
Beyond the hype, beyond the ‘Edge’ of Asia’s telco sector
Prior to COVID-19 Asia’s telco sector was one of those industry sectors poised to effect key transformations – among these is Edge computing. Read more…
Prior to COVID-19 Asia’s telco sector was one of those industry sectors poised to effect key transformations – among these is Edge computing. Read more…
Operators are planning to deploy edge computing as part of their 5G strategy. Just one snag: there’s no standard way to do it, and that’s a big problem. Read more…
Nokia has announced its latest CloudBand Infrastructure Software that promises to give communication service providers (CSPs) and other customers sharper cloud management solutions that improve service delivery and significantly reduce operating costs as 5G deployments Read more…
With the acceleration of the 5G era, rich and diverse Internet services have emerged. More and more, enterprises use different cloud service models to solve the problem of rapid service deployment according to the business Read more…
Communications service providers (CSPs) are reporting slower-than-expected progress towards network transformation in a new TM Forum survey, despite 44% of them agreeing that it plays an integral part in digital transformation success. According to TM Read more…
Netcracker Technology has announced the launch of what it claims is the industry’s first end-to-end, cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT solution – from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals and a digital marketplace – as a Read more…
A new Ovum survey of 200 enterprise decision-makers provides some surprising insights on their views of Distributed NFV. Ciena’s Susan Friedman details the results. It’s often a useful exercise for us vendors to get out Read more…
ZTE announced that it has completed the first decoupling and interconnection test of its ZENIC SDN controller with China Mobile’s carrier-grade CloudOS. The joint test involved environment installation inspection, basic function and stability, and verification of Read more…
Colt Technology Services has announced the launch of its On Demand offering in Singapore, as well as the expansion of its SD-WAN service across the Asia Pacific region. The two new solutions expand on Colt’s Read more…
Open source is the future of telecoms, but telcos tend to be bamboozled by hype and a convoluted standards landscape. ONAP shows the way forward, but there’s still much to be done, writes IDC’s Hugh Read more…
VMware has announced the next generation of its NFV platform for telcos that it says will enable breakthrough improvements in network performance, new carrier-grade networking capabilities, and intent-based service assurance to help improve the total Read more…
Commercial deployments of NFV and SDN are aggressively moving forward, with nearly all leading Tier 1 operators having adopted or planning to adopt NFV and/or SDN by the end of this year, according to Technology Read more…
5G action this day: KT unveils a 5G blimp for emergency rescue ops; Nokia and Tencent in R&D pact for 5G vertical apps; DoCoMo develops live 8K VR streaming system; Samsung and SK Telecom demo Read more…
In this interview, Kundan Das, director of business development for APJC at Parallel Wireless explains why operators need a variety of solutions to support their subscriber needs and that is why architectures should be G-agnostic, transport Read more…
The Broadband Forum and NTT have demonstrated the disaggregation of time-critical PON functions, which they say brings operators a step closer to quickly and cost-effectively delivering new 5G services. Launched with NTT last year, the Read more…
Telefónica, Huawei, and UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) have conducted a field trial demonstrating the application of quantum cryptography on commercial optical networks, and integrating the technologies operationally using SDN. All secure communications are based Read more…
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project – which is developing a unified platform for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation – has announced the availability of its second software release, ONAP Beijing, which focuses on new Read more…
Open architectures are becoming the new normal for telcos, but many still stick with single-vendor strategies – which surely defeats the purpose of open systems in the first place. As a CTO, it’s probably heresy Read more…
ETSI has announced the availability of Release Four of its Open Source MANO (OSM) spec for NFV, which it says constitutes a huge leap forward in terms of functionality, user experience and maturity. The new Read more…
2017 was not a good year for the VoLTE vendor business, according to Dell’Oro Group. The good news: the market is expected to experience double-digit growth in 2018. 2017 was a tough year for VoLTE Read more…
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