Operator agility is the goal and lack of it the handbrake

When looking at the virtualisation landscape in its broader sense I can’t help seeing that the real problem is agility or, rather, the lack of it, writes Pravin Mirchandani, the

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Interview with Chris Pearson, president pf 5G Americas

As Mobile World Congress in Barcelona draws near again, you know that 5G will be on people’s lips. So Jeremy Cowan of VanillaPlus.com asked Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas to shed

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Interdigital announces successful demonstration of 5G ready mmW wireless crosshaul transport

InterDigital, Inc., a mobile technology research and development company, announced the successful trial and evaluation of the company’s millimeter wave (mmW) EdgeLink™ 60GHz solution and Fast-Forward 70GHz solution that meets

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What’s the key to monetising 5G?

We may not yet know what will be the most lucrative 5G services, but it’s clear that to succeed with the next generation of mobile and become digital service providers

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ZTE selected by China Telecom for China’s first SDN-based cloud resource pool project

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, announced that it has been selected by China Telecom in the provincial cloud

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OSS and BSS are dead, long live Telco IT

It might be a bit premature to make that claim, but it’s certainly the way things are going. Elements of these once disparate support systems are increasingly reaching across from

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Skills shortages and culture conflicts hinder the world of virtual networks

As the demands facing network operators and communication service providers (CSPs) have increased, network virtualisation has garnered plenty of interest and excitement as the future for the communications sector, writes

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Huawei selected as an OpenStack supplier for Vodafone Group

Huawei announced that it has been selected by Vodafone Group as an approved vendor to supply its FusionSphere OpenStack platform, to support the operator’s global roll out of Network Functions

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Rapid SD-WAN momentum spurs Talari’s appointment of new CEO from SonicWall

SD-WAN company Talari Networks has named former SonicWall executive Patrick Sweeney as chief executive officer. Sweeney brings a wealth of executive operating experience in high-growth network infrastructure markets, having served in

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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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