The new convergent charging solution combines Amdocs and Openet expertise, said the company
This week, Amdocs unveiled Amdocs Charging, a new charging solution that the company says will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) get a faster return on their 5G investments. The company says the new...
Amdocs gaining deeper bench in 5G policy, charging and data management
Amdocs announced on July 23 it will acquire Openet for $180 million with the transaction slated for completion before the end of the year. Amdocs, which counts more than 350 service provider customers around...
Orange and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have demonstrated 5G network slicing in a robot-powered Industry 4.0 setup. The pair said they will expand the demo into an “end-to-end campus trial” as they plot its broader availability. HPE has also announced a new 5G lab...
As the 5G digital services race begins, we now find communication service providers (CSPs) at various stages of planning, designing or deploying new infrastructure. The range of potential 5G use cases are huge. Everything from gaming to smart factories to VR-based entertainment. Unlike in...
In a new step toward an ecosystem for standalone 5G, Samsung has demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability in a 5G SA core.
Samsung has been collaborating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Openet on its 5G SA core, and the three companies said that they have achieved "successful...
Orange Poland virtualizes business and customer support systems to compete in digital market
Openet, Ireland’s largest privately held tech firm that develops software for telecom service providers, recently announced Orange Poland, a Polish telecommunications provider, has started using virtualized versions of its policy manager and...
Big data and how telecom operators can extract information from their growing collection of services is set to determine success in the market.
AT&T’s recent announcement that it is to acquire Time Warner for the eye-watering sum of $85 billion underlines two things:...
OPNFV project adds members as it plans for second release scheduled for next month
The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform Network Function Virtualization Project claimed a trio of new members as it looks to bolster its focus on “carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform intended to...
Openet claims free access to its open software designed to hasten NFV adoption
Business support systems platform provider Openet is planning to offer its VNF Lifecycle Manager software for free beginning in March.
Openet said beginning March 31, it will provide free access to the software...
Openet predicts content partnerships, Wi-Fi, BSS and NFV will alter mobile space in 2016
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Content partnerships 2.0
Data...
The number of traditional “pure-play” mobile operators is in decline as global consolidation continues at pace. Despite declining operator numbers, competition has never been so fierce – it’s just coming from non-traditional players in the market. The battle between operators and over-the-top players is...
One of the biggest challenges facing communications service providers today is how to best monetize mobile data and avoid data becoming a commodity. To do so effectively, CSPs need to look at the value that data enables and not just think of pricing based...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we talked with Thomas Vasen, subscriber experience evangelist at Procera Networks, and Gerry Donohoe, director of solutions engineering at Openet, about the impact network functions virtualization is having on policy and charging systems.
https://youtu.be/T7klZF6g8Ao
With virtualization already...
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