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NEC and NetCracker complete Telefónica SDN/NFV proof of concept

Spanish telco Telefónica has announced the successful completion of an SDN/NFV proof of concept in partnership with NEC and NetCracker.

• 11 Sep 2015

NFV Prime System Integration Service Enables ICT Transformation for Vodafone Italy

VENDOR VIEW – Huawei partnered with Telecoms.com Intelligence to explore some of the challenges associated with implementing an NFV strategy and ways in which these can be tackled.

• 07 Sep 2015

Customer adoption of NFV and SDN

Although the development and deployment of both Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization technologies has to be driven by the Telcos themselves, the success almost entirely relies on the attitude and acceptance of the Customer.

• 04 Sep 2015

Nokia reveals new Network-as-a-Service 5G architecture

Nokia Networks has unveiled a new network architecture that is programmable and aimed squarely at whatever 5G turns out to be. Drawing extensively on concepts like NFV and SDN, Nokia is claiming this offers operators a Network-as-a-Service model.

• 02 Sep 2015

Alcatel-Lucent wins Telefónica IP network project

The Spanish telco is expanding its Movistar TV, Canal+ and VOD services and is deploying A-Lu’s IP Routing portfolio to expand capacity.

• 19 Aug 2015

Adtran announces SDN and NFV product enhancements

US networking company Adtran has announced it is undertaking an enhancement of its broadband enterprise and wifi access portfolio with SDN and NFV open architectures.

• 12 Aug 2015

Oracle updates OSS suite for the NFV era

Oracle Communications has released an update to its OSS suite that is designed to give CSPs the agility migrate to virtualized technologies such as NFV when they’re ready.

• 28 Jul 2015

How will SDN prepare operators for IoT and 5G?

In this podcast, Telecoms.com discusses the merits of SDN and NFV in the operator, and hypothesise how they’ll both enable IoT and 5G for operators in the years to come. Editorial director, Scott Bicheno, and Intelligence content manager, Tim Skinner, mull over how software defined networking has evolved over the past few years alongside its […]

• 23 Jul 2015

Vodafone Italy launches NFV-based VoLTE

Vodafone is the latest carrier to push ahead with rolling out a voice over LTE (VoLTE) service, with its Italian subsidiary launching the service.

• 22 Jul 2015

How SDN and NFV can help prepare operators for 2020

In the next five years operators are expected to deliver technologies bringing around societal change of enormous significance. 5G, when it arrives, and a world connected in an internet of things will see operators become increasingly important to enterprise and consumer customers. Inevitably, by 2020 the operator network will face demand and strain it’s never […]

• 21 Jul 2015

Colt harnesses SDN, achieves network accreditation

Colt, the global network provider, has announced its SDN-enabled network services have achieved Metro Ethernet Forum accreditation.

• 21 Jul 2015

Alcatel-Lucent claims NFV first with China Mobile

Alcatel-Lucent has laid claim to a live NFV first alongside China Mobile. The kit vendor reckons it has conducted the industry’s first field trial of the virtualized-RAN.

• 13 Jul 2015

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefónica vow to collaborate further on NFV

Kit vendor Alcatel-Lucent and Spanish operator Telefónica have signed an MOU (memorandum of understanding) that signifies their commitment to extend their collaboration over NFV testing.

• 08 Jul 2015

China Mobile and China Unicom go all-in on Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure

An agreement signed between three parties will see giant operators China Mobile and China Unicom turn to Alcatel-Lucent for a hefty chunk of new infrastructure levying NFV, Cloud and SDN.

• 03 Jul 2015

Orange creates NFV and Cloud testing lab for 5G advances

Orange has unveiled its new lab dedicated to network virtualization and cloud computing, called I/O Lab. It’s targeting an open and accessible environment for collaboration with the wider industry.

• 02 Jul 2015

OpenDaylight SDN platform announces third release

The OpenDaylight project has released the third version of its open source software-defined networking (SDN) platform, Lithium, as the organisation launches an advisory tasked with feeding technical insights learned through deployment back into the developer community, reports Business Cloud News.

• 29 Jun 2015