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Eleven Innovative Catalyst Projects Showcased at TM Forum’s Innovation InFocus Conference
Leading service providers including Verizon, China Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, NTT, BT and AT&T championed the latest round of digital business innovationsMORRISTOWN, NJ—November 7, 2016—TM Forum, the global industry association for digital business, today recognizes eleven Catalyst projects for their exceptional innovation, and additionally congratulates three Catalyst proje
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Statement on TM Forum Leadership Change
Peter Sany has stepped down today as President, CEO and Director of TM Forum, for personal reasons. In accordance with TM Forum’s governance bylaws, a process is being launched to identify and appoint a successor as quickly as possible based on the ongoing leadership needs of the organization. During this process, Deputy CEO Nik Willetts has been asked to assume full responsibili
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Seen & Heard: TM Forum Seeks to Unite Open Source
Is it group hug time for open source? The TM Forum has offered to unite the various open source communities for the good of the telecom industry.Carol Wilson, editor-at-large for Light Reading, spoke to the TM Forum's Barry Graham, senior director of agile business and IT, about his organization's proposal to unite multiple open source network management and orchestration efforts t
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Creating a global ecosystem for the internet of everything
DALLAS–Craig Bachmann, senior director of open digital/IoE at TM Forum, opened up the internet of everything track of TM Forum Innovation InFocus this week with a talk titled “Forum InFocus: Enabling an open digital ecosystem.” TM Forum is finding that enterprises are questioning what their roles are in IoT, and asking ‘How can I connect all types of products, services and
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TM Forum Wants Role of Open Source Glue
LONDON -- TM Forum is stepping up to be the organization that unites the multiple open source network management and orchestration efforts going on within telecom today, intending to create a hybrid network management platform that incorporates diverse open source efforts.In an interview here today in advance of a TM Forum Workshop tied to Light Reading's OSS in the Era of SDN &
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Why TM Forum is going all-in on Platforms
For many years, TM Forum has been at the forefront of enabling enterprises to turn the latest wave of digital technology into business opportunities. To do this, our members collaborate to share best practices and develop common solutions to the shared business challenge of end-to-end management of complex systems.One of the biggest revolutions in business that we are seeing today
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Five essential steps to becoming a smart city
Every city has its own needs, based in part on the region and country where it is located. Here are the main components to consider before adding smart city technology.The urban population is growing, with nearly two-thirds of Americans and 54 percent of the world currently living in cities. As this number increases, with the World Health Organization predicting that by 2050, 75 pe
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Defining MANO: Open Source vs. Standards
As service providers are working to deploy NFV-based services, they are finding that management and orchestration (MANO) is a pain point. One of the big questions about MANO is how we go from a high-level architecture diagram to interoperable implementations. Do we take the traditional telco path and work through standards bodies? Or do we take a cloud-centric path and focus on ope
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Vodafone Champions Open APIs & Platform Business Models for SDN, NFV & Cloud Services With Huawei
PARIS -- Huawei eco-Connect Europe 2016 -- Huawei today announced an innovation initiative to enable Open APIs and a Platform Business Model for SDN, NFV and Cloud Services under the umbrella of TM Forum’s Open API and platform programs, championed by Vodafone. This initiative aims to meet end-user ROADS (Real-time,On-demand,All-online,DIY and Social ) experience and enrich indus
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Eight tech companies endorse TM Forum open APIs
TM Forum has announced that eight technology ecosystem participants – DGIT, EnterpriseWeb, Ericsson, Huawei, IBM, BearingPoint / Infonova, Oracle and UXP Systems – have officially endorsed the Forum’s suite of open APIs (application programming interfaces) for digital service management.These companies follow in the footsteps of nine of the world’s largest communications se