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Windstream Joins ONAP & Open Source Telco Movement Led by AT&T/ China
Windstream Communications has become a corporate member of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Linux Foundation project, joining an open-source technology initiative for the first time. ONAP was formed through the merger of open source ECOMP (contributed by AT&T) and Open Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O), two of the largest open source networking initiatives. It was the… Read more
NFV Open Source (OPNFV) Reaches Critical Juncture at Beijing Summit
The OPNFV Summit – June 12-15th in Beijing, China – marks a critical moment in the development and acceptance of the open-source network functions virtualization technology by telecoms and others, said Heather Kirksey, Director of the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) project within the Linux Foundation. Ms. Kirksey told Light Reading that network operators “are engaging… Read more
Apple to test “5G” in Cupertino & Milpitas, CA, but which RAN/Modulation Scheme?
Apple has applied for an experimental license from the FCC to test next-gen “5G” wireless technologies, according to a report from Business Insider and an article in USA Today which wrote: It’s hardly a surprise that Apple would be pursuing a path to 5G. The promise of this next generation of wireless is that smartphone makers might eventually… Read more
Arthur D Little- Telco Europe CEOs: 1% CAGR for Next 5 Years + Telco Transformation Issues
Source: Karam Targa, Managing Partner & Global Practice Leader at Arthur D Little-Austria. On May 15th, Arthur D Little held its flagship Telco CEO & Private Equity Event in its office in Vienna, Austria. The event covered the key trends in the telecom industry, in which 60+ Telco CEOs, Managing Directors, Private Equity firms, Telco… Read more
2017 Open Networking Summit Best of Show Awards
We covered the 2017 ONS noting that ONAP “stole the show.” Indeed, it was voted “most buzzed about project” as per press release below. 2017 was the first time ONS included Best of Show awards. Finalists for each award were selected by a panel of industry experts and analysts, and conference attendees then voted by… Read more
Open Network Summit: ONAP Steals the Show with Broad Support
During a Tuesday morning “disruptive collaboration” keynote at the Open Network Summit (ONS), John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer at AT&T, revealed that the company had “software defined” 34% of its network by the end of 2016, which exceeded its goal of 30%. This year’s goal of 55% network virtualization (via an overlay network*) will be a… Read more
AT&T network uses open ROADM technology on 100 Gbps optical wavelength
AT&T says it has implemented a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer to deliver a 100 gigabits-per-second optical wavelength on a production network. The deployment, said to be a first with multi-vendor interoperability, was in the Dallas, TX area. AT&Ts new network provided the connection of two IP multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) routers with transponders and ROADMs from… Read more
IHS: Sales of Branded Bare Metal Switches Hit $23 Million in 1st Half of 2016
By Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director, data center, cloud and SDN, IHS Markit Highlights: Open networking using branded bare metal switching continues to make steady progress in the enterprise, with revenue growing 125 percent in the first half of 2016 (H1 2016) from the second half of 2015 (H2 2015) Dell launched the branded… Read more
2016 OCP Summit Solidifies Mega Trend to Open Hardware & Software in Mega Data Centers
The highlight of the 2016 Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit, held March 9-10, 2016 at the San Jose Convention Center, was Google’s unexpected announcement that it had joined OCP and was contributing “a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into our data centers,”… Read more
My perspective on ONS 2015, SDN & Open Networking
The 2015 Open Networking Summit (ONS) was hosted on June 14th to June 18th in Silicon Valley. It featured a rich set of speakers, open networking panels and a wide audience base comprised of network service providers, network hardware and software vendors, web giants and the academia. ONS 2015 was the first of the fifth… Read more