Verizon joins the ONOS project, furthering support for open source SDN
The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project on its 1-year anniversary scored a significant membership victory, announcing the addition of Verizon Communications to the program focused on accelerating the adoption of open...
Openwave Mobility predicts trends in 2016 for mobile video and data
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
The year for monetizing video...
VC investments and M&A activity topped $600 million across NFV and SDN space last year
Venture capital funding is increasingly finding its way into the virtualized software space, with firms specializing in network functions virtualization and software-defined networking garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in...
Move towards multiple devices, million of users sets stage for significant growth
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Since Martin Cooper invented the...
Mirantis reports doubling in OpenStack online training students last year
Open-source software platform OpenStack continues to see considerable demand for trained programmers, which has resulted in a growing push towards online course options.
One firm specializing in the technology, Mirantis, said it witnessed a doubling in...
On this week’s show we speak with Sonus on NFV and SDN trends we saw in 2015 and what to expect in 2016
For this week’s featured interview, we spoke with Myk Konrad, VP of go-to-market for Sonus, to get his insight into the major...
HPE claims orchestration platform ideal for managing hybrid network architectures
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled its Service Director platform, which the company said is designed to help communication service providers manage their services across hybrid network architectures.
The company, which late last year was spun off...
ADVA claims the deal will bolster NFV and cloud plans
ADVA Optical Networking is set to boost its cloud and network functions virtualization efforts following its announced acquisition of Overture Networks. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
According to ADVA, the deal combines two...
OpenCloud looks at the need for NFV differentiation in the market
When the Internet community started talking about the cloud, it meant different things to different people. Over the years, agreement was made on what makes a cloud a cloud, from server and app virtualization...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with Metaswitch on the importance of open source for telecom virtualization
This week we spoke with Andy Randall, GM for the networking business unit at Metaswitch, on how the company looks at the importance of open source...
Openet claims free access to its open software designed to hasten NFV adoption
Business support systems platform provider Openet is planning to offer its VNF Lifecycle Manager software for free beginning in March.
Openet said beginning March 31, it will provide free access to the software...
AT&T software plans updated, highlighting open source targets, cloud milestones
LAS VEGAS – AT&T continues to steadily march towards a virtualized future, which will see the carrier hit software control of 75% of its network by 2020 using software-defined networking and network functions virtualization technologies....
Openet predicts content partnerships, Wi-Fi, BSS and NFV will alter mobile space in 2016
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Content partnerships 2.0
Data...
Increased adoption of cloud to power virtualized PBX growth
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Telecom will take a major step towards the...
2016 is set to see increased competition between cloud APIs and carriers
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
2016 promises to bring even...
What to expect from SDN and data centers in 2016
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
In 2015, service providers, telecom operators, and...
IT plans in 2016 set for challenge from digital transformation
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
CIOs and other tech leaders will...
It seems that the future is getting faster every day. “The Future of Network Appliances,” a recent survey conducted by Heavy Reading, revealed that in 2018 – a mere two years in the future – 100 gigabits per second will be the dominant speed...
TBR survey finds NFV and SDN PoCs will increase in 2016, with greater adoption in 2017
Network functions virtualization and software-defined networking platforms are expected to see continued proof-of-concept testing by telecom operators in 2016, with greater adoption not expected until at least 2017.
According to...
Before we turn the page on 2015, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories of 2015 across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these...
Joint NFV lab focused on NFV, SDN research
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and China Telecom Beijing Research Institute said they opened a joint lab in Beijing focused on network functions virtualization research with the intent of helping China Telecom plan for implementing NFV technologies.
The joint NFV...
Ovum predicts significant upheaval from cloud across the enterprise content management market
The enterprise content management space is set for significant upheaval in 2016, with a recent report from Ovum predicting the largest impact for the segment will come from increased reliance and use of...
AT&T managed hosting and application services unit offload plans include equipment and access to data center floor space
In an expansion of an ongoing relationship, AT&T said it will transition its managed application and hosting services unit to IBM as well as offload equipment and...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we garner insight as IEEE tackles SDN, NFV and its standards work within the space
Software is nothing new, but the reach of software solutions is reshaping the technology space. The telecom market is not immune to this reshaping...
