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News & Views Most Popular Infinera: Making Optical Interesting Again By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 9/30/2019 The vendor's new XR Optics technology could cut carrier opex and capex in service providers' metro networks. But can the company get everyone else to buy into coherent optical sub-carrier aggregation? Post a Comment ECOC 2019 Preview: Beware of the Irish Goodbye By James Kisner, Contributing columnist, 9/11/2019 The optical networking industry has seen its fair share of customers show up to the party and then leave without warning. One analyst ponders what's going to be different in the next 12 months. Post a Comment Podcast: Ciena's CEO Sets Sail for Growth By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 9/10/2019 Ciena CEO Gary Smith said that M&A is always a possibility as the company looks to build its software business while managing the growth of its optical platform sales to web-scale companies. Post a Comment Advertisement Ciena CEO: Carriers No Longer Hooked on Huawei By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/5/2019 International operators are set to ween themselves off Huawei, claims Ciena CEO Gary Smith. Post a Comment Web-Scale Business Fuels Ciena's Growth but Stock Takes a Hit By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/5/2019 Transport gear and software vendor reports year-on-year revenue growth of more than 17% to $960.6 million, with a hefty chunk of revenues coming from web-scale customers, but investors reacted negatively to outlook. Post a Comment CenturyLink Adds Fiber to Fuel Datacenter, Cloud Growth By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/23/2019 Why more fiber? Cloud data center demand from webscale service providers, says CenturyLink's CTO. Post a Comment Podcast: ClearSky Data CEO Ellen Rubin Knows Where Your Data Is By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/16/2019 Ellen Rubin joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss edge computing and the new need for data management in more places as the world goes from static storage to mobile, multicloud madness. Post a Comment Advertisement Cisco Looks to Acacia for Optics & Flexibility By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/10/2019 Acacia's pluggable optics help Cisco's routing business stay competitive and make its customer networks easier to operate, according to the head of Cisco's optical business. Post a Comment Cisco to Buy Acacia for Pluggable Optical Goodness By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/9/2019 Cisco said it would buy Acacia and the components vendor's current optical transport customers need not worry. The move is seen as positive overall, but one analyst explained why Arista should probably be more concerned than ADVA. Post a Comment Cybersecurity Expert Sees Opportunity in Internet Growth, Consolidation By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 6/14/2019 The way to defend against DDoS and other attacks is changing, says Nokia's Craig Labovitz. That's because the Internet is getting bigger and smaller at the same time. Post a Comment Huawei Slaps Verizon With $1B+ Patents Bill – Reports By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/13/2019 Chinese vendor ups the ante in battle with the US by reportedly demanding more than $1 billion in patent payments from the US carrier for the use of technology it has in its networks, reports the Wall Street Journal. Post a Comment Ciena Keeps Its Foot on the Gas in Q2 By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 6/6/2019 For its fiscal quarter ended April 30, Ciena showed more growth and some customer diversification, while continuing to add to its software portfolio. Post a Comment A Coherent Take on NGON & DCI World By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/23/2019 Heavy Reading's optical guru Sterling Perrin highlights some key trends from the NGON & DCI World event in Nice, including 'Beyond Coherent,' what 400ZR really means for the market, the latest on 5G transport and the FUDfest that is Huawei. Post a Comment Optical's Shifting Sands By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/21/2019 The global optical networking market has been worth in the region of $15 billion for the past year, but while that number has varied only slightly year to year, what has changed is the nature of the investments and who's splashing the cash. Post a Comment Big 5G Event Keynote: Fireside Chat – Andrew Dugan, CenturyLink By Light Reading, 5/16/2019 CenturyLink CTO Andrew Dugan shares his views on 5G transport technology at the Big 5G Event in Denver on May 8, 2019. Post a Comment Verizon's Wellbrock: RAN Is Fancy Radio That Rides on Fiber By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/15/2019 The radio access network receives plenty of attention in 5G discussions, but Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock says those "fancy radios" require a strong fiber backbone. Post a Comment Ciena: We'll Stop 95% of Network Outages By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/14/2019 Ciena's Proactive Network Operations is a closed-loop automation platform that service providers can use to predict and prevent service disruptions. Post a Comment Light Reading Hall of Fame 2019 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/6/2019 We've added four names to the Hall of Fame this year. Find out who they are... Post a Comment Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Telecoms Product By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/4/2019 There are 11 (yes, count them!) shortlisted entries in this year's category for Most Innovative Telecoms Product (Optical/IP/Carrier Ethernet/FTTH). Post a Comment Nokia Suffers 5G Blues in Q1, Stock Slumps By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 4/25/2019 When the CEO and CFO say the quarter was 'weak,' you know it was bad: investors agreed. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Deutsche Telekom Picks Netcracker for Next-Gen OSS Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Ciena Reports Sales Hike in Fiscal Q3 Thursday, September 5, 2019 ADVA Intros Cell Site Gateway for 5G Thursday, September 5, 2019 Tejas Boosts US Team With Hire From Infinera Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Smartoptics Debuts New Passive Platforms Thursday, May 16, 2019 Blue Planet Prevents up to 95% of Network Outages With New Proactive Network Operations Solution Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Nokia Reports Q1 Loss Thursday, April 25, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity: Making It Work for Your Organization 10/16/2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a new frontier in information security. ... (0) Even RATs Need Marketing Larry Loeb, Author, 10/16/2019 Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers have discovered a new and previously ... 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The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs Sonus in VellOS Mellanox Open Composable Networks Network Security Orchestration Sonus in the Cloud Sonus Strategy Netronome's Server-based Networking Platform Nexius: The Strategy & Science of Data Analytics Overture Networks NFV Solutions ECI's Elastic Network Masergy: Transforming Enterprise IT Arbor Networks on ISP Traffic Visibility ECI's LightSec: Comprehensive Cyber Security Solution ECI’s LightApps: Intelligence for Networks Service Gateway Virtual Edition SDN Management & Orchestration in the WAN Sedona Systems: Multi-Layer Applications Platform NFV – a Catalyst for Business Services Growth Telefónica: In Search of Virtual Simplicity Affirmed Networks Highlights NFV in Mobile Core Close-up on ConfD NetNumber Founder on Managing Signaling Control Tail-f, Cisco & What the Future Holds Sonus Shakes Up SD-WAN Automate, Scale & Create With Juniper's vCPE Solution Metaswitch's New CEO Martin Lund Discusses His Role ActiveVideo's Cloud Virtualization Technology Nominum on Leveraging the Power of DNS to Deliver ... Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading DT's Terastream: A Bigger Splash? Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/13/2018 Deutsche Telekom's once-ballyhooed Terastream initiative, which turned seven this ... (3 comments) Leading Lights 2017: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/10/2017 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (1 Comment) Leading Lights 2016: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/20/2016 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (2 comments) Critical Infrastructure: Why Telecom Is Taking a Renewed Interest in the Utility Sector Dan O'Shea , Analyst, Heavyreading.com , 8/27/2015 Telecom vendors are taking an increasing interest in the utility industry's ... (4 comments) All Prime Reading

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10/16/2019

Juniper CTO Talks About the Company's 5G Aspirations

When Bikash Koley jumped ship from Google to become the CTO of Juniper Networks in mid-2017, it was considered quite a win for the networking firm. Koley, who had ...