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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AT&T accidentally hints it hasn’t done much NFV recently
A talk from AT&T at Broadband World Forum inadvertently revealed how long it is taking for NFV to realise its overly-hyped potential.
Get a move on with NFV – Broadband Forum
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.
GigaSpaces gives a TOSCA about VMware
VMWare and GigaSpaces have announced a new partnership focused on open standards-based orchestration for NFV applications.
Orange redoubles virtualization efforts with AT&T partnership
Orange and AT&T have reached a collaboration agreement to cooperate on the development and standardisation of SDN and NFV technologies.
AT&T expands ‘Network on Demand’ to 76 new markets
AT&T has expanded its Network on Demand solutions to now include 76 countries around the world, launching into all new markets simultaneously. The new service is built on the company’s software-defined network technology, and claimed to help businesses deploy a single universal piece of equipment, choose virtualized functions and set them up in different countries. The […]
China Mobile and ZTE launch ‘world’s largest’ NFV network
ZTE has announced China Mobile has officially initiated the commercialisation of its rich communication services (RCS) network, which it claims is currently the largest NFV IMS network in the world.
AT&T drafts in Nokia for millimetre wave 5G field trials
AT&T has given an update on its progress with developing a 5G network, saying Nokia has joined ongoing lab trials while field trials are expected this summer.
Amdocs and Microsoft collaborate for enterprise cloud platform
Amdocs and Microsoft have collaborated to create an enterprise connectivity and applications solution.
Nokia unveils virtualized OSS offering NetAct
On the back of disappointing Q1 sales, Nokia Networks has announced the launch of the NetAct Cloud virtualized OSS solution for network management.
Verizon deploys NFV OpenStack across five data centres
Verizon has completed the launch of its NFV OpenStack cloud deployment project across five of its US data centres, alongside Big Switch Networks, Dell and Red Hat – according to BCN.
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