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The Many Faces of NFV
We all see people differently, sometimes because of our own biases and sometimes because people put on a different face for different situations in their lives. Apparently this is true of technologies too, because what NFV looks like and where it's heading looks different to each of the major NFV constituencies, and how NFV's "faces" might be harmonized could be critical to its rea
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Real-Time Functionality Gives Pricing Flexibility
One year on and not much has changed in the world of real-time responsiveness and charging. Or so it would seem, if you read the update of the TM Forum’s annual survey and report. (Infographic here). The biggest barriers remain ‘integration’ and ‘transforming internal processes’ which, if last year’s interviews are anything to go by, actually means ‘politics.’There
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Can operators compete with GAFA?
DisruptiveViews attended an interesting – and delicious – lunch the other day. It was hosted by AsiaInfo and it allowed a few industry luminaries (and us) a glimpse of a new piece of research the company commissioned over the summer. The aim of the research is to analyse the readiness of operators to monetise customer insights and understand how they stack up against GAFA (Goog
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Elaine Hayer- Hacking for Smart Cities
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TM Forum to Accelerate the Adoption of Smart City Best Practices & Enable the Smart City Digital Ecosystem
In Collaboration with the City of Yinchuan, China and ZTEsoft, 14 Smart Cities & Over 150 Senior Delegates From Around The World to Converge in Yinchuan, 11-13 September 2015 MORRISTOWN, NJ—September 2, 2015—TM Forum, the global industry association for digital business, today unveiled the full scope of its debut event, Smart City InFocus 2015. In collaboration with ZTE
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Thinking digital ecosystems in cities
Shared platforms and digital ecosystems in cities offer the potential to deliver integrated services, while linking data to drive better and more targeted commissioning. It's a bold plan - but the prize of unmatched innovation potential and significant digital growth is huge, says Tom Baker, Smart and Healthier Cities lead, BT Global ServicesWe're only part of the way through the a
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Unlocking the real value of SDN/NFV: Moving toward business-ready, zero-touch Network-as-a-Service
Much attention has been paid to what SDN and NFV have done to change the potential of the communications landscape. We know it is revolutionary. We know it will be a long journey.But what we haven’t talked enough about is where this revolution will intersect with what the customer wants. Because if we don’t think first about why we’re taking something from a hardware- to a so
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Mentor Monday: TM Forum’s Annie Turner
"Funny beats furious anytime" are words that Annie Turner, senior director of content for the TM Forum, lives by.Anyone who knows her knows that she has a raucous sense of humor, is not one to hold back her opinion -- on anything -- and really knows her stuff when it comes to technology and the communications industry.After all, Turner has been researching and writing about the com
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Smart Cities: Managing Traffic in China
A smart cities approach, including a mobile app for traffic management, produced over $10 million in value in five months for Ningbo, China.Name of Organization: City of Ningbo, ChinaIndustry: GovernmentLocation: Ningbo, ChinaBusiness Opportunity or Challenge EncounteredThe city of Ningbo, with a population of 1.5 million on China’s eastern coast, was facing many of the same issu