Ericsson: North America to Lead in 5G Rollouts

Mobile broadband to account for 90 percent of all subscriptions by 2022, according to the newly-released Ericsson Mobility Report. North America is set to lead in 5G rollouts and Ericsson is predicting that 25 percent of all subscriptions will be 5G in North America in 2022, representing the highest market penetration in the world. "Almost 90 percent of smartphone subscriptions are on 3G and 4G networks today and standardized 5G networks are expected...

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Cisco Posts Revenue of $12.4 Billion, up 1% YoY

Cisco reported revenue of $12.4 billion for its first quarter of FY 2017. Net income (GAAP) came in at $2.3 billion or $0.46 per share, and non-GAAP net income was $3.1 billion or $0.61 per share. "We had a good quarter despite a challenging global business environment and we performed well in our priority areas," said Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco. "We are leading our customers in their digital transition by providing them with highly secure, automated,...

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Microsoft Makes Open Source Commitments

Microsoft announced a number of big moves to bolster its standing with the open source community, including: joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member welcoming Google to the independent .NET Foundation working with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to enable .NET developers to build apps for more than 50 million Samsung devices worldwide demonstrating a preview of Visual Studio for Mac, which enables developers to write cloud, mobile and macOS...

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Microsoft Contracts 237 Megawatts of Wind Energy

Microsoft announced two wind power purchasing agreements totaling 237 megawatts -- its biggest purchase of wind energy to date. “Microsoft is committed to building a responsible cloud, and these agreements represent progress toward our goal of improving the energy mix at our datacenters,” said Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft. “Our commitment extends beyond greening our own operations because these projects help create...

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MEF16 - Software-defined Access for User-driven Services

Software-defined Access will play a key role in future network architecture, says ADTRAN's Kurt Raaflaub, speaking at #MEF16.  It is very important that the connection from the data center to the end-user's device be open, programmable, and scalable. This allows for a user-driven service model to thrive. See video: https://youtu.be/3EwHgxi5...

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MEF16 - Distributed NFV with Whitebox CPE is Hot

Distributed NFV with universal CPE (the whitebox solution) is one of the hot trends at this year's MEF16, says Telco Systems' Raanan Tzemach. One of the top drivers for this is that OPEX can be reduced in rolling out new services by avoiding the need to stack new boxes at the customer site. See video: https://youtu.be/6Rmx2ZjUuF...

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Coriant Adds Open Line System Capabilities to DCI Portfolio

Coriant introduced Open Line System (OLS) capabilities for its Groove G30 DCI Platform. The open, plug-and-play optical layer solution provides 3X the density over comparable offerings, and gives network operators the ultimate in configuration flexibility to cost-efficiently address diverse Data Center Interconnect (DCI) and metro applications, including coherent and direct detect (PAM4) interconnect. The Coriant Groove OLS solution offers open...

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MEF16 - LSO Hackathon - Putting it to Code

The LSO Hackathon takes the MEF's specification work and puts it to code. The exercise carries out implementations of the specs to validate that they work. Charles Eckel provides an overview of this year's LSO Hackathon. More info on the event is posted here: https://wiki.mef.net/display/LH/MEF+LSO+Hackathon See video:  https://youtu.be/ldqLJwHH...

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