Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. It’s been a week of big deals and big reports in the telecom space. Verizon Communications acquired Intel Media, VMware bought AirWatch, Subex landed $10 million worth of contracts and Redknee signed a $5 million renewal. Now that we’ve had some distance from 2013, there’s been reports on 2013 data usage from Actix and a study on big data from Heavy Reading. Network functions virtualization was crowned the critical topic of 2014 by many, and in the news of the weird hackers have now found a way to use a smart fridge to hack a business. For all these stories and more, click the links below.
- Verizon Communications is diving deeper into content delivery with the purchase of Intel Media for an undisclosed amount.
- VMware made the largest acquisition in the company’s history to move into the mobile space with the purchase of AirWatch for about $1.54 billion.
- Subex landed $10 million worth of new deals with five new customers in emerging markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- Redknee signed a support and services contract renewal worth $5 million with a leading EMEA multi-play service provider.
- Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent division, gained a new software defined network deal.
- Hackers used a smart fridge to attack a business. This is how you know the age of “Internet of things” is here and hackable.
- The video optimization space consolidates as Flash Networks buys Mobixell.
- New mobile operating system Tizen and Ubuntu Touch have experience major setbacks.
- Noticed Nokia’s version of Android looks like Windows 8? Gigaom explains why.
- Reports indicate the Samsung Galaxy S5 will have a home screen similar to Google Now.
- Adax have announced they will be participating in this year’s Mobile World Congress; find them at booth No. 7D70.
- Ciena blogged about just how important NFV will become for telco operator profits in the coming year.
- With that said, looks like NFV will be the key discussion at this year’s TM Forum Live.
- A new report from Actix found that different devices interact with wireless networks in different ways, such as iPhones being great for data but BlackBerry is tops for voice calls.
- Comptel Plus have announced the conference’s schedule and panels, including a SDN discussion.
- Light Reading wrote an educational post titled, “Defining SDN & NFV,” so brush up on your knowledge.
- According to JDSU, the iPhone 5S apparently gobbles “unprecedented” amounts of data compared to other smartphones.
- What’s it like loading Android 4.4.2 KitKat onto a 2010 Nexus One? Gigaom investigates.
- CommScope explored the important question of whether size matters in data processing, including how SDN fits into that, on their blog.
- Heavy reading indicates big data technology and services are set to grow by 400% in the next seven years.
