Verizon Enterprise Solutions with Viptela Verizon Enterprise Solutions has launched Virtual Network Services, a new SDN and NFV service for enterprise clients, in collaboration with Viptela, which provides control cloud network components such as SDN-WAN controllers. The new network-as-a-service is
AT&T Unveils New Hadoop-Based Security Platform AT&T’s latest security platform uses big data analytics on top of Hadoop to assess billions of security threats in mere seconds. It collects information from every corner of its network, leveraging the data sent
RAD and Checkpoint Join Forces to Provide Cybersecurity for Utility Networks RAD Data Communications L.P. and Checkpoint Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) announced over this past weekend that they have embarked on a joint program to provide end-to-end cybersecurity solutions for
As Bizety reported earlier in our segment, Industrial IoT is hailed as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, promising to unleash trillions of dollars of value into the global economy by some estimates. The drive to innovate and construct smart cities falls
AT&T made waves earlier today when it announced that it had laid the groundwork for an ambitious plan to test 5G in select US areas later this summer ahead of its major rivals, leaving open the possibility of limited commercial
Are we witnessing the end of the traditional ILEC business model? AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink are in the traditional ILEC business, in which they sell hundreds of products to customers in the wireline business. Even a simple product like MPLS
When it comes to buying transit in the form of 10Gbps Internet Ports from carriers, CDNs buy from the usual suspects, some more than others, and at various price points in the form of $/Mbps. The primary last mile /
It’s looks like the the recent ruling on Net Neutrality is starting to move the needle in favor of the Middle-mile Middlemen, kinda, sorta. There are some winners and losers in this soap opera, but it will take some time
Technology innovation in the wireline and wireless industry is experiencing unprecedented growth. In a few years, Gbps connectivity to the last mile eyeball networks (US wireline & wireless) will become the norm. Everyone and everything that participates in the Content
The Internet Giants (Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon) have been on a rampage investing in middle mile infrastructure, more specifically dark fiber, submarine cable systems, and to some degree, spectrum for a while now . The two primary reasons: 1)
Verizon and AT&T have been competing against each other in the regulated and unregulated markets for decades, in all areas of the business, including wireless, wireline, metro, data, voice, IP, data center, and so on. It’s co-petition at its finest,
Akamai set a target to reach $5B in revenue by 2020, a $3B increase from 2014. Openheimer analyst stated it will take six years and $2B in acquisitions for Akamai to reach the same goal, creating a discrepancy between the
Comcast Comcast built a CDN platform from scratch using open source software like Apache Traffic Server, and commercial products like Splunk for logging and analytics. In addition, they built their own Content Router for content distribution. From start to finish,
WAN as-a-service (WAAS) is one of the most disruptive technologies to enter the WAN market over the last few years. The core tenant of WAAS is to do away with the costly and timely-to-deploy MPLS network. Any business with offices
What is the one of the most expensive and critical pieces in the CDN infrastructure? Of course, it’s bandwidth. Bandwidth is the variable cost component that increases as more more bandwidth is utilized. Although there are dozens of carriers offering
