Software Defined Networking: exploring the benefits for communications service providers

It’s not surprising that the buzz about software-defined network has continued to gain momentum, because SDN-based offerings are maturing to meet the demands of mainstream communications service providers (CSPs). The

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Unlocking the real value of SDN/NFV: Moving toward business-ready, zero-touch Network-as-a-Service

Much attention has been paid to what SDN and NFV have done to change the potential of the communications landscape. We know it is revolutionary. We know it will be

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The Race to SDN: Making it to the Winner’s Circle

Software-defined networks (SDNs) are becoming more critical than ever to mobile network operators as a means to realise optimal network visibility, control, and maximum quality of service and experience (QoS/QoE)

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The security challenges posed by SDN’s centralised control plane and roots of trust – how attacks can be prevented

The adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to grow at a hugely impressive rate, with forecasts from IDC suggesting that the market will surge from $960 million last year

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SDN: the ‘Nerve Centre’ of the business

For the first time in business IT, the network is king. Previous generations – mainframe, PC, client-server – have been defined by and named for computing hardware.  With the cloud

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SDN and NFV – Redefining Security

It’s been a long time coming, but traditional networks are now transitioning to virtualized network functions and controllers.  Telcos, MNOs and hosting companies are all deploying SDN and NFV technologies,

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CSPs can’t save their way to greatness, new offers and services will be their salvation

Communications service providers (CSPs) need to move from a mentality of saving costs to one of creating new sources of revenue. Those can come from effective use of CSP data,

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Accedian monitoring system deployed at SK Telecom

Accedian Networks has announced the deployment of its performance monitoring system across South Korean communications service provider (CSP) SK Telecom’s mobile network. The deployment encompasses 12,000 locations across the six

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How to unlock the business potential of NFV/SDN for CSPs

Lukasz Mendyk explains how a network as a distributed cloud can reshape itself to serve customer applications more effectively

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How one OSS company was built from the need to see what happens to customers

In the second part of this interview, Anand Gonuguntla, CEO and cofounder of Centina Systems, tells VanillaPlus what drove him and his co-founders to launch an OSS company against such giant

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