Reports & White Papers

Telecoms operators should consider providing a platform of capabilities for M2M & IoT

The opportunity for the Internet of Things (IoT) is extremely large with device connections globally forecast to reach billions and touch most, if not all, vertical markets.

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The road to telco cloud

Ten pages covering the likely journeys CSPs will make as they migrate to telco cloud architectures. INTERVIEW: Charlie Thomas, the chief executive of Razorsight, says CSPs’ opportunity to participate in

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Next-generation OSS is critical to delivering service agility in new virtualized networks

This white paper assesses the impact of the emerging network virtualisation technologies of network function virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) on the operational processes and support systems of communication service providers (CSPs). It outlines the key role the OSS will play in enabling CSPs to deploy and realise anticipated benefits from service agility, operational flexibility and cost optimisation.

In developing this white paper, Analysys Mason interviewed eight advanced CSPs that are actively exploring network virtualisation technologies, to identify their present state of play (activities, concerns and considerations), and the future roadmap of their OSS to manage virtualised networks.

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Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution

Accelerate your migration to Network Function Virtualisation today with the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution. This solution orchestrates and optimizes virtualised network services throughout their lifecycle by streamlining service composition, service instantiation and termination and enabling elastic scaling of the services in response to demand.

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Monetising the Digital Experience with Convergent Charging and Policy

The rise in smartphone and tablet usage, coupled with increasing data speeds, both mobile and fixed, is contributing to a geometric increase in the consumption of data services, enabling the so-called customer “Digital Lifestyle”. Oracle has solved the issue facing many service providers today – how to effectively monetize data services to increase revenues.

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Cloud – Will CSPs maximise their potential?

Our latest VanillaPlus Insight starts exploring what cloud means to CSPs and how they can use it in two ways – internally and externally. The internal opportunity is to save

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Don’t let your charging system define you

IT’S NOT YOU… IT’S YOUR CHARGING SYSTEM In today’s blazing-fast world, you need systems you can rely on when you want to differentiate with your services.

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Capturing the digital revenue stream: Build Your CORe Fitness

Although it is happening at different speeds in different markets, voice and SMS are increasingly becoming commodities, and the decline in operators’ revenue from these core services is accelerating. Earlier

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TM Forum and Oracle Enterprise Services Supplement

ENTERPRISE SERVICES: SHOW ME THE MONEY Automation, visibility and reusability are the watchwords for operators who want to run profitable, sustainable enterprise services. As is well understood, they have a

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Business Benefits of the Total Customer Experience: Mapping NPS to Revenue

Measuring and managing the customer experience (CX) has been an increasingly important aspect of Communications Service Provider (CSP) operations as the CSPs vie for the most valuable customers and work

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