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29 May, 2019

Etiya wins TM Forum excellence award for disruptive innovation

Etiya, the leading software vendor providing AI-driven Digital BSS, comprehensive telco CRM , AI solutions, as well as customer analytics to CSPs, today announced that it was selected as a winner in the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2019. Etiya received the “Disruptive Innovation Award” for its work with Fizz, a completely digital mobile and internet sub-brand that provides an online customer experience for do-it-yourself smart digital consumers.

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17 May, 2019

Welcome to BICS Capacity Solutions

Global demand for bandwidth is increasing at rates never before seen, creating a host of opportunities – but also significant challenges. With data consumption often outstripping available bandwidth – service providers need a reliable capacity partner to expand and grow. (more…)

21 January, 2019

Overcoming the Challenges of Scaling Next-Generation Fibre Services

Now more than ever, service providers are aggressively rolling out fibre to boost network performance, improve the customer experience, and offer new IP services such as Gigabit Internet, IPTV, 4K/8K video streaming, and business services. This growing fibre diet brings about new operational complexities, impacting existing back-office systems and the ability to launch and scale services quickly.

Incognito has partnered with Heavy Reading to produce a white paper based on the results of industry-first research examining the operational implications of supporting fibre services. The white paper explores service providers' network design and B/OSS strategies for supporting fibre-based services and offers regional analysis of fibre trends across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Key findings from the report include:

• Service providers are taking wide-scale approach to fibre – As much as 48 percent of service providers are replacing or overbuilding legacy networks using “brownfield” approach;
• New OSS strategies are coming – Approximately 80 percent of CSPs will retrofit or replace their OSS stack to solve the challenges of scaling fibre services;
• Fibre services will have major impact on back-off systems – Service configuration and order management top list of impacted B/OSS systems.

10 December, 2018

Orchestrating enterprise virtual networks

Verizon’s enterprise customers are seeing a huge transformation in their business with new consumer and technology trends. Consumer expectations are increasing and becoming more dynamic. E-commerce, social media, and online TV have put new requirements on the network. Enterprises need network services that scale seamlessly to meet these dynamic business needs.
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26 November, 2018

Practical steps for operators to take their roaming business to the next level

(SPONSORED) — What’s next for roaming? Changing regulations in different parts of the world, increased competition, the adoption of internet-based roaming alternatives and several other complex factors have led to a challenging environment. At a time when subscriber expectations for Quality of Experience (QoE) and overall demand for data services have reached their highest recorded levels, these factors are making many operators rethink their roaming business.
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16 November, 2018

How telcos, ISPs and hosting providers can leverage brand loyalty for profits

In the race to digital transformation, telcos, ISPs and hosting providers are under intensive pressure to perform.

Telecommunications industry executives are scrambling to migrate their organisations to the cloud, convert to 5G, integrate AI, analyse big data, adopt blockchain and not get left behind.

At the same time, their organisations are under constant scrutiny to reduce customer churn, attract new customers, cut costs and grow profit margins. It is not an easy industry to be in.

But atmail says there is some good news on the horizon, if CIOs, CMOs and Product Managers stop chasing mirages and instead look right in front of them to a product already (most likely) in their arsenal.

17 October, 2018

Consumers are willing to pay for IoT security services, new research shows

Israel-based cybersecurity company Allot recently conducted a survey on home consumers’ use of IoT devices in their homes and their attitudes towards the levels of protection associated with those appliances. (more…)

10 October, 2018

Why identifying your network of devices is key to improving security

(SPONSORED) Gartner predicts no fewer than 20.4 billion of IoT devices worldwide by 2020. This high level of connectivity also poses a lot of new risks. Home users are becoming more aware of the modern threat context, and no less than 83.3% of the CUJO AI survey respondents prefer to get full information about device vulnerability to threats. (more…)

27 September, 2018

The cloud communications opportunity

The nature of communications technology has changed, thanks to the cloud. It is helping businesses drive efficiencies, reduce costs and tap into new market opportunities, and is a growth catalyst for digital service providers, enabling them to create a global footprint.
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17 September, 2018

The next generation of connected experience

The smart home concept started out as a dream, but it turned into a mess. IoT enthusiasts were so excited that they can connect every possible item to the internet, that they forgot to ask if they should. Today we are getting closer to Gartner’s prediction of 20.4bn of connected devices, but a truly smart experience seems to be light years away. (more…)