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Why Ericsson reserves its key virtualization role for OpenStack

Christopher Price, Strategist, Open Source, Ericsson Is OpenStack the answer for the telco cloud? According to Chris Price it gives the industry some common ground and something to focus on, whether...

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Ubuntu, OpenStack and the bursting private cloud bubble

Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical Much of the motivation for many of the people here [at the OpenStack Summit] was to create a private cloud framework where they could sell their legacy goods,...

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People in telcos using the term "OTT" should be fired!

Dean Bubley, Founder, Disruptive Analysis The Disruptomeister, on trenchant and amusing form as usual, talks about what he regards as the "false dichotomy" at the centre of argument about whether or...

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Ericsson stacks up its open partners with Red Hat

Susan James, Head of Product Line NFVi, Ericsson Ericsson  recently announced a highly significant broadening of its relationship with Red Hat, arguably the most prominent promoter of OpenStack for...

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Why VMware and OpenStack play nicely together

Misbah Mahmoodi, Director Product Marketing, vCloud NFV, VMware VMware started life in the enterprise providing agility and dev-ops through virtualisation, so how does it expect to play in the telco...

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Nokia develops Vitrage root cause analysis for OpenStack

Elisha Rosensweig, PHD, Director R&D, CBIS, CloudBand, Applications and Analytics, Nokia & Ifat Afek, System Architect, CBIS, CloudBand, Applications and Analytics, Nokia. Root cause analysis...

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Is the industry spending too much time coding, not enough time writing specs?

Shahar Steiff, AVP New Technologies, PCCW Global With so much focus on Network Functions Virtualisation, is it time for an NFV reality check? Will NFV and SDN really solve all the problems faced by...

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Living with OpenStack in a NFV environment

Vanessa Little, Senior Manager Global NFV Ecosystem Architecture, VMware “When we demonstrate our OpenStack build on VMware, telco people are usually surprised that we have all the resilience of a...

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What telcos really think about NFVi

Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading A survey on NFV infrastructure, commissioned by Red Hat and undertaken by Heavy Reading, produced some interesting findings. Senior Analyst Roz Roseboro...

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One number to ring them all and to T-Mobile bind them (well, in the US at least)

via Flickr © allenthepostman (CC BY-SA 2.0) The "un-carrier" strikes again"Reinvents the phone number"Said to work on 'almost any' mobile device regardless of carrier"Suck on it carriers. You can't...

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The challenge for the comms industry is to find new value anchored on the...

Marcus Weldon President of Bell Labs and Corporate Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Marcus Weldon, pragmatist that he is, believes that there will be no single "winner" in the so-called 'battle to the...

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The customer experience will sort the CSP sheep from the CSP goats

Chris Howarth, Managing Director, Head of Telecoms Industry, Accenture Chris Howarth believes the although it has been said many, many times before, in the end it will be the customer experience of...

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A telecoms Christmas carol: "I saw three ships"

This parody It is based on the ancient and still popular Christmas Carol "I saw Three Ships". The tune is from a traditional English folk song and the words were written and sung by wandering...

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The difference between theory and practice.

Amit Tiwari, VP Strategic Alliances, Affirmed Networks It was the legendary American baseball player Yogi Berra, a man (in)famous for his off-the-cuff aphorisms and tautologies, who said, "In theory...

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Senior Verizon executive says company is "unsure" about acquisition of Yahoo

First crack in the management's stony-faced facade?Ongoing federal investigations giving Verizon pause for thoughtMarket and investor unease at the time the deal is takingBut no indication of when...

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EC's ePrivacy rules: tightening up privacy or choking off Europe's digital...

via Flickr © hyku (CC BY 2.0) EC proposes to ramp up and equalise ePrivacy ruleWhatsApp, Google & Co to be regulated the same as the telcosBut concerns remain around new applications for 5GThe...

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The Great Telco Debate 2016: the highlights

The organisers - Chris Lewis and Graham Wilde - introduce the day and explain its format and the nature of the interaction expected from the independent analysts, vendors, service providers and big...

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New regulatory environment signals the end of net neutrality in the US

via Flickr © haru__q (CC BY-SA 2.0) Ideology trumps common sense'New' board of FCC Commissioners wants to dismantle achievements of retiring chairmanAim is to strike down the Open Internet OrderBut it...

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Talking telco strategies: a Fireside chat with KPN COO Joost Farwerck and...

Manish Vyas, President Communications Business & Chief Executive Network Services, Tech Mahindra & Joost Farwerck, Member of the Board of Management and Chief Operations Officer, KPN Joost...

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SD-WANS: not the silver bullets they're cracked up to be?

via Flickr © one individual (CC BY-SA 2.0) SD-WANS are one of the big telco stories of the past 12 months, but they have their criticsNever mind the band width, what about the band qualityAre the...

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Openet: Going beyond orchestration to automation

Aidan Molloy, Senior Director, NFV Strategy, Openet Aiden plays a role in Openet Accelerate which is designed to Drive NFV adoption by bringing on board a range of partners to its Automation Tool Kit...

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With 5G looming and big bucks promised, which network operators are best...

via Flickr © 401(K) 2013 (CC BY-SA 2.0) 5G Revenues expected to hit $269 billion in 2025Vendors and telcos have been involved in a testing frenzyThe ones with the most alliances and test partnerships...

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NFV nearly five years on

via Flickr © andrewmalone (CC BY 2.0) October 2012 saw the birth of NFVJust five years later implementation is under wayBut NFV has developed into a different animal than first envisagedCan it really...

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BT to roll out global Business Platform-as-a-Service

via Flickr © EuroMagic (CC BY 2.0) BT announces a  Personalised Compute Management System (PCMS)New service will help companies digitally transform, collaborate and growCustomers can offer it to their...

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Two weddings, no funeral

After five years of hard work and sometimes heated argument, the Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)  development process - kicked off by the October 2012 NFV white paper - appears to be on some...

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When collaborating upstream it’s useful to speak the same language

Susan James, Head of Product Line NFVi, Ericsson Susan talks to Martyn Warwick about Ericsson’s partnership with Red Hat and on the dynamics of collaborating with multiple ‘upstream communities’ for...

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Big names continue to dominate the optical networking Premier League

via Flickr © isfullofcrap (CC BY 2.0) Same Top Three as in 2016 but relative league positions changedNo immediate challenge to the established order envisaged...… but players lower down the league...

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Web scale and Cloud Native foster sustainable services lead (for some)

via Flickr © Allan Hack (CC BY-ND 2.0) Study reveals Netflix, Amazon blazed a trail with Web-scale that's now being followed by other media providersHowever, most service providers now have a very...

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Worth seeing in Barcelona: Elisa's self organising network technology

via Flickr © Jocey K (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Elisa SON will be demo'd at MWC by Red Hat System utilises closed-loop automationCan double the user data throughput, claimWorth seeing in Barcelona: Finnish...

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New CEO of HPE will arrive in Barcelona with a smile on his face, a spring in...

via Flickr © mikemol Antonio Neri riding high on better than expected Q1 figuresRevenues up 11 per cent year-on-yearNet income grows by 490 per centWill "double-down" on HPE Next strategy to save yet...

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