BROWSING: Software

TM Forum is looking to building on its recently completed Live event with continued focused on its Open API and Smart City Maturity Benchmark models On this week’s show, we have a featured interview with Joann O’Brien and Carl Piva from the TM Forum to...

TM Forum is looking to building on its recently completed Live event with continued focused on its Open API and Smart City Maturity Benchmark models On this week’s show, we have a featured interview with Joann O’Brien and Carl Piva from the TM Forum to...

A new report from TBR predicts a steady decline in North America infrastructure spending through 2021 as carriers turn to SDN and NFV As telecom operators continue to migrate parts of their networks to software control using software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, the traditional...

Deal will position VimpelCom to provide IoT, mobile entertainment and mobile financial services using Ericsson IT solutions International telecom group VimpelCom signed a software partnership with Ericsson valued at more than $1 billion. The partnership encompasses a complete overhaul of VimpelCom’s information technology infrastructure across 11 countries. The...

Service providers remain averse to deeper NFV and SDN deployments due to risk concerns over carrier class support, according to a recent Strategy Analytics report A new report from Strategy Analytics suggests service providers first move on virtualizing their network and service platforms to reduce...

50% of smartphone users in China will make mobile payments by 2020 A total of 195.3 million mobile users in China will be making proximity mobile payments this year, an increase of more than 45% compared to the previous year, according to a recent study...

With Ericsson and Nokia, AT&T 5G trials focus on millimeter wave, system architecture As carriers around the world work through "5G" trials ahead of targeted standardization in 2020, AT&T and vendor partners reached a lab milestone in addition to expanding focus to include system architecture...

Policy control and increased reliance on automation seen as key operational goals for AT&T ECOMP initiative AT&T continues to tout the abilities of its enhanced control, orchestration, management and policy project, known as ECOMP, with the latest link connected to policy management. Jen Yates, assistant VP...

With partner M1, Apple Pay is available through five banks in the Asian country Singapore mobile operator M1 launched digital wallet service Apple Pay for its mobile customers in the country, following on the heels of rival StarHub, which launched the service last month.  The operator...

Telecom market finding open API design models bring new opportunities, allow for more robust competition against new market entrants As the telecommunications market continues its march toward greater software control, operators are increasingly turning to application program interface to drive greater efficiency from those platforms. The...

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with Versa Networks to discuss the importance of testing and interoperability for NFV and SDN As the telecom market continues its drive towards virtualizing network operations, one of the more common concerns we hear from operators are...

U.S. firm aims to complete the data center transactions in 2016 U.S.-based Digital Reality, which provides data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Equinix to acquire a portfolio of eight carrier-neutral data centers across Europe. Five of the data center...

NICE, France – In its role as a aggregator of industry information and technology, TM Forum has developed a set of open application programming interfaces, which have gained traction with carriers around the world. APIs are designed to create the foundation for diverse sets...

LONDON – For a company that only sprang to life less than four years ago, New Hampshire-based startup Parallel Wireless has been blazing a trail across the small cell industry, and a company officials says self-optimizing networks is key. While the company’s heterogeneous network gateway...

If the maturing mobile industry is young in relative terms, then the small cells market is in its teenage years and facing those troublesome growing pains. But, if it’s possible to be a veteran of such a young industry, then Ip.access and its CTO...

Enterprise devops tools are quickly gaining interest as companies look to streamline their operations and gain efficiency Enterprises are increasingly turning to development operations models in order to drive further efficiency across their organization. But, to make these devops moves requires having tools and processes...

NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of "5G"-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost and speed deployment time. Peter Patomella, VP of network management and self organizing networks for...

NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of "5G"-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost and speed deployment time. Peter Patomella, VP of network management and self organizing networks for...

ONUG said the launch shows commitment in supporting transition to open software-defined infrastructure The Open Networking User Group moved on its first collaborative effort to launch a set of initiatives it said are focused on open IT frameworks and mark its commitment to help support...

5g, 4g, SDN, NFV, Small Cells – what is a common requirement for the success of each of these? Reliable, scalable, performance driven backhaul. Tier1 Cell carriers have recently added new technical and service level mandates for backhaul. These specifications highlight the structural shift...

Despite growth, Vodafone plans to shut down the M-Pesa service in South Africa on June 30 Vodafone Group said it recently passed 25 million active customers for its M-Pesa mobile money service M-Pesa, having hit 25.3 million users at the end of March. The carrier...

As BSS/OSS blend, 'mass personalization' is key, Ericsson says NICE, France – Customer experience is a function of rapid, personalized service offerings, said Ove Anebygd, VP of OSS/BSS for Ericsson, to members of the media during a session at this week's TM Forum Live event. Digital...

A new report from the Small Cell Forum titled "HetNet and SON Foundations" includes a poll of tier-one and tier-two operators, two-thirds of whom indicated heterogeneous networks would be "very important" or "critical" to business objectives through 2020. The survey, conducted by Rethink Technology Research...

Comptel partners with Telefónica, Orange on NFV, virtualization for TM Forum Live catalysts NICE, France – Competition from over-the-top players leveraging massive cloud operations to quickly bring services to market is forcing telcos to look to virtualization, automation and new business models to maintain competitiveness....