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Red Hat’s telecoms numbers illustrate the importance of ICT convergence

Open source software vendor company Red Hat revealed in its recent Q4/FY earnings that telecoms was its top vertical.

AT&T signals the end of 5G friendliness

The industry promised us it was going to work together to deliver 5G, and maybe we should be grateful it lasted this long, but AT&T’s latest announcement signals 5G friendliness is over.

New Ericsson CEO Ekholm celebrates first day with major Cisco cloud deal

Börje Ekholm’s first official day as Ericsson CEO coincides conveniently with the announcement of a big win with Cisco to virtualize Vodafone Australia’s network.

Operators face data cost-revenue crunch in 2017 – report

Veteran telecoms industry analyst Tom Nolle reckons this is the year the cost of delivering data becomes greater than the revenues derived from doing so, according to a Light Reading report.

AT&T, Colt and Orange have a virtualization party

Wholesale operator Colt has claimed its position as the network for networks after doing some SDN and NFV cleverness with AT&T. Coincidentally, Orange announced the launch of an SDN project at the exact same time.

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Get a move on with NFV – Broadband Forum

The dudes running the NFV effort over at ETSI need to shake a leg and get a move on, according to the Broadband Forum CEO, Robin Mersh.

Nokia tries to reassure on SDN

Nobody doubts SDN is the future, will change the world and is a generally great thing, but does it actually work? Nokia insists it does, honest.

Nokia shows signs of virtual progress

As the big network players edge incrementally closer to offering something that can reasonably, with a straight face, be described as 5G, Nokia has given an old launch a new airing.

Orange redoubles virtualization efforts with AT&T partnership

Orange and AT&T have reached a collaboration agreement to cooperate on the development and standardisation of SDN and NFV technologies.

F5 launches SDN-enabled network management suite

F5 has announced the launch of a suite of services designed to speed up the roll out of services and applications, leaning heavily on SDN.

EE launches software defined basestation in UK 4G coverage expansion effort

After announcing its plans for achieving 95% UK geographical coverage by 2020, EE has moved to announce its first steps to connect the Scottish Highlands with a software defined mobile basestation.

Verizon deploys NFV OpenStack across five data centres

Verizon has completed the launch of its NFV OpenStack cloud deployment project across five of its US data centres, alongside Big Switch Networks, Dell and Red Hat – according to BCN.

Huawei lays out 3 stage NFV roadmap

Huawei has laid out the three steps operators need to take in order to become fully cloud-enabled, laying out plans for its All Cloud strategy.

Ericsson snaps up NodePrime for SDI acceleration

Ericsson has announced the total acquisition of data centre management platform NodePrime in a bit to drive its software defined networking and infrastructure capabilities.

ONOS releases updated SDN platform, integrates with OPNFV

ONOS, the open SDN platform, has released a new version of its operating system, promising integration with OPNFV’s broader platform.

AT&T to commence Q2 2016 5G trials

US telco AT&T has pre-empted the Mobile World Congress rush by boldly laying out its plans for 5G, with field trials for some enabling-technologies happening in Q2 this year.

Huawei and Telefónica claim first SDN IP+Optical trial in Peru

Kit vendor Huawei and operator Telefónica have laid claim to the industry’s first ‘SDN IP+Optical’ trial network with real traffic following a migration of commercial user traffic in Peru.

Juniper Networks buys BTI for its SDN tools

Data centre infrastructure vendor Juniper Networks is to buy BTI Systems, a specialist developer of software-defined networking (SDN) tools and networking hardware.

BT claims new Connect Intelligence IWAN service is software defined first

BT has launched a new managed comms service that uses software defined networking techniques to automatically optimise network traffic.

SDN specialist Big Switch wins $48.5M funding

Santa Clara based software defined networking vendor Big Switch Networks (BSN) has won another $48.5 million to bring its bare metal networking fabrics to new markets.