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Bullish on SDN in Access Network: Poll Software-defined network capabilities will be deployed at scale in commercial fixed broadband access networks by the end of 2018, according to a recent UBB2020 poll. Almost 29% expect SDN to be widely incorporated this year, while 39% predict broader adoption in 2018, the poll found. While 17% believe SDN won't impact fixed broadband until 2019, only 14% of the 69 respondents said providers would need more time -- at least until 2020 -- to deploy SDN within these networks.
"Anyone who's doing 10 Gig PON or G.fast with ADTRAN is doing it the new way, so they're already adopting [SDN]. The challenge is, [for] a lot of operators their OSSs aren't native SDN today. We've had to create adapters so they can have a native SDN controlled infrastructure but we still adapt back into their existing OSS systems until they're ready to take over ownership of that SDN controller, do the programmability themselves," he said. "We have operators rolling that out today. For the embedded base, we've created a migration path for those to move over to this native SDN-embedded approach." Don't forget to take the new UBB2020 Flash Poll: Picking Pai's Priorities. If you were an advisor to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, what would you focus on first? Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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