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New Ericsson CEO Ekholm celebrates first day with major Cisco cloud deal

Börje Ekholm’s first official day as Ericsson CEO coincides conveniently with the announcement of a big win with Cisco to virtualize Vodafone Australia’s network.

Ericsson and China Mobile join hands over ‘fruitifications’ and ‘evolvement’

Ericsson and China Mobile signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of Cloud RAN and apparently celebrated the event long and hard.

Operators face data cost-revenue crunch in 2017 – report

Veteran telecoms industry analyst Tom Nolle reckons this is the year the cost of delivering data becomes greater than the revenues derived from doing so, according to a Light Reading report.

Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and Cisco promise to play nice over NFV

The cloud only works if its components are interoperable so the four biggest networking vendors have joined forces to try to make sure NFV finally does something.

5G and LTE need to learn to share – Huawei

Huawei reckons the early success of 5G lays with successfully interoperating new radio infrastructure with existing LTE.

Ericsson scales cliché mountain to announce NFV solution

Ericsson has announced the launch of a comprehensive NFV infrastructure, which it insists is definitely totally interoperable, definitely not proprietary and does all the clever things NFV is famed for.

VMware set sights on telco segment

VMware has set forward its ambitions to tackle the telco cloud segment, using its Cross-Cloud Architecture and software-defined infrastructure offerings to appeal to the digital transformation conscious.

Ericsson reckons most operators are already doing 5G stuff

Ericsson clearly saw the stellar work being done by Telecoms.com, with our Road to 5G Outlook, by releasing its own update on how ready the telecoms community is for the arrival of 5G.

AT&T, Colt and Orange have a virtualization party

Wholesale operator Colt has claimed its position as the network for networks after doing some SDN and NFV cleverness with AT&T. Coincidentally, Orange announced the launch of an SDN project at the exact same time.

Telefónica and Nokia embark on a virtual route to the cloud

Finnish kit vendor Nokia must be virtually delighted, after Telefónica went and deployed a whole bunch of its virtualized router technology.

NFV market forecast to grow 33% per year until 2020, driven by IoT

A new report has had a look at the market for network function virtualization (NFV) and reckons it’s due for a growth spurt.

Genband tempts IBM with Kandy cloud

Real-time communications company Genband has got involved with IBM to deliver a bunch of cloud-based enterprise comms goodness.

University of Surrey abuzz with talk of Flat Distributed Cloud

They know how to party over at the University of Surrey and NFV-based Flat Distributed Cloud (FDC) is what all the cool kids are talking about these days.

Microsoft and IBM find joy in the cloud

Cloud computing has hit the headlines for Microsoft as the technology giant reported a year-on-year rise of 116% for Azure, while IBM continued to move in a cloudy direction.

Ericsson and Red Hat share some open sauce

Having struggled to come to terms with Cisco’s betrayal, Ericsson has decided to have a rebound fling with Red Hat. Go girlfriend!

Virtualization key to connected world

Taking a step back from the technical minutia around SDN and NFV, Amol Phadke, Global Lead Network Virtualization, Accenture, reminded the morning keynote audience at Braodband World Forum what NFV and SDN is really all about: connectivity.