This blog, written after Oracle OpenWorld 2019, held in September 2019 in San Francisco, outlines some of the Oracle announcements as well as key learnings and trends in the CommSoft markets. It also provides snippets of my current view of future trends in important areas of evolution of the technol ...

Federated Wireless, along with numerous partners and a few customers, hosted a media and analyst event for a series of presentations on various aspects of CBRS at its new HQ. ...

The annual analyst day at Comcast Business did not disappoint. ...

Market forces and the insatiable demand for bandwidth, both upstream and downstream, are driving cable operators to modernize their network infrastructure and operations. ...

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), a promising new technology that brings optimization, visibility and flexibility into the WAN environment, has been experiencing significant growth. Our research shows that the top use cases for SD-WAN are Internet connectivity to cloud-based applicat ...

This blog, written after Oracle’s Modern CX event (#ModernCX) in Las Vegas in March, outlines some of my key take-aways about the Oracle CX Suite capabilities and directions for communications service providers. Oracle CX Suite Overview Oracle CX provides functionality supporting B2 ...

This BLOG, written after Mobile World Congress, held in February 2019 in Barcelona, outlines some of the key learnings and trends in the Commsoft markets and provides snippets of my current view of future trends in important areas of evolution of the technologies and markets of Communications Serv ...

Mobile World Congress this year was nearly all about 5G. You had to look but yes, there were other things on tap besides 5G. There are many ways to do MWC but for me, it is a chance to get a reality check on the state of technology development and operators’ strategies, which do not ... ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is being implemented in all industry verticals as they move to digitally transform their businesses. ...

For the last several years, I have been talking to operators and vendors about digital transformation (DX) and have seen a number of different approaches used along a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum are highly centralized projects, usually run by a chief digital officer of an organization. Thes ...

Cisco introduced its cloud-native CCAP, which was demonstrated at SCTE 2017. The new solution, named cnBR is not an iteration of the cBR-8, Cisco’s current hardware based CCAP, nor is the cBR-8 software ported to virtual machines. Rather, it is a completely new solution, built from the ground up as ...

These two shows in June in Austin, Texas, were collocated with the Light Reading Big Communications Event for which I am disappointed to say I didn’t even get inside the door. Lots of attendees complained of the overlapping agendas. Many speakers appeared to be going from one event to another for th ...