King Charles has been urged to call for the breakup of the “UK’s network of satellite tax havens” through which an estimated £152bn worth of tax is avoided every year, according to campaigners.
Tax Justice Network, a coalition of researchers and activists campaigning against tax avoidance, are today calling on King Charles to use his reign as monarch to call for a revamp of laws that allow industrial scale tax avoidance in the UK, the crown dependencies and the British overseas territories.
The campaigners will tell King Charles in a letter today, seen by the Guardian, that they hope his coronation will “mark a pivotal moment to address the heavy financial and human cost borne by ordinary people … due to the UK and its network of tax havens over which your majesty is sovereign”.
“We believe your majesty can help by pointing the way to end one of the world’s most enduring injustices,” Alex Cobham, chief executive of the Tax Justice Network, said in the letter, which was also sent to the prime minister.
“The UK, the crown dependencies and the British overseas territories are collectively responsible for facilitating nearly 40% of the tax revenue losses that countries around the world suffer annually to profit shifting by multinational corporations and to offshore tax evasion by primarily wealthy and powerful individuals.
“This makes the UK and its network of satellite tax havens the world’s biggest enabler of global tax abuse. Our latest estimates from the state of tax justice report put the sum of this tax loss imposed upon the world by British tax havens at over $189bn (£152bn).”
The campaigners said the lost tax income is equivalent to more than three times the annual humanitarian aid budget requested by the UN.
Curbing global tax abuse is one of the UN’ssustainable development goals for 2030.
Cobham said that the UK government had, in 2015-2016, showed “true leadership” in tackling tax avoidance by becoming the first country to adopt a public register of beneficial ownership and require multinational corporations to publish country by country reports on profits and tax.
“Sadly, your majesty’s government has since back-pedalled on this progress. The deadline for the crown dependencies and overseas territories to establish public beneficial ownership registers was pushed back, with recent statements by officials now hinting that the jurisdictions may never establish the registers. Jersey has even introduced a new form of anonymous ownership vehicle this year.”
Research by the University of St Andrews and University of Leicester estimates that if the global tax losses caused by the UK, crown dependencies and British overseas territories were reversed, 6.4 million people in lower-income countries would gain access to basic drinking water, 12.6 million would gain access to basic sanitation, and 1.2 million children could attend school for an extra year.
A Treasury spokesperson said the government “did not recognise” the £152bn tax loss each year.
They said the British overseas territories and crown dependencies were self-governing, “meaning locally elected leaders have the right to set their own policies to support their economies, within international standards”.
It added: “The UK has led international tax reform, which includes improving tax transparency so countries can find hidden incomes and assets, and by implementing the global minimum corporate tax, ensuring large multinational groups pay the right tax in the right place.”
Airman Jack Teixeira’s unit is part of a vast system that carries video and data from spy satellites and drone missions worldwide.
WASHINGTON — On an Air National Guard base in Cape Cod, Mass., more than 1,200 military service members and civilians maintain one of the largest support systems for Pentagon drone missions around the world.
Why such a young junior-ranking service member on Cape Cod had access to sensitive intelligence, including battlefield updates on the war in Ukraine, has to do with the vast expansion in military drone operations in the post-9/11 wars that was made possible by better satellite communication networks. It is also the result of a drastic reorganization in the Air National Guard that left small, far-flung air bases in need of new responsibilities. The one on Cape Cod and many others became intelligence outfits.
His arrest and subsequent Justice Department disclosures shined a light on a little-known Air Force mission that began in the 1990s and grew rapidly, eventually spreading to the base on Cape Cod. Called the Distributed Common Ground System, it is a vast computer network that handles the immense amounts of data generated by surveillance drones, spy satellites and other sensors — information that intelligence analysts pore through and pass along to troops on the ground.
Usually referred to as D.C.G.S., it carries top-secret information, and working on it requires an equivalent security clearance.
The system is now a worldwide network, but according to the Air Force, it started small at just three Air Force bases — Langley in Virginia, Beale in California and Osan in South Korea — and expanded in the early 2000s as the U.S. military placed more communication satellites in space and demand for airborne surveillance surged.
In 2001, according to Pentagon leadership, the U.S. military had about 200 drones in service. In the years that followed, commanders in Afghanistan and later in Iraq wanted more of them. Many more.
The network soon expanded to two more bases: Ramstein, in Germany, in early 2003 and Hickam, in Honolulu, in late 2004, Air Force documents say.
According to two retired Air Force intelligence officers with direct experience in the system, a key decision by Congress at that time freed up a large labor pool to serve at new sites.
In 2005, the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure commission made recommendations that affected most of the Air National Guard’s aviation units, with 14 of them losing their flying mission, the Government Accountability Office reported. The move left thousands of air guardsmen without jobs, the officers said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of their continuing work for companies that do business with the federal government.
Men and women from that Air National Guard wing and other former flying units began training to work on the Distributed Common Ground System, learning to run its computers and analyze intelligence from spy planes and the ever-increasing numbers of drones flying in combat missions overseas, the retired officers said.
In a speech to the Air War College in 2008, Robert M. Gates, then the secretary of defense, said the number of unmanned aircraft in service with the U.S. military had increased to more than 5,000.
Stations for the network were soon established at Air National Guard bases in Indiana and at Otis, where Jack Teixeira’s stepfather made the transition from the 102nd Fighter Wing to a post at the newly christened 102nd Intelligence Wing.
Today, there are 27 D.C.G.S. stations in the United States and two foreign countries, according to Air Force documents. But the original five are the busiest, operating nonstop year-round, the retired officers said. Each of those sites is supported by a corresponding Air National Guard unit.
The unit in Germany is currently in great demand because it serves the U.S. European Command, and, by extension, America’s support of Ukraine in its war with Russia. The Ramstein station is backed up by the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Joint Base Cape Cod, the officers said, which is supported by the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron, where Airman Teixeira is stationed.
By 2019, when Airman Teixeira joined the Air National Guard, the U.S. military was operating more than 11,000 drones, according to the Pentagon.
In 2021, his top-secret clearance was approved, Justice Department charging documents said, allowing him entry into the facility, which has an operations floor filled with computer terminals and flat-screen televisions showing live video feeds from classified drone missions. Some sites have operations facilities many thousands of square feet in size, the officers said. Cellphones are not allowed inside.
Small teams of airmen at the units typically talk to pilots flying high-altitude U-2 spy planes and RQ-4 Global Hawks as well as MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators over combat zones.
Airmen like Mr. Teixeira typically fix hardware and software problems and conduct routine maintenance for hours at a time in what is essentially an I.T. support shop while others collect intelligence that they can transmit to ground forces around the world, the officers said.
According to his messages on Discord, Airman Teixeira alternated between working eight-hour shifts five days a week and 12-hour shifts for three or four days at a time followed by three or four days off.
How the intelligence reports were allegedly removed from secure spaces remains unclear.
The Air Force announced on April 18 that it had temporarily shut down the 102nd Intelligence Wing’s missions, which have been transferred to “other organizations” in the service.
In the most recent fallout, two of Airman Teixeira’s superiors at the wing have been suspended pending the completion of an internal investigation by the Air Force inspector general, the service said.
Their access to classified information has been temporarily blocked, a spokeswoman added.
Airman Jack Teixeira’s unit is part of a vast system that carries video and data from spy satellites and drone missions worldwide.
WASHINGTON — On an Air National Guard base in Cape Code, Mass., more than 1,200 military service members and civilians maintain one of the largest support systems for Pentagon drone missions around the world.
Why such a young junior-ranking service member on Cape Cod had access to sensitive intelligence, including battlefield updates on the war in Ukraine, has to do with the massive expansion in military drone operations in the post-9/11 wars that was made possible by better satellite communication networks. It is also the result of a dramatic reorganization in the Air National Guard nearly two decades ago that left small, far-flung air bases in need of new responsibilities. The one on Cape Cod and many others became intelligence outfits.
His arrest and subsequent Justice Department disclosures shined a light on a little-known Air Force mission that began in the 1990s and grew rapidly, eventually spreading to the base on Cape Cod. Called the Distributed Common Ground System, it is a vast computer network that handles the immense amounts of data generated by surveillance drones, spy satellites and other sensors — information that intelligence analysts pore through and pass along to troops on the ground.
Usually referred to as D.C.G.S., it carries top-secret information, and working on it requires an equivalent security clearance.
The system is now a worldwide network, but according to the Air Force it started small in the mid-1990s at just three Air Force bases — Langley in Virginia, Beale in California and Osan in South Korea — and expanded in the early 2000s as the U.S. military placed more communication satellites in space and demand for airborne surveillance surged.
In 2001, according to Pentagon leadership, the U.S. military had about 200 drones in service. In the years that followed, commanders in Afghanistan and later in Iraq wanted more of them. Many more.
The network soon expanded to two more bases: Ramstein, in Germany, in early 2003 and Hickam, in Honolulu, in late 2004, Air Force documents say.
According to two retired Air Force intelligence officers with direct experience in the system, a key decision by Congress at that time freed up a large labor pool to serve at new sites.
In 2005, the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure commission made recommendations that affected most of the Air National Guard’s aviation units, with 14 of them losing their flying mission, the Government Accountability Office reported. The move left thousands of air guardsmen without jobs, the officers said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of their continuing work for companies that do business with the federal government.
Men and women from that Air National Guard wing and other former flying units began training to work on the Distributed Common Ground System, learning to run its computers and analyze intelligence from spy planes and the ever-increasing numbers of drones flying in combat missions overseas, the retired officers said.
In a speech to the Air War College in 2008, Robert M. Gates, then the secretary of defense, said the number of unmanned aircraft in service with the U.S. military had increased to more than 5,000.
Stations for the network were soon established at Air National Guard bases in Indiana and at Otis, where Jack Teixeira’s stepfather made the transition from the 102nd Fighter Wing to a post at the newly christened 102nd Intelligence Wing.
Today, there are 27 D.C.G.S. stations in the United States and two foreign countries, according to Air Force documents. But the original five are the busiest, operating nonstop year-round, the retired officers said. Each of those sites is supported by a corresponding Air National Guard unit.
The unit in Germany is currently in great demand because it serves the U.S. European Command, and, by extension, America’s support of Ukraine in its war with Russia. The Ramstein station is backed up by the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Joint Base Cape Cod, the officers said, which is supported by the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron, where Airman Teixeira is stationed.
By 2019, when Airman Teixeira joined the Air National Guard, the U.S. military was operating more than 11,000 drones, according to the Pentagon.
In 2021, his top-secret clearance was approved, Justice Department charging documents said, allowing him entry into the facility, which has an operations floor filled with computer terminals and flat-screen televisions showing live video feeds from classified drone missions. Some sites have operations facilities many thousands of square feet in size, the officers said. Cellphones are not allowed inside.
Small teams of airmen at the units typically talk to pilots flying high-altitude U-2 spy planes and RQ-4 Global Hawks as well as MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators over combat zones.
Airmen like Mr. Teixeira typically fix hardware and software problems and conduct routine maintenance for hours at a time in what is essentially an I.T. support shop while others collect intelligence that they can transmit to ground forces around the world, the officers said.
According to his messages on Discord, Airman Teixeira alternated between working eight-hour shifts five days a week and 12-hour shifts for three or four days at a time followed by three or four days off.
How the intelligence reports were allegedly removed from secure spaces remains unclear.
The Air Force announced on April 18 that it had temporarily shut down the 102nd Intelligence Wing’s missions, which have been transferred to “other organizations” within the service.
In the most recent fallout, two of Airman Teixeira’s superiors at the wing have been suspended pending the completion of an internal investigation by the Air Force inspector general, the service said on Thursday.
Their access to classified information has been temporarily blocked, a spokeswoman added.
Mark DeRosa, the 16-year big leaguer and current MLB Network analyst, had the temerity to list his top five teams in baseball and not include the Astros. Astros fans did not take it well, especially after their team took two out of three from the Blue Jays, then went on the road and swept the Braves and won a series against the Rays.
At ease, Astros fans. DeRosa — who says he even got yelled at by his wife Heidi, who grew up in Houston — has made a public apology, and he did it live on MLB Network’s MLB Central with hosts Lauren Shehadi and Robert Flores, another Houston native, egging him on.
“Let’s start with: I’m sorry Yordan Alvarez and Alex Bregman,” DeRosa said on the show. “I forgot that you guys play in the postseason and World Series every year, are unfazed, that Yordan is one of the best players in the game and Alex Bregman has been one of the best players in the game for an extended period of time.”
He then turned his attention to Kyle Tucker, who DeRosa worked with as manager of Team USA in this year’s World Baseball Classic.
“I’m sorry, Kyle Tucker,” DeRosa said. “Me and you, we bonded. We had it. Team USA. USA! Let’s get into it a little bit. I apologize. I forgot that you were going to carry the offensive load with Yordan Alvarez while everyone was nicked up. That you play Gold Glove D. That you got no pulse. That you just show up, ice water in his veins and you spit on anything close.”
Then, it was the starting rotation’s turn, including Luis Garcia and Hunter Brown, who each didn't allow a run in their starts against the Rays.
“You know who I’m sorry to? The starting rotation,” he said. “Framber (Valdez), I apologize. Hunter Brown, I’m sorry, alright? Luis Garcia with the beads on the back end of the dreads. How dare I? Cristian Javier is punching tickets left and right. He’s 2-0 with a 3.21 in five starts. Luis Garcia is 2-0 in 13 scoreless innings over his last two starts. And Hunter Brown? Justin Verlander walks out the door and we’ve got the little mini version coming through. (Rays three-hole hitter) Randy Arozarena, all he could do is smile last night. This stuff is electric. The ability to spin a baseball down and away and then oops, I’ll run 96 up under your chin just to keep you honest. The starting rotation is stout and I apologize. They have a 2.87 ERA over their last 11 starts. They’ve stared what I consider the best two teams in baseball in the face and beat them up.”
Finally, the bullpen — including Ryan Pressly, who also was on Team USA — and guys like Mauricio Dubón and Corey Julks got some attention.
“I’m sorry battle-tested bullpen. Ryan Pressly, how dare I?,” he said. “You are the guy I handed the ball to and you’d ask me every day when I saw you, ‘You nervous, Skip?’ You’re damn right I’m nervous, but it will be up to you. I’ll feel better when guys like Bryan Abreu, Hector Neris, Ryan Pressly, Stanek, the whole lot of them. They seem unfazed. Rafael Montero.
“Hey, hold on a second. Mauricio Dubón. Did I know you were going to turn into Jose Altuve in his absence? I did not. I’m sorry. Corey Julks? You look like I do not want to run into you in a dark alley. You look ready to roll and you’ve had some big hits this year and have helped this team. Twenty-game hitting streak for Mauricio Dubón, how can we deny it?. Hitting .341 this season. Corey Julks? .299, two homers, 8 RBIs in 19 games.
Enlarge/ No, not Radiator Springs, but a rendering of Greenlane's electric truck stop.
Greenlane
There's a new fast-charging network coming to North America. It's called Greenlane, and it's a $650 million joint venture between Daimler, NextEra Energy Resources, and a BlackRock investment fund. But it's unlikely you'll recharge your passenger EV at a Greenlane site any time soon—this new network is being designed specifically for medium- and heavy-duty commercial EVs.
You'd be forgiven for not noticing the expansion of the nation's public charging infrastructure. Unlike gas stations, charging sites don't announce their presence with a 50-foot illuminated sign—you often need an app to know exactly where they all are—but they're building out to the point where much more long-distance driving is possible on electric power than the EV-curious might think (or worse, than the EV skeptic might claim).
But this public infrastructure is almost entirely designed for light-duty vehicles—sedans, crossovers, SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks. The charging spaces are light-vehicle-sized, and the sites are designed to work with vehicles of that size, not several classes higher.
This is less of a problem for vehicle fleets that set off and return to the same place after each shift. Whether it's FedEx or UPS or the USPS with electric delivery vans or a local municipality that has purchased a fleet of electric buses, those just need to be plugged in once they're done for the day, and they'll be ready to start the next day with a full battery.
But longer-haul trips by electric tractor-trailers will require recharging along the route. And even with the best will in the world, you're unlikely to fit an eCascadia class 8 truck into an Electrify America or Tesla Supercharger stall—at least, not in a way that would get you invited back again.
Based on the company's renderings, Greenlane's sites will be much more comfortable for big rigs. The first of these sites will be in Southern California, and Greenlane says it will build out a network along critical freight routes on the East and West Coasts, as well as in Texas. To begin with, the company will focus on commercial EV recharging, but refueling infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell EVs will follow. In time, Greenlane plans to add chargers for passenger (or light-duty) EVs.
"Greenlane is designed to begin to tackle one of the greatest hurdles to the trucking industry's decarbonization—infrastructure," said John O'Leary, Daimler Trucks North America's president and CEO.
"The nation's fleets can only transform with the critical catalyst of publicly accessible charging designed to meet the needs for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Together with our strong partners, BlackRock and NextEra Energy Resources, we are launching Greenlane to address the unique demands of the industry, support our mutual customers, and provide a dual benefit to all electric vehicle drivers who will be able to utilize this new network. We’re excited to take this next step and look forward to sharing more of Greenlane’s plans in the future," O'Leary said.
The NFL Draft has finally arrived, and 2023 is promising to be one of the most unpredictable classes we’ve ever seen. There could be unprecedented pick movement and some of the wildest trades imaginable, with no consensuses at seemingly every position, paired with teams being very concerned about the top-end talent in this draft class. In short: If you’re a football fan then this is the year to watch live.
From top to bottom it’s not that the 2023 class is “bad” per se, but rather than there’s a small handful of really good players, then an open sea of good ones. In recent days we’ve heard that teams might only have 15 first round grades in this draft, which theoretically means that if you’re picking later in the first round you’re unlikely to find value. This opens up a lot of opportunities for teams to jockey for position in trades, trying to give up as little as possible to get one of their top graded players — while others might attempt to game the system a move back, hoping one of their coveted players fall.
The biggest storylines in this draft start with the quarterbacks. There are pros and cons to each of the top four QBs in this year’s class, with Bryce Young and C.J. Stoud representing the most NFL-ready passers, while Will Levis and Anthony Richardson have bigger question marks, but more upside. This has left us with no clear path in what order they could be selected, though it’s widely assumed the Carolina Panthers will select Bryce Young with the 1st overall pick after trading up with the Chicago Bears.
Defense is a lot more interesting. There are some serious heavy-hitters like unicorn DT Jalen Carter out of Georgia, as well as EDGE rushers Will Anderson and Tyree Wilson, but nobody can really agree how these guys slot in either.
It will be fascinating to see where Texas RB Bijan Robinson goes in the draft. In isolation Robinson is one of the best players in the 2023 class, but running back is such a de-emphasized position in the NFL right now that there’s a very real chance he could fall into the 20s. There’s also equal chance someone in the Top 10 doesn’t care about position and sees him as the best player on the board, taking him anyway. There’s just so much unknown about how his draft night will go.
One position to watch is tight end. While it might not be the highest priority for most teams, the 2023 class of TEs is the best we’ve seen in over a decade. As many as six of seven tight ends could be taken in the first three rounds, with a chance of 2-3 going in the first round alone. This class will make history for the number of high picks, and there’s value EVERYWHERE.
Like always, the NFL Draft is the second-biggest day in pro football after the Super Bowl. To complement this is a stunning array of ways to watch, whether you have cable, streaming, or ever use over-the-air methods to watch local programming. Hell, even if you don’t have a screen in front of you there are myriad ways to listen.
The format isn’t changing in 2023. On Thursday night we’ll have the first round, followed by rounds two and three on Friday night, followed by the marathon on Saturday, which will cover rounds four through seven. Once again we’ll also have split broadcasts for the first three rounds, with unique desks on ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network covering the draft.
TV/Streaming schedule for the 2023 NFL Draft
Thursday, April 27 (Round 1): 8 p.m. ET live on ABC, ESPN, and NFL Network
Friday, April 28 (Round 2 and 3): 7 p.m. ET live on ABC, ESPN, and NFL Network
Saturday, April 29 (Rounds 4-7): 12 p.m. ET live on ABC/ESPN (simulcast) and NFL Network
In addition the NFL Draft can be streamed on ESPN+, NFL+, as well as ESPN.com and NFL.com.
Who are this year’s broadcast teams and which should I watch?
ABC: Todd McShay, Kirk Herbsteit, Desmond Howard, Robert Griffin III, Rece Davis, Sam Ponder, Laura Rutledge, Pete Thamel, and David Pollack (2nd round)
ESPN: Mel Kiper Jr, Booger McFarland, Louis Riddick, Mike Greenberg, Suzy Kolber, Adam Schefter, and Chris Mortensen
NFL Network: Rich Eisen, Daniel Jeremiah, Charles Davis, Ian Rapoport, Joel Klatt, Kurt Warner, Melissa Stark, and Peter Schrager (2nd round)
In terms of who to watch, it’s really a sliding scale of how deep into football you are. ABC will present the most approachable broadcast for everyone. The ESPN team will definitely be more granular than that, appealing more to football fans. The team on NFL Network has more deep cuts and college football experts, which in turn will provide the most information — while also being the most bland.
Radio schedule
SiriusXM NFL Radio (Rounds 1-7), Westwood One Sports (Round 1) and ESPN Radio (Rounds 1-7).
Surge in adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization (NV) technologies is anticipated to bolster market outlook
Wilmington, Delaware, United States, April 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transparency Market Research Inc. - Network function virtualization (NFV) enables the deployment of network functions as software applications, thereby enabling a flexible and agile network infrastructure. Network operators leverage NFV to scale network resources and services to meet changing demand, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency.
Surge in usage of NFV to deploy new network services on-demand is likely to propel the global network function virtualization (NFV) market. The market stood at US$ 12.2 Bn in 2022 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 39.7% from 2023 to 2031 and reach US$ 241.5Bn by the end of 2031.
Network virtualization (NV) technologies enable companies to deliver programmable and scalable network services to meet the customer needs. Key benefits of NFV approach include improved resource allocation through dynamic provisioning, network orchestration, easier network upgrades, and reduced OPEX and CAPEX.
Recent market trends indicate a shift of telecommunication companies to adopt edge networks in a bid to explore new revenue streams. Rise in adoption of edge computing services is therefore likely to positively influence the network function virtualization (NFV) market outlook in the next few years.
Rise in Usage of Scalable Network Services to Bolster Market Growth: Increasing trend of usage of scalable network services among customers is anticipated to propel usage of network function virtualization (NFV). Cloud and virtualization technologies enable deployment of new network services cost-effectively and faster, making their customers more agile. A case in point is significant adoption of NFV for wireless telecommunications technology.
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) & Network Virtualization (NV) to Gain Traction: Rise in adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) among enterprises and service providers is likely to augment the network function virtualization (NFV) market size. Demand for NFV to automate the security of the cloud infrastructure is expected to offer significant business opportunities to companies in the market.
The implementation of 5G and next-gen mobile networks through network function virtualization is poised to accelerate market development. The need for high operational agility in 5G network implementation is likely to bolster the usage of software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization (NV) technologies.
Key Drivers
High demand among network service providers to automate the management and orchestration of network, storage, and compute resources is a key driver of the global network function virtualization (NFV) market.
NFV enables these (service providers) to scale network functions and applications without the need for a dedicated/propriety hardware, thereby helping them cut down on operational expenses (OPEX) and CAPEX.
High penetration of cloud-based services among enterprises is a key trend likely to propel the network function virtualization (NFV) market
Rise in demand for network virtualization technology to allow cost-effective data connectivity in private network or edge deployments is expected to offer significant opportunities to virtualization technology & solution providers in the next few years.
North America accounted for leading market share in 2022. The trend is anticipated to continue during the forecast period. Presence of several prominent services providers, especially large technology companies in the U.S., is expected to drive the market.
Surge in adoption of IoT, 5G, and edge computing solutions among telecom operators is anticipated to fuel the market during the forecast period.
The market in Asia Pacific is expected to expand at a rapid pace from 2023 to 2031. Expansion of mobile and broadband technologies have fueled market development in the region. Penetration of cloud infrastructure in the region is likely to spur adoption of NFV technology and tools.
Competition Landscape
Cloud computing and virtualization technology and solutions providers are focusing on offering innovative software-defined networking in order to increase revenue in the network function virtualization (NFV) market.
Key players operating in the network function virtualization (NFV) industry are Cisco Systems Inc., VMware, Inc., Red Hat, Ciena, Nutanix, Nokia Corporation, Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Fujitsu, Juniper Networks, Affirmed Networks, Inc., and ZTE Corporation.
Key Points from TOC:
1. Preface
1.1. Market Introduction
1.2. Market Segmentation
1.3. Key Research Objectives
2. Assumptions and Research Methodology
2.1. Research Methodology
2.1.1. List of Primary and Secondary Sources
2.2. Key Assumptions for Data Modelling
3. Executive Summary: Global Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market
4. Market Overview
4.1. Market Definition
4.2. Technology/ Product Roadmap
4.3. Market Factor Analysis
4.3.1. Forecast Factors
4.3.2. Ecosystem/ Value Chain Analysis
4.3.3. Market Dynamics (Growth Influencers)
4.3.3.1. Drivers
4.3.3.2. Restraints
4.3.3.3. Opportunities
4.3.3.4. Impact Analysis of Drivers and Restraints
4.4. COVID-19 Impact Analysis
4.4.1. Impact of COVID-19 on Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market
4.5. Market Opportunity Assessment – by Region (North America/ Europe/ Asia Pacific/ Middle East & Africa/ South America)
4.5.1. By Component
4.5.2. By End-user
5. Global Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market Analysis and Forecast
5.1. Market Revenue Analysis (US$ Mn), 2017-2031
5.1.1. Historic Growth Trends, 2017-2022
5.1.2. Forecast Trends, 2023-2031
6. Global Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market Analysis, by Component
6.1. Overview and Definitions
6.2. Key Segment Analysis
6.3. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market Size (US$ Mn) Forecast, by Component, 2018 - 2031
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market Segmentation
Component
Solutions
Services
End-users
Service Providers
Data Centers
Enterprises
BFSI
Healthcare
Retail
Manufacturing
Government
Others
Regions Covered
North America
South America
Europe
Asia Pacific
Middle East & Africa
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Arista Networks Inc. today announced a new network access control or NAC service on the opening day of this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.
The vendor is best known as a high-performance network vendor but moved into the security industry when it acquired Awake Security, which brought network detection and response or NDR. Since then, the company has added wireless intrusion prevention, edge threat management and other services.
The new NAC service, called Arista Guardian for Network Identity or AGNI ingests real-time telemetry information from Arista’s network products and CloudVision platform and then uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze the information. With the launch of CV AGNI, the Arista network will provide connectivity but will play a role in authenticating devices and users before granting them access to the network.
Enterprise networks have undergone significant changes because of cloud adoption and the shift toward a boundaryless workplace model, particularly after the pandemic. However, existing NAC solutions have largely remained unchanged and haven’t taken advantage of advances in modern technologies, such as the cloud and AI. The modernization of NAC is the market shift Arista is trying to capture as CV AGNI offers a new approach to managing enterprise network identities by infusing AI and machine learning throughout the NAC process, which includes onboarding, troubleshooting and administration.
Arista’s main focus was to create a solution that is scalable, simple to deploy, and easy to operate, said Arista’s Group VP and GM of Cognitive Campus, Pramod Badjate. On the call, he claimed that CV AGNI reduces policy deployment by up to 75% and lessens the complexity associated with traditional on-premises NAC solutions. More specifically, the cloud service enables the onboarding of user devices. It authenticates against multiple cloud-based identity directories. And it integrates with both in-house and third-party platforms.
Given the cloud and AI adds both agility and speed, I would expect the complexity to be greatly reduced, although I have no way of quantifying the 75% estimate. From my conversations with network professionals, there has always been interest in NAC, but the complexity of deployment has created a high barrier to entry. Any simplification should help the adoption of a technology that’s becoming increasingly important because of remote work and the internet of things.
“The problem that we’re trying to solve with this new solution is the complexity of deployments due to having virtual machines or appliances that have to be scaled out,” said Badjate. “The feedback we got from many of our customers is that once they got their NAC deployment, it took a long time to get it right. Once they got it right, they were afraid to touch it and add any new security policies because it can be brittle and break. That’s just the nature of legacy NAC deployments and the complexities associated with current products.”
Arista is heavily focused on cloud and data center solutions, having made significant investments in the enterprise sector. Recent developments include the introduction of Extensible Operating System router instances and extending the Pathfinder service to CloudVision for wide-area network provisioning — both catering to enterprise needs. EOS is a modular, Linux-based network operating system developed by Arista. It’s designed to run on Arista’s network switches and routers. When combined with CloudVision, it provides centralized management, automation, and analytics for Arista network infrastructures.
CV AGNI integrates with Cloud Vision and leverages Arista’s network data lake architecture to create a complete identity cloud service. Its features include the ability to connect users to wireless networks with unique keys and digital certificates; simplified certificate management in the cloud; a single view of all the devices connected to the network, organized into groups for easier control; and enhanced security for controlling access between and within groups when used with Arista networking tools.
One unique feature of CV AGNI is the “Ask AVA,” which allows users to configure, troubleshoot, and analyze security policies and device onboarding through a chatlike AI-enabled decision support system. AVA is a conversational user interface that stands for autonomous virtual assist. It employs natural language processing to simplify the troubleshooting process by helping users identify and resolve network connectivity issues.
Additionally, CV AGNI is designed to work with multiple third-party platforms — including endpoint management tools such as Medigate by Claroty, CrowdStrike XDR and Palo Alto Cortex XDR — for securing and managing devices. It also works with management providers such as Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft Azure, Ping Identity and OneLogin for user access and authentication, as well as Microsoft Intune and JAMF for mobile device management.
CV AGNI supports various networking devices and interoperates with multiple vendors to ensure that it’s versatile enough for a wide range of enterprise environments, said Jeff Raymond, Arista’s vice president of EOS product management and services. Raymond said Arista has a growing vertical install base, which shows the vendor’s traction in the market. For example, Arista customer Baptist Health sees CV AGNI addressing security and management problems that IT currently faces with its healthcare network, particularly related to onboarding devices and third-party integrations for device profiling.
Without divulging specific future plans, Raymond said the vendor’s goal is to make the network central to enforcing enterprise security policies and ensuring consistency across the network. In the meantime, Arista is currently trialing CV AGNI, with general availability expected in the second quarter of 2023.
Arista’s pivot from being a webscale-only company to one that’s now able to serve the needs of the enterprise has been interesting to watch. When Arista first discussed its enterprise ambitions with me, I was skeptical as to whether the company would be successful. Other high-performance brands, such as Foundry and Force10 struggled to gain enterprise relevancy, but Arista has bucked this trend. The main difference is that it never left its swim lane of performance and simplicity, something webscale demanded and it has methodically moved into different enterprise markets – data center, campus, wireless, WAN — and now it’s growing its security portfolio.
Zeus Kerravala is a principal analyst at ZK Research, a division of Kerravala Consulting. He wrote this article for SiliconANGLE.
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Of note, Jeremiah projected the Houston Texans to select Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud at No. 2 overall before moving up from No. 12 to No. 3 with the Arizona Cardinals for Alabama edge-rusher Will Anderson Jr.
Here's a look at the entire first round of picks alongside some notes on the selections.
Daniel Jeremiah Mock Draft 4.0
1. Carolina Panthers: Alabama QB Bryce Young
2. Houston Texans: Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud
3. Houston Texans (after projected trade with Arizona Cardinals): Alabama EDGE Will Anderson Jr.
4. Indianapolis Colts: Kentucky QB Will Levis
5. Seattle Seahawks: Georgia DT Jalen Carter
6. Detroit Lions: Illinois CB Devon Witherspoon
7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oregon CB Christian Gonzalez
8. Atlanta Falcons: Texas RB Bijan Robinson
9. Chicago Bears: Texas Tech EDGE Tyree Wilson
10. Philadelphia Eagles: Georgia EDGE Nolan Smith
11. Tennessee Titans: Boston College WR Zay Flowers
12. Arizona Cardinals (after projected trade with Houston Texans): Ohio State OT Paris Johnson Jr.
13. Green Bay Packers: Utah TE Dalton Kincaid
14. New England Patriots: Iowa EDGE Lukas Van Ness
15. New York Jets: Northwestern OL Peter Skoronski
16. Washington Commanders: Mississippi State CB Emmanuel Forbes
17. Pittsburgh Steelers: Georgia OT Broderick Joness
18. Detroit Lions: Pitt DT Calijah Kancey
19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Ohio State WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba
20. Seattle Seahawks: Florida QB Anthony Richardson
21. Los Angeles Chargers: Notre Dame TE Michael Mayer
22. Baltimore Ravens: Maryland CB Deonte Banks
23. Minnesota Vikings: USC WR Jordan Addison
24. Jacksonville Jaguars: Penn State CB Joey Porter Jr.
31. Kansas City Chiefs: Tennessee OT Darnell Wright
Texans Get QB and Top Defensive Player
The common refrain leading into the first round of this year's draft has been that the action will start at No. 2 with Alabama's Bryce Young widely assumed to go No. 1 to the Carolina Panthers.
The Texans need a long-term solution at quarterback and some defensive help as well. In this case, Jeremiah sees the Texans dealing No. 12, a second-rounder, a third-rounder and a 2024 third-rounder to the Cardinals to move up nine spots.
EDGE and CB Dominate Round 1
Jeremiah sees five edge-rushers going in Round 1, including three in the top 10 led by Anderson to the Texans at No. 3. He also has six cornerbacks going in the top 25, with two in the top seven.
It's abundantly clear which defensive positions are valued the most in today's pass-happy NFL as evidenced by this mock. We could even see some of these players going earlier. For example, it's very possible that Texas Tech edge-rusher Tyree Wilson, who Jeremiah has going to the Chicago Bears at No. 9, slots as high as No. 2 to Houston. Peter Schrager of Fox Sports notably has Wilson ending up with the Texans.
Anthony Richardson Falls to No. 20
A core four of quarterbacks separated itself from the pack this year in Young, Stroud, Kentucky's Will Levis and Florida's Anthony Richardson. Many mocks have that quartet going in the top 10.
In this case, though, we see Richardson sliding all the way down to No. 20 to the Seattle Seahawks, who would presumably have him back up veteran Geno Smith before he's ready to take over someday. Still, it's interesting to note that numerous teams potentially in need of a quarterback (e.g., the Atlanta Falcons, the Tennessee Titans) passed on Richardson here.
Brian Baldinger is all football, all the time. The former Eagle and current NFL Network analyst knows the game, breathes the game, thinks the game. More than anything else, Baldinger actually works, breaks down film and gets out to see as many college games as he does pro games, unlike many so-called draft experts claim to do this time of year.
So, when “Baldy” speaks, people tend to lean in and listen.
He recently looked at what the Eagles could possibly do with their No. 10 and No. 30 picks in the upcoming NFL Draft with BGN. This is how Baldy broke it down when asked what he would do in Howie Roseman’s position when the clock is ticking for real on Thursday night.
“What I would do is take Bijan Robinson at 10, and I’m not in love with Bijan or taking a running back that high, because I think he’ll be there at 10, and take (Florida 6-foot-5, 330-pound offensive guard) O’Cyrus Torrence at 30 and put him between (center Jason) Kelce and (right tackle) Lane Johnson,” he said. “I would keep that offense humming. I would keep that offense scoring 28, 30 points a game with their $51-million-dollar quarterback and no break down with the offensive line. O’Cyrus is a good player. Lane wants to play next to a big guy like (former Eagle Brandon) Brooks and (Isaac) Seumalo. He doesn’t want to play next to (Cam) Jurgens, a 300-pound center. They’re not going to get any movement.
“I feel if you took Bijan and O’Cyrus, provided O’Cyrus is there, he may not be, those are two positions of need. The Eagles have Rashaad Penny, and Boston Scott, and Kenneth Gainwell, for whatever roles that you want to use them in, and you keep the offense scoring. You address everything else (in the draft) on defense. I know the Eagles don’t have a lot of picks (six total, two first-round, a second, a third and two seventh-round picks). Seumalo is much better than people gave him credit for. He didn’t make mental errors. He comes from a football family. He had less than five penalties last year.
“The Eagles couldn’t afford him. He played between 330-335 pounds, and you never had to worry about the guy. And he was large. Jurgens isn’t 310. He’s a pumped up 300. He’s purely a center. Lane and Kelce know that better than anyone.”
For those who don’t value running back, Baldinger points out that New York Jets’ rookie running back Breece Hall was in the MVP discussion last year until he blew out his ACL in Week 7 at Denver. The Jets were 5-2 when Hall went down. They won two games the rest of the season. Even though Hall missed the last 10 games, he still finished as the Jets leading rusher with 463 rushing yards on 80 carriers and had 218 yards on 19 pass receptions—and led the Jets with 5 touchdowns in an offense run by Zach Wilson.
Now imagine a player of Hall’s caliber in Bijan Robinson playing behind a quarterback like Jalen Hurts.
“There is only a couple Emmitt Smiths, or LaDainian Tomlinsons, or Nick Chubbs, who got hurt in college, that are out there who go throughout a season without getting hurt,” Baldinger said. “Elite running backs all miss games. Aaron Jones is an unbelievable player, though for how good he is, you better have a complimentary back with him. That’s the first thing.
“Watching Bijan, the two best teams he played against were Alabama and TCU. He ran 33 times for 86 yards. He is a generational back, but I played with generational backs like Tony Dorsett and Eric Dickerson. They made yards when I missed my block. To me, Bijan has those big plays, he’s out there on the perimeter and makes big plays that make up for all of the negative runs. I don’t see him bouncing off people the way I see Nick Chubb bounces off people. I don’t see the contact bounces. I see him going down. With that being said, I do recognize the breakaway speed. He doesn’t do a whole lot better than I see Breece Hall. Bijan could be Ezekiel Elliott back there. He will have big days for the next couple of years behind that Eagles’ offensive line.
“The Eagles just made this investment with Jalen. I love Jalen. The Eagles must give him the most help possible. The Eagles’ defense will slip with who they lost, but they should keep the offense as strong as possible.”
When asked (by me at the Maxwell Awards dinner in March) who the toughest player he faced last season, Alabama’s Will Anderson said “Bijan Robinson.”
“He blocks, he runs, we had to get as many hats on him as we could to take him down,” Anderson said, “and a tough guy to get around, too.”
Baldy does like Robinson’s versatility. “He has great hands,” he said. “He’s a good kid, you don’t have to worry about Bijan. Nolan Smith could be there at 10, and he’s the same guy the Eagles have on the edge in Haason Reddick. Knowing Howie and how he thinks, I feel he’s going to take Bijan and depart from what he normally does, which would be to take someone like Nolan Smith there.”
Joseph Santoliquito is an award-winning sportswriter based in the Philadelphia area who has written feature stories for SI.com, ESPN.com, NFL.com, MLB.com, Deadspin and The Philadelphia Daily News. In 2006, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for a special project piece for ESPN.com called “Love at First Beep.” He is most noted for his award-winning ESPN.com feature on high school wrestler A.J. Detwiler in February 2006, which appeared on SportsCenter. In 2015, he was elected president of the Boxing Writers Association of America.
The host’s abrupt dismissal upends Fox News’s prime-time lineup — and the carefully honed impression that the ratings star was all but untouchable.
In the days after the 2020 election, the Fox host Tucker Carlson sent an anxious text message to one of his producers. Fox viewers were furious about the network’s decision to call Arizona for Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The defeated president, Donald J. Trump, was eagerly stoking their anger. As Mr. Carlson and his producer batted around ideas for a new Carlson podcast — one that might help win back the audience most angry about Mr. Trump’s defeat — they saw both opportunity and peril in the moment.
“He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong,” Mr. Carlson warned, in a text released during Fox’s now-settled litigation with the voting software company Dominion.
Mr. Carlson proved prophetic, if not entirely in the way he had predicted. His nearly six-year reign in prime-time cable came to a sudden end on Monday, as Fox abruptly cut ties with the host, thanking him in a terse news release “for his service to the network.”
And while the exact circumstances of his departure remained hazy on Monday evening, the dismissal comes amid a series of high-stakes — and already high-priced — legal battles emanating from Fox’s postelection campaign to placate Mr. Trump’s base and win back viewers who believed that his defeat was a sham.
Mr. Carlson’s departure upended Fox’s lucrative prime-time lineup and shocked a media world far more accustomed to his remarkable staying power. Over his years at Fox, the host had proved capable of withstanding controversy after controversy.
The network stuck by him — as did Lachlan Murdoch, chief executive of the Fox Corporation — after Mr. Carlson claimed that immigration had made America “poor and dirtier.” He seemed to shrug off his on-air popularization of a racist conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement,” along with revelations that he was a prodigious airer of the company’s own dirty laundry. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr. Carlson’s show frequently promoted the Kremlin’s point of view, attacking U.S. sanctions and blaming the conflict on American designs for expanding NATO.
The drought of premium advertisers on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” — driven away by boycotts targeting his more racist and inflammatory segments — did not seem to dent his standing within the network, so long as the audience stuck around. Disdainful of the cable network’s top executives, Mr. Carlson cultivated the impression that he was close to the Murdoch family and, perhaps, untouchable.
Mr. Carlson’s rise as a populist pundit and media figure prefigured Mr. Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party: His own conversion from bow-tied libertarian to vengeful populist traced the nativist insurgency that fractured and remade the party during the Obama years. But he prospered in tandem with Mr. Trump’s presidency, as the New York real estate tycoon made frank nativism and seething cultural resentment the primary touchstones of conservative politics.
Despite his private disparagement of Mr. Trump — “I hate him,” Mr. Carlson texted a colleague in January 2021 — Mr. Carlson electrified the president’s white, older base with vivid monologues about elite corruption, American decay and a grand plan by “the ruling class” to replace “legacy” Americans with a flood of migrants from other countries and cultures. With deliberate, hypnotic repetition, he warned viewers: “They” want to control and destroy “you.”
Crucially, he worked to help Fox woo Trump supporters back to the network in the wake of Mr. Trump’s defeat.
In 2022, Mr. Carlson’s program averaged three million total viewers a night.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
In broadcast after broadcast, he unspooled a counternarrative claiming falsely that the election had been “seized from the hands of voters” and suggesting that the voting had been rife with fraud and corruption. After Trump supporters — whipped into a frenzy in part by Mr. Trump and Fox — stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, he recast the assault as a largely peaceful protest against legitimate wrongdoing, its violence the product of a false-flag operation orchestrated by the F.B.I.
As a programming strategy, it worked: Last year, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” averaged more than three million total viewers a night. At his height, and perhaps still, Mr. Carlson counted among the most influential figures on the right.
But if Fox and its star host once prospered because of Mr. Trump, their efforts to deny or overturn the election results have also thrust both the network and the former president into legal peril.
Mr. Trump faces one investigation by a federal special counsel over his efforts to retain power after losing and another by a local prosecutor in Georgia that began after the defeated president, determined to prevail, asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn the election results there.
A lawyer for Dominion Voting Systems speaking to reporters last week. Fox has agreed to pay the voting software company $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit.Pete Marovich for The New York Times
Fox agreed last week to pay three-quarters of a billion dollars to settle a defamation claim brought by Dominion, which had sued Fox for spreading false accusations that the voting software company was at the center of a vast conspiracy to cheat Mr. Trump of victory in 2020.
Mr. Carlson and his show featured prominently in the Dominion case. And thousands of pages of internal texts and emails released as part of the suit revealed that the network’s embrace of election-fraud theories — and their promotion by guests and personalities at Fox News and Fox Business — were part of a broader campaign to assuage viewers angry about Mr. Trump’s loss.
They also revealed that neither Mr. Carlson nor his fellow hosts truly believed that the election was rigged, despite their on-air commentary. And texts showed that Mr. Carlson held Fox’s titular executives in low regard, slamming them for “destroying our credibility” — for allowing Fox to accurately report Mr. Biden’s win — and belittling them as a “combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride to back down.”
Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer, is also suing the network.Desiree Rios/The New York Times
The company is also facing a lawsuit from a former Carlson producer, Abby Grossberg, who said that she faced sexual harassment from other Carlson staff members and was coached by Fox lawyers to downplay the role of news executives in allowing unproven allegations of voting fraud onto the air.
Yet another election technology company that featured in Fox’s coverage of supposed election fraud, Smartmatic, is still suing the network. In its complaint, Smartmatic said that Fox knowingly aired more than 100 false statements about its products. A day after the suit was filed in 2021, Fox Business canceled the show hosted by Lou Dobbs, who had been among the foremost spreaders of baseless theories involving election fraud.
In the wake of Mr. Carlson’s abrupt dismissal, current and former Fox employees buzzed with speculation about the true reasons for his firing, and what it said about the company plans moving forward.
Few seemed to believe that Mr. Carlson was being punished for his lengthy history of inflammatory remarks on-air — if so, why now? — or for his formerly private criticisms of Fox executives. (Some pointed out that his fellow prime-time hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham were similarly scathing in their own text messages.)
A more interesting question, perhaps, is what Mr. Carlson will do next.
Like his clearest intellectual predecessor, the commentator and politician Patrick J. Buchanan, Mr. Carlson is one of the few people to find success as not only a television entertainer, but also an institution-builder — he co-founded the pioneering right-wing tabloid The Daily Caller — and a movement leader. More than any other figure with a mainstream platform, he succeeded in bring far-right ideas about immigration and culture to a broad audience.
He is also, now, among the very few television talents to have been canceled by all three major cable news networks. Before Fox, he had a long run as a co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire,” and later headlined a show at MSNBC. In recent years, he served as both a pillar of Fox News’s prime-time lineup and the biggest-name draw on the company’s paid streaming network, Fox Nation, where he aired a thrice-weekly talk show and occasional documentaries.
Within hours of his firing on Monday, at least one putative job offer was forthcoming.
“Hey @TuckerCarlson,” tweeted RT, the Russian state-backed media channel. “You can always question more with @RT_com.”
