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Proposed deal to add Cyan’s SDN, NFV experience to Ciena’s network platform The telecom market’s march toward virtualization continues to reshape the vendor space as network technology provider Ciena announced …

  Current state of 5G trends What is “5G?” Many organizations and entities with a stake in the outcome are attempting to answer that question. A useful example is the …

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we spoke with Frank Yue, senior technical marketing manager at F5, to garner insight into the importance and challenges facing NFV service orchestration for …

Ubiqube touts telecom focus in dealing with NFV, SDN requirements European-based network and security orchestration software vendor Ubiqube recently announced it is working with French operator Orange on a pilot …

Last week I attended the inaugural 5G Forum event that was organized by Informa in sunny Palo Alto, Calif. The location for this new event was interesting, especially considering that …

Verizon SDN plans tap Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, Nokia Verizon Communications publicly announced its software-defined networking plans, stating partnerships with the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper Networks and Nokia …

Large data centers started using software-defined networking principles a few years ago to create interconnect “fabrics” out of many switches, something difficult to do with conventional routers and switches and …

Swisscom migrates to NetCracker’s Service Fulfillment platform Telecom vendor NEC and its subsidiary NetCracker said they had recently helped telecom operator Swisscom complete the build out of ICT capabilities designed …

IBM expanded its cloud data operations with its SoftLayer division opening of a second center in the Netherlands designed to support expansion of IBM Cloud services in the region. The …

Chris Rice, VP of AT&T Labs, explains carrier’s telecom software focus AT&T has built up a strong reputation as an industry leader in advancing software platforms designed to bolster telecom …

Orchestrate brings DaaS capabilities to CenturyLink Cloud Regional telecommunications provider CenturyLink bolstered its cloud platform with the acquisition of Orchestrate, which focuses on managed database services designed for rapid application …

Infonetics report found 72% of NA-based enterprises plan LAN SDN networks A vast majority of North America-based enterprises plan to deploy live campus local area network software-defined networking products by …

AT&T looks to gain full Apache Project status for automated policy code AT&T continues to push its software focus, announcing this week that it has released software into an Apache …

SDN service targets enterprise customers with scalable solutions AT&T said it has expanded its enterprise-focused Network on Demand service to more than 100 cities, allowing customers to manage their network …

Telecom NFV growth spurred by operational efficiencies, SDN by enterprise A new report from Mind Commerce finds that telecom network revenue tied to network functions virtualization could reach $8.7 billion …

ONOS project’s Blackbird SDN platform touts, ‘performance, scale, high availability’ The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project unveiled its Blackbird platform, the second release from the ONOS community …

Service providers, enterprises targets of IBM’s SDN, virtualization, automation centers IBM is set to open a pair of “network innovation centers” designed to allow clients to take software-defined networking, virtualization …

NFV demo through partnership with Intel, OpenStack Oracle Communications claims that through a partnership with Intel and parts of the OpenStack platform is has produced the first successful demonstration of …

Ericsson notes NFV, cloud conversations beginning, biz models set for fundamental change ATLANTA – The virtualization revolution that is hitting the mobile industry’s largest operators is not lost on smaller …

Demo tapped Huawei’s NFV platform to virtualized VoLTE The virtualization of mobile services continues to gain steam as Huawei, a Chinese equipment vendor said it has successfully demonstrated a virtualized …

Trade organization TM Forum recently announced a management change that saw interim president and CEO Bill Ahlstrom cede his leadership position to board member Peter Sany. The organization noted the …

Bristol Is Open is developing an open programmable city. The project is a collaboration among technology companies, media and telecommunications companies, universities, local communities, and local and national government. In addition, a …

NFV orchestration to bolster CenturyLink’s enterprise customers Regional telecommunications provider CenturyLink said it plans to tap Cyan for its Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator to provide network function virtualization-based services to …

Huawei said it has partnered with the Open Networking Foundation and Open Network Lab through its Open Network Operating System platform to build an open ecosystem designed to support commercial …

Telco Systems launches program to provide SDN and distributed NFV to the network edge The telecom network virtualization movement received a new proponent with Telco Systems launching its Open Edge …