Verizon deploys more than 8,000 VRAN cell sites, marches towards goal of 20,000

New York, United States – Verizon, the provider in virtualised radio access network (VRAN) innovation, has now deployed over 8,000 virtualised cell sites with a goal of deploying over 20,000 by

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As US Govt warns telcos about hacking breaches, SecurityGen urges MNOs to revise security and upgrade network defences

Earlier this month, multiple US Government security agencies warned that hackers breached major telecoms companies by exploiting software flaws in routers and other network infrastructure equipment. Warnings came from the

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Enterprises must address engineer training to make NetOps a success

New research commissioned by Opengear spanning the UK, the U.S., France, and Germany has found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of network managers, network architects, and network engineers said their organisations

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How enterprises can fast-track branch virtualisation and achieve major CapEx and OpEx savings

Virtualising branch network infrastructure can save Enterprises a fortune on equipment, maintenance, and support costs while ensuring “always-on” access to critical business applications. But replacing physical devices with virtualised network

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GSMA Telco Edge Cloud turns to MobiledgeX to take ownership of the edge marketplace

With the recent announcement that China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Singtel, SK Telecom, Telefonica and TIM are working together, with the support of GSMA, to develop an interoperable

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SD-WAN is a lever in the door for the new world of software-defined telecoms says Verizon’s Cantor

Oliver Cantor is associate director of product strategy at Verizon and is focused on communicating the company’s software defined and virtualisation strategy to enterprise customers. The emergence of these technologies

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Maintain visibility into the new mobile reality

The rapid explosion of over-the-top (OTT) services has forever changed the business model of mobile operators globally, writes John English, the director of marketing for service provider solutions at NETSCOUT.

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A lesson in VNF standardisation

Virtual network functions (VNFs) are based on the principle of running a network function using software that is decoupled from the underlying hardware, and is a key component of network

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How to assure networks in virtual environments

Service providers everywhere are increasingly turning to virtualisation, writes John English, the senior product manager for service providers at NETSCOUT. In an effort to gain control of service creation, innovate

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Why machine learning is helping the move from hindsight to foresight

It’s a pretty safe bet to say that former US President Theodore Roosevelt would have loved machine learning, writes Derek Canfield, the general manager for Business Analytics at TEOCO.  He

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