How to thrive in the Age of The Customer

CSPs face considerable market challenges that can be addressed by a more personalised approach to their customers. There are many opportunities to innovate in this area, to introduce new services

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How SDN and NFV Extend the Adoption and Capabilities of Self-organizing Networks (SON)

Constantly increasing network usage, ever more complex service offers and the growing obsolescence of manual, time-consuming, error prone operations mean communication service providers (CSPs) must focus on optimizing their infrastructure.

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NFV – Are you ready for the hybrid reality?

Our VanillaPlus NFV Insight report explores how CSPs are moving beyond the initial deployment phases and looking towards greater automation of their virtualised operations. The Insight contains a VanillaPlus-commissioned report

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Mobile financial services in developing markets to reach $500 billion transactions by 2021

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total transaction value of Mobile Financial Services in emerging markets (including domestic money transfers, deposits

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VanillaPlus Black Book 2016

WELCOME TO THE VANILLAPLUS BLACK BOOK 2016 As the telecoms industry continues to go through the greatest transformation since the introduction of IP technology – and possibly ever – this,

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Building the Carrier Grade NFV Infrastructure

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is the telco’s version of IT virtualization, achieved by augmenting the latter with the carrier grade capabilities required for high availability, security, and performance, as well

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NFV – Will 2016 see CSPs address the deployment challenges?

Our VanillaPlus NFV Insight report explores how CSPs are getting to grips with NFV security and deployments of early NFV use cases. he Insight contains a VanillaPlus-commissioned report from analyst

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SDN, NFV & Network Virtualisation Ecosystem: 2015 – 2030 report released

A report entitled, The SDN, NFV & Network Virtualisation Ecosystem: 2015 – 2030 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts has been released by Dubai-based Signals and Systems Research.

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New indexes chart CSP virtualisation progress

There’s no doubt that virtualisation is critical to the future of communications service providers, but what’s much less clear is how much action CSPs have actually taken to transform their

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NetCracker shows first unified platform for virtualisation, CEM and cloud-based application delivery

Waltham, MA, USA & Nice, France. June 1, 2015 — NetCracker Technology is to demonstrate the industry’s first single, unified platform combining capabilities in virtualisation, customer experience management (CEM) and

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