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.
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 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of Cloud RAN and apparently celebrated the event long and hard.
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.
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.
Huawei reckons the early success of 5G lays with successfully interoperating new radio infrastructure with existing LTE.
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 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 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.
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.
Finnish kit vendor Nokia must be virtually delighted, after Telefónica went and deployed a whole bunch of its virtualized router technology.
A new report has had a look at the market for network function virtualization (NFV) and reckons it’s due for a growth spurt.
Real-time communications company Genband has got involved with IBM to deliver a bunch of cloud-based enterprise comms goodness.
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.
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.
Having struggled to come to terms with Cisco’s betrayal, Ericsson has decided to have a rebound fling with Red Hat. Go girlfriend!
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.
A talk from AT&T at Broadband World Forum inadvertently revealed how long it is taking for NFV to realise its overly-hyped potential.
The dudes running the NFV effort over at ETSI need to shake a leg and get a move on, according to the Broadband Forum CEO, Robin Mersh.
VMWare and GigaSpaces have announced a new partnership focused on open standards-based orchestration for NFV applications.
Orange and AT&T have reached a collaboration agreement to cooperate on the development and standardisation of SDN and NFV technologies.