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2024 will be a catalyst for accelerating 5G Standalone/5G Core deployments (Reader Forum)

The telecom industry always expected that taking the next step in 5G network evolution, moving to full 5G Standalone (5G SA) networks, would be a heavy lift. And indeed, 5G SA network deployments saw sluggish growth last year, largely due to the technical challenges...

Three aspects of assuring private networks

Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...

Four barriers to network slicing

Considerations include operational readiness, business case development and go-to-market strategy A logical, virtual, end-to-end network slice that automatically comes into being to serve the exacting requirements of a particular horizontal or vertical use case—that’s a big part of the vision of 5G and the monetization...

Cisco to acquire Accedian to bolster service assurance

Cisco has announced plans to buy out private-equity-backed network monitoring and assurance company Accedian, which has been partnering with the IT and networking giant on assurance for telco networks. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, and the transaction is expected to...

Four pillars of a service-based architecture

With the move to a service-based architecture, what does it take for operators to become cloud native?  With meaningful new 5G revenues failing to materialize with the Non-standalone architecture, operators are now increasingly moving to a 5G Standalone service-based architecture. In this transition, there are...

5G monetization opportunities ‘tightly tied’ to service assurance

The three (not so) easy pieces of 5G service assurance—orchestration, the edge, and end-to-end visibility Here’s a hypothetical: A manufacturing enterprise has looked at its options for gaining production efficiencies and opted to use various video analytics backed by private 5G. A partner is engaged,...

Ericsson, Netscout offer cloud-based 5G packet data processing

Swisscom is putting the 'world-first' tech to work in its newly deployed 5G network, Ericsson said Ericsson on Tuesday announced a collaboration with network performance app developer Netscout and Swiss telco Swisscom, to produce a new cloud-based solution aimed at “dramatically increasing” 5G service assurance,...

EXFO offers telco cloud service assurance solution on AWS

Adaptive Service Assurance correlates quality KPIs with Amazon CloudWatch telemetry, EXFO said Network testing and monitoring solution vendor EXFO on Monday announced that its Adaptive Service Assurance (ASA) solution is available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The product makes it easier for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to...

VMware expands telco cloud platform with new features

VMware’s telco cloud automation and service assurance offerings also get new features and enhancements VMware on Thursday announced changes to its telco cloud portfolio that it says will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with modernization efforts around 5G, Radio Access Network (RAN) and edge computing deployments. The...

ServiceNow adds telecom features to its workflow automation platform

Now Platform Tokyo gets telco features “with service delivery, care, and assurance in mind” Enterprise workflow management software maker ServiceNow has announced the release of Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI), a workflow management solution to help telco network engineers design and build network resources and services. TNI is...

Netscout revenues rise, losses narrow

5G RF planning helps to drive Netscout's quarterly revenue Network assurance and security company Netscout reported revenue gains of nearly 10% for the quarter ending June 30 and narrowed its net loss compared to a year ago. President and CEO Anil Singhal told analysts on...

Spirent reports a strong first half, driven by 5G

5G is a "strong, enduring growth driver," Spirent says Spirent Communications saw strong performance and record orders during the first half of the year, driven by 5G and its targeting of new customers such as hyperscalers with assurance solutions. CEO Eric Updyke said in a...

How should carriers think about cloud-native OSS and BSS for Standalone 5G?

Scaling up to the cloud is about being smarter, not working harder 5G Standalone (SA) requires a fundamentally cloud-native approach. The 5G core is built on cloud-native principles, designed to provide flexibility and scale. This approach increases carrier agility, but at the same time, going cloud-native...

Spirent focuses on 5G visibility with Vantage launch

Service providers have to deal with increasing complexity in their networks and services, amid what have been highly manual and ponderous service assurance deployments that almost inevitably result in visibility gaps and too much data that needs highly skilled human interpretation to resolve issues. As...

EXFO announces adaptive service assurance for 5G, powered by Intel

EXFO says its full-stack 5G service assurance helps operators detect, correlate and resolve problems, regardless of the fault's location.

VMware releases Telco Cloud Service Assurance

VMware this week announced the general release of Telco Cloud Service Assurance, a rebranded and refeatured Telco Cloud Operations stack.

Amdocs buys service assurance SaaS maker Mycom OSI for $188M

Amdocs calls its $188M purchase of service assurance SaaS maker Mycom OSI a strategic play for intelligent network automation, 5G and cloud.

How to deploy Standalone 5G—strategies and considerations

The move to Standalone 5G means technological and organizational changes with the latter perhaps more difficult As some operators begin to operationalize Standalone 5G, it’s clear there are different strategies, based on spectrum deployment, network modernization and other factors, that inform this key network evolution....

EXFO works with Red Hat on service assurance

Network testing company EXFO has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, focused on adaptive service assurance for a 5G world. Specifically, EXFO's Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution is now available as a Red Hat-certified container, which can be deployed on Red Hat's...

Test and Measurement: AT&T, T-Mo duel in recent benchmarking

T-Mobile US and AT&T are duking it out over performance honors in recently released network testing. Global Wireless Solutions, which released its annual national report that included testing in nearly 500 markets across 50 states, concluded that AT&T had the best national network, followed...

Anritsu launches 5G SA service assurance with AWS

Amid an evolving carrier perspective on leveraging the public cloud for telecom networks, Anritsu is deploying its mobile network service assurance solutions on AWS' public cloud. The AWS news comes after Anritsu announced in June that it had landed 5G SA service assurance contract wins...

Will 5G Change the World? Kashif Hussain, Viavi (Ep. 42)

The increasing complexity of 5G networks and disaggregated radio systems means the test, measurement and assurance process is also becoming more complex. Viavi's Kashif Hussain examines these trends and highlights the role of automation in achieving velocity and scale. RCR Wireless News · Will 5G...

InfoVista talks 2020: Planning for indoor/outdoor 5G and assuring verticals’ apps

  What's ahead for networks in 2020? From InfoVista's perspective, some of the important steps forward will be to bring 5G indoor/outdoor planning capabilities together in an integrated fashion, and giving vertical-specific customers such as automotive manufacturers a better view on how wireless network performance...

Amid the 5G ramp, vendors offer up new testing, service assurance platforms

5G is hitting the ground running this year, with nationwide deployments rolling out in various countries around the world. In light of that momentum, and interest from service providers in building service assurance into their new networks as they are built, vendors are burnishing new...