In conversation with Rakuten Group CTO Tareq Amin
Q: In describing your vision for network automation, you’ve used the analogy of Level 4 autonomous driving for vehicles. Could you give an overview of to what degree your network operations are currently benefiting from automation and...
A data-first approach to operational excellence
As operators consider any type of artificial intelligence- or machine learning-based network automation projects, "Everything comes back to data," according to Damion Rose, senior product manager of mobile signaling and data analytics at BICS. "Using machine learning starts with...
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Marisa Viveros, IBM (Ep. 31)
IBM's Marisa Viveros, vice president of strategy and offerings for telecom, media and entertainment, discusses the combination of 5G, network automation and mobile edge computing, and gives some insight into increasingly...
As is always the case this time of year, trade publications are rife with prediction pieces examining trends to watch in the new year. A review of the telecoms landscape comes up with a number of 5G-related watch words with stand outs including edge...
As Will Rogers once said, “You’ll never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” This statement alone sets the bar for Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings that all successful enterprises should strive to meet. SaaS companies are all around us,...
The main priority of any Communications Service Provider (CSP) is to consistently meet the demands and concerns of its customers, but this is becoming more difficult to do as the rate of new technologies continues to expand. To address this accelerating rate of change,...
Investment in the edge enables ISPs to offer a wide range of new services while creating more efficient network operations and infrastructure. But, with the attack landscape more volatile than ever, service providers will need to evolve their security strategies in 2021.
Over the past...
Nokia announces cross-domain–core, transport and RAN–automated network slicing solutions
The ability to autonomously orchestrate and manage a network slice extending from an operator's EPC or cloud-native core, across the transport network and through the RAN, is seen as key to supporting the type of differentiated,...
Partnership includes Open RAN and a drive toward advanced network automation
As it continues to pursue integration of Open RAN technologies into its multi-national network footprint, Telefónica Global CTIO Enrique Blanco and Rakuten Mobile CTO and CAO Tareq Amin discussed a newly announced partnership that...
Business demands are changing rapidly and communications service providers (CSPs) are struggling keep pace. In order to manage keep on top of and manage the demands of their customers, CSPs require automation of service and network operations.
As we’re catapulted faster than expected into a...
As many Communications Service Providers (CSPs) express interest in the potential of automation across the end-to-end network lifecycle as a critical element to reinforce and provide 5G and DevOps, it’s fair to say that digital transformation has become a prevalent topic of discussion.
But while...
Given the hype, you would be forgiven for thinking that the concept of network slicing is completely new. Truth be told, network slicing ‒ at least in the radio path ‒ has been used in 4G for years and was arguably present in earlier...
It's become almost a mantra in the industry: 5G is the promised land. However, due to burgeoning Opex and Capex cost-effective 5G deployment will make automation a necessity without which the promised land cannot be reached. Automation is absolutely crucial to address the deployment...
Nokia: 5G will require substantially more operations automation than past networks
Nokia said it's showing up to MWC 2020 with a whole suite of supplier-agnostic network management tools to deliver better automation for 5G networks. The tools, designed to provide communication service providers (CSPs) with...
CTO discusses the operator’s 5G strategy, network automation tools
ZURICH--In the past six years, Finnish operator Elisa has seen its subscriber base increase consumption of mobile data by a factor of 11, amounting to around 25 GB of mobile data per month and 172 GB...
A closer look at network automation investments from T-Mobile
The complexity of 5G network management and service delivery will require network automation. In turn, network automation and the ability to develop and launch services on the fly will require operators to re-orient their workforces, merging...
Increasingly complex networks, being built today to ultimately support billions of devices and dynamically provision the appropriate level of service, require network automation solutions to operate. And this paradigm will only compound as 5G matures and consumer and enterprise uptake creates a surge in...
NEW ORLEANS--Automation, broadly speaking, is meant to replace manual processes with complex systems to collect, analyze and take action on data inputs. This will certainly have major implications for the global workforce but, when we focus more narrowly on network automation, it can be...
EXFO discusses the step-by-step move toward network automation
The complexity of future 5G networks, simultaneously handling consumer, enterprise and machine-based data transmission, requires investments in network automation. But, as operators take a step-by-step to automating operational processes, the rewards are clear but the risks are...
DevOps reorgs are consistent challenge to network automation efforts
Operators around the world are rolling out commercial 5G services with a current focus on delivering an enhanced mobile broadband experience to consumers with compatible devices. But, as the technology set matures and the specifications for...
Network Application Programming Interface (API) and programmability are transforming how businesses consume connectivity and the way service providers interconnect.
The role of API has changed the way network services are being delivered. In Software-Defined Networking (SDN), API enables greater orchestration and automation of the network,...
Make the switch to 5G easy by adopting artificial intelligence in your networks
As 5G networks are lit up in urban cores and devices begin to hit the market, consumers are already seeing upward of 1 Gbps per second over the air. AND that’s just...
Real-time 5G analytics drive service assurance from fiber to applications
Given the multi-year hype cycle that's finally coming to fruition with operator deployments, 5G has a lot to live up to. As such, it's important that the network delivers what it's supposed to, according to...
Network monitoring and visualization deal to support CSP's network integration and automation
As EXFO reported its quarterly results today, the company also dropped the news that it has won a deal worth $4.9 million with an unnamed Tier One service provider in the U.S., to...
