Before 5G enables an ascension of enterprise use cases and applications in a wireless context, the onus is on vendors and operators to deliver viable and more effective services.

A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors.

Automation is getting a lot of buzz right now but operators should only use automation if it helps reduce the complexity of the network or compensates for human limitations.

While telecommunications carriers are no doubt at the forefront of NFV, it turns out that more traditional enterprise IT organizations are not very far behind.

This week the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States met on interest-rate policy and decided it will be very careful about raising rates. You may ask what this

As my monthly communcations bills start to approach my mortgage payments, I was wondering whether I was the only one that had this unique financial problem. Apparently not. Spending

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit -- Vinod Khosla, a former Sun Micrososystems founder and Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures, dusted off a presentation from the optical bubble-era

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit (ONS) -- Last night, having digested some of the first keynote of the Open Networking Summit (along with some decent lamb kebabs

The open revolution continues. Over the past week, there's been another surge of networking and data-center deals focused on open networking, open source, and Software Defined Networking (SDN). It's

AOL is looking for a faster exit out of the headache known as Patch, its localized news service, say sources familiar with the company's thinking. AOL is looking at

The Tuesday after Labor Day often brings lots of deals. Sometimes the market likes them, sometimes the market hates them. This morning we learned that Microsoft (MSFT) is ponying

Oracle is hogging the tech press these days, making more headlines yesterday with a new 9-year deal with Salesforce.com . Nine years. Most marriages in Beverly Hills don't last

Apple cracked $700 in early September and has now pulled back sharply. It seems to me the pullback has to do with investor concerns over a possible labor strike

Interview with Jayshree Ullal of Arista Networks on Network Virtualization and SDN

The engine of value creation, economic growth, and mortgage payments is jobs. To build stuff, you still need to hire people. Unfortunately this morning's jobs report was a bit

There is a surge of startups trying to address the management of smartphones in enterprise networks, which is surely going to be a massive issue. If you think about

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. are set to gain on the market open after a strong earnings release and encouraging words about the global economy from CEO John Chambers.