Italtel introduces Open Innovation Program

Italtel, a telecommunications company in IT system integration, managed services, Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and all-IP solutions, has launched an Open Innovation program, which will see it collaborate with start-ups

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Accedian provides virtualised network performance monitoring to TIM Brasil

Accedian, the global end-to-end network performance assurance experts, announced that Brazilian national operator TIM Brasil will use Accedian’s award-winning SkyLIGHT virtualised solution to monitor and assure the performance of its

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5G is a gradual and continuous process, says Telefónica architecture director

There’s a lot of excitement in the vendor community about deploying 5G but many operators remain cautious and see years of fit for purpose performance in 4G and 4.5G technologies.

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VanillaPlus and Frost & Sullivan survey – Part 2

Vanilla Plus and Frost & Sullivan together have undertaken a survey in various OSS and BSS fields. As we saw in the Part 1 of the article, below are a set

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Build a reservoir of bandwidth liquidity with SD-WAN

Communications service providers (CSPs) are now looking to help large enterprises and public-sector organisations transform the edge of their networks, which now require seamless cloud connectivity and app-performance integration, writes

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Is there a future for Blockchain-enabled SD-WANs?

Blockchain is fast growing digital ledger technology which records bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions chronologically and publicly. Think of it as a massively distributed global database shared over the internet

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ETSI’s six new specifications take the industry several steps closer to a ubiquitous NFV platform

The ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group (ETSI NFV ISG) has taken further steps towards establishing a ubiquitous platform on which the global adoption of network functions virtualisation (NFV) technology can

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NFV – Where are we now?

Networks with virtualised functions bring communications service providers the power to provision services quickly, analyse and automate networks, release creativity for designing new services and take advantage of general-purpose platforms

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DigitalRoute names Andreas Zartmann as chief executive officer

DigitalRoute, the provider of data management and digital transformation enablement solutions globally, has named Andreas Zartmann its chief executive officer. Zartmann, previously the company’s chief financial officer, replaces Johan Bergh,

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Partner Communications selects VMware and Cloudify to accelerate NFV adoption to reduce customer costs

Cloudify and VMware, Inc. announced the companies are helping Partner Communications implement a novel approach to network functions virtualisation (NFV) that has resulted in a rapid conversion to NFV and

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