Sunday, October 20, 2013

Layer123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress: DT's Terastream Project

"The fundamental premise of Terastream is simplification," said Axel Clauberg, VP Aggregation, Transport, IP & Fixed Access, Deutsche Telekom AG, speaking at last week's Layer123 conference in Bad Homburg, Germany. The Terastream project, which is a next generation network project of Deutsche Telekom, in many ways reflects the business drivers and next steps for SDN and NFV.  Clauberg said operators must continue to invest in their networks...

AT&T and Crown Castle Sign $4.85 Billion Tower Deal

AT&T and Crown Castle announced a $4.85 billion deal under which AT&T will lease the rights to approximately 9,100 of its company-owned wireless towers to Crown Castle.   The deal also includes the sale of approximately 600 AT&T towers to Crown Castle. Under the terms of the leases, Crown Castle will have exclusive rights to lease and operate approximately the towers, including the option to sublease to other carriers. The average...