Special reports

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.

16 June, 2016

Building the Carrier Grade NFV Infrastructure

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is the telco's version of IT virtualization, achieved by augmenting the latter with the carrier grade capabilities required for high availability, security, and performance, as well as for more efficient network management.

02 March, 2016

Big data and IoT to add $450 billion (£322bn) to the UK economy by 2020

Big data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to add $450 billion (£322 billion) to the UK economy from 2015 to 2020. This is twice the size of the combined education, (more…)

22 January, 2016

AppRiver year-end Global Security Report assesses the biggest cybersecurity threats and protective legislation

AppRiver, LLC, has released its year-end Global Security Report, a detailed summary and analysis of the malware and spam trends of 2015. (more…)

18 November, 2015

Up to 35% of CSP transformation projects fail, don’t let yours be one of them

Transformation projects don’t succeed on their own. In fact, 35% end in failure. And since they can take years to complete, the stakes are high. (more…)

04 August, 2015

Telecoms operators should consider providing a platform of capabilities for M2M & IoT

The opportunity for the Internet of Things (IoT) is extremely large with device connections globally forecast to reach billions and touch most, if not all, vertical markets. (more…)

14 July, 2015

The road to telco cloud

Ten pages covering the likely journeys CSPs will make as they migrate to
telco cloud architectures.

INTERVIEW: Charlie Thomas, the chief executive of Razorsight, says CSPs’ opportunity to participate in the cloud era will vanish if they fail to make use of their data

FEATURE: Nick Booth sees the cloud as a means to liberate telecoms from long-term planned IT

EXPERT OPINION: Pablo Martinez goes in search of dynamic value constellations

10 February, 2015

Next-generation OSS is critical to delivering service agility in new virtualized networks

This white paper assesses the impact of the emerging network virtualisation technologies of network function virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) on the operational processes and support systems of communication service providers (CSPs). It outlines the key role the OSS will play in enabling CSPs to deploy and realise anticipated benefits from service agility, operational flexibility and cost optimisation.

In developing this white paper, Analysys Mason interviewed eight advanced CSPs that are actively exploring network virtualisation technologies, to identify their present state of play (activities, concerns and considerations), and the future roadmap of their OSS to manage virtualised networks.

04 December, 2014

Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution

Accelerate your migration to Network Function Virtualisation today with the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution. This solution orchestrates and optimizes virtualised network services throughout their lifecycle by streamlining service composition, service instantiation and termination and enabling elastic scaling of the services in response to demand.

03 December, 2014

Monetising the Digital Experience with Convergent Charging and Policy

The rise in smartphone and tablet usage, coupled with increasing data speeds, both mobile and fixed, is contributing to a geometric increase in the consumption of data services, enabling the so-called customer “Digital Lifestyle”. Oracle has solved the issue facing many service providers today – how to effectively monetize data services to increase revenues.