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CSPs must adopt a common language to ensure optimised operations

Business strategies that involve 5G, edge computing and virtualised networking demand a universal structure for the deployment, interconnection and management of the physical and virtual assets these capabilities require. Essentially,

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Hansen Technologies and Sigma Systems combine to drive telecom business innovation and energy market expansion

The recent acquisition of Sigma Systems by Hansen Technologies (https://bit.ly/2HhekRI) took the telecom market by surprise, as the Australia-based IT vendor put US$117 million down in cash to acquire 100% of

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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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For CSPs it’s time to change – or be changed

Keith Willetts is chairman and founder of TM Forum, which works across multiple industries to enable the digital services chain. Originally established as an organisation to set best practices and

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