Software

U.S. firm aims to complete the data center transactions in 2016 U.S.-based Digital Reality, which provides data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Equinix to …

NICE, France – In its role as a aggregator of industry information and technology, TM Forum has developed a set of open application programming interfaces, which have gained traction with …

LONDON – For a company that only sprang to life less than four years ago, New Hampshire-based startup Parallel Wireless has been blazing a trail across the small cell industry, …

If the maturing mobile industry is young in relative terms, then the small cells market is in its teenage years and facing those troublesome growing pains. But, if it’s possible …

Enterprise devops tools are quickly gaining interest as companies look to streamline their operations and gain efficiency Enterprises are increasingly turning to development operations models in order to drive further …

NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of “5G”-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost …

NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of “5G”-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost …

ONUG said the launch shows commitment in supporting transition to open software-defined infrastructure The Open Networking User Group moved on its first collaborative effort to launch a set of initiatives …

5g, 4g, SDN, NFV, Small Cells – what is a common requirement for the success of each of these? Reliable, scalable, performance driven backhaul. Tier1 Cell carriers have recently added …

Despite growth, Vodafone plans to shut down the M-Pesa service in South Africa on June 30 Vodafone Group said it recently passed 25 million active customers for its M-Pesa mobile …

As BSS/OSS blend, ‘mass personalization’ is key, Ericsson says NICE, France – Customer experience is a function of rapid, personalized service offerings, said Ove Anebygd, VP of OSS/BSS for Ericsson, …

A new report from the Small Cell Forum titled “HetNet and SON Foundations” includes a poll of tier-one and tier-two operators, two-thirds of whom indicated heterogeneous networks would be “very …

Comptel partners with Telefónica, Orange on NFV, virtualization for TM Forum Live catalysts NICE, France – Competition from over-the-top players leveraging massive cloud operations to quickly bring services to market …

NICE, France – The days of just monitoring network performance metrics to gauge overall performance have given way to much more consumer-facing indicators designed to go beyond service assurance and …

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, emphasizes artificial intelligence, machine learning Google is investing big in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will set the stage for a transition from mobile-first to …

A mobile network should draw lessons from cloud providers to adapt to new traffic, application and service demands that threaten to destabilize quality of experience, and limit opportunities for growth. Although …

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some of the top news from across the space over the past week and speak with Red Hat on evolving storage …

AT&T countered recent claims by Verizon of being part of the largest OpenStack deployments, though welcomed its rival to the ecosystem AT&T looks to have taken exception to a claim …

Certified OpenStack Administrator exam part of plans to bolster the cloud computing talent pool and global community Connected to this week’s OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, the OpenStack Foundation announced …

Intel’s Imad Sousou: OpenStack is at a crossroads AUSTIN, Texas – Data centers run the risk of being overwhelmed as demand for content and remote resources continues to grow. OpenStack …

As the telecom space moves towards increased use of virtualization platforms, devops is becoming an important model to smooth the transition Devops is not a new term, but the combination …

ETSI’s Mobile Edge Computing ISG looks to define MEC terminology, lay out technical requirements and use cases for mobile network deployments The European Telecommunications Standards Institute released a trio of …

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with Ron Haberman, VP of Nokia Network’s CloudBand Business Unit, to discuss platform updates and get an overview on carrier adoption Nokia …

Mitel announced April 15 it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to purchase video and voice conferencing firm Polycom for $1.96 billion in a cash and stock deal. In …

AT&T, Telit, ARM, F-Secure talk IoT during Mobile World Congress The “Internet of Things” promises to change the way we all live and work, according to myriad discussions during the …