Reports & whitepapers

07 February, 2017

Enabling location-based services to drive business

Providing insight on customer movement and behavior can enable next-generation mobile service delivery capable of growing revenues, improving brand awareness and increasing customer loyalty.

INTRODUCTION TO LBS
The latest advancements in location-based services (LBS) are bringing about major improvements in the accuracy, the reliability and the types of services delivered to consumers and businesses. Due to these advances, LBS are increasingly being deployed in mission-critical applications such as E911 caller location.

Mobile service providers can also boost revenues and beneft from the broad range of potential commercial applications with LBS. Faced with an ever increasing threat from ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) services, service providers need to continuously explore new ways to generate income from their existing network infrastructure. LBS plays a signifcant role in this strategy

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18 January, 2017

Networks’ online smartphone support savings rise as support costs climb 135%, says Spirent

Spirent Communications plc has published its annual mobile device intelligence report for 2016. Spirent is a provider of verification, assessment, analytics, and device intelligence solutions. (more…)

13 December, 2016

Making Sense of the Evolving Business Services Market

New research conducted by market analysts, Heavy Reading has probed over 60 telcos around the world about how they’ve had to adapt their service offerings to meet the rapidly changing business services market. In this report, we reveal what they believe to be the biggest market opportunities both by sector and by technology. Highlights include: […]

10 November, 2016

Mobile financial services in developing markets to reach $500 billion transactions by 2021

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total transaction value of Mobile Financial Services in emerging markets (including domestic money transfers, deposits (more…)

09 November, 2016

Assuring Mobile Backhaul and the Radio Interface

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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.

Key Netrounds testing capabilities:

Layer 2: ITU-T Y.1731 (Ethernet OAM)
Layer 3: TWAMP Full, TWAMP Light; UDP Echo, ICMP Ping
Throughput testing: ITU-T Y.1564 service activation tests; RFC 6349 throughput test
Additional application-layer metrics: MPEG IPTV and OTT video; SIP signaling performance, VoIP/VoLTE MOS; HTTP-based services
Packet capture

Click Here to hear Netrounds’ Chief Product Officer, Marcus Friman, discussing the need for active and automated testing and service assurance in the latest issue of VanillaPlus.

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03 November, 2016

VanillaPlus Black Book 2016

WELCOME TO THE 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.

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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