CRN Networking News

AT&T is putting its energy into building a "premier" next-generation network as its waits for a court's ruling on its $85 billion Time Warner Deal. The carrier saw business revenues for Q1 dip, but strategic services and business wireless subscribers increased.

Comcast has formalized its $30.7 billion bid for British pay-TV and media provider Sky, but that doesn't mean the cable giant is neglecting its bread-and-butter connectivity business, which saw double-digit growth on the business services side during Q1.

Verizon will lean on its next-generation networking technologies, including 5G and IoT, as well as its Oath media business as a way to differentiate itself in the telecommunications market. The carrier reported declining wireline, enterprise, and partner revenues for Q1 2018.

AT&T's channel chief Zee Hussain filled CRN in on its channel unification efforts, including a combined partner event for its solution providers later this year, as well as new resources and tooling for partners, such as the brand-new IoT Playbook.

Wendy Bahr sat down with CRN to discuss how she is pushing Cisco partners to drive the services, software technology and subscription-based consumption models upon which the networking giant is staking its future.

The telecom industry is bustling this week with news of partner program changes, new services being unveiled, and company updates as solution providers and carriers gathered in Las Vegas this week for the Channel Partners Expo. Here's what partners need to know.

'This allows us a different level of acceleration and market expansion -- both geographically as well as in terms of making additional investments in our market-leading platform and channel partners,' says LogicMonitor President and CEO Kevin McGibben.

Cisco's Dave West says SD-WAN is an integral part of the company's vast intent-based networking play and its continued evolution toward life as an open, software-focused firm.

Telarus is expanding internationally and has set its sights on helping partners in Australia and New Zealand sell cloud-based solutions as a starting point. The master agent has brought on Sydney-based channel veteran Tony Heywood to build out its AZN presence.