Why mobile network operator CFOs are rethinking their business models to cash in on public cloud – Part 1

Mobile network operator CFOs don’t have to be as number obsessed as Pythagoras to add up that operating their own data centres burns a big black hole in the balance

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Are network blind-spots derailing your digital transformation train?

When dealing with digital transformation initiatives, having visibility into IT infrastructure shouldn’t be a choice, it should be a requirement, writes Nadeem Zahid, the senior director of strategy and cloud

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Altice announces agreement to sell its telecommunications solutions business and data centre operations in Switzerland

Altice NV announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its telecommunications solutions business and Data Centre operations in Switzerland, green.ch AG and Green Datacenter AG, to InfraVia

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Will 5G be customer centric?

Autonomous cars, 4K video, connecting the unconnected, augmented, mixed or virtual reality, tactile internet, industry 4.0 … the list of services and experiences that 5G could enable grows every day,

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Italtel deploys green data centre for the University of Pisa

Italtel, a telecommunications company in IT system integration, managed services, Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and all-IP solutions – has designed and deployed a new green data centre at the University

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Systems integrator and MSP Maintel extends strategic partnership with Highlight app and network performance

Maintel, a systems integrator and managed services provider, has extended its strategic partnership with Highlight.

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Australia’s Megaport Exchange launched as an SDN-based marketplace for ‘elastic interconnection’ of tech providers

Brisbane, Australia-based Megaport Ltd, has launched Megaport Exchange, a marketplace hosted on megaport.al, that is designed to connect its ecosystem of providers to its global network of customers.

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Network slicing unleashes 5G opportunities, when service quality can be assured – Part 1

Network slicing first appeared with 4G networks and enabled new possibilities – and this will go much farther when 5G enables network slices to incorporate the radios.

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Accedian teams with Facebook, telcos and other vendors to assure reliable internet and telecom services

Accedian, provider in end-to-end network performance, has joined the Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project (TIP) as a member focused on assuring high-quality internet connectivity through affordable, virtualised network performance assurance instrumentation.

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Cisco Global Cloud Index projects cloud traffic will represent 92% of total data centre traffic by 2020

In today’s unveiling of the sixth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1

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