STC Solutions and Aricent signs MoU to Build a Center of Excellence for SDN/NFV in Riyadh

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona and Santa Clara, California – February 26, 2018 – Today, Arabian Internet & Communications Services Co. (STC Solutions) and Aricent signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the world’s largest wireless industry event, MWC 2018, to build a Center of Excellence (CoE) in Riyadh. This will foster innovation and accelerate the adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. “The CoE is an important element of our ongoing commitment to deliver on Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 supporting the nation’s digital transformation”,…

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Coriant and Aricent Collaborate to Deliver End-to-End SDN/NFV Capabilities for Network Operators

As NFV nears $15bn market value milestone, Aricent’s NFV MANO and Coriant’s Transcend™ enables operators to maximize the true benefits of virtualization MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, and Santa Clara, California — February 26, 2018 — Aricent, a global design and engineering company, today announced that Coriant, a leading supplier of packet optical, IP, and SDN solutions to Tier 1 global service providers and web-scale Internet operators, will integrate its NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) framework to accelerate and power the Transcend™ SDN Solution and deliver comprehensive end-to-end NFV/SDN capabilities for network…

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Three UK Selects MYCOM OSI to Assure World’s First Telco Cloud

MYCOM OSI Assurance suite will be deployed for Next-Generation Cloud-Native Core Network London, UK, 24th October 2017 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced that Three UK has selected MYCOM OSI to assure its next generation core network which deploys NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), SDN (Software Defined Networks) and will be part of the world’s first Telco Cloud. Three UK is deploying the world’s first fully integrated cloud native core network that will enable…

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New Iskratel white paper highlights specific use cases for software-defined access

The Hague, The Netherlands, October 9, 2017 – Operators can differentiate their services from over-the-top players’ offerings and create new revenue opportunities if they embrace virtualisation – but this must be done selectively and in the right scenarios. That is the key message of a new white paper published by Iskratel, the leading European infocommunications vendor and solutions provider, ahead of SDN NFV World Congress. Titled ‘Use Cases for Software-Defined Broadband Access’, the white paper examines the concrete applications and use cases where software-defined broadband (SD-BB) can provide operators with…

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Start-ups and telecoms giants among latest additions to Broadband Forum as 15 new members join

Fremont, California, 26 June 2017. The Broadband Forum today announced it has welcomed 15 new members – including three start-ups – as it continues to address the fast-changing broadband landscape. The broad range of industry expertise displayed by the new member companies highlights the continuously expanding breadth of the Broadband Forum’s work which has grown to include a strong focus on next-generation broadband technologies such as virtualization, Software Defined Networks (SDN), the Internet of Things (IoT), next-generation optical networks, 5G and Gfast. The latest additions are CableLabs, EANTC, Fujitsu Limited,…

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ZTE ZENIC SDON wins Best Overall Multi-layer SDN Controller Implementation award at NGON & Optical DCI forum

22 June 2017, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced it has won the “Best Overall Multi-layer SDN Controller Implementation” award for its innovative ZENIC SDON solution at the annual Next Generation Optical Networking and Optical Data Centre Interconnect (NGON & Optical DCI) event in Nice, France. By using Software Defined Network (SDN) technology on the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)/optical transport network (OTN), the innovative ZTE’s Elastic Network Intelligent Controller Software Defined…

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Cisco includes Italtel’s enterprise SDN application in official catalogue

The first time for an Italtel product to be part of Cisco’s Global Pricing List (GPL) Milan, 12 June 2017 – Italtel, a multinational company operating in the Information and Technology sector, with a strong focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), SDN/NFV, cyber security, analytics and all-IP communication solutions, today announced its Netwrapper application has been included in the official Cisco GPL catalogue. Netwrapper is the outcome of the strong cooperation between Italtel and Cisco around the innovation that Cisco is bringing in the enterprise networks. In particular, Italtel’s…

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Broadband Forum and SDN/NFV Industry Alliance partner on network transformation

Partnership will establish the Open Broadband Laboratory Asia to accelerate network transformation and the evolution to cloud services Beijing, China, 2 May 2017. The Broadband Forum and SDN/NFV Industry Alliance today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly set up an Open Broadband Laboratory Asia (OBLA) and promote the development of network transformation and cloud evolution. The partnership – which was signed during the China SDN/NFV Conference in Beijing last week – also introduces the Forum’s Open Broadband initiative, with a mission to create an open…

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