LTE subscribers use 146% more data than 3G?

This was just one of the interesting facts brought out by our recent webinar on virtualised and software defined mobile backhaul networks [which is now available on demand] and was a great excuse for a nice picture of cascading water (Open the floodgates).

But more importantly, this event is illustrative of the vast amount of interest in software defined networking (SDN) at the moment. So here's just a few of the headlines from the last month or so:

Adtran unveils converged access architecture solution

RAD joins Cyan Blue Orbit SDN ecosystem

Transmode announces PCE-based SDN strategy

Virtualized and software-defined backhaul networks—enabling service-rich mobile broadband

A1, Coriant complete field trial using Space Division Multiplexing

Discover the 3 Steps to Transforming your Mobile Business

SDN narrows $9.2 bn mobile backhaul gap

SDN could save operators $4 billion in capex by 2017

Procera launches Virtualized PacketLogic solutions

If SDN matters to you, then perhaps you should get involved in our SDN Special Report, due out next month. Contact the sales team or download the prospectus.



 

Top 10 #telecom downloads of 2012

Last years ranking of the top document downloads on Total Telecom generated so much interest, that we decided to repeat the excercise for 2012. So what have users been downloading in 2012 and what have you missed?

1. The biggest threat to telecom operators - an eBook from Total Telecom, featuring speakers from the Total Telecom World conference
2. Growing Strong: The Global 100 Operators Report 2012 - our annual ranking of the world largest telecom operators by revenue and profit
3. Top 500 Telecom Brands - in association with Brand Finance, our annual ranking of the largest brands in telecoms
4. Tellabs Insight Magazine Q2 2012 - Cover story in this issue: Driving Mobile Backhaul In Latin America
5. Understand the Business of Telecoms - an eBook that was created to support the 2012 Finance Summit
6. Understanding LTE - White paper from Anritsu
7. Advancing the development of open virtualisation solutions -  White paper from Intel
8. Carrier Ethernet Basics -  White paper from EXFO
9. OTT services: How operators can overcome the fragmentation of communication - White paper from tyntec and mobileSQUARED
10. Best Practices in SDM (Subscriber Data Management) Reliability - White paper from Huawei

If you want to figure in the 2013 list, get an early start and talk to the sales team about how your document / white paper or customer magazine can figure.