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Into the Fog: Stratecast previews a health-conscious year ahead for network operators

Each year we receive a report listing Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan‘s predictions for the year ahead, and each year it contains elements to make us think. 2017 is no

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B2B customer engagement: After the deal is done

For a communications service provider (CSP) selling products and services into the new B2B digital marketplace, speed and visibility are the cornerstones on which a successful sales process will be

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B2B Sales – The journey to a successful order capture

IN ASSOCIATION WITH AMDOCS For a CSP (Communications Service Provider), closing a sale for a B2B solution is only the beginning of a process which, if not handled correctly from

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Testing and service assurance must be active and automated to enable real agility, efficiency and great customer experience in emerging networks

The industry’s move towards virtualisation requires new automated approaches to active testing and service assurance. Here Marcus Friman, the chief product officer and co-founder of Netrounds, a specialist provider of

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Have you evaluated potential risks before VoLTE launch?

New security threats call for a security validation process Is your organisation up-to-date with the new threat landscape of all-IP networks? Are you aware of the trend in the increase

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Virtualisation maturity sees focus move from cost savings to revenue generation and cloud service agility

Fran Heeran is vice president and general manager of SDN/NFV at Netcracker. Here he tells George Malim that, while virtualisation has taken longer than expected to materialise into reality, the contributing technologies of

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Seven requirements for successful mobile data analytics

As communications service providers (CSPs) grapple with how to deploy mobile data analytics, Dr Rado Kotorov, suggests seven key requirements they should demand from their systems

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Taking full advantage of SD-WAN with unified service assurance – Part 2

Assuring service quality: the key to SD-WAN success In a nutshell, SD-WANs can provide a high level of service quality with a level of flexibility and at a cost that

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Big data initiatives must provide quantifiable business value

Big data analysis is easy to talk about but hard to bring to life with measurable impact, Vic Bozzo tells VanillaPlus

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Taking full advantage of SD-WAN with unified service assurance – Part 1

With SD-WAN, it’s all about flexible, assured connectivity. Software-Defined Wide-Area Networks offer a long laundry list of benefits for both enterprises (that use them) and service providers (that offer them).

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