How can the telecoms industry take advantage of the platform economy?

In less than five years, we’ve become accustomed to clicking a button on our phones to summon a ride, book a room, watch a blogger’s video or adjust our thermostats,

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Dissonance in the world of virtualisation

A collection of thoughts has been spinning in my head over the last few weeks based on various customer visits, presentations and panel debates I have seen or participated in

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Customer service doesn’t have to be the sacrificial lamb for enterprise customers looking to virtualise

Network virtualisation is imminent. Operators are poised to migrate their legacy systems and begin deploying virtual networks and services – and some in fact are already making the move.

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Arthur D. Little reveals five roll-out models for 5G

New business models are emerging as enterprises and solution providers get ready for the next generation of mobile networks, says consultancy.

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Orchestration, OSS, and Mediation: Drawing some lines

Hastened by the march towards virtualisation, there has been a growing dialogue in recent months around the question of orchestration and in which domain it will ultimately sit. Questions like

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Dissonance in the world of virtualisation

A collection of thoughts has been spinning in my head over the last few weeks based on various customer visits, presentations and panel debates I have seen or participated in

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ZTE and Ncell Axiata strengthen collaboration on network virtualisation

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecoms, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, is strengthening its collaboration with Ncell Axiata in network virtualisation.

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Cloud communications provide cost-effective alternative to traditional telecoms

The cloud is now an integrated part of most enterprise IT structures, with organisations running applications, storing and processing data, or hosting platforms in the cloud. The benefits of this

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Open source can protect your virtualised network. Here’s how.

Virtualisation has been a hot topic in telecommunications for nearly half a decade, and security concerns have remained an ever-present feature. This is not surprising given the extent to which

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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,

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