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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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New Whitepaper Outlines MEF’s Vision for Third Network Services
Year after year, it becomes ever more interesting to consider the top trends that will shaping the telecommunications industry. One of the more important drivers is the acceleration of Third Network services. These services combine the agility and ubiquity of the Internet with the performance and security of CE 2.0 (Carrier Ethernet) networks to bring users new capabilities.Emergin
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Globetom leads contribution to TM Forum’s Loyalty Management Open API
Globetom has taken the leadership role in the development of the TM Forum Loyalty Management API as part of its ongoing program for communications industry standardisation through RESTful Web Service APIs. The first version of the API has just been released as part of Frameworx 16.5.Globetom introduced the first working prototype of the API at TM Forum's Action Week conference in V
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NFV Should Be Catalyst for OSS Rethink – Report
Widespread adoption of NFV will only be possible once network operators have defined and implemented "robust management, orchestration and OSS architectures," according to a new report from Heavy Reading that highlights the need for a greater focus on how OSS systems should evolve as virtualization strategies are put into practice.Heavy Reading Senior Analyst James Crawshaw, the au
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Big Data Analytics and Customer Experience Driving Digital Transformation Strategies
The digital age is upon us, and organizations and technologies are rapidly transforming on a global basis to keep up with the pace. While this transformation is happening across all markets and impacting virtually all aspects of business, culture and society, the consensus of a recent discussion forum was that digital change begins at the top of the chain of command.Keep reading on
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Young-sook Nam, Secretary-General of WeGO
How do you use technology to improve citizens’ lives? Tell us about your role or organisation.I am serving as the Secretary General of WeGO, the World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments. We are an international organisation of 110 cities and 5 national ICT institutions focused on sustainable urban development through e-government, ICT and smart city. Seoul
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Singapore’s ‘city brain’ project is groundbreaking – but what about privacy?
Aggregating data on traffic, weather, government and elder services aims to make citizens' lives better -- but potentially less private You've read about cities installing smart parking meters and noise- and air-quality sensors, but are you ready to embrace the idea of a city brain? The residents of Singapore are on track to do just that. Creating a centralized dashboard view of