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 ...

The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for bandwidth. ...

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) enables the cloud-based delivery of enterprise communication services that include telephony, video conferencing, messaging, presence, and online meetings. UCaaS provides significant benefits to small and large companies because they can fulfill their c ...

SD-WAN, a Software Defined Networking technology that introduces software programmability to enterprise communications, is gathering significant momentum in the marketplace. Its benefits are many; here are just a few of them: Application-based routing Centralized orchestration WAN optimiz ...

Comcast launches SD-WAN service and finds strong momentum and better than expected willingness to walk away from MPLS ...

Virtualized CCAP solutions start to gain market traction ...

Cisco’s elastic pricing model for DOCSIS licenses brings much needed disruption to the cable industry ...