it has selected Huawei as an approved vendor to supply its FusionSphere OpenStack platform, supporting the company’s global rollout of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN).
NFV and SDN are two budding though distinct technologies changing...
Barefoot Networks debuts monitoring system for total packet visibility
Barefoot Networks, a computer networking company, unveiled Barefoot Deep Insight today, which the organization claims to be the first network monitoring system to provide visibility into every packet in a network. The purpose of the solution...
Equinix unleashes new inter-metro connectivity through cloud exchange fabric
Equinix, a global international and data center company, announced an addition to its interconnection offering, leveraging software-defined network (SDN) to make it easier for different data centers to connect. Specifically, the company said it will move...
Nuage Networks to expand and upgrade Fujitsu Enterprise Cloud Service K5
Fujitsu has chosen Nuage Networks, Nokia’s software-defined networking (SDN) subsidiary, to extend and update its enterprise cloud service.
Fujitsu Enterprise Cloud Service K5 is the world’s biggest OpenStack cloud service, according to the company, providing...
A new network topology
The digital transformation of network infrastructure through network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) is anticipated to play a pivotal role with the respect to the commercialization of 5G. There are several major architectural obstacles facing 5G networks, which...
Adtran and TIM sign memorandum of understanding
Italy’s leading telco and ICT group TIM announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Adtran to review the company’s NFV and SDN technologies and platforms for network automation in the access network segment.
NFV and SDN...
MEF casts wider net in cloud app market with IMTC
Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, is seeking to make a splash in booming cloud-centric applications market by integrating the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) into its new Applications Committee, which formally...
Network slicing is seen as a key enabler for future 5G networks
5G boils down to three primary use cases: enhanced mobile broadband, massive support for the internet of things and mission critical communications that require ultra-low-latency and multi-gigabit-per-second throughput. But, beneath those three broad...
AT&T divulges Open Disaggregated Network Operating System vision
AT&T gave a glimpse into its vision of a Disaggregated Network Operating System (dNOS) in a recent white paper titled “Toward an Open, Disaggregated Networking Operating System” with a push toward software-defined networking (SDN) and white box...
Cisco and VMware deepen rivalry with acquisitions
Cisco and VMware were deemed the leaders in the software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market in a recent IHS Markit report.
According to IHS Markit’s Data Center and Enterprise SDN Hardware and Software Biannual Market Tracker, SD-WAN is a...
Cartesian report highlights challenges thwarting NFV adoption among service providers
Operational challenges and immature virtualized technologies are hindering NFV deployments among communications service providers (CSPs). That is at least the conclusion of a recent report titled “The Future of Networks: Dealing with transformation in a...
Industry leaders demonstrate LSO integration points
Colt Technology Services, alongside technology partners AT&T, Orange, Ciena, Amdocs and Fujitsu, recently demonstrated a number of MEF Forum Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) integration points, providing a consistent experience in network provisioning, regardless of where customers want services delivered....
Versa expands SD-Branch with unified communications services
Versa Networks, a vendor in the SD-WAN market, unveiled additions to its Versa Cloud IP Platform today, including embedded voice and video codec support to provide native mean opinion score (MOS)-based traffic engineering and reporting for unified communications...
Verizon makes SD-WAN solution available on a wholesale basis
Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS), announced it is making its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution available to wholesale customers to better control operational costs and boost bandwidth efficiency.
SD-WAN is already offered by several service providers. According...
5th generation (5G) wireless technology is just around the corner promising secure and ubiquitous wireless connectivity at gigabit speeds.
As service providers prepare to leverage 5G, they are also faced with introducing new virtual network technologies such as software defined networking (SDN) and network functions...
Verizon investing in virtualization to save $10 billion by 2020
Verizon sees network virtualization as a “robust opportunity” to cut the costs anchored to telcos by $10 billion over the course of four years, said John Stratton, EVP and president of global operations for Verizon...
BT and Cisco expand partnership with two new solutions
In another move toward network virtualization, BT announced it is extending its partnership with Cisco with the deployment of two new products: a Cisco-based customer premise equipment virtualization solution headed by BT dubbed BT Connect Edge;...
Google unveils Andromeda 2.0
Google announced it has made some updates to software-defined networking (SDN) platform Andromeda, which the company said should reduce network latency between Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) by 40% and almost a factor of eight since launched in 2014.
Andromeda is a...
VMware announces plans to purchase VeloCloud
VMware announced Thursday it intends to acquire VeloCloud, a startup making a splash in the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market. The move deepens the rivalry between VMware and Cisco, which purchased VeloCloud competitor Viptela for $610 million in...
