Deep Packet Inspection vendors looking to virtualisation, differentiation as hardware commoditisation takes hold

Virtualisation and differentiation are the key themes currently dominating the deep packet inspection (DPI) market, says Shira Levine, research director, service enablement and subscriber intelligence, IHS Technology.

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ZTE helps China Mobile to promote MANO interoperability across key industry vendors

ZTE Corporation, has announced a collaboration with China Mobile to promote a management and orchestration (MANO) interoperability test (IOT) across key industry vendors.

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Virtualising messaging platforms: the rise of NFV

Communications service providers (CSPs) have been successfully launching and generating revenue from messaging services for years.

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Ayscom joins Procera Networks partner programme

Ayscom has joined the Procera Premier Partner Program. Ayscom, a provider of test and monitoring solutions in Spain and Portugal, delivers complete infrastructure analytics for its service provider and enterprise

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Virtualisation means changing the approach to PoCs for both carriers and vendors

Antoine Clerget, CTO of OneAccess, argued that vendors need to radically re-think their approach to proof of concept (PoC) projects as carriers begin to plan their transition to software-defined network

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Openet announces global availability of free of charge NFV software

Openet, a global supplier of real-time BSS (business support systems), has announced the global availability of its free of charge VNF Lifecycle Manager software.

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Ultra-compact VNFs are the key to cost-effective NFV

Only the most efficient VNFs will pass the scrutiny of the operator community, argues OneAccess’ CMO, Pravin Mirchandani; the risks and costs of accepting anything different are too high.

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CSPs prepare to go mano a mano with virtualisation

Communications service providers (CSPs) face a long, complex and tiring campaign in which they will wage battles on a system-by-system basis as they roll-out network functions virtualisation (NFV). At least

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Advanced analytics-driven Service Management is a critical ‘must have’ for virtualised world

The virtualised service world of SDN and NFV will be a catalyst for service innovation, including service mashups, service blending and more as operators try to provide innovative services anytime,

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Oracle Communications application Orchestrator makes the path to NFV more agile and open for CSPs

The ultimate goal of network function virtualisation (NFV) is to support a communications world that operates with a more cost-effective and agile infrastructure. To help communications service providers (CSPs) realise

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