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Orchestration is make or break for avoiding NFV transformation pain

Is successful orchestration the key to successful NFV implementation? The short answer to that is Yes … and No, as Jeremy Cowan found when talking to experts in network functions

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How to unlock the business potential of NFV/SDN for CSPs

Lukasz Mendyk explains how a network as a distributed cloud can reshape itself to serve customer applications more effectively

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How one OSS company was built from the need to see what happens to customers

In the second part of this interview, Anand Gonuguntla, CEO and cofounder of Centina Systems, tells VanillaPlus what drove him and his co-founders to launch an OSS company against such giant

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Flexibility and agility are NFV’s key benefits, capex and opex savings are a byproduct

As CSPs grapple with virtualisation deployments, Amdocs’ Angela Logothetis and Justin Paul tell George Malim why next generation OSS is so critical in codifying and managing CSPs’ physical, virtual and

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Expanding service assurance play with Tier 1 clients, integrator partners and new NFV/SDN products

One company, Centina Systems, is launching a service assurance product for SDN and NFV networks, pre-integrated into ODL (Object Definition Language) and open NFV platforms.

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Dangers lie ahead as M&As surge with HP, Oberthur, Intel fighting for a technology edge

London, UK. June 16, 2015:  Last year saw global TME (telecoms, media & entertainment) mergers & acquisitions (M&A) reach US$34.5 billion*, and this trend is predicted to increase in 2015.

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Ericsson adds CENX service orchestration to Managed Services offering

CENX, a provider of service orchestration solutions for software-defined and virtualised networks, has partnered with Ericsson to integrate CENX’s Cortx Service Orchestrator as a key element of Ericsson’s global Managed

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OpenCloud participates in Spark vVoLTE proof of concept

OpenCloud’s Rhino Sentinel VoLTE Application Server has been used by Spark, formerly Telecom New Zealand, for the communications service provider’s (CSP’s) virtualised VoLTE (vVoLTE) proof of concept.

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Openet and NTT-AT collaborate to deliver production ready BSS using NFV

Japanese systems integrator NTT Advanced Technology (NTT-AT) has been announced as Openet’s latest reseller partner. The deal will extend Openet’s reach into the NTT group and significantly enhance its commercial

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JDSU catalyst projects work to overcome NFV and video service deployment challenges

TM Forum Catalyst Projects are a useful way to evaluate how proposed base concepts can be used to solve critical CSP industry challenges. Here, Ronnie Neil explains how JDSU is

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