Australia’s Megaport Exchange launched as an SDN-based marketplace for ‘elastic interconnection’ of tech providers

Brisbane, Australia-based Megaport Ltd, has launched Megaport Exchange, a marketplace hosted on megaport.al, that is designed to connect its ecosystem of providers to its global network of customers.

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Packet Design and NEC/Netcracker partner to advance SDN for service providers

Packet Design and NEC/Netcracker have partnered to help service providers implement software-defined networking (SDN) applications to improve service quality, add new revenue streams and reduce costs.

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Network slicing unleashes 5G opportunities, when service quality can be assured – Part 1

Network slicing first appeared with 4G networks and enabled new possibilities – and this will go much farther when 5G enables network slices to incorporate the radios.

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Making sense of SDN in the WAN: A multitude of vendors and approaches vying for a piece of the action

As communications service providers (CSPs) refashion their networks and operations processes for the cloud era, software defined networking (SDN) has been somewhat overshadowed by its complementary technology, network functions virtualisation

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Into the Fog: Stratecast previews a health-conscious year ahead for network operators

Each year we receive a report listing Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan‘s predictions for the year ahead, and each year it contains elements to make us think. 2017 is no

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Digital transformation sets stage in 2017 as speed of service and end user experience define the business of IT, says Verizon

Digital transformation continues to be the goal for global brands and government agencies in 2017. We believe our customers will also look at their business operations from a perspective where

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ZTE Microware solution passes Open Networking Foundation’s wireless backhaul SDN test

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, reported that its NR8000 Microware solution has passed a proof of concept (PoC) test

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Is 5G on a train to nowhere?

Just this week, says Robin Kent of Adax, I was on a train from Frankfurt to Nuremburg in Germany attempting in vain to get some work done.

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Automatic for the people – Four trends for 2017

As we move into 2017, the dynamics of digitisation and virtualisation are joining with the growing maturity of the Internet of Things and big data analytics to usher in a

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Astellia and b<>com ensure full traffic visibility in NFV

Astellia has announced that it will be integrating Tap Manager for flow duplication in its virtual monitoring solution. This enabler for virtualised network monitoring has been co-developed with the Institute

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