Hello from the other side – the customer benefits of NFV

Communications service providers (CSPs) should start their network functions virtualisation (NFV) charm offensives now, writes Pravin Mirchandani, the chief marketing officer of OneAccess Networks.

Read more

The challenge of comms education, and what the Internet of Things will do next

Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN’s chief technology officer for EMEA and APAC, is a provider of light in the software-defined access space and chairman of the FTTH Council. Here he tells us

Read more

NFV the right way – a cloud native foundation for a 5G future

There is little doubt in the telecoms industry that network functions virtualisation (NFV) will be the foundation for communications networks of the future. But for NFV to deliver the benefits

Read more

How to seize the pervasive network opportunity

Analyst firm Gartner forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be used worldwide this year. This will increase as we move into 2018 and beyond, and with that growth comes unprecedented

Read more

CENX gains TM Forum Frameworx Conformance certification

TM Forum, the global industry association for digital business, has awarded Ottawa, Canada-based CENX the TM Forum Frameworx™ Conformance Certification for the 6.1 version of its namesake product.

Read more

Netrounds added to Cisco SolutionsPlus programme to enable deployment of automated network assurance

Netrounds has become an official member of the Cisco SolutionsPlus programme. This means that CSPs worldwide are able to approach Cisco and approved Cisco partners to purchase Netrounds as a

Read more

3 Hong Kong to deploy Huawei’s Advanced Network Technologies in build-up to high-speed, high-capacity 5G

3 Hong Kong, the mobile communications division of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Ltd, and China-based Huawei have announced plans for a series of network upgrades.

Read more

Software rewrites the rules for CSPs

As the momentum around software-defined technologies continues to grow within the telecoms sector, one universal truth is becoming increasingly clear. Massive cultural, infrastructural and organisational transformation needs to take place,

Read more

Web-based interface to ease creation of VNF service chains for operators and MSPs launched by OneAccess Networks

OneAccess Networks has launched OVP Design Studio, said to be a time-saving software tool that enables communication service providers (CSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to accelerate the creation and

Read more

Genband’s Fuller appointed to chair ETSI’s Interfaces and Architectures NFV working group

Genband™, a provider of real time communications software solutions, has announced that Jeremy Fuller, senior principal of Technology and Global Standards in Genband’s Office of the CTO, has been appointed

Read more