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 ...

As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Jim Hepplemann, CEO of PTC, put it in their recent webinar (which was also highlighted in multiple articles in the Harvard Business Review), “we live in a 3-D world, but all information we consume visually is presented to us in a 2-D world on f ...

Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead Cloud Virtual Systems Infrastructure, ACG Research, gives the opening address (sponsored by Layer123) at the SDN + NFV World Congress in the Hague, which focused on business case considerations in adopting SD-WAN solutions.[embed]https://youtu.be/Nha-io1ZTNk[/embed ...

Competition and customers' demands are driving cable operators to initiate a massive transformation of their networks and operating environments ...

Nokia delivers an industry-leading, virtualized DAA solution, eliminating the need to choose between R-MACPHY and R-PHY Cable operators have accepted that their traditional playbook, which largely relied on node splits to meet the increasing demands on their networks, no longer addresses their ne ...

Comcast is undergoing a digital transformation and committing to softwareComcast Business hosted an analyst day recently during which it shared its strategy for growth. A few themes emerged: Digital first Comcast is demonstrating a strong commitment to software. We heard themes such as “Software ...