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France's biggest operator has made a bold commitment to open RAN and predicted 'parity' with traditional kit in the next four years.

Date / Time: Thursday, February 4, 2021, 11:00 am New York / 4:00 pm London Overview:   sponsored by As part of Light Reading's latest annual Fiber Outlook survey, Ciena sponsored a section focusing on the cable industry's Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and Converged Interconnect Network (CIN) strategies and progress. The study's key takeaways include: Nearly one third of respondents (31%) said the pandemic has either "somewhat" or "significantly" accelerated their company's plans to shift to a DAA approach An overwhelming majority of respondents (87%) said their company intends to c...

Light Reading Inc.: Light Reading and SCTE-ISBE Team Up Again for 2021 Livelearning Webinar Series NEW YORK, NY and EXTON, PA / ACCESSWIRE / January 13, 2021 / Light Reading, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), and SCTE's global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), announced today that they have extended their partnership to bring enhanced learning and development opportunities to SCTE•ISBE members. Under the extended agreement, Light Reading and SCTE•ISBE will continue to collaborate in producing and delivering SCTE•ISBE LiveLearning Webinar...

The management of SD-WAN services is a challenge for service providers (SPs) – from root cause analysis to underlay/overlay event correlation, SLA verification and managing network performance across hybrid network services. How are the SPs evolving their managed SD-WAN services? What tools are they are relying on to see them into a new generation of SD-WAN services and how are they leveraging automation to simplify service management and create an engine for growth? To gauge how carriers are planning and implementing managed SD-WAN services, and in collaboration with Accedian, Amdocs and VM...

If there was an operator award for generating the most noise and interest surrounding open RAN and cloud-native networks during 2020 then Japan's Rakuten Mobile would surely win it. True, Vodafone and Telefónica have also been banging the open RAN drum loudly this year. Deutsche Telekom has been shouting a lot more about it as well, particularly since the O-RAN Alliance formed a strategic partnership with the Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project in February. Making waves: Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani on stage at a recent press event. It's only Rakuten Mobile, however, that has gotten its ha...