Why cloud-based B2B ecommerce will be vital for Industry 4.0

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland the agenda focused on how Industry 4.0 will not only change manufacturing, but business as a whole. Here, Robert Williams, Cloudfy’s CEO, says that

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USA’s HTC upgrades to Netcracker 12 OSS suite to accelerate digital service delivery and boost device diversity

Netcracker Technology reported that Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) will extend and upgrade its use of Netcracker’s OSS to the latest Netcracker 12 suite. Leveraging Netcracker 12 will, says the vendor,

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ADTRAN and TIM leverage SDN/NFV to advance the open network evolution

ADTRAN®, Inc.,, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, and TIM, announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding relating to ADTRAN’s SDN/NFV technologies and platforms for network automation in

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IoT changing the network’s edge – Part 2

In the Part 1 of the article, George Mulhern stated that Software-defined Networking (SDN) is the biggest paradigm shift in enterprise networking, possibly since the Internet, and that one of its most prominent

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NFV – Where are we now?

Networks with virtualised functions bring communications service providers the power to provision services quickly, analyse and automate networks, release creativity for designing new services and take advantage of general-purpose platforms

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Mavenir unlocks the value and benefits of NFV with its CloudRange™ platform

Mavenir, the provider of accelerating and redefining software network transformation for Communications Service Providers, announced its network functions virtualisation (NFV) and container management and orchestration platform called CloudRange™.

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Quality of Service challenges in NFV/5G networks

NFV-core based 5G networks have already caught the fancy of the telco cloud service provider. The reasons for this are its promise of high quality of service (QoS).

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How technology has humanised the recruitment process for CSPs

About twenty-five years ago when I was a young, bright-eyed corporate recruiter in the telecoms industry, I never thought I’d be talking about robots and their place in the world

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Can an IT DevOps approach speed up CSP Innovation?

In this article Blue Telecom Consulting (BlueTC) suggests that communications service providers (CSPs) should look to their strongest competitors for inspiration in the search for new innovation and operational models

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Supporting IoT services on 5G network slices through Service Quality Management – Part 2

High speed, high reliability and low latency are the key benefits that CSPs expect from 5G. While high speed (targeted at 20 Gbps) helps to upload and download video-based content

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