News tagged: microservices

20 July, 2018

Why platform-based business is a winning model

Today, rapid technology advancement, coupled with regulatory compliance and growing competitors are disrupting organisations’ operations models. The telecoms industry is no exception, with a wave of market disruption that is challenging its sustainability at the same time as opening up new opportunities in unexplored areas, write Dr. Anil Paingankar, a distinguished architect and international board member of The Open Group, and Viswanathan Ramaswamy, a vice president of Wipro.

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22 May, 2018

Microservices, DevOps and collaboration: The foundation for BSS Transformation

Telecoms operators, by tradition, are not seen as fast-moving businesses. They are always striving to be agile, but their reliance on legacy systems – coupled with their dysfunctional, locked-in relationships with legacy vendors – has created a slow-moving animal, often at odds with the pace of the Internet generation. (more…)

22 May, 2018

Netcracker receives 3 Pipeline Innovation Awards at Digital Transformation World

Netcracker Technology announced that it has received three 2018 Innovation Awards from Pipeline magazine for its advanced Operational Support Systems (OSS), Managed Services and Cloud Technology. The awards were announced just prior to TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World 2018, which took place from May 14-16 in Nice, France. (more…)

26 October, 2017

Webinar: Microservices are everywhere: What CSPs can learn from IT

Event date: November 9, 2017
Webinar online

CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet the increasing and evolving service demands. (more…)

26 October, 2017

Microservices are everywhere: What CSPs can learn from IT

On-demand version

CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet the increasing and evolving service demands. As vendors and CSPs are faced with building these virtualized systems, it’s imperative to look at the software engineering methodologies that the IT industry has successfully applied to challenges at comparable scale. (more…)

18 October, 2017

VanillaPlus and Frost & Sullivan survey – Part 1

Vanilla Plus and Frost & Sullivan together have undertaken a survey in various OSS and BSS fields. Below are a set of questions and answers and also responses that are received for each one of it, along with a graphical representation. Part 2 of the article continues tomorrow.

1. Do you have a market-ready microservices strategy for OSS? (more…)

15 June, 2017

NFV the right way – a cloud native foundation for a 5G future

There is little doubt in the telecoms industry that network functions virtualisation (NFV) will be the foundation for communications networks of the future. But for NFV to deliver the benefits expected and promised, its constituent virtual network functions (VNFs) must first be developed using cloud-native design principles, writes Ian Maclean, the chief marketing officer of Metaswitch. (more…)

19 January, 2016

O2 UK extends NetCracker hosted managed services partnership

NetCracker Technology has announced that Telefónica UK, which operates as O2 in the UK, has agreed to extend the use of NetCracker’s Revenue Management solution through a hosted managed services model for two new significant initiatives. (more…)