White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

© Nokia

Radio Access Network

Nokia working towards an Open RAN ecosystem and more energy efficient base stations

2:21

Optical

Guide to TIP: Open Optical and Packet Transport

© Telecom Infra Project

Transformation

Telecom Infra Project hopes CANDI will sweeten the disaggregation pain

Source: Huawei

Transformation

Huawei's lays out its global business principles: openness, cooperation, and win-win

© NTT-McLaren

NFV

NTT revs up for enhanced NFVi at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix

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White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

AT&T releases OCP specifications for its White Box cellular gateway routers

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Transformation

From VNFs to CNFs: Prepare for the era of Cloud-native Network Functions

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Open Source

CSPs are gung-ho about open source networking claims the Linux Foundation

White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

Monolithic Data Center interconnect is not always the best bet

Open Source

Lumina Networks expands engineering management to drive product innovation and open source leadership

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White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

Double digits: Server market enjoys its best ever year as 'white box' sales surge

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SDN

China Mobile completes CloudOS and SDN/NFV decoupling test with ZTE

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Open Software

OpenStack Rocky aims to be the undisputed infrastructure champion

© TIP

Transformation

BT turns to TIP for innovation, as OpenCellular awards it first grants

Network Services

Coriant introduces carrier-class IP/MPLS network operating system

© TIP

White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

Vodafone deploys TIP’s Voyager in live European network trial

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Radio Access Network

Cloud-RAN demo achieves full decoupling of software and hardware

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Open Software

O-RAN Alliance signs up new telco members to develop Open RAN

SDN

Coriant expands portfolio of disaggregated networking solutions with Vibe X90 carrier-class white box

Rick Davis, Verizon Connect © Flickr/cc-licence/Linux Foundation

Open Software

OpenSwitch and the DPDK projects deliver open networking upgrades for telcos

© TelecomTV
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5G

University of Bristol previews 5G for the UK public

Open Software

Carriers continue to align around Linux Foundation's open source LF Networking Fund

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Virtualisation

Why the FPGA is the 'Swiss army knife' of semiconductors

Tracker

Metaswitch introduces industry-first composable network protocol suite for White Box switches