Tag: ONAP

November 26, 2019

The LF AI Foundation has delivered its third software release for its Acumos AI Project, which includes integration with ONAP and O-RAN. The third release, which is called “Clio,” includes features that were designed to more easily onboard AI models, […]

November 21, 2019

AT&T is out of the starter blocks for 400G with an optical connection carrying live traffic between Dallas and Atlanta. AT&T said the 400-gigabit optical connection was the first of its kind in the industry, as most vendors are targeting […]

September 26, 2019

As part of its close embrace network artificial intelligence (AI), AT&T is testing drones in New Jersey to inspect cell sites, and researching the use AI to define network policies. AT&T’s Mazin Gilbert outlined his company’s blueprint for artificial intelligence […]

May 23, 2019

While NFV has been a jungle of complexities for some service providers, CenturyLink continues to bushwhack its way to new horizons. CenturyLink is now on its fourth iteration of NFV, and while there have been some pain points along the […]

April 26, 2019

It’s good news for the industry that the Linux Foundation and the European Telecommunications Standards Group (ETSI) announced they had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to more closely work with each other. But why did it take so long? […]

October 25, 2018

ATLANTA—After a slow start, the cable industry knows it needs to jump into virtualization with both feet, but the question for some time has been how? To that end, CableLabs has started a new project called the Access Network Virtualization […]

October 12, 2018

EXFO reported a quarter that its CEO described as disappointing, but promised that 2019 will be a year of renewed focus on execution by the test company, which has had a number of recent acquisitions. Sales for the company’s fiscal […]

September 13, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO—AT&T’s Mazin Gilbert has a deep knowledge of the various open source communities that are in play across the telecom space, but he’s also able to paint a big picture of how they will converge. Gilbert, vice president of […]

September 5, 2018

Adva has put its three years of experience working on NFV into a major revamp of its Ensemble suite that it says will make deploying NFV much easier. The promise of network functions virtualization (NFV) has been hampered by the […]

August 2, 2018

Give AT&T’s Mazin Gilbert a half an hour or less, and he will entirely lay out how his company is using artificial intelligence, machine learning and edge networks as just some of the building blocks for a next-generation network. Gilbert, […]

July 11, 2018

Threat intelligence solutions were a primary motivator of AT&T’s acquisition of AlienVault, which is expected to close in Q3 this year. To get a better understanding of the operator’s goals with the acquisition, RCR Wireless News posed a few questions […]

December 6, 2017

Vodafone has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project as a Platinum member, giving credence to the growing software-based effort by providing its perspective as a major global service provider deploying SDN and NFV across its widespread network. Getting […]