NICE, France--In an exclusive interview with TM Forum Vice President of Strategic Programs Carl Piva, RCR Wireless News learned about the group's growing emphasis on smart cities technology, as well as the outlook for adoption, potential pitfalls and more.
Although not specifically defined, smart cities...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with TM Forum on deployment and operational challenges in connecting NFV islands
Virtualization platforms using network functions virtualization and software-defined networking technologies continue a slow roll out across telecom network operations. The current pace is being impacted...
On this week's show we look at how open source is impacting NFV and SDN deployments and top stories from the past week
Open source continues to be a growing influence on the rollout of software deployments across the telecom space, with a greater focus...
The expanding B/OSS software firm is bringing its unique take on the configure, price, quote process to the global communications service provider market.
As the communications service provider space becomes increasingly crowded and competitive, retaining customers and reducing churn are paramount to business success. With...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we talked with Ken Dilbeck, head of collaboration program at the TM Forum on moving NFV and SDN from hype to reality
Few would argue that network functions virtualization, software-defined networking, cloud and the overall virtualization market has seen...
On this week's NFV/SDN Reality Check, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the recent TM Forum Live event held in Nice, France.
Network functions virtualization, software-defined networking, cloud, big data and smart cities were major themes at the recent TM Forum Live event,...
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This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney takes a look at news from the annual TM Forum Live telecom software exhibition held in Nice, France.
https://youtu.be/0kXiDz0r_1E
Included is a segment with Ericsson...
Smart city initiatives focus at annual software showcase
NICE, France – As the "Internet of Things" revolution picks up and previously static objects are given intelligence, smart cities appear poised to push broad quality-of-life improvements in connected urban areas.
This trend was reinforced at TM Forum...
NICE, France – The heart of the TM Forum Live show this year was the Catalyst demonstrations that allowed companies to show off the innovations they have been working on in categories such as Network Function Virtualization and big data analysis. On Thursday, the...
NICE, France – RCR Wireless News editorial team members provide a video recap of news coming out of the TM Forum Live telecom software exhibition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGI0wGMpgp8&feature=youtu.be
TM Forum is an industry trade association that brings together communications service providers and vendors to discuss the latest in...
NICE, France – RCR Wireless News editorial team members provide a video recap of news coming out of the TM Forum Live telecom software exhibition.
https://youtu.be/kbWNWDvbnCQ
TM Forum is an industry trade association that brings together communications service providers and vendors to discuss the latest in...
Facebook offers hosted platform in move to connect the unconnected
NICE, France – The TM Forum scored a significant membership win this week with social media giant Facebook joining the organization in a move to increase collaboration with telecom providers and expand its Internet.org initiative....
TM Forum handed out awards to Verizon, China Unicom and Huawei at its Live event
NICE, France – Verizon Communications, China Unicom and Huawei and were among a handful of companies that walked away as winners of TM Forum’s Excellence Awards presented this week at...
Analysts highlight telecom network virtualization plan challenges
NICE, France – Few argue that the telecom world in some capacity is moving toward a virtualized future led by network functions virtualization, software-defined networking and cloud, but even fewer would argue that the hurdles in place toward...
IoT will require 5G, NFV
NICE, France – Predictions are always a tricky proposition, even more so in the telecom market where unpredictable change is the name of the game. Despite the inherent risk, Ken Dilbeck, VP of collaboration research and development at the TM...
TM Forum Live event set to showcase NFV, SDN and IoT advances
Advances in software technology are expected to be main talking points at the upcoming TM Forum Live event in Nice, France. Those advances include telecom operators beginning to move toward virtualization platforms as...
I recently had an opportunity to speak with Nik Willetts, chief digital officer for the TM Forum organization about its vision for the digital business landscape. If you aren’t familiar with the TM Forum, it is a nonprofit industry association focused on working with its...
Trade organization TM Forum recently announced a management change that saw interim president and CEO Bill Ahlstrom cede his leadership position to board member Peter Sany.
The organization noted the move would help it further its goal of promoting the transformation of its member companies,...
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Few would argue that NFV has become the talk of the telecom space, with vendors, operators, standards groups and industry analysts all working on getting a handle on and advancing the move towards software-based network virtualization.
RCR Wireless News spoke with Ken Dilbeck, VP of...
NICE, France – Service assurance has been an ongoing focus of software providers looking to help telecommunication operators to better manage and monetize their network assets. This support typically includes solutions that enable operators to better understand what is happening across their networks so...
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Big data and analytics were top-of-mind at TM Forum's conference in Nice and across the industry this week, with several major platform announcements aimed at telcos.
Steve Hateley, head of marketing at Comptel, told RCR Wireless News at the TM Forum event that there is a...
NICE, France – As operators and over-the-top players start to find ways to work together instead of competing against each other, many new models will likely emerge. At this week’s TM Forum Live event I experienced OTT Connect, and I’m honestly not sure if...
