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The CO in the Cloud – A Worldwide Demonstration
The above video interview with the current Vice President of Business Development and Marketing and soon-to-be CEO of the Broadband Forum, Craig Thomas, provides an overview of the 2023 CloudCO (Central Office) demonstration and its importance to service operators, vendors, and, ultimately, consumers. The CloudCO approach disaggregates and virtualizes network functions, allowing service providers to…
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A Forum for Broadband and More
Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, provides an overview of the Broadband Forum’s October 27th, 2018 BASe event. The event covered all types of next generation access, whether wired (e.g. NGPON2) or wireless (e.g. 5G), as well as access within the home. Lavoie, who is also Technical Committee Chair of the…
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Shape-shifting Network Hardware #CNV2016
A knock against software defined hardware using “white-box” CPUs is its performance compared to purpose-built hardware that incorporates ASICs or FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) perform, but cannot adapt as needed. FPGAs provide flexibility, but programming in VHDL isn’t a skillset of the typical IT network administrator. Enter Netcope Technologies and…
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An Opportunity to Better Understand the Network #CNV2016
One of the major benefits of virtualization is that it allows operators to decrease the time of product launch and improve quality through better testing prior to launch. An example of this was the announcement this week by Calix (a Viodi video production client) of its AXOS Sandbox, which virtualizes the traditional lab environment onto…
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Moving the Attack Vector Away from the Applications
“It’s time to have a fundamental shift in how we view the network and we view the security as being built into the network and have the network platform provide the security,” says Rick Conklin, Vice President of Development for Dispersive Networks in the above video. Speaking at the 2016 Carrier Network Virtualization Summit, Conklin indicates…
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Computing on the Edge – Redefining Mobility
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is about creating an IT ecosystem for applications near the perimeter of the network. Andy Odgers, CEO of Quortus, explains that the network itself is accessible via multiple wireless technologies, such as 3G, 4G, WiFi and fixed-wireless. Odgers provided an update of the ETSI MEC process at the 2016 MEC Focus Day in…