By Michael Howard, Senior Research Director Carrier Networks, IHS Markit Key Points: 100 percent of service providers participating in the IHS Markit NFV strategies survey say they will deploy network functions virtualization (NFV) at some point, with 81 percent expecting to do so by 2017 Moreover, 59 percent of operator respondents have deployed or will… Read more →

Executive Summary AT&T has become the newest member of Intel’s Super 7 initiative, a coalition of technology companies — including Facebook, Google and Microsoft — that are seeking to revolutionize the data center. Under a new partnership, AT&T will use Intel’s semiconductor technology to advance its network virtualization strategy and integrated cloud platform. AT&T SDN/NFV… Read more →

Highlights of the US Mobile Market Q2 2016 ·         12 years ago, US mobile data revenues were less than 5% of the overall revenues. In Q2 2016, mobile data revenues crossed the 75% threshold becoming the second country after Japan to do so. ·         Service revenue declined again, down 2% YoY. Overall revenue was flat as device… Read more →

Note:  This is an edited excerpt of a US Telecom article at: https://www.ustelecom.org/blog/clecs-thriving-%E2%80%93-regulatory-help-not-needed According to a research paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, a visiting senior policy scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, cash flow analysis shows that the competitive local exchange provider (CLEC) industry is better positioned than incumbent providers (ILECs & MSOs/CableCo’s), who… Read more →

The networking world continues to progress open source software solutions.  The ONOS® Project, a software defined networking (SDN) operating system for service providers, today announced availability of an ONOS-based leaf-spine fabric solution for data centers and service provider Central Offices. This is the first L2/L3 leaf-spine fabric on bare-metal switching hardware that is built with SDN… Read more →

The global network functions virtualization (NFV) market, which includes NFV hardware, software and services, will be worth $15.5 billion by 2020, according to the latest NFV Hardware, Software, and Services Annual Market Report from IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions. “Between 2015 and 2020, the service provider NFV market will… Read more →

The FCC  announced a total of 62 bidders will take part in the forward auction portion of the FCC’s spectrum incentive auction, the commission.  Only 62 of the 99 bidders with approved applications submitted qualifying upfront payments by the July 1 deadline. Those bidders will move on to participate in the forward auction starting on August… Read more →

An AT&T executive offered an update on the carrier’s “smart city” program, in which the company is competing against other providers in the Internet of Things space.  ‘Secure connectivity’ is the common thread in smart city technologies Matt Foreman, lead product marketing manager for the smart cities business unit, discussed the differences between selling to governments… Read more →

Introduction: IoT (Internet of Things) is a mega technology trend that could very well be the next big marathon (or ultra marathon)! If the IoT marathon has a good finish, it will not only be an endurance test for legacy systems but will also shape the fate of small and big companies in many different… Read more →

Introduction: This is the third and final article reviewing the super charged and ultra hyped IoT World Conference which this author attended on May 10-11, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA.  It is by far the most important for any outdoor IoT market segment (e.g. Industrial IoT in the field), because some form of wireless WAN… Read more →