The white-box CPE: Separating myths from reality

In the world of customer premises equipment (CPE), the white-box is a new idea. It should then come as no surprise that misconceptions among operators and CSPs about what constitutes

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NETCONF/YANG – Orchestrating the network beyond the NFVI boundary

A key promise of SDN/NFV is to enable service providers to offer innovative, on-demand enterprise services with unprecedented flexibility. Building a network capable of delivering flexible, dynamic, customer-tailored services, is

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OneAccess Networks unveils open ready-to-go virtualisation solutions for service providers

OneAccess Networks has unveiled carrier-grade physical and virtual network functions that enable service providers to deploy NFV today in an open and interoperable environment.

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Patton enters SDN/NFV arena with virtual eSBC and now seeks alpha partners

Patton Electronics, a US-based manufacturer of unified communications (UC), cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT) enabling solutions for carrier, enterprise and industrial networks, has entered the software defined networks (SDN)

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The Adele Hello Effect – Using real-time analytics to dynamically assure network services

What do a Grammy award-winning musician’s newest music video and a home security system have in common? When one explodes in popularity, the other might suffer outages, delays and technical

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Redknee Unified 2016 addresses growing demand for monetising digital services

Redknee Solutions Inc. a provider of real-time monetisation and subscriber management software, was pleased to announce the launch of Redknee Unified 2016, the latest release of its end-to-end real-time monetisation software

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NFV: Meeting customer needs beyond revenue and cost

To date, much of the discussion around the business benefits of NFV has focussed on cost savings. Certainly, significant OPEX and TCO savings can be made by adopting NFV –

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Openet to provide free of charge NFV software in initiative to promote interoperability and openness

Openet has announced that its OVLM (Openet VNF Lifecycle Manager) software will be made available free of charge from March 2016. This initiative will enable the adoption of vendor-interchangeable and interoperable

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Virtually there: stepping stones to NFV

“Change is good,” the saying goes. Yet the more significant and transformational that change is, the more questions it can raise about the best way to proceed – what to

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Enabling agile, open, cloud-based NFV

The ground is shifting under telcos and service providers. Many operators have now embraced virtualisation as a tool for increasing operational agility. But first-generation solutions for network application virtualisation —

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