Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Rural carriers get another 90-day extension to work with Huawei

The Trump Administration gave U.S. companies a third 90-day extension to continue working with Huawei. The extension relates to the government’s Entity List, which effectively bans Huawei from buying components from U.S. companies without government approval. But the Entity List also affects rural carriers that have Huawei equipment in their networks, said Alexi Maltas, SVP and general counsel for the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA).
           

Monday, November 18, 2019

USAF: Kubernetes, Containers Saved 100 Years of Taxpayer Money

SAN DIEGO – The United States Air Force (USAF) has jumped aggressively into using Kubernetes and containers to speed up the deployment of applications across the military branch, including running applications on combat aircraft. While that is obviously very cool from a technology point of view, the move also saved 100 years of software development work for U.S. taxpayers.
           

Verizon's 5G Maps Have Arrived

Verizon took the wraps off detailed, street-level 5G coverage maps, which helped to blunt criticisms from the likes of T-Mobile. However, the maps also highlight the scale of Verizon's massive 5G undertaking.
           

Orange Taps ThousandEyes for Visibility Across Clouds, SD-WAN

ThousandEyes extended its watchful gaze over network intelligence vantage points today with a new Orange Business Services partnership. The companies say the partnership will provide end-to-end visibility and network performance insights across the internet, public clouds, and SD-WAN to enterprises and carriers.  
           

A10 Says Multi-Cloud Is Passé, Pushes Polynimbus

By now just about every enterprise — and every enterprise infrastructure vendor — has a multi-cloud strategy and uses services from multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. So it seems a little late in the game for A10 Networks to roll out a multi-cloud blueprint, though calling it “polynimbus” does add an element of allure.
           

Disney+ Targeted by Hackers

Disney says there's 'no indication of a security breach on Disney+,' as it appears that some accounts have been compromised when consumers use the same credentials and passwords across multiple online accounts.
           

Wind River Advances 5G vRAN With Edge Cloud

Wind River today announced the commercial availability of a Kubernetes-based cloud platform designed to manage edge cloud infrastructure. Wind River Cloud Platform can manage physically separated infrastructure for virtual radio access networks (vRANs) and core data center sites, according to the software vendor.
           

AT&T Slapped With 'Sell' Downgrade

MoffettNathanson is skeptical that AT&T can hit financial guidance in 2020 and beyond and doubtful that AT&T's mobile business will be able to fully make up for struggles at its video and wireless business units.
           

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