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Italtel and Exprivia to present solutions for next-generation networks and innovative 5G-enabled services at MWC 18

Solutions for vertical 5G services – Industry 4.0, telemedicine, smart cities, media and entertainment – which leverage groundbreaking technologies such as the IoT and SDN/NFV will be exhibited at Mobile

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End-to-end transport assurance is key to virtualisation success

Virtualisation is sweeping across the mobile world. It has already taken over the core networks of the operators, and now aims to take baby steps into the radio access network

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5G and keeping up with the accelerated pace of change

Communication service providers (CSPs) are painfully aware that they’re not innovating fast enough to respond to changing customer expectations, or to the new opportunities being created by big data and

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3 reasons why virtualisation is all about customer experience

The discussion surrounding network virtualisation has shifted recently from a focus on replacing boxes to one that pays far more attention to customer experience.

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Huawei among first NFVI vendors to pass OVP certification

The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualisation (OPNFV) community has released its plans for the OPNFV Verified Program (OVP) commercial certification program. At the same time, the organisation made public

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3 Reasons virtualisation is all about customer experience

The discussion surrounding network virtualisation has shifted recently from a focus on replacing boxes to one that pays far more attention to customer experience. In the emerging 5G era, service

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Multi-sided platform innovation ecosystem for revenue-generating service acceleration unveiled by Coriant

Coriant, a global supplier of open, disruptive, and hyperscale networking solutions for service providers and web-scale Internet operators, has unveiled a Multi-Sided Platform Partner Program. This is said by the firm to

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NEC/Netcracker lead ETSI NFV license management standardisation milestone

NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology Corporation announced its role in the creation of the first report on NFV license management by the European Telecom Standards Institute (ETSI). The workgroup has come to an agreement on

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The problem with the 5G cake is how to slice it

We’ve seen it with NFV, SDN, IoT and now the hype spotlight has switched to network slicing, with a plethora of reports, tests, trials and indeed, even a new working

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Operator agility is the goal and lack of it the handbrake

When looking at the virtualisation landscape in its broader sense I can’t help seeing that the real problem is agility or, rather, the lack of it, writes Pravin Mirchandani, the

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