Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for building up this automation through a set of well-prioritized, bottom-up steps. These steps include both simplifying network infrastructure opera ...

Operations support systems and business support systems are being rewritten or refactored to cloud-native, microservices-based apps capable of running on hybrid cloud and multicloud computing and storage infrastructure. This is creating a new commercial cooperative development model between software ...

Until recently, network technology vendors to communication service providers had a well-established competitive market position with brand loyalty, long-standing customer relationships, and well entrenched proprietary solutions. However, an inexorable move to software-based (virtualised) solut ...

It’s a multi-cloud future, this we know. ...

This blog, written after Oracle OpenWorld 2019, held in September 2019 in San Francisco, outlines some of the Oracle announcements as well as key learnings and trends in the CommSoft markets. It also provides snippets of my current view of future trends in important areas of evolution of the technol ...

Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead Cloud Virtual Systems Infrastructure, ACG Research, gives the opening address (sponsored by Layer123) at the SDN + NFV World Congress in the Hague, which focused on business case considerations in adopting SD-WAN solutions.[embed]https://youtu.be/Nha-io1ZTNk[/embed ...

Innovations in 5G, virtualization and cloud technologies will make new applications and services possible in both personal and industrial IoT in the next several years. The evolution of the RAN and the packet core in 5G will benefit from pervasive use of cloud and virtualization technologies end to ...

Until recently video viewing was done via a cable converter set-top box was required to receive extra analog cable TV channels and convert them to content capable of being displayed on a television screen. ...

Technicolor and Cisco have also signed a long-term patent cross licensing agreement and a strategic partnership to develop and deliver next-generation video and broadband technologies on IoT solutions and services. ...

In the past two to three years we have experienced a surge in creative efforts and developments producing the components needed for SPs’ networks to become as agile and efficient as the cloud applications they support. ...

As the world gets driven more and more by cloud-based services, what do tomorrow’s operations jobs look like? ...

Disaggregated, modular, mix and match, open, these are the sound bites of the emerging white box and open software ecosystems. Will they define the architectural thinking used throughout our information-driven world moving forward? ...