The Agfa-Gevaert Group (Agfa) signed up with Verizon Enterprise Solutions to redesign its global network infrastructure. Agfa has chosen Verizon’s network services and software network solutions to adapt its own global network infrastructure more effectively. Verizon will head the global management of Agfa’s network, enabling Agfa’s own IT department to focus on innovation in service […]
SDN/NFV
Successful SDN/NFV Rollouts Require a Partner Centric Strategy from Day One
For today’s communications service providers, the network revolution is here. Personalized on-demand services are now expected from an increasingly demanding customer base, traffic volumes are increasing as new services consume larger quantities of bandwidth, and competitive pressures are hitting from all sides of the industry. If you are triple or quad play provider today, the […]
Lumina Networks Raises $10M, Led by Verizon Ventures
Lumina Networks, an open source networking company that was spun off from Brocade last summer, said it closed a $10 million Series A financing round, including $8 million in new funding. Verizon Ventures led the round, with AT&T and Rahi Systems among the other new investors participating. Lumina Networks said it will use the […]
Adtran Heading up Broadband Forum’s Application-Level Testing Initiative
Adtran has taken the helm as leader of the Broadband Forum’s new application-level traffic generation testing project, the company announced Monday. As network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) help the industry transition to virtualized services, new standardized and realistic testing conditions of increasingly complex application-level traffic on networks are needed to verify performance. […]
Verizon Plans to Combine Edge Routers onto Single Platform
Verizon said this week that it would utilize software-defined networking to combine its existing edge routers onto a one platform. Officials said deployments began on Verizon IP networks in early 2018 and will continue through the end of 2019, eventually replacing the network’s legacy edge router functions entirely. “Software defined networking continues to deliver on […]
Adtran Buys Sumitomo’s North American EPON Business, Broadens SD-Access Portfolio
Adtran announced Tuesday that it purchased Sumitomo Electric’s EPON business for North America, broadening the networking communications equipment vendor’s SD-Access portfolio. The deal also provides Adtran with technology license and OEM supply for North America, South America, EMEA, Australia, and New Zealand. Adtran said the EPON solutions will be integrated into the company’s SD-Access portfolio […]
Orange, Cisco Team Up to Deliver SD-WAN Solution
In a push to strengthen its SD-WAN offering, Orange Business Services said it joined with Cisco to showcase the first onboarding of a Cisco SD-WAN virtual network function on the Cisco Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS). With the platform, enterprise customers gain a fully functional virtualized solution for network services as part of the Orange […]
AT&T Wraps up 10 Gbps XGS-PON Field Tests
In a continued drive to virtualize access functions over its last mile network, AT&T announced Tuesday that it completed 10 Gbps XGS-PON field trials utilizing open-source software. The trials, conducted in Atlanta and Dallas, relied on Open Source Access Manager Hardware Abstraction (OSAM-HA) software, formerly known as VOLTHA, which AT&T released in October. At the […]
AT&T Releases Open-Source VOLTHA Software for XGS-PON
In AT&T’s latest effort to virtualize the last mile of connectivity between its fiber network and customers’ homes or businesses, the operator released open-source software it calls the “brain” for XGS-PON access technology. In a blog post, Eddy Barker, assistant vice president of technical design and architecture at AT&T Labs, says the software, dubbed VOLTHA […]
Comcast Business Now Offering SD-WAN Alongside Gigabit DOCSIS 3.1 Services
Comcast Business is pushing ahead with software defined networking (SDN) solutions, releasing its new SD-WAN product that enterprise business can pair with Comcast’s DOCSIS 3.1-based 1 Gbps business internet service. The SD-WAN offering is the first product delivered by Comcast’s ActiveCore SDN platform, which the cable operator boasts as the first cable-delivered, gigabit-ready SDN platform […]