Cloud security plans require telecom operators and enterprises to think about total protection processes and take into account software platforms.
Telecommunication operators are increasingly turning towards virtualized platforms in order to bolster agility, reduce costs and better position themselves to compete against...
Advances in network technology and applications are expected to support a surge in the global connected workforce, according to Strategy Analytics.
Wireless communications continues to infiltrate and empower the enterprise market, enabling employees – for good or bad – to always be connected...
Integration, orchestration and security noted by Radware as key challenges facing ongoing SDN, NFV and cloud deployment models.
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Frank Yue, director of application delivery solutions at Radware, on development, deployment and challenges facing the telecom space...
Building on existing partnership, Ericsson and Cisco will further collaborate on IoT, security, Wi-Fi and data center switching
Ericsson and Cisco have expanded the scope of a strategic agreement to now include new areas of business such as data center switching, Wi-Fi, security and the...
OTT rivals continue to hound the mobile telecom space, but NetScout notes SDN and NFV platforms can help even out the playing field.
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Vikram Saksena, office of the CTO for virtualization at NetScout, on how telecom...
Cloud platforms along with the move towards virtualization technologies have begun to have a significant impact on the way telecom operators run their businesses. Operators have been very active in providing cloud-based options for customers, as well as have begun to use such platforms...
ONOS project’s CORD initiative claims mobile platform bolsters 5G plans with programmable RAN, VEPC, mobile edge computing support.
The Open Network Operating System project’s central office re-architected as a data center platform released its first open sourced disaggregated and virtualized evolved packet core,...
Orange’s Easy Go Network uses SDN to power VNFs as part of its network-as-a-service model focused on the enterprise market.
Virtualized platforms targeting the enterprise space continue to pop up all over the world, with the latest effort coming from France’s Orange, which through its...
AT&T and Colt Technology partnered on a trial showing SDN control of service provisioning between U.S. and Europe across different networks
In a push towards greater interoperability of software-defined networking architectures, AT&T said it’s completed work with Colt Technology Services to create, test and trial...
Telefonica Business Solutions deployed Nokia Virtualized Service Router in a provider edge application looking to boost performance, trim costs
Telefonica bolstered its move into the virtualized network space through a partnership with Nokia to deploy the vendor’s virtualized router technology in a live network to...
Open Networking User Group states plans for significant investment into cloud, analytics and monitoring, formation of ONUG Lab
The Open Networking User Group came out of its recent trade event with new momentum behind plans for the formation of $1 billion cloud-based infrastructure analytic applications...
Linux Foundation-based open source organization OPNFV welcomed China Telecom, Qualcomm and Samsung to NFV-focused group
The move towards virtualizing network functions continues to draw interest of telecom operators, with the Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV project gaining new members.
The OPNFV Project, which is focused...
The online course focused on devops follows the Linux Foundation’s work earlier this year on online classes targeting OpenStack
The development and operations model is quickly becoming a central focus for companies looking to take advantage of software and information technology in order to increase...
The move towards virtualized and cloud-based network systems can appear significant for telecom operators, but here’s a good place to start the journey
Analysts predict that more than half of all enterprise applications will be in the cloud by 2020. For communications services, the timetable...
Level 3 provides insight into the working relationship with partners on the deployment of SDN platforms in support of service agility
For most companies, the deployment of virtualized platforms using software-defined networking, network functions virtualization or cloud technologies requires working with other parties on the...
AT&T Labs hired company veteran Mazin Gilbert who touted the carrier’s ongoing plans for 75% SDN control of network by 2020
AT&T’s push to drive virtualization software platforms deeper into its operations included the recent hiring of Mazin Gilbert as VP of the telecom...
Recent research from Gartner suggests that there are three possible trends that will drive the move to 5G: new services and applications, 4G network obsolescence, and cost disruption. While overall I tend to agree with their assessment, it left a few questions unanswered for...
Combination of SDN organizations to keep ONF name and be headed by ON.Lab director; merger set to be completed by end of 2017
Just over a month after losing its executive director, the Open Networking Foundation announced a merger with fellow software-defined networking organization Open...
Open source continues to gain momentum and is said to remain central to ongoing development and deployment of NFV and SDN for telecommunication operators
The open source community remains active in bolstering support for the telecommunication market’s move towards network virtualization platforms using software-defined networking...
Sprint SD-WAN plans are designed to ease enterprise management of corporate network; trials set for year-end and commercial launch in 2017
The enterprise-focused software-defined wide area network space continues to attract telecom players, with Sprint now set to launch its own SD-WAN platform.
The carrier said...
NFV platforms are growing in use across telecom, but it’s important to line up which solutions are needed to address different types of operational models
On this episode of NFV/SDN Reality Check, we have a featured interview with Juniper Networks to discuss the delivery of...
Last week I attended the AT&T Industry Analyst Summit. Wireless is going to play an increasingly large and important role at the company going forward, but the story is much bigger than that. The analyst community was filled in on everything AT&T at this...
AT&T SD-WAN moves include a premise-based OTT option available later this year, or a more comprehensive hybrid approach set to launch next year
AT&T announced a partnership with VeloCloud to deliver software-defined wide area network services to enterprises looking to migrate networks from hardware to...
ETSI continues to move on its open source MANO work in support of telecom NFV plans, releasing the latest OSM stack focused on VNF, SDN controller support
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO initiative continued to feed software into the management and orchestration...
