How to step towards becoming a digital service provider with UC&C – Part 2

In the first blog in this two-part series by Frank Paterno, the vice president of Global Carriers at PGi, we looked at the key factors in driving the transition of

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Why the time to move to NETCONF/YANG is now

With backing from major NFV/SDN projects and industry organisations, NETCONF, the client/server protocol designed to configure network devices more clearly and effectively, will soon become ubiquitous. Communications service providers (CSPs)

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How to step towards becoming a digital service provider with UC&C Part 1

It has been more than 15 years since the first IP-based networks were deployed, followed by a plethora of innovation across these networks, writes Frank Paterno, the vice president of

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Amdocs claims the world’s first carrier NFV software and services portfolio based on open source

To enable service providers to try NFV, the portfolio for future networks from Amdocs is being redesigned. It is hoped this will allow communications and media companies to use NFV

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An open source approach to drive NFV innovation

Network functions virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networks (SDN) will play a vital role in the development and future of the telecoms industry. The hybrid network model, based on virtualised technology

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Mobile operators: How can they fail when they have so much liquid gold to drill into?

Venezuela needs a make-over doesn’t it? Perhaps the socialist utopia should be re-branded as a great metaphor for the modern mobile operator.

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Mobile network operators come out fighting

There’s a groundswell of chatter and opinion-sharing about the pressures swirling around the network; perfect storm formations of connected things, smarter devices, and 5G mobile networks, writes Gabriele Di Piazza,

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Dissonance in the world of virtualisation

A collection of thoughts has been spinning in my head over the last few weeks based on various customer visits, presentations and panel debates I have seen or participated in

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CSPs’ current NFV priorities and what they should be

One thing that is abundantly clear from network functions virtualisation (NFV) projects and pilots is that cost-cutting is the number one priority in the transition to NFV, writes Fergus Wills,

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Dissonance in the world of virtualisation

A collection of thoughts has been spinning in my head over the last few weeks based on various customer visits, presentations and panel debates I have seen or participated in

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