The expectations for generative artificial intelligence in the telecom space are high: McKinsey & Co. says gen AI could revitalize telco profitability; Ericsson says that it is already transforming the industry. The applications of gen AI are manifesting in customer care chatbots and more...
Spirent is already taking steps to automate service assurance in carrier networks
At the recent Test & Measurement Forum, Spirent Communications Senior Director of Assurance Strategy Ross Cassan laid out key networking trends that are impacting service assurance and how the company is amending its...
In this episode of Will 5G Change the World? NETSCOUT's Greg Mayo, senior director of engineering, looks at where 5G is (in terms of successes and areas for improvement) after five years in what is typically a 10-year generational cycle. He discusses what the...
The telecom industry always expected that taking the next step in 5G network evolution, moving to full 5G Standalone (5G SA) networks, would be a heavy lift. And indeed, 5G SA network deployments saw sluggish growth last year, largely due to the technical challenges...
Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...
Considerations include operational readiness, business case development and go-to-market strategy
A logical, virtual, end-to-end network slice that automatically comes into being to serve the exacting requirements of a particular horizontal or vertical use case—that’s a big part of the vision of 5G and the monetization...
Cisco has announced plans to buy out private-equity-backed network monitoring and assurance company Accedian, which has been partnering with the IT and networking giant on assurance for telco networks.
Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, and the transaction is expected to...
With the move to a service-based architecture, what does it take for operators to become cloud native?
With meaningful new 5G revenues failing to materialize with the Non-standalone architecture, operators are now increasingly moving to a 5G Standalone service-based architecture. In this transition, there are...
The three (not so) easy pieces of 5G service assurance—orchestration, the edge, and end-to-end visibility
Here’s a hypothetical: A manufacturing enterprise has looked at its options for gaining production efficiencies and opted to use various video analytics backed by private 5G. A partner is engaged,...
Swisscom is putting the 'world-first' tech to work in its newly deployed 5G network, Ericsson said
Ericsson on Tuesday announced a collaboration with network performance app developer Netscout and Swiss telco Swisscom, to produce a new cloud-based solution aimed at “dramatically increasing” 5G service assurance,...
Adaptive Service Assurance correlates quality KPIs with Amazon CloudWatch telemetry, EXFO said
Network testing and monitoring solution vendor EXFO on Monday announced that its Adaptive Service Assurance (ASA) solution is available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The product makes it easier for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to...
VMware’s telco cloud automation and service assurance offerings also get new features and enhancements
VMware on Thursday announced changes to its telco cloud portfolio that it says will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with modernization efforts around 5G, Radio Access Network (RAN) and edge computing deployments. The...
Now Platform Tokyo gets telco features “with service delivery, care, and assurance in mind”
Enterprise workflow management software maker ServiceNow has announced the release of Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI), a workflow management solution to help telco network engineers design and build network resources and services. TNI is...
5G RF planning helps to drive Netscout's quarterly revenue
Network assurance and security company Netscout reported revenue gains of nearly 10% for the quarter ending June 30 and narrowed its net loss compared to a year ago.
President and CEO Anil Singhal told analysts on...
5G is a "strong, enduring growth driver," Spirent says
Spirent Communications saw strong performance and record orders during the first half of the year, driven by 5G and its targeting of new customers such as hyperscalers with assurance solutions.
CEO Eric Updyke said in a...
Scaling up to the cloud is about being smarter, not working harder
5G Standalone (SA) requires a fundamentally cloud-native approach. The 5G core is built on cloud-native principles, designed to provide flexibility and scale. This approach increases carrier agility, but at the same time, going cloud-native...
Service providers have to deal with increasing complexity in their networks and services, amid what have been highly manual and ponderous service assurance deployments that almost inevitably result in visibility gaps and too much data that needs highly skilled human interpretation to resolve issues.
As...
The move to Standalone 5G means technological and organizational changes with the latter perhaps more difficult
As some operators begin to operationalize Standalone 5G, it’s clear there are different strategies, based on spectrum deployment, network modernization and other factors, that inform this key network evolution....
Network testing company EXFO has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, focused on adaptive service assurance for a 5G world.
Specifically, EXFO's Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution is now available as a Red Hat-certified container, which can be deployed on Red Hat's...
T-Mobile US and AT&T are duking it out over performance honors in recently released network testing.
Global Wireless Solutions, which released its annual national report that included testing in nearly 500 markets across 50 states, concluded that AT&T had the best national network, followed...
Amid an evolving carrier perspective on leveraging the public cloud for telecom networks, Anritsu is deploying its mobile network service assurance solutions on AWS' public cloud.
The AWS news comes after Anritsu announced in June that it had landed 5G SA service assurance contract wins...
