Seize the Opportunity While You Still Can
The ongoing transformation of business communications presents significant opportunities for wireline and wireless carriers, but also great risk. The revenue opportunity is enormous. Carriers who don’t act to seize this opportunity risk losing it to a growing competitive...
Affirmed Networks, Procera, ACG Research, Vasona weigh-in on NFV
Network functions virtualization has come a long way in the last year, according to experts, who have noted movement from discussion to actual deployments on live networks.
ACG Research CEO Ray Mota joined Affirmed Networks CEO Hassan...
AT&T, Telit, ARM, F-Secure talk IoT during Mobile World Congress
The "Internet of Things" promises to change the way we all live and work, according to myriad discussions during the recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain.
Consumer and industrial use cases are taking shape...
The Japanese firm plans to start deploying the NFV technology on its network this month
NTT DoCoMo said it has completed development of what it claims to be the world's first network function virtualization technology that can run evolved packet core software from multiple vendors.
NTT...
Amdocs aims to reach double-digit growth across target regions in 2016
North America remains the key market for Amdocs despite increasing growth from other emerging markets, according to Vincent Rousselet, VP for customer insight and strategy at the company.
According to the company’s latest financial report, North America...
Eagerly anticipated in the communications ecosystem is The Telecom Council's annual Innovation Showcase. This year, on March 18 in the Juniper Aspiration Dome, 20 early-stage communication start-ups, selected by telco judges for their innovation, momentum, viability and management will meet with strategic fitting telcos, vendors, investors and potential...
Redknee is an IIoT technology enablement platform processing 3 billion to 4 billion transactions every hour
Redknee Solutions (TSX: RKN) CEO Lucas Skoczkowski provides RCR Wireless News with an overview of how Redknee enables industrial IoT solutions as well as an update on the progress the company...
Firms explain the MEC demo taps edge video orchestration to support streaming content
Nokia Networks and U.K.-based operator EE demonstrated a pair of mobile edge computing-enabled services run over a MEC-enabled network at the recent Mobile World Congress event.
The demonstrations included the use of edge...
Cisco and Ericsson claim expanded business opportunities 3 months after announcing wide-ranging partnership
Cisco and Ericsson announced some progress on their “next-generation strategic partnership” that has led to “new and expanded business opportunities.” Those opportunities have reportedly come from their respective sales forces going to...
Software migration gaining strength, paying customers; allowed AT&T unlimited data move
AT&T Mobility surprised many earlier this year when it re-entered the “unlimited” mobile data game, launching new rate plans tied to AT&T’s $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV. The telecom giant this week noted the...
Korean telco plans to unveil 5G device prototype
BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operator SK Telecom and Nokia Networks claimed a network test resulting in over-the-air transmission speeds of 20.5 gigabits per second at this week's Mobile World Congress event. SK Telecom said the test meets...
5G vision is to connect all the things in the world to all the clouds in the world
BARCELONA, Spain – “We want to connect all these devices in the world, through a network, to all the clouds in the world,” said Ulf Ewaldsson, SVP,...
Key partners include Ericsson, Nokia, Verizon and Korean carriers
BARCELONA, Spain – Intel announced partnerships with telecom operators and vendors designed to to pave the way for the deployment of smarter and more efficient "5G" wireless networks. Intel said efforts towards the provisioning of innovative...
ICT development accelerates innovation. Enterprises need efficient, reliable, elastic ICT services for quicker market expansion, more agile innovation, and higher productivity.
Strategic Opportunities for Operators in an ICT Transformation
Growth in traditional operator services is plateauing. The demand for voice, SMS, and video call services has...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Gigamon about visibility fabric needed for NFV deployments
On today’s show we have an interview with Andy Huckridge, head of service provider practice...
The move to real-time processing and virtualization is widening the opportunities for service and revenue generation, improving QoE by managing mobile traffic more efficiently and optimizing the use of the existing RAN infrastructure. The report assesses how new technologies and solutions are changing the...
Redefining real time mobile communications with disruptive, cloud-based solutions from GENBAND
Powerful cloud-based software solutions, coupled with increasingly virtualized network functionality, will define the next wave of disruptive innovation. These tools, if strategically deployed, allow communications service providers (CSPs) to rapidly bring new applications to...
Firms looking to boost MEC technology advances, promise PoC demo at MWC
The mobile edge computing space is set to receive a boost as Quortus and Applied Computer Solutions said they plan to partner on technology supporting MEC, with plans for a proof of concept...
A conversation about end-to-end optimization with Adrian Di Meo, CTO, Telefonica Argentina
Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report.
In our final interview for the “Getting the best QoE” report, we talked to Adrian Di Meo,...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Cloudera on CSPs adopting Apache Hadoop open source technology
On today’s show we have an interview with Vijay Raja, solutions marketing manager at...
Leverage big data to enable agility and transformation
Some see it as a threat to business, others see it as a huge business opportunity: digital disruption. But what does digital disruption mean?
It describes the digital developments in technology that impact existing products, services and business...
The latest beta version of Apple's iOS 9.3 includes support for Voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) for Verizon Wireless subscribers.
On the device side, Apple iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus all support the new VoWi-Fi service.
Essentially, if VoWi-Fi is enabled, the handset...
The move to real-time processing and virtualization is widening the opportunities for service and revenue generation, improving QoE by managing mobile traffic more efficiently and optimizing the use of the existing RAN infrastructure.
This webinar will assess how new technologies and solutions are changing the...
Telecom operators are increasingly turning to the cloud as a cost-effective way to provide enterprise customers with the scalable compute, storage and other functionality needed to remain competitive.
As more and more secure data crosses between telecom networks from private to public and hybrid cloud...