FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell adopt Red Hat OpenStack Platform to aid agility and efficiency

Red Hat, Inc. a provider of open source solutions, reports that communications leaders from around the world, including FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell have deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform,

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ZTE’s cloud UniCore vEPC solution certified by VMware

ZTE Corporation has announced the successful completion of the technical certification for “VMware Ready for NFV”. The company is now one of the VMware ready network functions virtualisation (NFV)

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It’s not you, it’s me: Why operators and vendors must help employees ‘skill up’

With the introduction of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), and Software Defined Networking (SDN) operators hope that they can finally rival, at a local level, the types of services that the

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De-mystifying Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) – Part 2

Instead of individually managing racks of physical devices to provision new services, NFV technology decouples the services from the hardware and simulates the network functions of the devices in software

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The virtue in virtualisation

I recently read a memoir of childhood in the 1950s, with a description of being sent into exile: the mother gives the child a tearful farewell hug before the walk

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Broadband Forum issues ‘landmark’ technical specification to define first virtualised Residential Gateway

The first ever specifications for the virtual Residential Gateway have been released by the Broadband Forum as it concluded work on what is said to be a landmark project to

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Virtualised LTE core network provided to ITRI in Taiwan by NEC and Netcracker

NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology have provided a virtualised Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) solution via NEC Taiwan Ltd. to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a non-profit research institute working under

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How to level the playing field with SDN

Waving an SDN (Software Defined Networking) magic wand over traditional network operator infrastructure to make it ‘just like OTT’ is a good deal easier said than done.

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Deep Packet Inspection vendors looking to virtualisation, differentiation as hardware commoditisation takes hold

Virtualisation and differentiation are the key themes currently dominating the deep packet inspection (DPI) market, says Shira Levine, research director, service enablement and subscriber intelligence, IHS Technology.

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China Mobile claims ‘world’s largest NFV network’ as builder ZTE starts commercialisation trial

ZTE Corporation, reported that China Mobile has officially initiated the commercialisation of its rich communication services (RCS) network.

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