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Join Women in Comms, Intel, XO, Vodafone, Windstream & Zayo for Breakfast in Denver
NEW YORK, NY -- Women in Comms (WiC), the not-for-profit, independent initiative providing information, networking, mentorship, access to jobs and support for women in the next-gen communications industry founded by Light Reading, is pleased to invite you to our fall networking breakfast, taking place on Wednesday, September 14, in Denver, Colo.WiC, along with its 27 member compani
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Open APIs ‘Needed’ for Transformation, Says VimpelCom CTO
VimpelCom has lauded the TM Forum's Open APIs initiative as one that will support telcos working on the digital transformation of their operations.Nine major global operators threw their weight behind the scheme last month, saying the APIs developed under the TM Forum program would help them minimize the complexity of back-office systems and tap into partnership opportunities. (See
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The Success of the Smart City Depends on Interoperability, Achieved Through Standards and Layered Architectures
It may be premature to speak of a tipping point, but the long, long gestation period for the smart city does appear to be entering a new phase of commitment and engagement from local, national and international bodies. But the maturing technologies and emerging business models in this domain intersect with a global climate of austerity for the public sector, which naturally include
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Big Communications Event 2016 & Schrodinger’s OSS
The third annual Big Communications Event in Austin this past month was rife with talk of orchestration, the digital telco and SDN. Terminology, especially at events, is always dizzying, mainly because terms ‘stick’ but their meanings are often very particular to the speaker and/or listener. I had one lengthy debate involving the meaning of SDN and whether it natively referred
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Tecnotree Selected by Nepal Telecom to Deploy Convergent Mediation and Interconnect System
Espoo, Finland – Tecnotree, a global provider of telecom IT solutions, has been selected by Nepal Telecom to supply its Agility™ Mediation and Interconnect system. The new system will enable the rapid rollout of new services for Nepal Telecom’s 14 million subscriber base. The Tecnotree Agility™ Mediation and Interconnect system will replace Nepal Telecom’s existing system
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EMTEL Mauritius, part of Airtel Group, selects Tecnotree’s Content Management and Service Delivery System to enhance its digital strategy
Espoo, Finland – Tecnotree, a global provider of telecom IT solutions, today announced it has been selected by mobile network operator EMTEL Mauritius (part of Airtel group), to expand its call completion and MDX platform - enabling the rapid roll out of new messaging and voice services for its subscribers. Tecnotree will help EMTEL to enhance its digital strategy by suppling a C
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How to Build a Successful Smart City
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Inside the gig economy’s pros and cons
The gig economy is off and running, and CIOs are taking notice. The CIO Executive Council recently estimated that almost half of CIOs will employ gig workers in 2016.Employing workers for a particular job can offer CIOs several advantages. Not only does it provide them access to hard-to-find tech talent, it also allows them to hire employees on an as-needed basis without a full-ti
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Finding The Right Place For Revenue Assurance
There is a saying: “having one’s heart in the right place.” It means you have positive intentions to accomplish good things. I was recently involved in plenty of discussions and debates about the ultimate “right place” of Revenue Assurance (RA). RA by definition is about doing good things: contributing to profit, revenue and cash flow improvements with the use of data qua
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Why Standards Bodies & Open Source Must Collaborate
Whether advocates of SDN, NFV, cloud or virtualization in general, our industry has undergone an unparalleled disruption as new and emerging technologies battle for their place in the new, more agile, flexible and software-centric network.But amid all this change, there is one imperative which has remained constant and resolute throughout: the need and desire for standards as the s