Saturday, September 26, 2020

SASE, Acquisitions Drive SD-WAN Competition, Gartner States

The SD-WAN market is hotter than ever, according to Gartner, who’s 2020 Magic Quadrant WAN Edge Infrastructure report fields no fewer than six market leaders. VMware and Silver Peak — the sole leaders in last year’s report — were joined this year by Versa and Palo Alto Networks, which ascended from visionary status, and Fortinet and Cisco, which hopped the fence from challenger to leader.
           

Friday, September 25, 2020

Big Tech’s Climate Week News Cheat Sheet

Technology titans, service providers, and consumer giants converged online for New York City’s ninth annual Climate Week event, unveiling a flurry of environmental commitments in wake of the European Union’s updated climate target announcement calling for an emissions reduction of at least 55% by 2030. Here’s a Climate Week cheat sheet of the news on our radar.
           

Pivotal Commware tackles CBRS power limitations

Pivotal Commware, the Seattle-area startup whose repeaters are being used by Verizon to boost millimeter wave (mmWave) performance, is asking for FCC permission to conduct tests of its holographic beam forming (HBF) antenna technology in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) band.
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — Equinix's Chiaren Cushing

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — Windstream's Art Nichols

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We're doling out the names of our winners so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Huawei, ZTE Prop Up Q2 Network Spend, MTN Says

Mobile network infrastructure vendors recorded a 1% year-over-year drop in revenues during the second quarter of 2020, according to MTN Consulting. It marks the third consecutive down quarter for mobile infrastructure vendors, despite the widespread and global push to deploy 5G network riding on new radios.
           

Microsoft XDR Security Simplified Under Defender Brand

Microsoft simplified its extended detection and response (XDR) platforms with updates and integrated offerings to protect multi-cloud and Azure workloads. The cloud giant also updated its Azure Sentinel cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) tool, which integrates into the XDR products.
           

CBRS bridges digital divide for McAllen, Texas

The global pandemic hit hard in McAllen, Texas, a town just 11 miles from the Mexican border. With a 2.5% infection rate, McAllen city officials knew they should not send students and teachers back into school buildings. "We were one of the hotspots in the country. Hospitalization rates were up, number of cases were up, so we had to go 100% remote," said McAllen Independent School District Superintendent J.A. Gonzalez.
           

Dish plots 5G network slicing with Ciena’s Blue Planet

Most wireless carriers aren’t yet talking about network slicing because it will a be a huge lift for them. Before they can sell dedicated “slices” of their network to different enterprises, they’ll have to make sure the slices work across their entire network, from the core to the RAN to the edge and across the transport. But Dish Network is already implementing plans for network slicing.
           

Select Spectrum plans to broker CBRS spectrum transactions

Select Spectrum is a spectrum broker that’s been around for 10 years. It has already facilitated deals amounting to more than $400 million, primarily bringing together lessors and lessees of spectrum in the Educational Broadband Service (EBS) portion of the 2.5 GHz band. Now, the company is well-positioned to act as a spectrum broker in the CBRS band, and it’s gearing up to do just that.
           

Size matters as tablet sales rise

Global sales of tablets will grow this year for the first time in six years, one analyst firm predicts, with an increase in home usage meaning consumers are turning to larger-screen devices.
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — Colt's Francesca Serravalle

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — VMware's Sachin Katti

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Palo Alto Networks SASE Adds Microsoft Identity Management

Palo Alto Networks announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure this week that will see the security vendor integrate its secure access service edge (SASE) offering with the cloud provider’s Active Directory (AD) identity and access management platform. The integration aims to simplify identity-based policy enforcement when using Palo Alto’s Prisma Access and Prisma Cloud platforms.
           

Daily Roundup: AT&T Sets 5G SA Timeline

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter to get these stories in your inbox.
           

Agility for the Unknown – The Juniper Edge

Juniper's MX router product line is one of the networking industry's top franchise product lines, providing customers with the highest level of innovation, performance, commonality of user experience and true investment protection leadership.
           

T-Mobile Taps Dell, VMware, Microsoft for 5G Lab

The 5G Open Innovation Lab near T-Mobile US’ headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, gained a quartet of additional founding partners today. Amdocs, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, and VMware, joined Intel, NASA, and T-Mobile to lead and financially support the lab as a second cohort of startups start cycling through the 12-week program.
           

CyrusOne pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

CyrusOne, the third-largest U.S. data center provider, announced on Wednesday that it plans to become carbon neutral by 2040 by reducing its carbon emissions. In order to achieve its goal, CyrusOne will focus on using renewable energy to power its data centers, designing energy-efficient new buildings and upgrading its existing facilities.
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — AT&T's Brenda Laboy

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — BT's Annastasia Lang

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Samsung and KDDI Complete 5G End-to-End Network Slicing Demonstration

Samsung Electronics and KDDI today announced the successful completion of the first 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing demonstration with a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) in Tokyo, Japan. The companies showed a glimpse of various new use cases using 5G E2E network slicing on a virtual network that ties together Samsung’s virtualized core, virtualized RAN, and orchestration.
           

Daily Roundup: AT&T Taps Azure Security

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter to get these stories in your inbox.
           

AT&T Ingrains Microsoft for Guardian Device

AT&T is launching a cellular-equipped enterprise device that taps into Microsoft’s Azure Sphere security platform to provide a secure cloud connection that bypasses the public internet. The combination is the first to come from a wide-ranging “cloud” agreement announced last year between the two companies.
           

Hitachi Vantara Plugs Cloud Management Into HCI

Hitachi Vantura’s 4.0 update of its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio fuses the latest Intel chips, faster performance speeds, and consumption-based pricing with the VMware’s HCI software stack and cloud management software. 
           

Verizon and AWS bring mobile edge compute to 3 more cities

Verizon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are on track to deploy 5G edge compute in 10 cities in 2020. Today, they said they’ve deployed Verizon’s 5G Edge in three new locations: Atlanta, New York and Washington, DC. They had already launched the mobile edge computing (MEC) platform last month in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. They still plan to add five more cities by year end.
           

Paolini: Why did utilities pay so much for CBRS licenses?

The much anticipated CBRS Auction 105 is over, and it did not look much different from any other cellular auction. Mobile operators and broadband providers paid for over 90% of the proceeds, getting the most valuable licenses. Verizon alone paid for 41% of the proceeds, but only got 3% of the licenses paying $0.30 MHz/pop, compared to an average of $0.22 MHz/pop, per our Sparring Partners analysis.
           

Intel receives Commerce Dept. license to sell to Huawei

On August 17 the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the U.S. Commerce Department issued a new foreign direct product rule that requires companies to request a license from the Commerce Department in order to sell their products to Huawei. “We expanded the license requirement for products made with U.S. technology, worldwide,” a BIS spokesperson recently told Fierce, adding that the requirements went into effect on September 15.
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — Lumen’s Kevin McBride

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star - Versa's Monnia Deng

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

Monday, September 21, 2020

Microsoft Azure Adds More Arc

Microsoft stuffed its Azure cloud environment with a spate updates that tap into its Arc control plane, provide deeper integration with its managed Kubernetes service, and expand the availability of its integrated VMware service. Those moves come as the cloud giant continues to push a differentiated message in the hybrid cloud market.
           

T-Mobile US Keeps Open RAN on Back Burner

T-Mobile US stands out among its peers as one of the least vocal proponents of open radio access networks (RAN). It is the only major U.S. operator that hasn’t joined the O-RAN Alliance, a leading coalition of operators and vendors pushing for the disaggregation of network software and hardware running on commoditized gear.
           

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Ampere Join Oracle Cloud Dream Team

Oracle unveiled a high-performance computing (HPC)-heavy hardware roadmap today alongside a new partnership with service provider Rescale. The roadmap will see Oracle deploy Intel Ice Lake, AMD Milan, and Ampere Altra CPUs, as well as Nvidia A100 GPUs across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
           

HPE Scorches Dell, Nutanix Hyperconverged Revenue Growth

Dell Technologies and Nutanix remain the crown jewels of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market despite being outshined by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) second-quarter HCI revenue growth, which soared 53.5%, according to IDC’s second quarter 2020 Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker. Meanwhile, both Dell and Nutanix saw slight HCI revenue declines.  
           

Arm Neoverse Update Doubles Down on HPC

Arm doubled down on high-performance computing today with the launch of the Neoverse V1 and N2 processor architectures. The new chip designs build on the success of the company’s Neoverse N1 and E1, which spawned chips like Ampere’s Altra, Marvel’s ThunderX2, and Amazon’s Graviton2.
           

Industry Voices—Raynovich: Nvidia is now a network behemoth

The story of Nvidia's rise to power is a fascinating one, rooted in savvy moves to take advantage of technology market shifts in the cloud. And now that Nvidia has pivoted into the networking and mobile chip market with a series of acquisitions—including Arm, Cumulus Networks, and Mellanox—large networking incumbents should be very nervous.
           

Windstream shakes free from Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Windstream Holdings announced on Monday that it's now free from the shackles of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Windstream has successfully shed more than $4 billion in debt and has approximately $2 billion in hand to fuel new growth as a privately-held company.
           

Charter reboots free 60-day internet and Wi-Fi for students

With schools now in session, Charter Communications announced on Monday it was re-launching its Remote Education Offer for free internet and Wi-Fi access for 60 days. The services are available to households with K-12th students, college students and/or educators. The promotion is for customers who live in a Spectrum market, but don't currently have Spectrum internet services.
           

AT&T tees up SD-WAN for global healthcare company

AT&T is serving up its managed Cisco/Viptela SD-WAN solution to a global healthcare group in order to improve its operational efficiencies. AT&T will deploy and manage the Cisco Viptela SD-WAN architecture to provide UDG Healthcare with near real-time visibility into its network assets, which includes  8,200 employees in 29 countries.
           

Telefónica fortifies SME cybersecurity with McAfee and Allot

Telefónica has doubled down on its cybersecurity platform for small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) by adding new features from McAfee and Allot. With the new features and capabilities from Allot and MacAfee, Telefónica said it has doubled the infrastructure and resources in its cybersecurity service for Spanish SMEs.
           

Boost founder bucks waves, fights new MVNO battle

It was 20 years ago this month that Boost Mobile launched in Australia and 19 years since it was unleashed on U.S. soil. Back then, Boost founder Peter Adderton was inspired by surfers who had been “boosting” some cool waves. They were catching air in Australia around the same time he contemplated launching a prepaid business that would be affordable for that very demographic.    
           

Are wireless operators transforming into IT companies?

There’s a subtle transformation that is occurring among some wireless operators. As I listen to earnings calls and virtual conference panels, I hear wireless operator executives sprinkle terms that I once associated primarily with IT companies into their discussions about their networks. Terms such as "operational agility," "automation," and "as-a-service." And 5G seems to be accelerating this trend as many wireless networks are transitioning to a cloud-native network architecture.
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star — Comcast's Kunle Ekundare

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

2020 FierceTelecom Rising Star – Orange's Samir El Rashidy

The FierceTelecom editorial team is proud to announce our second annual Rising Stars series, in which we’re profiling up-and-coming executives in the telecom industry. We’ve selected a slate of executives whom we think are on the rise in 2020. We’ll be doling out the names of our winners, two per day, so that our readers have the time to enjoy reading their profiles. And next week, we’ll post a Rising Stars poll, giving everyone the opportunity to vote for their favorite top executive to watch in the FierceTelecom ecosystem. We hope you enjoy the series!
           

Sunday, September 20, 2020

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