NFV

Cloud Native

Why container-management platforms are on a 30% a year growth spurt

Altiostar

Virtualisation

What’s up with… Altiostar, KDDI, Nokia, IP Infusion

Cloud

Microsoft affirms its telecoms intentions with Metaswitch acquisition

SDN

Disaggregation has accelerated telco tech innovation, says Colt exec

Virtualisation

Telcos stepping up to cloud native challenge – Vodafone

5G

Airship 2.0 White Paper – A roadmap for solving NFVi challenges on the way to full 5G deployment

AT&T and Loon (picture courtesy of Loon)

Mobile

What’s up with… AT&T, Loon, Nokia, Iskratel

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna at Think Digital conference (courtesy of IBM)

Edge & MEC

5G potential drives IBM’s edge strategy

via Flickr © Ed Dunens (CC BY 2.0)

Cloud

Cloud and telco are becoming ever more closely entwined, but how does it end?

LF Networking

Virtualisation

LFN adds XGVela to the industry group lexicon

via Flickr © Tony Webster (CC BY 2.0)

Cloud

What’s up with… AWS, RJio, Amdocs

Altiostar

Radio Access Network

What’s up with… Altiostar, Qualcomm, Etiya, CSG

Open Software

Open-source community addresses next generation carrier operations

Cloud Native

Turkcell transforms its LTE and 5G voice network with Mavenir's cloud native NFV-based IMS solution

Industry Associations

HPE and Intel lead on an Open Distributed Infrastructure Management initiative for 5G

via Flickr © Kitty Terwolbeck (CC BY 2.0)

Edge & MEC

ETSI’s Edge group hits 100 members and announces a ‘sandbox’

via Flickr © TR Haun (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Open Source

Airspan, Altiostar partner to ramp up open vRAN commercialisation

NFV

Communications Service Providers Globally Select VMware’s 5G-Ready NFV Platform as the Foundation for Their Telco Cloud Strategy

5G

SmarTone selects Ericsson’s 5G to power digitalization in Hong Kong

SD-WAN

Sprint announces international expansion of SD-WAN to more than 100 countries

Cloud

Red Hat Extends Partner Offerings to Drive Open Hybrid Cloud Innovation

Edge & MEC

Orange Business Services selects Ekinops and Dell Technologies for uCPE platforms

Transformation

SoftBank Corp. joins TM Forum as IT Transformation Imperative Impacts Telecom Industry

Edge & MEC

How to leverage the value of edge network opportunities