Living in a hybrid world: The challenges of integrating legacy architectures with virtualised networks

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are being presented with several opportunities to accelerate their digitalisation journeys. However, as the progress behind network virtualisation continues to gather momentum,

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Solve the service assurance complexity of 4.5G and 5G

The first pre-standard launches of 5G are due toward the end of 2018, writes Scott Sumner, the vice president of strategy at end-to-end network and application performance experts Accedian. However,

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NFV: Don’t get stuck in a virtual rut

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) has been a source of a lot of doubt for the telecoms industry over the years. The fight to dominate the market with this technology is

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Automation is the way to go, but what about the workers?

Automation is fast coming to a range of industries, bringing greater efficiencies, lower operating costs and more flexible service delivery. But will the telecoms industry be in the front line

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We’ve got to hurry up, says HGC Global Communications chief digital officer

Jacqueline Teo is the chief digital officer of HGC Global Communications, the Hong Kong-based operator that provides domestic connectivity in Hong Kong as well as international capacity. Teo is driving

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How to overcome complexities and avoid non-functional virtualisation

Virtualisation is a good example of a technology that’s being used in the data centre to improve operational efficiency, writes Nadeem Zahid, the senior director of strategy and cloud at

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SON shines sometimes as CSPs get ready to automate operations

  Self organising networks (SON) have, in recent years, gained limited attention as communications service providers (CSPs) focus on virtualisation via software defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV).

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Lanner teams up with Telco Systems to accelerate NFV deployments

Lanner, a global supplier of network communication platforms, is partnering with Telco Systems, a provider of SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS and IP solutions, to accelerate NFV service deployments.

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Defining a new approach to innovation – How CSPs can drive innovation across their business by moving on from a traditional R&D mindset

Technologies such as big data and software-defined services are transforming customer expectations and creating new opportunities for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). However, in the fight for customers and revenues enabled

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2nd ETSI NFV Plugtests demonstrate high interoperability levels and increased feature support

The second global ETSI NFV Plugtests® event saw high rates of test execution and interoperability for multi-vendor network services, according to the event report published here. Interoperability was achieved in almost

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