[caption id="attachment_8630" align="alignright" width="300"] Click image for full text of NEWSFlash[/caption] In this NEWSFlash:  Fiber Lit Buildings LEADERBOARDs: Year-End 2017 U.S. recap Vertical BLOG: Drivers for Service Innovation, SD-WAN and MEF 3.0 Guest Blog from USTelecom: Business Fiber Deployment Accelerates with New Competition and Investment-Friendly Policies Live Events: MEF18...

Panel discussion moderated by Rosemary Cochran, with Shawn Hakl, Verizon’s Senior Vice President, Business Products and an MEF Director; Josh Goodell, Vice President, Intelligent Edge at AT&T; and Gunnar Peters, Sr. Director of Emerging Network Products at Spectrum Enterprise....

It’s a new year, which means a new Telecom Exchange (TEX) NYC!  Telecom Exchange, presented by JSA, the premier provider of PR, Marketing and Event Planning services to the tech and telecom industries, is an invite-only, C-level networking event that provides unparalleled collaboration, education and one-on-one...

Will MEF 3.0 help to expand the community beyond the Tier 1 Service Providers who have been the biggest backers of MEF to date? Erin Dunne, Director of Research Service, Vertical Systems Group, comments on how the provisioning of automated, agile services presumes a deep ecosystem...

Vertical Systems Group's Research Director Erin Dunne examines the impact of cable's continuing share gains in the Ethernet services market and entrance into the SD-WAN market. Hosted by Alan Breznick from Light Reading...