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A new Cisco survey revealed IT leaders are focused on unifying network management into a single platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new Cisco survey revealed IT leaders are focused on unifying network management into a single platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intel expanded its repertoire further into automotive Tuesday with a deal to acquire Silicon Mobility, a fabless silicon and software company that makes SoCs for EV energy management. But tha [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EPB tapped into its partnership with Aliro Quantum to add configuration and management software to its network in Chatanooga, Tennessee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Versa Networks' Zero Trust Everywhere extends secure networking capabilities that remote users have benefited from to the corporate campus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon has been steadily upgrading local markets with 5G Ultra Wideband and today it announced network upgrades for San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern vehicle is often equated to a "server on wheels," but from a security point of view, it's just as much an Internet of Things (IoT) device that can exploited by threat actors to gain acce [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Filip de Greve, Nokia's product marketing director for fixed networks, told Fierce Nokia has seen high interest for open access networks in South America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Its 5G core is built on the Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP), a telco cloud that the carrier built internally based on software-defined networking technology. Verizon runs VCP in its own data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When it was announced last month that AT&T EVP/Network CTO Andre Fuetsch was retiring after [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On yesterday's Q2 2022 earnings call, AT&T CEO John Stankey talked a bit about the company's challenges in its Business Wireline unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses about the preference of business firms in Hong Kong to select network flexibility and business agility as their important attribute for the year 2015. Topics discussed include the trends in China that prompted Hong Kong business firms to evaluate their information technology frameworks, the increasing focus on the network technologies SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network functions virtualization), and the misconceptions concerning these technologies.

Benu Networks has taken its cloud-native broadband network gateway (BNG) to the next level, partnering with Intel to enhance its virtual BNG performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the adoption of network enterprises of software-defined network (SDN) and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) to revamp network architecture. According to the Network Barometer Report released by Dimension Data in November 2015, enterprises across the world are shortening their network equipment lifecycle as businesses embrace digitization. The reports also reveals that the adoption level remains low and few organizations have network equipment that supports SDN.

The article discusses the importance of cloud technology to mobile and big data analytics. Topics covered include how Hong Kong expects to see the continuous growth of hybrid cloud adoption, the emergence of cloud brokerage service as an information technology (IT) operation model, and the growth of software defined networking (SDN) to support cloud apps and services.

STL sought to capitalize on a trend toward open networking in the fiber market, rolling out general availability of a new open programmable FTTX solution (pFTTX). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Broadband Forum offered a tantalizing glimpse of what the networks of the future might look like, demonstrating a technology called dynamic session steering which uses software-defined networking (SDN) to reconfigure a user's connection on the fly based on the application they're using. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comcast Business inked a deal to acquire cloud and software-defined networking company Masergy for an undisclosed sum, seeking to strengthen its ability to serve large enterprises with a global footprint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The latest capabilities reflect how enterprises and public sector customers are changing how they use data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The six-month program provides intensive coding training to help frontline employees become software engineers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Canadian networking software startup Kaloom appointed former IBM executive George Khatchadourian as EVP of Strategic Partnerships, tasking him with advancing its collaborative efforts and go-to-market strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nokia chalked up a major win in the cloud realm, as China Mobile tapped the vendor to supply software-defined networking technology for an expansion of its public cloud service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rice was at AT&T for 25 years where he led AT&T's work on software-defined networking (SDN), and he was well-known in the open-source software community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BT has landed a $40 million contract to provide software-defined network services to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the contract in hand, BT will provide communications services to embassies and consulates in 120 countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colt Technology Services is combining its network footprint with Equinix Fabric to provide enterprises with end-to-end, on-demand connectivity. Through the extended partnership, enterprises will have the ability to connect in near real time to their own premises—through the Colt IQ Network footprint of 29,000 on-net buildings—from Equinix's platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T CFO John Stephens said on a Friday morning investor conference that adding more fiber was about more than just passing additional homes. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley European Media, Tech and Telecom Conference, Stephens said fiber provides a "three-for-one" revenue opportunity for AT&T. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BT announced it has launched a new generation of cloud-optimized managed services with the first offering based on VMware's SD-WAN technology. VMware's VeloCloud SD-WAN technology gives customers a single view of their networks as well as a choice of management controls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The industry was a bit surprised this week when Juniper Networks pulled the trigger on Boston-area startup 128 Technology for $450 million in cash. It's an expensive bid to reinvigorate Juniper's software-defined networking (SDN) and SD-WAN capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to branch out its services across the Middle Ease and Africa, OmniClouds has picked Versa Networks' SD-WAN solution. OmniClouds, which is headquartered in Singapore, added Versa's secure SD-WAN offering to its software-defined networking (SDN) network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a move seemingly out of leftfield, Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey announced Thursday he would be leaving the company he co-founded in 2009. Also on Thursday, Nutanix announced that private-equity firm Bain Capital would become the company's leading investor by buying $750 million in convertible senior notes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a 25-year career, Chris Rice left his position at AT&T at the end of July. Rice played a key role in AT&T's software-defined networking (SDN), virtualization and cloud efforts over the years, and was the telco's point man for various open source efforts as well a keynote speaker at industry conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TierPoint announced that customers in seven of its data centers now have access to Megaport's network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering, bringing its total to 15 data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to its software-defined networking (SDN) efforts and a culture that embraces change, AT&T was able to turn on a dime during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aided by a partnership with Microsoft, LzLabs is bringing its software-defined mainframe technology to North America. Zurich-based LzLabs will offer its LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe to customers in verticals such as banking, telecoms, insurance and government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legacy-type certification in the era of open source is painfully slow, so the ONF is turbo-charging the process via a new program. he Open Networking Foundation (ONF) formally announced its Continuous Certification Program on Tuesday, but it's been in the works for a while [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faced with tighter margins over the past five years, telcos are relying more on software to deliver value in their networks, according to a report. Last year, software investments accounted for close to 17% of telcos' capex, which was a marked increase from 11.7% five years ago, according to research by MTN Consulting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fresh off of closing its $6.9 billion deal to buy Mellanox last week, Nvidia said on Monday that it's buying Cumulus Networks for an undisclosed sum. With Cumulus, Nvidia said it would be able to innovate across the entire networking stack from chips and systems to software, including analytics with Cumulus NetQ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deutsche Telekom is making a move towards a disaggregated network for both its fiber and legacy networks by teaming up with Adtran. Over the past two years, Adtran has worked with Deutsche Telekom on the service provider's Access 4.0 program [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adtran announced on Monday that it has joined Orange's software-defined networking (SDN) access renewal and evolution strategy (ARES) program. Orange's ARES is a multi-stage program that includes the use of SDN for fixed fiber access networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With more employees working from home, Nuage Networks is partnering with Asavie to deliver an SD-WAN solution across desktop, mobile and IoT devices. The combined solution pairs Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 with Asavie's SD Edge, which allows enterprise employees to connect with their work-related software-as-a-services (SaaS) applications across private and public clouds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Driven by cloud service providers, the software-defined storage (SDS) market is projected to reach $86 billion by 2023 due to a tailwind of 28% CAGR. With increasing amounts of data related to video, big data, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data center storage is shifting toward SDS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MetTel on Tuesday took the wraps off of its SD-M service, which was designed to bring some of the benefits of SD-WAN to mobile workforces. SD-M provides actionable insight and control of factors impacting performance, costs and security of mobility usage by an enterprise's workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CenturyLink has joined the Networking Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program for Microsoft Azure. By joining the MSP Program, CenturyLink can offer consultation expertise around Azure's services in order to make it easier for customers to connect and build cloud solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to speed up processing times across data centers, clouds and edge locations, CenturyLink is offering a new network storage service. CenturyLink's Network Storage allows businesses to store and manage their data anywhere that the telco's network can reach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's now clear from the MEF19 service provider technology conference that SD-WAN has arrived to solve all problems, including world hunger. Well, maybe not real hunger. But world hunger for new telecom revenue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industry Voices - Raynovich: Key trends for SD-WAN managed services Both service providers and cloud providers alike are ramping up their launches of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) managed services to take advantage of booming demand from enterprises that see several benefits. Another trend is for service providers and cloud providers to beef up interconnection PoPs at key cloud connectivity points, which helps speed up access to cloud apps using SD-WAN. [Extracted from the article]

Industry Voices - Raynovich: SDN and NFV aren't dead; they became SD-WAN The bucket of acronyms I'm referring is a collection of network virtualization technologies: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). SDN and its cousin NFV are both core network virtualization technologies that have enabled SD-WAN to be successful. [Extracted from the article]

Uplevel Systems debuts SD-WAN solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Uplevel Systems is serving up an SD-WAN service that's designed for small and medium-sized business. [Extracted from the article]

Fortinet has made great strides carving out a niche among the top vendors in the SD-WAN space, but it's also staying true to its firewall origins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition to investing in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), Cisco's survey also found that IT professionals are moving their networks towards intent-based networking. During Cisco Live this past summer, Cisco announced new AI and machine ML capabilities to help IT teams work at machine speed and scale their work through personalized network insights. [Extracted from the article]