TM Forum and MEF lead by example on collaboration
Two major telecoms industry associations have decided to align their API standards to ensure they remain open and widely interoperable.
Two major telecoms industry associations have decided to align their API standards to ensure they remain open and widely interoperable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two years after they concluded their bitterly fought litigation, telecoms software firm Amdocs has buried the hatchet with BSS vendor Openet by buying it.
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.
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?
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).
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.
Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.
NTT has announced a joint research programme with NEC, while also purchasing a 5% stake in the network infrastructure vendor.
How can CSPs continue to evolve and quickly deliver the communication services that enterprises expect while also increasing revenue?
Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.
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.
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.
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.
Nokia has announced an expanded relationship with two existing customers, to provide data centre interconnect (DCI) network solutions for expanding cloud computing business units.
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.
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.
Nokia chosen to make NetCologne's FTTB network go G.fast-er https://t.co/cKZmIoUE9B #Broadband #Gfast
23 October 2020 @ 11:35:32 UTC
Huawei becomes less transparent as growth slows https://t.co/00YkxP3Env #Corporate #Financialresults
23 October 2020 @ 11:29:32 UTC
TIM's talkin' Italian with new fibre supply deal https://t.co/bN4ijbMRri #Broadband #Fibre
23 October 2020 @ 10:57:02 UTC
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