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Service Providers Are Sick of Legacy OSS
LSO may be their Holy Grail.
5G Depends on SDN & NFV
Multiple hierarchies will transform the RAN topology.
TeliaSonera & Ericsson to Deploy 5G by 2018
TeliaSonera was the first to deploy 4G.
Cumulus Raises $35M
The company has lost value in the past 2 years.
Verizon Joins ONOS With an Eye Toward 5G
Verizon is especially interested in M-CORD.
OpenStack Finds a Place in Operators’ NFV Deployments
OpenStack summarizes its NFV work.
Google Invests in Plexxi
Is Plexxi looking ahead to an IPO? 'Of course.'
Riverbed Purchases SD-WAN Startup Ocedo
Riverbed wants to replace traditional branch routers.
EMC Dips a Toe Into the NFV Business
First step: a joint offering with Affirmed Networks.
4 Carriers Create NFV MANO Open Source Groups
Carriers want their own flavors of MANO.
ETSI Corrals Other NFV Groups to Sync Their Work
NFV groups need to talk, says ETSI.
HPE’s OSS Director Could Tempt Telcos to Try Virtualization
Excuse me. That’s my foot in your door.
Cisco Invests in SD-WAN Vendor VeloCloud
Maybe Cisco feels its WAN offering is lacking.
ADVA Splashes Into the NFV Pool
CEO Brian Protiva says ADVA will work with anyone to become an NFV market leader.
As Nokia Closes on Alcatel-Lucent, Will the Integration Get Ugly?
If layoffs come, U.S.-based employees could be most at risk.
Fujitsu SDN Controller Talks to Models, Not Devices
The controller supports transport-to-packet network layers.
Huawei Starts Building Its Open Source Dream Team
Two well-known open source experts move to Huawei.
PCCW Constructs a Global Cloud on OpenStack
The cloud vendor CPlane may be unknown, but it has a history.
AT&T Wants 50% of Its Software to Be Open Source
It only has 5% of its software built on open source now.
Microsoft Enters the Mobile Data Business
Affirmed Networks contributes NFV to the cause.