Software continues to eat the telecom sector, having major effects on all aspects of the business, network technology, and operations. Key Trends in 202 ...

Managing today’s dynamic, evolving networks and services demands a comprehensive, integrated and flexible service assurance system that provides: ...

I have been reading a lot about how genAI and Large Language Models with machine learning (LLM/ML) will replace humans, or at least much of the work, in ma ...

Overall The TM Forum’s #DTW23 conference, held 18−21, September 2023, in Copenhagen was attended by 3,700 people. As always, it focused on t ...

BUSINESS The search continues for Blue Money The industry growth of 1% is unimpressive, given the investments operators need to make.  Operators ...

Governments worldwide are investing massively in bridging the so-called digital divide. The US government alone is allocating over $73 billion to extend br ...

I attended the Ultra-Broadband Forum (#UBBF22) in Bangkok, Thailand in October  2022 and the associated TM Forum summit on #autonomousnetworks. U ...

I attended the 5G Analyst Meeting in Dallas, TX, sponsored by 5G Americas on 19−20 October 2022. I focused my attention on O-RAN and AI. Here are som ...

Rick Talbot, my colleague, and I attended the Nokia Conference 14 to 15 September 2022 in Orlando, FL, that featured the Nokia routing and switching (SReXp ...

Prior to the TM Forum Digital Transformation World (#DTW22) on 18 September 2022, I attended a day-long analyst event sponsored by the relatively new Nokia ...

I attended the TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 20−22 September 2022. Approximately 3,000 people attended, in ...

My recent report Digital ecosystems: setting new standards for integration describes the standards work being carried out by TM Forum and MEF for orde ...

1st quarter 2022 showed the impact of supply chain constraints on deliveries and recognizable revenue, though demand (indicated by vendor backlogs) rema ...

Many vendors and CSPs have bought into the Autonomous Networks vision, as articulated by the TM Forum. Now, some of these have committed themselves to achi ...

Netcracker, an NEC company, has long supplied comprehensive suites of BSS and OSS software to CSPs worldwide. Now, Netcracker has launched the Netcracker D ...

There are three main approaches for implementing autonomous network operations driven individually by the automation tool vendors, the network element vend ...

I attended the Qualcomm 5G Summit in San Diego on 9-11 May 2022. These are the key points that I took away and some insights gained. Trends on which Qua ...

Nachman Shelef, vice president and general manager at HPE ConteXtream, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss why customers ...

For the last several years, I have been talking to operators and vendors about digital transformation (DX) and have seen a number of different approaches u ...

 Some use cases are now well established, especially in circumstances where large data volumes would overwhelm a human and the cost of the software ma ...

This BLOG, written after Mobile World Congress, held in February 2019 in Barcelona, outlines some of the key learnings and trends in the Commsoft markets ...

This blog, written after Oracle’s Modern CX event (#ModernCX) in Las Vegas in March, outlines some of my key take-aways about the Oracle CX Suite c ...

Communications Software (CommSoft) comprises: Business Support Systems (BSS) that provide business operations support (revenue management, custom ...

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are making significant investments in network and business automation through digital reengineering as software cha ...

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) want to digitalize their networks, their operations, their customer interactions, their entire business to revoluti ...

Introduction to Network Slicing: Not Completely New, But Different Ultra-low-latency networks have received significant press in the last few years. The ...

Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for build ...

This article evaluates the goals, philosophy, and implementation path of the Huawei Autonomous Driving Network product plan vision against industry criteri ...