The vast majority of CSPs have digitally transformed the systems and automated many of the processes to support their B2C customers. Many are now turning their attention to transforming the systems that they use to support their B2B customers.
Here is where they find many...
In a more open and flexible network environment, the attack surface has been 'opened up'
Emerging technologies like cloud, edge and AI represent serious opportunities for telcos when it comes to network performance, efficiency and potential new revenue streams; however, they also present a host...
Reality or just a dream: how will AI, automation, and cloud technologies help communication service providers (CSPs) lower network energy costs 25% by 2025?
How can cloud-native operations and CI/CD simplify and accelerate sustainability efforts for CSPs, especially in optimizing energy usage in the RAN?
What...
Spirent Communications has landed a contract to modernize and automate a global network of test laboratories for a financial services organization.
The project, which kicks off in December, puts Spirent in the position of designing, installing and configuring the unnamed company's new, automated testing...
Understand the key requirements for establishing a CI/CD/CT pipeline to manage Open RAN
Beyond just opening up radio system interfaces to connect hardware and software components from different vendors, one of the big ideas of Open RAN is the parallel move to cloud-based environments and...
DevOps have been making the rounds in many technology-driven industries. Ever since the concept was introduced in the late 2000s, it has meant many different yet related things. For some, it’s a new buzzword; for others, it’s an essential part of software development.
As the...
A distributed network architecture requires distributed OSS/BSS functionality
As it considers the move from 5G Non-standalone to 5G Standalone, alongside deployment of mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructure, Three UK is mindful of the concurrent need to evolve OSS/BSS functionality. Speaking at the recent Telco Cloud...
With the Verizon Cloud Platform and virtualization learnings, the operator sees “a distinct competitive advantage”
Verizon has virtualized more than 10,000 cell sites so far, and is working toward a goal of bringing vRAN to more than 20,000 sites by the end of 2025. In...
Fujitsu highlights Open RAN security and service management and orchestration at Mobile World Congress 2023
Open RAN progress, both as an ideological movement and a specific set of interoperable, standards-based technologies, was on display this year at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. Evidenced by...
When you can continuously test network software, how does RF testing also need to change?
CI/CD is a tool of the IT world, of hyperscalers. Mobile network operators have worked for years to remake themselves in that image, to become software-centric in order to achieve...
Vital network functions are moving from hardware to virtualized software instances, and those software instances are increasingly being deployed in cloud environments. The goal is to give operators access to the scale, economics and innovative potential associated with the cloud.
But, in a new paradigm...
When bringing CT to live networks, it’s important to build and design for this framework from day one
The move towards continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment or CI/CD and continuous testing (CT) is part of the telecom industry’s larger push for full automation. According to...
Vital network functions are moving from hardware to virtualized software instances, and those software instances are increasingly being deployed in cloud environments. The goal is to give operators access to the scale, economics and innovative potential associated with the cloud.
But, in a new paradigm...
What is the changing paradigm for communications service providers in terms of software integration and deployment, particularly the concept of CI/CD? It comes down to three aspects.
More network software, deployed from core to edge and RAN. Kalyan Sundhar, vice president and general manager for...
