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AT&T boosts in-house virtualization competence with Vyatta acquisition

Giant US operator AT&T has continued its quest for self-reliance in the virtualization era with the acquisition of Vyatta Software from Brocade.

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• 05 Jun 2017

Vodafone would like to see more urgency from vendors on NFV

We’re heading in the right direction on virtualized network functions, according to Vodafone, but vendors could do more to become ‘cloud-native’.

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• 02 Jun 2017

Ericsson appoints lifer Erik Ekudden as Group CTO

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has announced the promotion of Erik Ekudden, who has been with the company for 24 years, to Chief Technology Officer.

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• 31 May 2017

Role reversal as Ericsson plays customer to vendor AT&T

In case you weren’t aware AT&T has its own line in on-demand network services and the latest customer is none other than giant networking vendor Ericsson.

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• 23 May 2017

Bewildering complexity of telecoms virtualization highlighted at TMF Live

On the opening morning of the TM Forum Live 2017 event a succession of operators and vendors lined up to give their take on how virtualization is progressing.

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• 15 May 2017

Ericsson launches Dynamic Orchestration for all your virtualization needs

Ericsson says the launch of its new Dynamic Orchestration solution is also a strategic milestone in its quest to become a digital transformation player.

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• 09 May 2017

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.

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• 06 Apr 2017

OPNFV Danube release aims to cure the upstream blues

The Open Platform for NFV project has unveiled its fourth release, named Danube, that aims to work better with other open source projects and improve NFV testing.

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• 04 Apr 2017

Huawei bags starring role in Telefónica’s Unica project

Telefónica has announced a new partnership with Huawei which will see the Chinese giant take a prominent role in its Unica project.

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• 30 Jan 2017

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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• 08 Nov 2016

Telefónica and Nokia embark on a virtual route to the cloud

Finnish kit vendor Nokia must be virtually delighted, after Telefónica went and deployed a whole bunch of its virtualized router technology.

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• 03 Nov 2016

NFV market forecast to grow 33% per year until 2020, driven by IoT

A new report has had a look at the market for network function virtualization (NFV) and reckons it’s due for a growth spurt.

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• 28 Oct 2016

Ericsson and Red Hat share some open sauce

Having struggled to come to terms with Cisco’s betrayal, Ericsson has decided to have a rebound fling with Red Hat. Go girlfriend!

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• 20 Oct 2016

Red Hat launches its latest KVM virtualization platform

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Virtualization 4, its latest Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) -powered virtualization platform.

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• 24 Aug 2016

Nokia unveils virtualized OSS offering NetAct

On the back of disappointing Q1 sales, Nokia Networks has announced the launch of the NetAct Cloud virtualized OSS solution for network management.

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• 11 May 2016

Cisco boosts its virtualization offering with Digital Network Architecture

Cisco has launched a new system which aims to virtualise every conceivable network function possible for clients and take them through the painful process of digital transformation.

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• 03 Mar 2016

OPNFV releases Brahmaputra to take NFV to the next level

The Linux Foundation-inspired OPNFV Project has taken a new step closer to its ideal of network liberalisation with a new release of its software, reports BCN.

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• 01 Mar 2016

Openet seeks to promote open NFV with free version of its VNF manager

Irish BSS company Openet will be making its VNF Lifecycle Manager software available for free from March 2016 in a bid to promote openness and standardisation of NFV.

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• 08 Jan 2016

NEC and Intel collaborate on mobile base station virtualization

Base stations could get smaller, cheaper and more powerful if a new virtualization project reaches fruition in 2016.

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• 18 Dec 2015

Colt promises virtualization made simple through new DCNet service

Colt has announced a new offering which claims to help enterprises and wholesale operators get the full benefits of virtualization at reduced cost and complexity.

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• 26 Oct 2015