Service assurance platform updated for speed, built-in analytics, lower infrastructure costs, and better visualisation

TEOCO, a provider of planning and optimisation, assurance and analytics solutions to more than 300 communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide, today released Helix 11, the latest version of its Service

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Increasing numbers of NPMD tools are a problem for SMBs

Over the past few years the network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) industry has developed more and more specialized tools for specific network functions, writes Joe O’Connor, the senior vice

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The road ahead – Facing the reality of the network operations journey to automation

Automation has long been the goal of every operator and seen as a required capability to support network evolution and technology advancement. Many of the service innovations that are being

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New Linux-based middleware designed for CSPs to host, chain and manage multiple vendors’ VNFs

The Open Virtualisation Platform (OVP) has been unveiled by OneAccess Networks. It is a Linux-based middleware platform that enables operators to perform full lifecycle management of OneAccess’ own virtualised network functions

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How to level the playing field with SDN

Waving an SDN (Software Defined Networking) magic wand over traditional network operator infrastructure to make it ‘just like OTT’ is a good deal easier said than done.

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Don’t neglect security during network transition and transformation

“MPLS is dead!”, declared the CTO I was meeting at the headquarters of a publishing company in New York.  It was clear that he had bought into the current fashion

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The difference between SIEM and UBA

The latest 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report indicates that insider threats continue to be a top security concern. As employees go rogue, one effective insider threat prevention technology that

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