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One of my first stories for FierceTelecom was on closed-loop automation. I'm closing my own loop with my last story for FT on the same topic as a I transition to a new job outside of telecommunications next week. A huge thanks to everyone! Mike Robuck
After primarily relying on #Nokia and #Huawei, #Openreach turns up its first live customer using #ADTRAN 's #GPON solution. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/openreach-connects-first-fiber-customer-using-adtran-s-gpon-solution #SDN
Openreach has turned up its first live subscriber using GPON gear and software from Adtran. Openreach, which is a division of BT Group, had previously provisioned its FTTP deployments by using Nokia and Huawei gear, but last year it named Adtran as a third option.
#Lumentechco is taking a different approach to #RDOF than #CharterCommunications by focusing more on its #FFTH #fiber build outs. #broadband #digitaldivide
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/lumen-execs-fiber-builds-a-bigger-bang-for-buck-than-rdof
While Lumen reaped the financial rewards from the FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF) II, RDOF is taking a back seat to Lumen's fiber builds. Speaking on Wednesday's fourth quarter earnings call, Lumen CEO Jeff Storey and CFO Neel Dev said they see better returns from its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) inves...
The #OpenVault #Broadband Insights (OVBI) Q4 report finds that #COVID19 drove a 51% increase in broadband traffic last year. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/openvault-covid-19-pandemic-drives-51-spike-broadband-traffic-2020
OpenVault has stuck a fork in the increased broadband usage last year due to the pandemic with its latest report. The OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report found that Covid-19 drove a 51% increase in broadband traffic last year due in large part to remote learning and remote work.
#Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins is cautiously optimistic that #IT spending will increase this year, and says companies are preparing to send employees back to their office spaces by installing #WiFi 6. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/cisco-ceo-work-from-home-a-struggle-mentally-for-people #telecommnews
The shine on working-from-home has worn off for most people, according to Cisco CEO and President Chuck Robbins. Speaking on Tuesday's second fiscal quarter earnings call, Robbins said based on the uptake that Cisco has seen for its Wi-Fi 6 offerings, companies are planning to send their employees b...
#PacketFabric extends the reach of its #NaaS offering into Europe by teaming up with #C**t_Technology's On Demand platform. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/packetfabric-s-naas-hitches-a-ride-colt-s-demand-platform
PacketFabric has extended the reach of its network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering by teaming up with C**t Technology Services' On Demand platform. C**t and PacketFabric are meeting up at the "middle mile" via a software-defined interconnection that is provisioned by an API that meets MEF's standards.
#Googlecloud announces on Tuesday that it has signed a 10-year collaboration deal to help fuel #TELUS ' internal digital transformation while also jointly developing new products and services. #AI #DigitalTransformation https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/google-cloud-notches-another-telco-win-canada-s-telus
Google Cloud has added another telco to its customer roster with the addition of Canadian service provider Telus. Google Cloud announced on Tuesday that it has signed a 10-year collaboration deal to help fuel Telus' internal digital transformation while also jointly developing new products and servi...
After working together for several years, #FogHorn_IoT joins the #IBM Edge Ecosystem to offer joint customers #AI -based software and hybrid cloud solutions.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/ibm-hooks-up-foghorn-to-foster-edge-to-hybrid-cloud-solutions
After working together for several years, FogHorn has joined the IBM Edge Ecosystem to offer customers AI-based solutions at the edge. The partnership includes using FogHorn's AI Edge software capabilities in tandem with the IBM Edge Application Manager, the latter of which runs on Red Hat OpenShift...
On Monday, the #FiberBroadbandAssociation and #NTCA took issue with the prospect of #Spacelink meeting its #RDOF deployment requirements by submitting a technical assessment to the #FCC. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/ntca-fiber-broadband-association-diss-spacex-s-starlink-s-rdof-prospects
Add the Fiber Broadband Association and NTCA to the list of entities that don't think Starlink will be able to live up to its RDOF awards to deploy broadband in unserved areas across the U.S. On Monday, the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) and NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association submitted to the F...
#DeutscheTelekom taps #Nokia for its #optical transport network transformation across Germany.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/nokia-gets-a-boost-optical-win-deutsche-telekom
Following on the heels of a rocky 2020, which included a new CEO, Nokia has landed an optical deal with Deutsche Telekom. Deutsche Telekom plans to deploy Nokia’s optical transport portfolio to deliver a higher-capacity, automated network that meets residential and Industry 4.0 requirements
#IBM and #PalantirTech team up on a new enterprise offering to simplify how businesses build and deploy low code #AI-based applications. #telecommnews
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/ibm-and-palantir-join-forces-low-cloud-ai-data-processing-for-enterprises
IBM and Palantir have teamed up on a new enterprise offering designed to simplify how businesses build and deploy AI-based applications. The partnership merges AI, via IBM Watson, operational technology, data processing, and hybrid cloud into a new offering called Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data...
One way service providers can avoid becoming dumb pipes is by offering software-defined wide area network managed services (SD-WAN MS) to enterprises, according to analyst #scottraynovich.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/raynovich-opportunities-abound-for-carriers-sd-wan-managed-services #SDWAN #serviceproviders
Carriers' software-defined wide area network managed services (SD-WAN MS) hold a unique promise for the enterprise segment of communications services. Providing a virtualized networking platform that can be easily linked to value-added services from the cloud, SD-WAN provides service providers with....
#SaddlebackCommunications completes a #FttH build for residents of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community near Phoenix. #Calix and Inline Communications pitched in on the deployment.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/saddleback-communications-wraps-up-ftth-build-for-salt-river-pima-maricopa-indian-community
Members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) are now able to tap into broadband speeds of up to 500 Mbps thanks to a FTTH build. The fiber-to-the-home project, which was 10-years in the making, was built by Saddleback Communications.
#Twitter and #GoogleGloud ink a multi-year partnership that includes using Google's #ML to convert Twitter's data into actionable results. Twitter announced partnership with #AWS late last year.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/operators/twitter-broadens-its-partnership-google-cloud-to-improve-data-analytics
Twitter and Google Cloud announced they have inked a multi-year partnership that includes using Google's machine learning to improve Twitter's data insights. Twitter is moving its offline analytics, data processing and machine learning (ML) workloads over to Google's Data Cloud as part of its cloud....
#Cisco and other vendors are working with the #TelecomInfraP 's Phoenix initiative to drive #disaggregation across the optical sector. #DellOroGroup #telecomnews
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/cisco-other-vendors-tip-into-disaggregation-across-optical-vendor-ecosystem
Cisco is among the vendors that have tossed their hats into the ring for the Telecom Infra Project's Phoenix project. The Phoenix project is working to create open disaggregated hardware and software solutions by forging an ecosystem of hardware and software vendors.
In his first blog for FierceTelecom, Zeus Kerravala writes that shifting to #SDWAN must be part of every manufacturing organization's digital transformation plan. @zkerravala #AryakaNetworks https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/industry-voices-kerravala-how-sd-wan-transforming-manufacturing-operations
Shifting to SD-WAN must be part of every manufacturing organization's digital transformation plan. Although there are many SD-WAN solutions out there, manufacturers should look for a provider that has experience in manufacturing and can meet the industry’s unique network requirements.
In order to prep for president and COO John Bickham's retirement at the end of next year, #CharterCommunications re-shuffles the duties of some of its top executives. Bickham was one of the execs that followed Tom Rutledge over to Charter from Cablevision. #executivepositions
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/charter-president-and-coo-bickham-to-retire-at-end-2022
Charter Communications President and COO John Bickham will ride off into the sunset when he retires at the end of 2022. To date, Bickham has spent 35 years in the cable industry with additional stops at Time Warner Cable and Cablevision before the latter was bought by Altice USA.
"The #edge is like a continuum, and everyone is washing their problems with the edge these days," said #C**tTechnology's #PeterCoppens. "The way we define edge is that we have two types of edge. We have the network edge, and the customer edge." https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/colt-tees-up-proof-concept-trials-new-network-edge-nodes
C**t Technology Services has booted up network edge nodes across five cities in order to kick the tires on next-gen applications and services. The network edge nodes in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Singapore—the Singapore build is being finalized—provide the infrastructure for C**t's ...
"The #edge is like a continuum, and everyone is washing their problems with the edge these days," said #C**tTechnology's #PeterCoppens. "The way we define edge is that we have two types of edge. We have the network edge, and the customer edge." https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/colt-tees-up-proof-concept-trials-new-network-edge-nodes
C**t Technology Services has booted up network edge nodes across five cities in order to kick the tires on next-gen applications and services. The network edge nodes in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Singapore—the Singapore build is being finalized—provide the infrastructure for C**t's ...
#VirginMediaBusiness adds #Zscaler to its cloud security portfolio via the vendor's global Zero Trust Exchange Platform that sits between an organization's users, corporate applications and networks. #SASE #SDWAN #cloudsecurity https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/virgin-media-business-beefs-up-sase-and-cloud-se#cloudsecurity
In order to prep for president and COO John Bickham's retirement at the end of next year, #CharterCommunications re-shuffles the duties of some of its top executives.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/charter-president-and-coo-bickham-to-retire-at-end-2022 #telecommnews
Charter Communications President and COO John Bickham will ride off into the sunset when he retires at the end of 2022. To date, Bickham has spent 35 years in the cable industry with additional stops at Time Warner Cable and Cablevision before the latter was bought by Altice USA.
After 27 years, #Amazon's Jeff Bezos is stepping away from his CEO role this summer with #AWS CEO Andy Jassy taking over as Amazon's new CEO. Amazon hasn't said who will replace Jassy as AWS' CEO. #telecommnews
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/aws-jassy-to-helm-amazon-as-bezos-steps-aside-from-ceo-role
After 27 years of leading Amazon, founder Jeff Bezos will step away as CEO of the company on July 1 to be replaced AWS CEO Andy Jassy. The move, which is slated for Amazon's fiscal third quarter, will also include Bezos becoming executive vice chairman.
#Alphabet is pouring billions into boosting #googlecloud as it works to close the gap on #AWS and #MicrosoftAzure, but the results have been mixed. #telecommnews
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/google-cloud-s-revenue-continues-to-grow-but-losses-mount
Alphabet is pouring billions into boosting Google Cloud as it works to close the gap on AWS and Microsoft Azure, but the results have been mixed. After reporting the cost and operating profit of Google Cloud for the first time on Tuesday, Google Cloud's revenue grew 47% year-over-year to $3.84 billi...
#lumentechco and #VMware deepen their partnership with a new innovation lab that focuses on #EdgeComputing , #wfh work-from-anywhere solutions, and #security.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/lumen-vmware-team-up-innovation-lab-to-drive-edge-computing-security-and-sase
In order to accelerate the use of edge computing, remote work and security capabilities, Lumen and VMware are forming a Joint Innovation Lab. The Joint Innovation Lab stitches together the two companies' architecture and design, marketing and sales resources in order to help customers adopt new serv...
#SpectrumEntUS is now offering enterprises a new, modular managed network solution that's based on #Cisco's #Meraki cloud-based platform.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/spectrum-enterprise-taps-cisco-meraki-s-cloud-platform-for-new-managed-network-edge
Spectrum Enterprise is out of the starter blocks with a new managed network solution that's based on Cisco's Meraki cloud-based platform. Spectrum Enterprise's Managed Network Edge (MNE) was designed to provide mid-market and large enterprises nationwide network connectivity options, modular add-ons...
In order for businesses to better connect their remote workers, #ComcastBusiness adds #Cisco #Meraki into its Teleworker #VPN portfolio. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/comcast-business-broadens-reach-teleworker-vpn-cisco-meraki
In order to better connect enterprise customers with their remote workers, Comcast Business has added Cisco Meraki into its Teleworker VPN portfolio. With the security perimeter extending beyond office spaces due to Covid-19, companies large and small have ramped up their remote work offerings.
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