MWC 2023 highlights APIs, NaaS as vital tools for telco monetisation, says GlobalData

GlobalData, a data and analytics company, sent a contingent of analysts to MWC 2023 and among the many engaging conversations with vendors and telecom service providers one topic was ever

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PacketFabric, Unitas Global announce merger

PacketFabric and Unitas Global, an enterprise network service providers, have announced the intention to merge the two companies, subject to regulatory approval. This will result in a larger PacketFabric, a new global

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Nokia and American Tower introduce SDN virtualisation to redefine fibre broadband deployment

Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced it has deployed its Altiplano Open Access solution for American Tower’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure in Argentina. The network controller solution uses virtualisation to share network resources as slices of a physical network, enabling the wholesaling of fibre access on a network-as-a-service (NaaS) basis. American Tower has already onboarded three virtual network operator tenants in the

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Telco network-as-a-service is a US$75bn opportunity if they invest and align early

Networks have been commoditised over the last few years and the cost of connectivity has fallen. Value has shifted from network infrastructure to the services built on top of the

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Opt-in software-based government – Nationality as a Service (NaaS)

The government functions to serve and represent its citizens, but around the world, citizens experience substandard public services with minimum transparency.  The governments fail to support individuals and communities efficiently.

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Infrastructure as a service – the future for CSPs

To date, established communications service providers (CSPs) have had the resources to take on the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) intensity of building and running a network, says Friedrich Trawoeger, SVP cloud

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5G network slicing: The next big opportunity

Telecoms networks have been traditionally designed to manage traffic at peak times. Network slicing gives customers the ability to scale network resources up and down as needed, says Tim McElligott,

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Nearly 80% of CSPs in Europe expect 5G to enable higher enterprise revenues, says Amdocs survey

Almost 80% of European CSPs expect the introduction of 5G to expand revenue opportunities with enterprise customers. So says a new survey by Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications

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ETSI Open Source MANO announces release FIVE, 5G ready

ETSI is excited to announce the availability of OSM Release FIVE. This new Release is a huge step towards 5G network deployments and their end-to-end orchestration by telecom operators. In Release

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NEC/Netcracker NaaS Solution wins 2018 NFV Innovation Award

NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded NEC/Netcracker’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solution with a 2018 INTERNET TELEPHONY NFV Innovation Award.

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