Beyond the Network – Delivering Security Everywhere to Everyone All the Time

Event date: December 13th, 2017

The recipe for rolling out security value added services to the mass market, has long eluded service providers.

For the first time, a secure mobile network and endpoints deliver a multi-layered, unified security solution to provide operators and their customers with the best of both worlds. McAfee and Allot’s unified solution includes built-in on-boarding capabilities for mass activation of Opt-in and Opt-out try-and-buy campaigns, saving significant marketing costs. (more…)

Webinar Review: Microservices are everywhere what can CSPs learn from IT?

Communications service providers (CSPs) are in a critical period of transformation as they move from being traditional providers of connectivity to become providers of a new portfolio of higher value services across the digital value chain. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models and further driving up demands on the networks and virtualisation of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to enable the agility required to meet the increasing and evolving service demands.

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Less is More: operators must evolve their network and IT monitoring tools towards a unified service assurance platform

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Modernising the legacy service operations is the aspiration of carriers and enterprises.

Today’s environment however, is becoming extremely complex with new challenges in managing multi-cloud environments along with virtual, physical and hybrid networks based on NFV and SDN strategies, that require new operational technologies to support them. (more…)

Microservices are everywhere: What CSPs can learn from IT

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CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet the increasing and evolving service demands. As vendors and CSPs are faced with building these virtualized systems, it’s imperative to look at the software engineering methodologies that the IT industry has successfully applied to challenges at comparable scale. (more…)

Webinar Review: 5G transformation necessitates individualised approaches and integrated strategies

Is it really too early to think about 5G deployment? For many it might seem so and it’s certainly a reasonable question to consider at this stage. However, even though standards aren’t set yet, the transformation required is so complex and multi-layered that now really is the time to get started, if you haven’t already done so. 5G is not simply another radio interface offering more capacity. It requires a lot of preparation in both business strategy and on the network side. (more…)

Why, how and when to invest in 5G

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Is it really too early to think about 5G deployment?

For many it might seem so. However, even though standards aren’t set yet, the transformation required is so complex and multi-layered that now really is the time to get started, if you haven’t already done so. (more…)

Webinar Review: Surviving IoT: How CSPs can thrive in the next industrial revolution

The Internet of Things (IoT) era is finally upon us but for those in the telecoms industry, the advent of IoT is creating anxiety. However, as we explored in a recent VanillaPlus webinar, there’s no reason for communications service providers (CSPs) to be afraid. In fact, IoT ushers in a new world of opportunity, which is at least partly reliant on an old world of telecoms expertise. (more…)

Service assurance in the era of NFV/SDN: adapting to the evolving hybrid telecommunications network

The introduction of NFV and SDN will result in a new hybrid telecommunications networking infrastructure with co-existing physical and virtual network components. This transformation will create new requirements for service assurance that legacy software cannot easily fulfill. (more…)

Surviving IoT: How Telcos Can Thrive in the “Next Industrial Revolution”

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The Internet of Things (IoT) era is finally upon us. For those in the telecommunications industry, the advent of IoT is creating anxiety – but fear not – it creates a new wave of business opportunities.

While many of the pieces are already in place for you to move forward in this new era, there are some important caveats to keep in mind if you want to truly thrive in the age of IoT.  (more…)

The role of service assurance in hybrid and NFV networks

Event date: August 30, 2016
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Over the past years, we have witnessed how Service Assurance practices of CSPs have started to transform from network oriented to service and eventually customer-oriented operations. One of the newest key elements in this transformation is the introduction of end-to-end analytics, including geo-location, radio network, on-device, signaling, and user data and transmission analytics. (more…)