Canonical’s Charmed OSM is helping VMO2 to rapidly onboard new telco cloud network functions
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced Thursday that U.K. Communication Service Provider (CSP) Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has chosen Canonical’s Charmed OSM as the telco’s orchestrator for hybrid workload deployments. Charmed OSM eases CSPs’ transition...
As communications service providers (CSPs) continue to transition their networks to a virtualized environment, for the next several years, they’ll be operating their legacy physical network in tandem. The resulting hybrid network environment demands higher efficiency and interoperability in the provisioning and deployment of...
Lack of stability markets early NFV MANO deployments, analyst says
Network functions virtualization (NFV) has made significant progress moving from lab tests to early deployments over the last few years, but not without its share of hurdles. David Snow, a principal analyst of IP services...
ETSI Open Source MANO initiative swells to 60 organizations with arrival of Verizon, Atos and CableLabs as new members.
Verizon Communications is one of the latest telecommunication operators to join the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO project, which is focused...
QoE regulations, IoT security challenges and the expansion of zero-rated data services set for 2017.
Editor’s Note: With 2017 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from across the mobile telecommunications space on what they expect to see in the...
Current Analysis report touts Netcracker as current leader among 9 vendors, with Cisco, HPW and Nokia seen as ‘very strong’ in NFV MANO
The network functions virtualization management and network orchestration space has witnessed significant progress over the past year in terms of serving the...
