Talking Heads

Assurance and analytics prepare for fundamental role in enabling open RAN and 5G core

Virtualised, dynamic, open networks present a constantly moving surface upon which communications service providers (CSPs) will need to analyse data to assure service operations. However, those service operations are forever

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Policy and charging gets sophisticated as use cases enable differentiation

John Aalbers is chief executive of Volubill, the provider of sophisticated policy and charging systems to CSPs. Here he tells George Malim how, after a frustrating couple of years, CSPs’

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Policy sophistication unifies network and IT domains, enables CSPs to differentiate and create value

David Sharpley is senior vice president of marketing, product management and channels for Bridgewater Systems, the provider of intelligent broadband controls for mobile and converged operators. With policy management now

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Policy 2.0 goes beyond protecting the network to enable service innovation and monetisation

Bill Diotte is chief executive and president of BroadHop Inc., a provider of policy control systems to more than 75 operators across the world. Diotte holds a degree in engineering

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Policy control: Keeping pace with network evolution

“As the IN potentially disappears with LTE, every transaction must be ‘policed’ — or controlled and charged.”

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Bigger flat-rate problems just mean bigger Policy needs

If flat-rate charging is dead, as many people say, why is it still so widely deployed in some markets like Western Europe and North America? VanillaPlus talked to John Aalbers,

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