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News & Views Most Popular Startup Celona Targets Private LTE & 5G for Enterprise By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 10/15/2019 Celona, a startup stemming from CommScope's purchase of Ruckus, is targeting the market for enterprises building their own private 5G and LTE wireless networks, eschewing WiFi. Post a Comment Key Takeaways From 5G Transport & the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/11/2019 What were some of the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City? Two sober (just) editors chew the fat... Post a Comment TM Pitches to Build Malaysia's National 5G Network By Robert Clark, 10/10/2019 Malaysia's fixed-line incumbent wants to be the country's only operator of a 5G network. Post a Comment Advertisement China Optical Vendors Take a Hit From Fiber Glut By Robert Clark, 10/9/2019 Fiber saturation has dampened demand this year, but the arrival of 5G means the downturn may be short-lived. Post a Comment BT Gives Convergence Another Bash, but 'Halo' Looks Far From Heavenly By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/9/2019 A push into bundles is not going to guarantee success for the ailing UK telco amid a blizzard of competitive and regulatory challenges. Post a Comment NBN Faces Penalties but Deeper Issues Can't Be Fixed By Robert Clark, 10/3/2019 Australia's national broadband network faces rising costs while customers remain unhappy. Post a Comment Másmóvil Investors Bullish on Orange 5G Deal By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/1/2019 Spain's fourth operator has upped its profit expectations after extending an agreement with Orange to cover the use of its 5G networks. Post a Comment Advertisement Dutch Ditch Dominique: KPN Gives Leroy the Kiss-Off By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/30/2019 'We wish her all the best,' says operator, as it puts the kibosh on Leroy appointment. Post a Comment Eurobites: Proximus Boss Reportedly Investigated for Insider Trading By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/20/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Google to invest in Europe; Three pumps up the bandwidth; euNetworks adds fiber in Milan and Madrid. Post a Comment Hungary Bars Digi From 5G Auction By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/16/2019 Three operators will bid for spectrum in Hungary's upcoming 5G auction after broadband operator Digi had its application rejected without explanation. Post a Comment Departing Proximus CEO Frogmarched Out to Chorus of Staff Boos By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/16/2019 The head of Proximus is leaving earlier than planned amid staff protests. Post a Comment Australia's TPG Had No 5G Plan. Does Anyone? By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/12/2019 The legal battle over a proposed merger between two operators shines a bad light on Australia's telecom market. Post a Comment Telefónica to Spend €1.6B on Workforce Makeover By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/11/2019 Spanish operator will retrain 6,000 employees and offload others in its latest effort to bolster financial performance. Post a Comment Taiwan Finalizes 5G Network Sharing Arrangements By Robert Clark, 9/10/2019 Taiwanese authorities are mandating network sharing arrangements as they prepare for an upcoming spectrum auction. Post a Comment Eurobites: Telefónica to Wield Jobs Ax Again – Report By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/10/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Soros considers sale of Hyperoptic stake; BT unleashes its drone killer; Nevion 5G virtualization project bags EU grant. Post a Comment Fastweb, Wind Tre Take 5G Network Sharing to the Limit By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/4/2019 A 5G network-sharing agreement between the Italian operators could help to validate network slicing and provide a new paradigm for Europe's ailing service providers. Post a Comment Pressure on Huawei Shifts Closer to Home By Robert Clark, 9/2/2019 The US campaign to pressure others into snubbing Huawei has had an impact in Vietnam and has now also moved underwater. Post a Comment Huawei's Share of the Global Telecom Market Keeps Growing By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/29/2019 Although Huawei remains enmeshed in the US-China trade war, the company's telecom networking business continues to pick up market share. Post a Comment Comcast, Charter to Offer 5G Via Verizon MVNO By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/23/2019 Comcast's Xfinity Mobile and Charter's Spectrum Mobile MVNOs will offer Verizon's 5G service to their respective customers at some unspecified point in the future. Post a Comment Three CEO: We'd Rather Take Huawei Risk Than Miss 5G Rewards By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/20/2019 The smallest of the UK's four mobile operators is forging ahead with its rollout of a home broadband service powered by Huawei's 5G equipment, despite government concern about the Chinese vendor. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Key Takeaways From 5G Transport & the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/11/2019 What were some of the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City? Two sober (just) editors chew the fat... Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Acacia Unveils Coherent 1.2T Single-Chip, Single-Channel Module Thursday, September 12, 2019 CenturyLink Courts EMEA Partners Thursday, September 5, 2019 Infinera Reports Q2 Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Startup UbiquitiLink Raises $5.2M to Connect Regular Cell Phones Directly to Low-Earth-Orbit Nanosatellites Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Verizon to Use Hitachi's ONEx for WAN Optimization Tuesday, July 9, 2019 KPN Sells International Unit to GTT Monday, July 8, 2019 Tomia Intros Cloud-Based Blockchain Settlement Platform Monday, June 24, 2019 Digital Colony Wraps Deal for Cogeco Peer 1 Wednesday, May 1, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Don't Get Burned by Your Sophos Firewall Larry Loeb, Author, 10/15/2019 Researcher finds Sophos firewalls can allow net-based RCE without authentication. (0) CISO No Longer the Last Word on Security – Radware Larry Loeb, Author, 10/14/2019 The rise of DevSecOps may be the reason that 70% of respondents to Radware's ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News High-Speed Broadband: The Prescription for a Healthier Country Fiber Broadband Association, , 10/16/2019 Rural Americans are getting shut out of today's increasingly digital healthcare ... (0) CORD Comes to Life at #BBWF Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2019 At the Broadband World Forum 2019 in Amsterdam, Light Reading's Iain Morris and ... (0) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Network Rising: DriveNets Adapts Hyperscaler Approach to ... New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... 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 Europe's Backhaul Black Hole Looms Above 5G Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/18/2017 The poor availability of fiber for mobile backhaul spells trouble for some of ... (0) 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) G.fast Could Use a Boost Iain Morris , International Editor , 10/13/2016 Technological progress will vastly improve the capability of G.fast technology ... (3 comments) BT, Ofcom & the Battle of Britain Iain Morris , International Editor , 8/18/2016 The structural separation of BT would not have propelled the UK up international ... 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Network Convergence Revolution to Drive Speed & Efficiency, CommScope CTO Says

New Orleans -- Cable-Tec Expo -- The wired/wireless network "revolution" is well underway, though the speed at which that revolution will proceed won't be constant. ...