MNOs were glad to off load massive amounts of data traffic onto these low-end, best effort, free networks, providing, of course, that their LTE netwo ...
Solutions are emerging for fixed and mobile network environments, and for business and consumer applications. Pockets of solutions are emerging to address ...
In the article “How Big a Threat Is VoWi-Fi to the LTE Operator?” (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hgAzT073Q) I illustrated ...
In the steadily advancing domain of cloud computing an improvement of this sort has recently been made that could help service providers increase the secur ...
From the Open Compute Project in data center hardware to open source software such as Open Daylight and OpenStack, the principles of ‘don’t loc ...
Infinera’s OTS brings an innovative design to the table as operators’ efforts to embrace SDN move ahead. Most SDN solutions include an abstract ...
Coriant added to its 7100 family of products with the 7100 Pico™ Packet Optical Transport Platform and Alcatel-Lucent added to its 1830 Photonic Serv ...
Unlike the rest of the network the access network is burdened with federal, state and local regulations and this is only getting worse. I’ve written ...
A decade and more ago ops managers were blue chip contractors, assembling custom-tuned components into environments a well-known set of visitors could use ...
Paul Obsitnik, vice president of service provider product marketing at Juniper Networks, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss Juniper’s Converg ...
On April 20, 2015, Alcatel-Lucent announced its new broadband residential gateway the 7368 Intelligent Service Access Manager (ISAM) optical network t ...
According to Arris (USA) has agreed to acquire Pace (UK) for $2.1 billion; the key benefits of the deal are to accelerate growth and to improve financ ...
The network-terminating CPE device provided by the access network service provider is at an inflection point: it’s at the intersection of service pro ...
The networks programming process is quite challenging, as operators face several issues within Software Defined Networking (SDN) planning such as maintaini ...
Enabling Carrier SDN Most of us know that remarkable gains in creating and deploying new services efficiently and at scale have been made in the ...
Advances in communication and cloud computing technologies have at a remarkable rate immensely improved peoples’ quality of life and the effectivenes ...
Before we discuss Nokia-ALU and the impact this new company will have on the market, let me first clarify in case there is any doubt: this is an acquisitio ...
Access is no longer fixed or wireless. Access is about connecting people and things to each other and to applications and service in the cloud. Access is a ...
It’s becoming more challenging for carriers to differentiate bit transport, and they are actually accelerating this by aggressively marketing bits pe ...
A number of parallels exist between the nascent forms of software-defined networking (SDN) we are working with today and the early stages of development in ...
Juniper Networks, which has been looking for a unified communications solution for quite some time, recently announced its partnership with carrier/enterpr ...