RIO DE JANEIRO—The impact of software defined networks (SDN) and how carriers should deal with over-the-top (OTT) providers were hot topics at Futurecom, the largest telecom event of Latin America held in Brazil last week. At the trade show, RCR Wireless News conducted several video interviews...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – One challenge facing wireless carriers looking to improve the customer experience is getting a cohesive view of consumer and network behavior across the entire organization. This is becoming an increasing concern as consumers move away from traditionally easy-to-track voice and...
Acquisition, analytics and mobile payments. These are just a few of the recurring topics in the world of telecom software this week. Welcome to our weekly telecom software wrap-up, where we gather together all of the biggest news stories on the topic in one...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Watch the live stream with speakers from Verizon, Ixia, IBM, Cisco, National Instruments and many more. Live October 18, 8:30 AM CST - 5:00 PM. The 11th annual Texas Wireless Summit continues the tradition of providing a forum for industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies and...
With another busy week in the world of Telecom Software, who has time to read/search for every story out there? RCR Wireless News vets the news to bring you the biggest, most important stories of the week on this increasingly critical topic. We'll probably...
Juniper Networks launched new enhancements to boost the capacity of its flagship MX Series 3D universal edge routers today to support the demands of video and other high-bandwidth applications on networks.
Juniper said that its highest capacity MX router, the MX2020 (pictured at right), has...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Telecom Software weekly wrap-up where we gather top telecom software news stories for the week:
U.S. Cellular is working with its billing company Amdocs to fix glitches that caused multiple inaccurate bills for customers and other errors.
Actix rolled...
Sonus Networks has launched its first software-based session border controller (SBC), positioning the company to better compete as networks evolve toward less purpose-built hardware and more software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).
The Sonus SBC SWe is equivalent to the company's hardware-based SBC...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – In comments kicking off this week’s PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, keynote speakers from Sprint and AT&T both noted the importance of small cells, spectrum and software in terms of their abilities to meet growing demand for mobile data services.
AT&T Labs President...
NEW YORK – Software-defined networking is currently a buzzword in the ICT world. The concept of separating the hardware layer from the software layer is expected to change the networking environment and industry drastically. After announcing its HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller a...
Alcatel-Lucent continues to beat the drum for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), with the creation of an open ecosystem for service providers, developers and vendors interested in adopting NFV.
The CloudBand Ecosystem Program was initially rolled out to a limited group of...
Nick Ilyadis, CTO of chipmaker Broadcom, sat down for a wide-ranging conversation with RCR to discuss the latest developments in Wi-Fi with the developing 802.11ac ecosystem; software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV); wearable wireless; and more.
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0xIVPUqAM
Cisco has packed 4 billion transistors onto a single chip in an effort to create the world's most scalable and programable network processor. The company says it is targeting the Internet of Everything (IoE) with its nPower X1, which it calls "the first generation...
Looking to further the contentious issue of LTE roaming, the Rural Telecommunications Group unveiled a program dubbed the LTE Roaming initiative designed to offer roaming capabilities for rural operators. The initiative is launching with the help of rural operator Union Wireless and a...
Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) announced that Beijing Mobile, a branch of the Chinese operator China Mobile, will implement NSN's extensive quality of experience (QoE) solution, aiming to improve its customer experience by linking network performance with subscriber satisfaction and application behavior. The carrier...
Spirent Communication's equipment was used to support China's first public OpenFlow interoperability test event in China at the Global SDN Certified Testing Center (SDNCTC), a subsidiary of the Beijing Internet Institute.
More than 10 software-defined networking vendors participated in the event; Spirent's TestCenter was used...
AT&T has opened its fourth Foundry location for established companies and start-ups to develop new products and services. The Foundry location in Atlanta is hosted by Cisco Systems, and will focus on connected home technology. mobility and the Internet of things.
Paul Mankiewich, CTO and...
Tektronix Communications says its new Spectra2 XL3 test solution can test more than 400,000 simultaneous, bi-directional G.711 IP-based calls while taking up only a single, two-unit rack space.
The company is aiming to cut operators' and manufacturers' capex and opex costs for testing IMS and...
Diameter signaling is becoming increasingly important to mobile networks, and partnerships can provide the most efficient way for IP networking companies to add this technology to their portfolios. Sonus Networks recently announced a partnership with F5 Networks to enable service providers to combine the...
Corning, maker of Gorilla Glass, announced its third consecutive quarter of strong growth in earnings per share amid declining LCD glass prices.
Corning's core sales were $2 billion for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 11% over the same period of 2012....
F5 Networks (FFIV) saw its stock surge after announcing revenues that exceeded expectations, trading above $85 per share for the first time in several months. Its revenues were up 5% year-over-year and 6% sequentially, to $370.3 million for its fiscal third quarter 2013.
GAAP net...
Dialogic said that its SS7 signaling server has been deployed by Spanish operator Lleida.net to enhance its SMS connectivity with other operators, and that the carrier seeking to connect with a broader range of other carriers for SMS service closed on nearly 200 operator...
Social media is a huge driver of wireless network traffic, accounting for an estimated 24% of the time Americans spend using their mobile phones. Facebook alone accounts for 18% of mobile minutes. The social network's former marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg (sister of founder Mark...
