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Network-as-a-Service: Creating values for all parties

With COVID-19 forcing the majority of staff in many companies to work remotely for months on end, there is huge pressure on IT and network professionals to assure all corporate business and collaboration applications run as they should to meet employee and customer needs and expectations. Embracing digital innovation and leveraging cloud capabilities has become even more critical to address today’s new business demands.
Enterprises are looking to shore up the game by equipping themselves with intelligent, secure and more reliable network connections that meets their requirements. SD-WAN (“software-defined wide area network”) is the leading solution nowadays for this. While enterprises could choose to build their own SD-WAN by combining equipment, software and access technology by themselves, a growing number of organizations are turning to a more flexible and efficient solution: to buy the service from communications service providers (CSPs) as a “network as a service” (NaaS) solution.

• 3 days ago

FCC boosts OpenRAN legitimacy with high profile forum

Ajit Pai and his commissioners hosted an online forum on 5G Open Radio Access Network to promote the technology as an opportunity for American companies to regain leadership in the mobile market.

• 4 days ago

The Sunrise has got its Red Hat on

Swiss MNO Sunrise has picked open-source software specialist Red Hat to build a hybrid cloud-ready platform, to make sure it’s nice and agile.

• 19 Aug 2020

COVID-19: What’s next for the communications industry?

CSPs will continue to play a critical role in supporting governments, consumers, and businesses during the uncertain times ahead as they navigate three waves of impact, the Now, the Next, the Never Normal.

• 10 Aug 2020

Peace breaks out as Amdocs acquires Openet for €180 million

Two years after they concluded their bitterly fought litigation, telecoms software firm Amdocs has buried the hatchet with BSS vendor Openet by buying it.

• 24 Jul 2020

Google chucks more money at India

Less than a year after its last major commitment to the country, internet giant Google has announced it will invest a further $10 billion in over the next few years.

• 13 Jul 2020

How has COVID-19 influenced the telecoms industry so far?

The coronavirus pandemic forced the world into some very dramatic changes, with connectivity critical for continuity; but what are the trends worth keeping an eye on now?

• 09 Jul 2020

Quality is king as network dependency grows

Departing from how previous generations of connectivity were measured, with 5G, quality will be defined by the customer’s business requirements, not the network’s capabilities (or limitations).

• 06 Jul 2020

European MVNO group Lebara picks Openet cloud charging platform

Irish BSS vendor Openet has chalked up a nice win with MVNO Lebara to sort out its charging systems in five European countries, including the UK.

• 29 Jun 2020

A look back at this week’s biggest stories

Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.

• 27 Jun 2020

NTT buys 5% NEC stake to add more momentum to ‘open’ ecosystem

NTT has announced a joint research programme with NEC, while also purchasing a 5% stake in the network infrastructure vendor.

• 26 Jun 2020

For operators who transform, the remedy for revenue is already in sight

How can CSPs continue to evolve and quickly deliver the communication services that enterprises expect while also increasing revenue?

• 23 Jun 2020

A look back at this weeks biggest stories

Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.

• 19 Jun 2020

TM Forum gets a bunch of operators to sign up to its Open Digital Architecture

BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Telenor are among 11 new signatories to a scheme designed to cloudify BSS and OSS and provide standardized, open software components.

• 18 Jun 2020

Microsoft fleshes out its mission to combat COVID-19 impact

Microsoft has not been shy regarding its work to ensure customers can continue to operate through this unforeseen period, and now it has offered more detail.

• 17 Jun 2020

Apple finds itself staring into the eye of a European antitrust storm

Otherwise known as Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition has been making life uncomfortable for Silicon Valley residents, and now its Apple’s turn.

• 16 Jun 2020

Nokia gets in bed with Tencent and Baidu cloud business units

Nokia has announced an expanded relationship with two existing customers, to provide data centre interconnect (DCI) network solutions for expanding cloud computing business units.

• 16 Jun 2020

Reliance Jio finds another two investors for Indian digital mission

Mukesh Ambani is proving to be one of the most popular figures in the telco world as two more investors have bought into the Reliance Jio mission to digitise India.

• 15 Jun 2020

Telstra: COVID-19 is forcing companies to become cloud-first

Cloud computing was a major trend prior to COVID-19, however 93% of IT decision makers are accelerating cloud adoption programmes as a result of the pandemic.

• 15 Jun 2020

France begins 5G catch-up mission with September mid-band auction

French regulator Arcep has confirmed it will auction spectrum licences in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band, finally signalling the beginning of the 5G era in the country.

• 12 Jun 2020