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TM Forum: Putting NFV/SDN to Work
Disseminating new technology in an existing network infrastructure for which it was not designed is a difficult thing. In most cases, the assumption is that the technology at the heart of the new approach is the hardest nut to crack. This may indeed be the case, but another significant set of hoops to jump through is how the business and operational pieces fit together.The TM Forum
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TM Forum’s Fraud Survey Open
The TM Forum is running another survey of fraud management, the third annual iteration of this survey. Chris Stock, Director of Revenue Management and Security & Privacy at the TMF, stated this year’s survey is……focused on gaining greater, global understanding of current fraud management practices, and emerging trends in order to identify gaps in capability and prioritize
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TM Forum, FIWARE Foundation to collaborate on smart city APIs
A newly announced collaboration between the TM Forum and the FIWARE Foundation might help speed up development of smart cities. As part of their collaboration, TM Forum, a global industry association for digital business, and FIWARE Foundation, an independent open community working to build an open ecosystem around public, royalty-free software platform standards to ease the devel
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Driving towards a more open future for data
The programme will also help to transform cities into the enablers of the Data EconomyIndustry bodies TM Forum and the FIWARE Foundation are co-developing a smart city API reference architecture to enable the portability and interoperability of smart city solutions as well as a repeatable data economy model.The two sides say the initiative presents significant opportunities for cit
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TM Forum, FIWARE Foundation to collaborate on smart city APIs
A newly announced collaboration between the TM Forum and the FIWARE Foundation might help speed up development of smart cities. As part of their collaboration, TM Forum, a global industry association for digital business, and FIWARE Foundation, an independent open community working to build an open ecosystem around public, royalty-free software platform standards to ease the devel
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Digital Business Success
Wouldn’t you like a blueprint for digital business success? The blueprint should contain toolkits, best practices, guides, and reports. These should empower companies across multiple industries with actionable information to help then compete in the digital economy.Kenneth Dilbeck, VP Collaboration R&D for the TM Forum www.tmforum.org and Gary Audin recorded this podcast at t
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To tune your TV offerings, you need big data
While linear TV is dying, other forms of TV are thriving. The good thing – and the bad thing – is that TV seems to be a) coming at you from everywhere and b) comes in many different varieties.According to a new paper from real-time specialist Openet, this creates some serious challenges for services providers that have chosen to head down this route. The paper also details the
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Verizon, TM Forum establish storefront structure for NFV services, functions
Verizon is working with the TM Forum Catalyst program to drive three Catalyst projects centered on virtualization, including an NFV Ecosystem Enabler that allows service providers to make their virtual network services available to the broader industry.For this project, Verizon joined together with other TM Forum members including AT&T, Orange, China Mobile, IBM and Huawei
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MEF Unites Open Source & Industry Organizations On Third Generation Network & Services (White Paper)
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MEF CTO: We’ll Be Scrappy & Agile
BALTIMORE -- MEF16 -- MEF is working hard to reinvent itself, intending to move well beyond Carrier Ethernet to become the forum that enables end-to-end service orchestration across multiple carrier networks in the virtualization era. The man driving this change, CTO Pascal Menezes, says MEF will become "very scrappy and very agile" and bring on board its own code development resou