In just a few short weeks, the Viavi Solutions team heads to 5G World during TechXLR8 in London. Billed as the ONLY global 5G-focused, high-level conference and expo, the show addresses industry-impacting topics related to 5G trials and migration strategies from LTE to 5G. If you are going to the show, we invite you to […]
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Busting Three GDPR Myths We’ve all heard the hype, read the articles, received the emails, sat on the webinars, right? But there are still several misunderstandings and miscommunication out there surrounding the EU General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR) which will come into effect on 25 May 2018, whether you are ready for them, or not. […]
With 5G becoming ever-closer to reality, operators are now looking to deploy validation equipment to develop their networks in preparation for 5G. Back in February we unveiled the industry first software-defined 5G UE simulator that reaches 10 Gbps. Demoed for the first time at MWC, this solution is based on Verizon’s open 5G standard and enables the […]
Viavi Solutions Earned 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide for Velocity Partner Program Annual guide recognizes the channel’s top partner programs We are thrilled to share that for the second year in a row, CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has given Viavi a 5-Star rating for our Velocity Partner Program! CRN’s annual Partner […]
Network functions virtualisation (NFV); a concept which would have sounded unachievably futuristic a decade ago, is now very real and very exciting, yet there is slight apprehension for some. It is much like the intriguing, but tentative reception to autonomous vehicles; you know the technology is there, and you sense that it is safe, but […]
We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Sergio Bea, Viavi’s Vice President Global Channels and Enterprise, to its prestigious list of 2017 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizations […]
A New Approach to Network Architecture Fulfilling the potential of 5G will bring the need not only for new air interfaces and frequency bands, but also for an innovative and more dynamic approach to network architecture. 5G networks will have to be capable of providing flexible allocation of computing resources in order to enable all […]
Today, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond announced £1bn ($1.5bn) of funding to boost 5G and fiber connections in the country. Included in the Autumn Statement from Britain’s Treasury, the Chancellor said he wanted the ‘UK to be a world leader in 5G’. The UK will also be allocating £400m ($500m) for a […]
It’s official: the DDoS attack on Dyn in October was not just huge but a record breaker, earning the unenviable badge of world’s largest Distributed Denial of Service hack. Scott Hilton, Executive Vice President of Products at Dyn, placed the number of infected IoT devices at the source of the attack at 100,000, with peaks […]
With more than 10 standards already being proposed for low-power applications related to the Internet of Things, it seems reasonable to ask why we might need another one. Yet NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT), which forms part of the LTE-Advanced Pro (3GPP Release 13) standard that was finalised in June 2016, is perhaps the most eagerly-anticipated new […]