09 November, 2016

Assuring Mobile Backhaul and the Radio Interface

So your network is carrying more and more data, making mobile backhaul an increasingly important part of your cellular system. How do you keep it simple, cut costs, and still assure the quality of service your customers expect?

If it was easy, everyone would do it. That’s where Netrounds comes in. We enable service providers to quality-assure both the backhaul and the radio interface of your mobile network. Our experts can fine tune your infrastructure segments and deliver your end users the service quality they demand. Netrounds’ active, software-based solution delivers savings on skilled manual labour, cuts expensive truck rolls, and reduces multiple proprietary testing tools.

“Active testing will no longer be a nice to have – it will be a must-have.”
– Marcus Friman, CPO & co-founder, Netrounds

 

Let us automate your activation tests, so that services can be delivered faster and service levels agreements are reliably fulfilled. With Netrounds’ comprehensive and continuous monitoring capabilities, problems can be detected and corrected before they ever affect the end user. Netrounds can even validate backhaul performance throughout the network lifecycle: For activation testing at delivery time, for continuous day-to-day monitoring, and for troubleshooting when problems arise.

For more information on Netrounds, please visit http://www.netrounds.com/ or schedule a demo at demo@netrounds.com.

03 November, 2016

VanillaPlus Black Book 2016

As the telecoms industry continues to go through the greatest transformation since the introduction of IP technology – and possibly ever – this, the third VanillaPlus Black Book, paints a picture of an industry fully engaged in change. The analyst reports and executive interviews assembled here explore how new technologies and capabilities are creating new opportunities for communications service providers (CSPs) to create new services, new business models and new revenues. It’s an exciting time and one that is truly stretching CSPs, their network and IT teams and, by extension, their suppliers.

25 October, 2016

Rapid IoT adoption and integration will command 43% of enterprise IT budgets by 2020, says Machina survey

A new survey by Machina Research shows acceleration in the pace of adoption of IoT by US companies, as they increasingly recognise the commercial benefits associated with implementation. This growing importance is also having a knock-on effect on budgets, with IoT increasingly setting the agenda for IT. Machina Research, the world’s leading provider of IoT […]

20 October, 2016

Mobile banking users to total 2bn by 2020, more than 1 in 3 global adults

New research from analysts, Juniper Research finds that more than 2 billion mobile users will have used their devices for banking purposes by the end of 2021. (more…)

19 October, 2016

Huawei whitepaper advises telcos how to enable experience-centric B2B cloud service

During the Huawei Open Cloud Forum 2016, the network equipment and software provider unveiled its ‘Cloud Network Synergy’ whitepaper. This details the steps needed to build Experience-Centric B2B Cloud Services. (more…)

18 October, 2016

NGMN Alliance appoints new Board of Directors and elects Johan Wibergh as Chairman

At NGMN Alliance first meeting, the Board of Directors elected Johan Wibergh from Vodafone as new NGMN Chairman. The Board also agreed to focus its work-programme in the next years on key industry areas, (more…)

07 October, 2016

Domestic money transfer market to exceed $500bn for mobile transactions by 2018, driven by P2P services

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of domestic money transfers, including operator money and social media money services, will reach $520 billion in mobile transactions by 2018, up nearly 200% from an estimated $178 billion last year. (more…)

03 October, 2016

Analytics 2016 – What are the next most important steps for CSPs’ data driven transformations?

Our VanillaPlus Analytics Insight report contains 29 pages exploring how the conversation has moved on from big data to using analytics to enable effective management of virtualised and hybrid networks and better monetisation of CSPs’ network, subscriber and service data.

31 August, 2016

Tenable finds 89% of UK infosec professionals fail to connect cyber success with strategic business objectives

A survey conducted by Tenable Network Security, Inc. a global provider of security technology, has found that a large majority of security professionals it surveyed fail to measure and communicate security (more…)

06 August, 2016

Industry losing patience as US regulators fail to keep up with security concerns for consumer communications

Following the FTC’s recent announcement of its intention to study security update practices within the mobile industry, there is growing frustration in some quarters that the regulations take little account of the impact on the Internet of Things (IoT). Here, Jeremy Cowan reports on reaction to the regulatory hold-up and one company’s Asia-Pacific initiative to counter cyber attacks. (more…)