Computing, telecoms industries set on collision course

March 6, 2015 admin 70-year-history, annual, apple, barcelona, breaches, china-mobile, cloud-computing, cutting, leila-abboud, mobile, only-threaten, operators, sharpening-its, silicon-valley, the-operators

By Eric Auchard and Leila Abboud BARCELONA (Reuters) – Telecom network gear makers are on a collision course with Silicon Valley computing giants as software and cloud computing have begun to change the way operators from AT&T to China Mobile run their networks. As networks move to relatively standard hardware, formerly entrenched equipment groups must increasingly compete for contracts with the likes of Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and VMware, as well as a slew of startups.

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Computing, telecoms industries set on collision course