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TM Forum boosting open source presence
The TM Forum is going back to its roots with a series of Catalyst projects at the upcoming Nice eventThe TM Forum held an 'Action Day’ in Kista, Stockholm, recently on interoperable open source for hybrid network management platforms. Service providers supporting this workshop included AT&T, China Mobile, Orange, Telecom Italia and Telenor, among others.Participants all share
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The Smart City Opportunity
Three million more people move into cities every weekAssuming that current trends continue, our future belongs to cities. Already half of all humans on the planet live in cities, and by 2050 a full 70 percent of civilization will live, work, and play in an urban environment.To get a sense of the scale and speed of this global transformation, the United Nations says that 3 million m
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TM Forum launches global Smart Cities Benchmark
The organisation has worked with 500 cities on the project and key smart city organisations around the worldSmart city leaders can benchmark their city’s progress with the help of a new free-to-download app, developed by TM Forum, the global member association for digital business. Its primary purpose is to bring all of the stakeholders together in a smart city project and create
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MEF Names Dan Pitt as Senior Vice President
After taking a break since leaving the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in September 2016, Dan Pitt today became senior vice president at MEF.Pitt plans to focus on three general things at MEF: technical network functions virtualization (NFV) work; collaboration with NFV vendors and operators; and outreach to open source groups and standards bodies.Keep reading on SDxCentral.
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Open Source: One Ring to Rule Them?
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Revive and transform lead management–the next killer B/OSS app
The common industry thinking around lead management is of a traditional, old-school practice that’s quickly being replaced by next generation digitalization. Lead generation is often the result of extensive data mining during which a wide range of CRM applications validate, grade, distribute, contact and nurture leads. And, at the end of that costly and time-consuming process, th
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TM Forum Crowdsourcing announce 13 new Open API’s for Telecom operators
Today, TM Forum has announced 13 new open APIs as part of its ongoing effort to enable telecom operators to expose digital assets as services, without the encumbrance of legacy back-office systems. And this time around, the global standards group is taking a crowdsourcing approach to a process it once tightly managed, with hopes of working much faster.The Open API program has been
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The Most Compelling Conversations on the Comptel Blog in 2016
In 2016, Comptel focused on extending our Nexterday message and encouraging operators to stop over-thinking and start doing what they need to do to transform their businesses. The energy and excitement we felt at Nexterday North 2016, our second annual anti-seminar, told us that many operators are doing just that, turning the big ideas they hear around the industry into game-changi
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TM Forum Crowdsourcing Open APIs
The TM Forum today announced 13 new open APIs as part of its ongoing effort to enable telecom operators to expose digital assets as services, without the encumbrance of legacy back-office systems. And this time around, the global standards group is taking a crowdsourcing approach to a process it once tightly managed, with hopes of working much faster. The Open API program has been
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Momentum Builds for Third Network Services Powered by LSO, SDN & NFV
One of the most exciting industry trends today is the paradigm shift to agile, assured, and orchestrated Third Network services that provide an on-demand experience with user-directed control over service capabilities and cloud connectivity. These new services are delivered over automated, virtualized, and interconnected networks that build upon a CE 2.0 (Carrier Ethernet 2.0) foun