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11 March, 2020

Telia’s Fridström explains how fibre providers can avoid a subsea sinking feeling

Subsea cable capacity will provide the backbone capacity to enable the vast number of new business requirements that are arriving with 5G, artificial intelligence, machine learning and within IoT. However, price pressure on cable providers, the demise of the consortium model and continued transformational innovation in technology are radically altering the operational mode – and economics – for subsea cable owners. Mattias Fridström, the chief evangelist at Telia Carrier, tells George Malim what this new mode of operation looks like and the challenges subsea cable operators face in meeting the new needs of customers while maintaining profitability.

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28 January, 2020

Pluribus brings open networking to the telco central office with Celestica’s Edgestone

Pluribus Networks, a specialist in open networking and controllerless software-defined networking (SDN) automation, has expanded its distributed cloud portfolio. According to the company, this enables telecom service providers to expand data centre infrastructure to the central office, extend their cloud service offerings and accelerate network automation. (more…)

27 January, 2020

PTCL and Nokia build Pakistan’s 200G optical network for superfast broadband

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has deployed Nokia’s technology to expand the capacity of recently installed 100G transport network to 200G optical network for both domestic and international traffic. (more…)

21 January, 2020

Cloud will deliver the promise of simplicity in 2020, says Virgin Media Business

Cloud is nothing new and it has been embraced by organisations of all types. However, managing cloud solutions has become complex to the extent that it is creating problems for organisations rather than delivering on the cloud promise of simplicity.

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18 November, 2019

Orange Business Services says enterprises are expanding globally from cloud to edge

As enterprise customers focus on multi-cloud and edge environments as the next step of their digital transformations, George Malim reports from Huawei’s Eco-Connect Europe 2019 event in Paris, France, where Orange Business Services executives detailed how the business consumption of network and IT is changing. With presence in more than 200 countries and revenues of […]

07 November, 2019

Huawei re-affirms European market commitment, says no Berlin Wall needed in digital world

Huawei has emphasised its commitment to the European market at its Innovation Day and eco-Connect Europe events held in Paris, France this week, writes George Malim. The company revealed research from Oxford Economics that totals its contribution to the European economy as €12.8bn per year, taking into account direct contributions through its 13,300 employees in the region, taxation and its €6.6bn spending in Europe plus the spending and taxation of those employed in its supply chain.

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06 November, 2019

Tuning radio access network technology for 5G services

The radio access network (RAN) market has experienced considerable momentum owing to the rapid evolution of communication networks in recent years. RAN forms part of a telecom system which connects a device to other parts of a network via radio connections. (more…)

31 October, 2019

Ivalua survey warns telcos not to send procurement back to cost-cutting dark ages

Recent research from Ivalua has revealed that almost three-quarters (74%) of telecoms organisations have encountered some type of supply chain risk in the last year. The biggest supply chain risks experienced by telcos include supply shortage (55%), supplier failure (50%) and geopolitical changes (35%).

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29 October, 2019

Don’t leave the network as an afterthought, says Telia Carrier’s Miskulin

Matthew Miskulin, the head of Ecosystem and Network Development at Telia Carrier, tells George Malim, the managing editor of VanillaPlus, that connectivity providers are carving out a larger footprint in the enterprise market by providing network and IT options that fit with enterprises’ specific requirements and integrate smoothly with their chosen cloud providers’ architectures.

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09 October, 2019

Deutsche Telekom Germany selects Netcracker for network and service automation initiative

Netcracker Technology reports it has been chosen by Deutsche Telekom Germany for its groundbreaking network and service automation initiative. (more…)