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Seen & Heard: Yahoo Faces Litigation for Data Breaches
Mike Robuck  
8/31/2017   89 comments
Judge's ruling is a setback for Verizon's attempts to limit its liability for Yahoo's email hacks.
Telus' Gedeon: SDN Key for Automation of New Functions & Features
The Digerati  
8/31/2017   7 comments
SDN is just one part of the transformation to virtualization; it also includes a human element, according to Telus' Ibrahim Gedeon.
Seen & Heard: AT&T Widens Fixed Wireless 5G Trials
Mike Robuck  
8/30/2017   18 comments
AT&T's fixed wireless 5G trials will touch down in three additional markets by the end of the year.
What Can SDN Do for You? – Level 3's Saenger
The Digerati  
8/30/2017   10 comments
Level 3's Adam Saenger shares what he and his company have learned about ensuring that an SDN deployment is successful.
Level 3's Saenger: SDN a Gateway to Automation
The Digerati  
8/29/2017   5 comments
An adaptive networking approach to SDN, taking into account a variety of variables and the roles they can play, is what makes for good network virtualization, says Level 3's Adam Saenger.
Berriman Dissects PCCW's 360D Experience
The Digerati  
8/29/2017   16 comments
Having distributed one of the earliest broadcasts of a live sporting event in 360-degree video, PCCW Global's Alex Berriman discusses what he learned from the experience, and his views on the market opportunity.
Digital Transformations Dogged by Lack of Leadership
Mike Robuck  
8/28/2017   14 comments
A survey of US senior-level executives found that most weren't executing on their digital transformation strategies.
Level 3's Saenger: SDN Takes a Village
The Digerati  
8/28/2017   7 comments
Level 3's Adam Saenger talks about the important roles that both employees and customers play in creating SDN success for both enterprise customers and network carriers alike.
Lack of Skilled Employees a Hurdle for Carriers
Mike Robuck  
8/25/2017   88 comments
Service providers need to re-train current employees and hire new ones to meet the needs of new technologies and applications.
Networks Need Telemetry – BT's McRae
The Digerati  
8/24/2017   10 comments
With networks becoming more complex, service providers need to work on their telemetry game plans, according to BT's Neil McRae.
NTT's Okoshi on Enabling Cloud-Based Digital Transformations
Joe Stanganelli  
8/24/2017   13 comments
NTT Communications guides customers through complex network decisions.
Orange's Shanaah Talks Smart City Analytics
The Digerati  
8/23/2017   17 comments
Orange Business Services relies on its own IoT analytics platform to enable smart city services.
Level 3 Serves Up Scalable Ethernet Feature for AWS
Joe Stanganelli  
8/23/2017   16 comments
A new self-serve Ethernet feature from Level 3, Level 3 eLynk, purports to make network connections to the cloud as flexible and agile as the cloud itself.
AT&T's Gilbert: The Goal of AI Is Automation
The Digerati  
8/22/2017   64 comments
AT&T views artificial intelligence as the means to do data-powered automation.
SDN Controls the Smart City Labyrinth
The Digerati  
8/22/2017   20 comments
Smart cities need software-defined networking to unify networks, data and services.
TT Cartoon Caption Contest Winners
Mike Robuck  
8/21/2017   27 comments
The results are in for the Telco Transformation cartoon caption contest on artificial intelligence.
Swisscom's Rupp on Virtual Reality
The Digerati  
8/21/2017   17 comments
Swisscom Event & Media Solutions chief digital officer talks about the operator's initiatives in VR, plans for the future and expectations for virtual reality.
Verizon's Hornby: Cloud Benefits from Web-Scale Principles
The Digerati  
8/18/2017   10 comments
Verizon is achieving improved efficiencies in its cloud operations by implementing web-scale operations.
TT SDN Poll a Dead Heat
Mike Robuck  
8/18/2017   10 comments
SDN has evolved from its early days of inception, which is reflected in this Telco Transformation poll.
BT's McRae: Common Service Models Aid Automation
The Digerati  
8/17/2017   28 comments
McRae talks about how BT is tapping into common service models and machine learning.
Standardization Key to SDN Growth: Orange's Isch
The Digerati  
8/16/2017   12 comments
Orange is working with Colt, AT&T, TM Forum and MEF to standardize SDN for interoperability across networks.
BT's McRae: SDN Is All About Automation
The Digerati  
8/16/2017   6 comments
BT's chief network architect talks about how SDN is a critical piece of his company's automation plans.
Orange's Isch: SDN Drives Automation
The Digerati  
8/15/2017   7 comments
Orange is using SDN to enable automation on its networks.
IHS Markit's Howard: Automate Everything
Mike Robuck  
8/14/2017   17 comments
Analyst Michael Howard spoke about the benefits of automation during a recent Telco Transformation radio show.
TT Poll: Balance, Flexibility Critical for Pay-TV Providers
Aditya Kishore  
8/14/2017   13 comments
A recent Telco Transformation poll found that a balanced pay-TV and OTT offering, and pricing and packaging flexibility, were the most important requirements for a pay-TV provider to succeed today.
Seen & Heard: Verizon Pushes Back Launch of Online TV
Mike Robuck  
8/11/2017   27 comments
Verizon is pushing back the launch date of its new online TV service due to a lack of licensing deals for content.
Verizon's Hakl: SDN Creates Virtualized World
The Digerati  
8/11/2017   8 comments
Infusing SDN into cybersecurity, Verizon's SDN strategy aims to bring better security, more intelligent automation and lower costs to the latest in network-infrastructure demands.
OCP's Carter: Open-Source Agility Begets Web-Scale Agility
The Digerati  
8/10/2017   6 comments
OCP CTO Bill Carter talks about the agile environment needed to realize web-scale IT initiatives, what telcos can learn from enterprise IT on web scalability and more on the importance of web-scale IT.
TT Radio Show: Service Providers' SDN Ambitions & Plans
Mike Robuck  
8/9/2017   3 comments
IHS Markit's Michael Howard will provide his insights into carriers' SDN strategies during Thursday's radio show.
Security Ownership a Concern for IoT – Report
Mike Robuck  
8/9/2017   10 comments
A report by Canonical found that various IoT entities were reluctant to take ownership of IoT security issues.
AI: Seizing the Prize
Mike Robuck  
8/8/2017   21 comments
AI will have a sizable economic impact by 2030, according to a report.
OCP's Carter: Open Hardware for Faster Web-Scale IT
The Digerati  
8/8/2017   5 comments
The open-hardware movement, spurred on by the Open Compute Project, is helping network carriers to deploy web-scale IT faster and more efficiently.
TT Caption Contest: Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings
Mike Robuck  
8/7/2017   217 comments
Artificial intelligence is the theme for the latest Telco Transformation cartoon caption contest.
A Mixed Bag for Autonomous Car Features
Mike Robuck  
8/7/2017   27 comments
A survey by IHS Markit found that preferences for autonomous vehicle features varied across different countries.
PCCW's Berriman Talks Live 360-Degree Video
The Digerati  
8/7/2017   10 comments
PCCW Global's eSports & VR specialist, Alex Berriman describes the challenges surrounding the company’s live 360-degree broadcast of the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament earlier this year.
Business Service Applications Tops TT Poll
Mike Robuck  
8/4/2017   7 comments
Business service applications were the hands-down winner in a poll on web-scale services and applications.
Cloud Confusion for Organizations – Report
Mike Robuck  
8/3/2017   17 comments
Security concerns are causing some organizations to move their workload applications from public clouds to on-premises locations.
Cognitive AI: Humanizing Network Apps
Kishore Jethanandani  
8/3/2017   40 comments
Cognitive AI will pose new challenges for service providers with its exponentially higher data volumes susceptible to spikes.
Red Hat's Hood on Web-Scale IT's Impact on IoT & 5G
The Digerati  
8/2/2017   17 comments
Web-scale IT offers improved efficiencies for carriers' IoT, 5G and LTE services and applications.
AT&T's Malhotra: The Evolving World of Enterprise Connectivity
Manish Malhotra  
8/1/2017   5 comments
With ever-changing bandwidth needs, enterprises need to have a flexible WAN design in place that includes SDN, NFV and SD-WAN.




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