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What if your telco career was to end tomorrow?
Are you a dyed-in-the-wool telco person? What would you do next if your telco career were to cease tomorrow? Read more…
Articles by Ryan Jeffery
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The traditional telco business model is a burning platform
Telcos have never been more threatened in terms of their business viability. Their traditional telco business model is a burning platform. Read more…
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Is it time to kill the typical OSS partnership model?
Long-term partnerships between carriers and OSS vendors are great, but only if we jettison the traditional day-rate model for such projects. Read more…
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Security is a key, but often underestimated, part of any OSS/BSS project
Our OSS/BSS manage some of the world’s most vital communications infrastructure. Therefore security is a key component of any OSS/BSS project. Read more…
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Security is a key, yet underestimated, component of any OSS / BSS project
OSS / BSS manage some of the world’s most vital communications infrastructure and security should be a key component of any OSS / BSS project Read more…
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The challenge for OSS architects – predict or navigate?
In most cases, it’s a greater skill to navigate an OSS journey rather than simply predict a destination. Read more…
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Want funding for an OSS project? Think ‘data bridge’
Who is funding OSS projects? Are their personas thinking at a tactical level? That’s why you need a class of OSS products that I refer to as “the data bridge.” Read more…
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The fully autonomous network – achievable or ‘pipe’ dream?
I want to make my network observable, reliable, predictable, repeatable and autonomous so that I don’t need anyone to operate it – ‘pipe’ dream or possible? Read more…
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The digital transformation paradox – filtering is the answer
The paradox for digital transformation is that our projects are almost always complex but we can narrow down the choices by figuring out filters. Read more…
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OSS – making men feel more masculine and in command
Do OSS GUIs we are designing help make developers or OSS operators “feel more masculine and in command”? Read more…
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Is ‘digital’ service assurance the same as before? Hint: No
I recently came across an interesting white paper from the Netrounds team titled, “Reimagining Service Assurance in the Digital Service Provider Era.” Read more…
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In OSS implementations, visit the jungle, not the zoo
How many times during OSS implementations had I sought to understand user behaviour at the zoo versus the jungle? Read more…
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A different type of OSS – the challenges of change management
In OSS implementations it’s the change management challenges that are often overlooked and/or underestimated (by client and vendor/integrator alike). Read more…
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Is your OSS environment out of control?
Over the years in OSS, I’ve spent a lot of my time helping companies create their OSS / BSS strategies and roadmaps. Read more…
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The omni-channel identity conundrum for OSS/BSS
Customers now have multiple engagement options (omni-channel) and form factors to resolve issues, yet they all represent different OSS/BSS challenges. Read more…
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Stealing fire and the link between flow and OSS
Are recent read titled ‘Stealing Fire…’ has helped to make the link between flow and OSS more palpable than you might think. Read more…
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Building a systematic root-cause analysis (RCA) pipeline
We need to empower machines with their faster processing capabilities but we first have to help build a systematic root-cause analysis (RCA) pipeline. Read more…
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Could OSS be utilised to repair virtualised networks?
Modern virtualised networks can do a great job of self-healing, routing around the problem areas but they also rely on OSS/BSS and physical means. Read more…
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OSS TLA quiz – what is O2A, T2R, U2C, P2O, DBA?
OSS is awash with TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms)! Do you know what these mean – O2A, T2R, U2C, P2O, DBA? Read more…
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Network slicing is great but can existing OSS/BSS support it?
Network slicing is an exciting concept, the big potential roadblock however, falls almost entirely on our existing OSS/BSS. Read more…