Saturday, October 17, 2020

Friday, October 16, 2020

Thursday, October 15, 2020

CCA’s Annual Convention Goes Online October 21

CCA’s Annual Convention will look a little different this year with a fully virtual program taking place on Wednesday, October 21.  Attendees will be able join colleagues and industry peers for a one-day online event, filled with keynotes from Senator Roger Wicker, Congressman Frank Pallone, and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, and executives from Ericsson, Interop Technologies, Mavenir, T-Mobile, TNS, and Nokia. Exhibitors will feature their latest products and services, and attendees can interact and set up meetings with exhibitors and fellow attendees through the virtual platform.  There is no charge to attend CCA’s Annual Convention; register here.
           

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Pongratz: RAN forecast defies economic forecast

When Carl Henrik Svanberg began at Ericsson in 2003, he came into a company that was cutting costs by ~$50 million per week for nearly two years, resulting in ~60,000 people leaving the company. The total telecom sector shed some 600,000 jobs, as outlined in the book "Ericsson’s crisis and the journey back." Our estimates suggest average radio access network (RAN) investment levels during the 2002 and 2003 period were roughly 20% lower than both 2001 and 2004 levels. RAN investments declined sharply as well during the Great Recession, with the average RAN capex down approximately 12% relative to pre-recession levels.
           

Masergy tees-up SD-WAN for WFH employees

With the backdrop of more companies keeping their employees at home for work, Masergy is serving up SD-WAN-based "work from anywhere solutions." The new work-from-home (WFH) offerings come in two flavors and are part of the company's Managed Secure SD-WAN portfolio.
           

IBM lands a big data deal with Vodafone Idea Limited

Telecom operator Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) announced on Tuesday it has picked IBM to deploy and manage its big data platform across its network. By using an open source Hadoop framework, IBM will provide Vodafone Idea with advanced data mining to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies.
           

Telefónica rebrands parts of its international business

As part of its ongoing re-org efforts, Telefónica announced a new unit for three of its global businesses under the name of Telefónica Global Solutions. Telefónica rolled its wholesale, roaming and multi-national business customers into Telefónica Global Solutions as part of the company's transformation plan that was announced last year.
           

Saudi Telecom opens up to Rakuten

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has inked a cooperation deal with Rakuten Mobile that will see it explore its options for OpenRAN and other forward-looking mobile technologies.
           

Monday, October 12, 2020

Cable DAA activity perks up

Commscope cuts off a piece of Comcast's next-gen network biz while Vecima and Technetix connect on a product/sales deal focused on distributed access architectures.
           

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Adds 4 Security Modules

Palo Alto Networks added four modules to its Prisma Cloud security platform including identity-based microsegmentation from its $150 million Aporeto acquisition. The Prisma Cloud 2.0 update also added data loss prevention capabilities that provide discovery, classification, and malware detection for Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3).
           

AT&T Shrivels Leading Into ‘Existential’ 5G Auction

AT&T today formally shed another asset as it continues to slice off pieces of the business it cobbled together via mega acquisitions starting in 2015. The company said it completed the sale of its majority stake in Central European Media Enterprises for $1.1 billion in cash to Czech investment firm PPF Group.
           

Red Hat Links Ansible Automation to Kubernetes Management

Red Hat is tying together two of its core platform features in a move to make it easier for organizations to automate work between traditional on-premises and virtual machine (VM)-based infrastructure and their cloud native infrastructure. The work will link Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform and its Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes platform. The combo, which is still in a “preview” stage, will make it easier to work between the two infrastructure environments.
           

Alkira Snaps Up $54M Series B Led by Koch

Multi-cloud startup Alkira raked in $54 million in Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and GV — formerly Google Ventures — also participated in the latest funding round.
           

Cable-Tec Expo kicks off with ironic moment, moves to substance

One of those Covid-19 ironic events happened at the kickoff to the 2020 virtual Cable-Tec Expo this morning. Comcast’s President of Technology Tony Werner was interviewing NCTA President Michael Powell when Werner’s internet connection went out. That, in itself, is kind of embarrassing, considering that you would assume someone in Werner’s position would have a good internet connection. But to add to the irony, Werner was in the middle of bragging about how fantastic the cable industry has done during Covid and how much more vital wired networks have proven to be than wireless.
           

Will LEO satellite systems be able to bridge the digital divide?

Amazon’s Kuiper, SpaceX’s Starlink, and OneWeb are three of the next-generation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation projects that are currently being developed and all of them promise to deliver low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. And like some of the previous LEO satellite systems that made their debut more than 20 years ago, at least two – Kuiper and Starlink – have impressive backers with deep pockets.
           

Private wireless moves into the spotlight thanks to CBRS and 5G

Wi-Fi is no longer the obvious choice for companies that want to deploy an enterprise wireless network. Private cellular networks, which are already used by several energy and transportation companies, are becoming more accessible for a wider range of businesses. Governments around the world are making spectrum more readily available to non-service provider entities, and this is fostering the development of a robust ecosystem of network equipment and devices. Much of this equipment operates in the 3.5 GHz spectrum band, which the U.S. has made available as Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). 
           

Sunday, October 11, 2020

5 Campaign Cybersecurity Lessons Learned From Enterprise

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group that attacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016 is back — not that it ever really left. And this year, according to Microsoft’s cyberthreat hunters, it’s joined by similar groups in China and Iran.
           

Google Set to Unleash Knative

Google is set to give up most control over the Knative Project by electing a steering committee to oversee the direction of the Kubernetes-based serverless project. The decision comes on the heels of Google taking a more controversial approach with the Istio service mesh project.
           

Who Gains From Huawei’s Pain?

Huawei’s woes, fueled by tightening restrictions in many countries around the world, presents a $27 billion annual opportunity for networking equipment vendors that successfully displace the Chinese juggernaut, according to a new report from Rosenblatt Securities.
           

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