Saturday, December 04, 2021

Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — November 2021

Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in November. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s movers and shakers, or if you’ve got a tip about layoffs and restructuring, please send the information to Emma Chervek (echervek@sdxcentral.com) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

Friday, December 03, 2021

Thursday, December 02, 2021

T-Mobile debuts new 5G layer cake

T-Mobile execs talked up the carrier's midband 5G network but offered some trash talk on the millimeter wave version of 5G that other executives touted at Qualcomm's summit this week.

BT opens up on open RAN testing

BT officials said the company is testing RAN intelligent controller (Non-RT-RIC) functions including SON (self-organizing network) technology, energy savings, interference mitigation and massive MIMO.

Ditto CEO takes a new angle at the edge

With $9 million in seed funding in hand, Adam Fish's startup uses peer-to-peer and advanced, distributed database systems to connect and sync mobile and IoT devices with limited or no Internet connectivity.

CableLabs helps take Wi-Fi 6E to the test

The Wireless Broadband Alliance hooked up with CableLabs and Intel to field-test low-power indoor Wi-Fi 6E. They found that the technology hit speeds of 1.7 Gbit/s down and 1.2 Gbit/s up in 'locations close to the access point.'

HPE CEO Waxes HPC, AI Chops

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) $1.3 billion bet on high-performance computing (HPC) appears to be paying off. The business segment alone accounted for $1 billion of the company’s $7.35 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021.

Wednesday, December 01, 2021

MVNO US Mobile goes full eSIM

eSIM will support new features 'like being able to switch plans instantly, getting live-at-arrival connectivity when traveling abroad, or intelligently shifting between networks,' according to the company.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The future of fiber optic innovation: Part III

It's clear that bandwidth demand will continue to increase exponentially. Optical transport capacity must scale to meet this demand, while at the same time the cost-per- bit must decrease, and optical transport equipment must become more space- and power-efficient.

Dell, AWS Seal Cyber Vault Against Ransomware

Dell Technologies and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to offer an air-gapped cyber vault designed to secure, isolate, and recover data from a ransomware attack. This is Dell’s first move to bring its Cyber Recovery Vault to the public cloud, and the vendor plans to expand this capability to Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and other public cloud providers within the next year.  

Circular Economy a ‘Triple Win’ for Environment, Supply Chains, Finances

The circular economy is steadily climbing its way up the corporate buzzword ladder. Gartner analyst Sarah Watt posits this model as a “triple win” through its environmental, financial, and supply chain benefits — but successful adoption of a circular economy hinges on a shift to a fundamentally new way of thinking.

GTT will use Palo Alto Networks to power its SASE

GTT Communications will use Palo Alto Networks technology to power the company’s Secured Access Service Edge (SASE) platform. GTT said its new SASE platform, which will use Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access technology, will provide enterprise customers with a new set of security features in a single, cloud-delivered platform.  

Cogent CEO offers insights on VPNs, remote work trends

Because of the pandemic, Cogent’s corporate business has suffered six consecutive quarters of negative growth. The company serves slightly over 1,800 skyscrapers in North America with dedicated internet access and virtual private network (VPN) services. It has just under 1 billion square feet of multi-tenant office space in the U.S. and Canada. So Cogent has an inside view of work-from-home and work-from-office trends.

Monday, November 29, 2021

AWS Muscles Into Private 5G, Spoils Carriers’ Role

Wireless carrier executives no doubt felt a sense of debilitating deja vu today when Amazon Web Services (AWS) made its intentions in private enterprise networks known. AWS Private 5G, a new managed service from the cloud giant, was likely long expected but also existentially feared by most.

AWS CEO Swells Cloud Sphere to Untapped Industries

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky today balanced his first keynote at AWS re:Invent as the company’s new leader by showcasing the company’s technical prowess and continued momentum while underlining the massive, still largely untapped opportunity that awaits the cloud in every industry.

GTT Gets SASE With Palo Alto Networks

GTT Communications, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection, pushed ahead on its services-first strategy this week, tapping Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access to power its managed secure access service edge (SASE) offering.

Cisco APIClarity Eases Dev-Sec Tensions Over Shifting Left

The practice of shifting left, or integrating security earlier in the application development process, is steadily gaining momentum. Yet there remains considerable friction amongst developer and security teams when it comes to API security, something Cisco‘s VP of Emerging Technologies and Incubation Vijoy Pandey blames on a lack of visibility. That’s where the vendor’s open source APIClarity project comes in.

What cable wants from the edge

In this third segment of a four-part sponsored series, we look at more key results from a new Heavy Reading study about the cable industry's edge computing driving factors and implementation plans.

Network Automation Drives Short-Term Benefits and More

Network operators may reduce network operations costs by up to 65% using automation at the IP domain layer. Analysys Mason partnered with Nokia to conduct in depth operator interviews to reach this conclusion. In this article, we discuss our recommendations for operators looking to improve their operational efficiency, reduce costs, or considering future network-slicing based operations. This article is the third in a series that complement a webinar and published report where the research is explained in greater detail.Operators should automate the network management processes for their IP services Our study found there are clear benefits to operations from network automation at the domain layer. Our model estimates that a large, regional operator can avoid up to a 65% of costs across service fulfilment, network lifecycle management and network and service assurance processes. Our previous blogs outlined the scale of these benefits across each process category. Operators can achieve these cost avoidance benefits by reducing labour time needed to complete repetitive manual processes. Network automation further reduces the human element, and the frequency of human error and other errors such as order fallout that require repeated work. Network automation will also benefit the operators’ agility, enabling the operator to react faster to customer demand – reducing the time-to-revenue – resolve network issues and faults quicker, and improve the mean-time-to-repair. Further benefits come from equipment efficiency (capex) and customer satisfaction (churn), among others; these benefits prove tricky to quantify and differ drastically by operator.Operators may look to implement network automation in a staggered approach to realise the immediate benefits The benefits from network automation will develop over time, as operators implement the automation and refine the processes. Operators may pick and choose where automation is deployed first, based on the expected benefits and ease of implementation. Our interviews suggested most operators start with specific use cases: one such operator focused on automated troubleshooting and triage as part of automating the network and service assurance processes. In Figure 1, we demonstrate how an operator may realise these benefits over a three-year period as they gradually implement network automation. 

Sunday, November 28, 2021

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