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What Is The Collective Noun For A Group Of Smart Cities? Let’s Call It A Yinchuan
200 representatives from City authorities around the world descended on Yinchuan, in the independent economic area of Ningxia in China, to put a stake in the ground for Smart City development. This was the TM Forum’s inaugural Smart City forum. Sponsored by the City of Yinchuan, its forward-thinking secretary and ZTE Soft, the event was to establish a base line of where we are on
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Your city is stupid
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Software Defined Cloud – Platforms and Tenants
Microsoft has contributed to the TM Forum Digital Ecosystem Reference Architecture (DERA) project some proven approaches to cloud architecture and management developed and battle tested during the evolution of Azure to a global, hyper-scale, software defined cloud.The TM Forum defines a Digital Ecosystem Platform (DEP) as a platform that provides the necessary common reusable servi
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ZTE sets up Smart City Innovation Center
ZTE announced a partnership with TM Forum and the City of Yinchuan to set up a Smart City Innovation Center to drive the development of technologies and platforms for smarter public services for urban residents.The new innovation centre will leverage ZTE’s metropolitan ICT technologies, including Smart City 2.0, a suite of products enabling the provisioning and delivery of transp
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What NFV Standards Have to Address to Make the Business Case Work
According to a recent piece on SDxCentral, “Operators don’t want the TM Forum to get lost in NFV technicalities. They want the focus on making money.” That’s an interesting and insightful couple of sentences, for several reasons, and it may be a signal of a sea change in NFV. The obvious question is who’s going to chart the change.I’ve noted in prior blogs that ma
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Where will operators play in the IoT?
City-wide applications and the corporate market are two potential areas for success.From phones and tablets to wearables, the trend is fast moving towards an Internet of Things (IoT), but the real question is who owns the connections and, more importantly, how can operators make money out of the IoT.The IoT is not the only emerging entity that is attracting massive disruption. Almo
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TM Forum: Carriers’ transformation taking off
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