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NFV Needs ‘Human Revolution,’ Says Orange
NICE -- TM Forum Live! -- Orange Business Services appears to have identified a number of skills gaps in its organization as it embarks on a more widespread rollout of SDN- and NFV-based services.The operator, a division of French telecom incumbent Orange (NYSE: FTE), has already carried out service trials in France's small and midsized enterprise market and is set to expand the sc
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Managing Director Infonova at TM Forum Live! 2016
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Smart cities: Start locally, think globally
NICE, France–In an exclusive interview with TM Forum Vice President of Strategic Programs Carl Piva, RCR Wireless News learned about the group’s growing emphasis on smart cities technology, as well as the outlook for adoption, potential pitfalls and more.Although not specifically defined, smart cities share several components, Piva said. “Livability for citizens, which really
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Garden Sharing wins smart cities hack competition
Using IBM API and TM Forum tools, Garden Sharing wins TM Forum Live Open Hack focused on smart cities techNICE, France–Ahead of the start of TM Forum Live!, teams of developers from around the world competed in a smart cities themed hacking competition ultimately won by a team called Garden Sharing.Using the IBM Weather API–that’s an application program interface–along with
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NEC/NetCracker’s NFV Platform Dives Into DevOps
NICE, France — Here at the TM Forum Live conference, NEC and Netcracker Technology today launched the Agile Virtual Platform (AVP), a sprawling network functions virtualization (NFV) platform designed to help service providers build and manage new services based on emerging virtualization technology. You could call it NFV as a service — with some DevOps thrown in for good mea
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Connecting NFV islands
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with TM Forum on deployment and operational challenges in connecting NFV islandsVirtualization platforms using network functions virtualization and software-defined networking technologies continue a slow roll out across telecom network operations. The current pace is being impacted by the continued maturation of NFV and SDN targetin
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Customer experience assurance highlighted at TM Forum Live
NICE, France – The days of just monitoring network performance metrics to gauge overall performance have given way to much more consumer-facing indicators designed to go beyond service assurance and into gauging customer experience. This trend toward evaluating how the end-user experiences network services falls under the umbrella of quality of experience, which, along with cust
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Location Powers the Telecom of the Future at TM Forum Live!
Today, Esri, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) solutions, will be participating at the TM Forum Live! conference in Nice, France. The four-day conference is focused on thriving as a business in the digital world by addressing the key challenges being faced in today's connected world.Esri will be demonstrating how telecoms can improve collaboration and empower
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Verizon Demands Better NFV ‘Answers’ From Vendors
NICE, France -- TM Forum Live! 2016 -- A senior Verizon executive has accused telecom vendors of failing to come up with the "answers" that operators really need as they introduce software and virtualization technologies into their networks.Gagan Puranik, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ)'s director of SDN and NFV architecture planning, says most of the virtualization work so