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AT&T: MEF Could Catalyze Key Specs
BALTIMORE -- MEF 16 -- The telecom industry needs to agree on some key elements of the virtualized services landscape, to enable network operators to move faster in deployment and in developing what will truly differentiate their services, AT&T's Josh Goodell said here Tuesday.In a keynote address and later interview, Goodell stressed the need for the industry to tackle some ke
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MEF Mind Meld Unites Groups on NaaS
BALTIMORE -- The MEF has pulled together a coalition of industry groups, including top open source groups, into a single initiative focused on how to set up and deliver on-demand network-as-a-service capabilities across the carrier landscape.MEF CEO Nan Chen's crowning moment in today's opening keynotes was the announcement of a white paper by this group -- hey folks, this is still
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OPEN-O’s SUN Rises on Brownfields, Too
In announcing its first software release today, the OPEN-O Project is again stressing its perceived advantage over other open source MANO efforts: the inclusion of legacy networks in its network orchestration plans. (See It's Showtime for OPEN-O and OPEN-O Issues First Software Release.)Details of that first release, called SUN, were limited, other than the fact it contains two mil
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Latest NFV Headache: Software Licensing
LONDON -- OSS in the Era of SDN& NFV -- Software license management and VNF onboarding are emerging as key challenges as network operators push ahead with virtualization in the hybrid network environment that exists today, a number of speakers said here last week.BT 's chief network architect, Neil McRae, was the first to raise the issue, doing so as an almost off-handed compla
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HomeBusinessBanking & FinanceEconomyRetailMedia & TechnologyM&AEmployment Centina Systems, Vodafone, Huawei to Demonstrate Assurance of Drone Services Vodafone champions latest phase of TM Forum Catalyst Project
Strategic assurance solutions provider Centina Systems will participate in a project ed by Vodafone to explore drone services for commercial application, the company said.The catalyst–or proof of concept–will focus on the application of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones as a service for the agricultural and telecommunications industries. Centina Systems will develop plug-ins t
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Smart Cities Council Launches IoT Tech Challenge Grants for American Communities
The Smart Cities Council, the world’s largest smart cities network, has announced the beginning of its application period for the Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grant, open to American cities. Five winning cities will receive a grant in 2017 designed to inspire innovation, inclusion and investment in their environments. The grant program’s goal is to help cities apply
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Avoid disruption: adapting business models to digitalization
DALLAS–“Anything that can be digitalized will be.” That is how Nik Willets, deputy CEO of TM Forum, opened the keynote session titled “Embracing the new digital business reality,” at this year’s TM Forum Innovation inFocus meetup. He gave the digitalization example of our phones, which now hold everything we used to physically carry around. Industries focused on the phy
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Smart Cities Council Launches Challenge Grants to Help American Communities
Smart Cities Council launched its application for cities to apply for the Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grant. Five American cities will receive a grant in 2017 to inspire innovation, inclusion and investment in their city. The grant, which will help cities apply smart technologies, is part of the current White House commitment to accelerate the development of smart citi
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EXFO, Verizon, Ontology Systems and Cognizant Collaborate on a New TM Forum Catalyst
Implementing NFV, SDN or hybrid networks means additional layers of complexity added to the already daunting challenge service providers face in configuring and managing their networks. From ensuring the path to virtualization doesn’t hurt subscriber service levels, to efficiency of automation and complete integration of service assurance into DevOps, designing and following the
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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