Vodafone, China Mobile and Huawei show cross-operator VPN service orchestration using ONAP at Open Networking Summit

Three Platinum members of Linux Foundation’s ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform), Vodafone, China Mobile and Huawei, are collaborating to demonstrate advanced ONAP orchestration capabilities for cross-operator multi-layer VPN services.

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Are you taking the necessary steps to prepare yourself and your network today?

It’s no surprise that a robust, resilient, and reliable network is one of the most important drivers for business success. Organisations are having to continuously improve their network infrastructure to

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Huawei Service Crafting Centre (SCC) solution and digital service enable self-driving of telco network automation

Huawei has launched its TelcoCraft Service Crafting Centre (SCC) solution, which aims to help communication service providers (CSP) to realise network automation by adopting a new service creation and operation

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Linux Foundation Networking continues its global growth with addition of eight new members

The Linux Foundation Networking Fund (LFN), which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open networking projects such as ONAP and OPNFV, announced the addition of eight new Silver and Associate members, continuing

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Analytics, machine learning and automation are the keys to running smarter, more efficient networks

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are two technologies that are making a huge impact on virtually every industry, writes Brendan Gill, the chief executive of OpenSignal. Smart tools are

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SD-WAN – what’s good, what’s not and what to look out for

Software defined wide area networks – or SD-WANs – are coming to a network near you … and soon, writes Manish Aggarwal, the director of technology at Aricent.

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The future calls: Realising the business need for network virtualisation

Anyone familiar with the industry will know that it’s currently an interesting time to be a Communication Service Provider (CSP). But, as with most sectors, it’s also a very tricky

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SD-WAN: Opportunity or threat for CSPs?

The pace and scale of SD-WAN deployment accelerated sharply in 2017. According to research company IHS Markit’s Data Centre and Enterprise SDN Hardware and Software Biannual Market Tracker, global sales of software-defined

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Interoperability in optical transport network becomes a reality through the evolution towards SDN

Partners of the TransportPCE project deliver open source software code to facilitate and speed up the adoption of interoperable optical transponders.

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Telcos should look to digital technologies to rival disruptive over-the-top players

The communications service provider (CSP) industry is experiencing significant challenges. Disruptive technologies have given way to an army of streaming service providers, such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple’s iTunes, as

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