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What is the role of DevOps in telco cloud success?

DevOps: A cornerstone of cloud computing, but still novel to many network operators. Orange, KORE, and WGTwo share their experiences.

5G, the hybrid cloud, and hybrid work

5G sits at intersection of two major business trends: the enterprise pivot to hybrid cloud, and the labor trend towards hybrid work.

What is 5G bare-metal cloud infrastructure?

5G bare-metal infrastructure helps CSPs and hyperscalers deliver and manage predictable performance at the edge.

What is Zero Trust Network Access?

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is an information security approach that restricts user access to only what the user needs.

What is Firewall as a Service?

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) is an essential part of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), cloud-based network security.

What is edge federation?

Edge federation is a standards-driven effort to enable seamless handoff between edge computing architectures.

What is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged out of necessity to respond to changes in enterprise security, forced by cloud adoption.

What is Disruption as a Service?

Disruption is a Service is a state of mind positioned for success in the on-demand cloud services market, says Rakuten.

How can telcos tap into the $400 billion XaaS opportunity?

Bain & Company thinks XaaS, or Anything as a Service, is a $400 billion opportunity waiting for telcos by 2025.

Is XaaS the future of cloud computing?

Public cloud spending is on the rise, led by Anything as a Service (XaaS) segments. Is this the inevitable future of cloud computing?

Three crucial changes in cloud-native networks: A Q&A with Oracle

How are network monitoring and optimization changing as 5G networks mature? RCR Wireless News reached out to Matt Beal, senior vice president of software development for Oracle Communications, for perspective on how it is helping its Communications Service Provider customers with the increasing complexity of 5G...

Hyperscalers vs. Operators: Partners, threats, models – or all three?

A December 2021 report from STL Partners found that telecom operators view hyperscale cloud providers in three ways: Partners, threats and models. Business partners, because they can “drive new areas of demand and provide infrastructure-as-a-service for operators' IT and operational payloads.” Threats, because they...

Top 3 XaaS challenges and opportunities

Anything as a Service (XaaS) presents limitless possibilities for enterprises and telcos to iterate new ideas, but challenges abound.

How is “Anything As A Service” changing telecom consumption models?

"Anything as a Service" or XaaS fundamentally changes enterprise telecom consumption, and gives operators an opportunity to iterate.

How is Amazon using the cloud for climate action?

AWS: 'The cloud can do more than modernize programs; it empowers governments to streamline operations and work towards long term sustainability goals' Ever the over-achiever, Amazon has established its own sort of sustainability pledge, calling it "The Climate Pledge". The pledge, founded in partnership with...

XaaS’s three pillars: SaaS, IaaS and PaaS

Anything as a Service (XaaS) is a broad market trend, but three business segments have stood apart - SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS.

What Is Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN)?

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions help enterprises with operational efficiency and scale as they move to the cloud.

What is Anything as a Service (XaaS)?

XaaS, or anything as a service, is a category of cloud computing and remote access services delivered over the Internet.

Evolved Packet Core vs. 5G cloud-native core

The Evolved Packet Core converges voice and data, but silos network functions (NFs). 5G's cloud-native core makes NFs addressable services.

Top 5 5G network automation use cases

Network automation is essential to almost every use case for 5G, not only for telcos but also for enterprises.

Public cloud vs. private cloud – what’s best for telco cloud workloads?

Telco clouds were always private clouds. But a new generation of hyperscale-adjacent telecom services blur the lines.

Telco cloud vs. IT cloud: What’s the difference?

The scalable and agile cloud architecture that governs both telco cloud and IT cloud is the same, even though service requirements are not.

What is a zero-touch network?: Hype vs. reality

The zero-touch network: a cloud optimizes and fixes itself without human intervention. Does it deliver the agility and scale operators need?

How is mobile edge computing infrastructure being deployed?

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) infrastructure is being deployed globally, coordinating efforts between network operators and hyperscalers.