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Post a Comment \| Read (0) Peregrine Chip Eases D3.1 Transitions By Brian Santo, Senior editor, Test & Measurement / Components, Light Reading, 3/15/2016 Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a single RF switch for DOCSIS 3.1 customer premises equipment (CPE) that will enable MSOs to deploy a ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Don't Bet on Full Duplex Yet By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, 3/14/2016 Don't get too excited about Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 just yet. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: KBode ....Would be nice to see this take off. Comcast unveiled its first DOCSIS 3.1... PLUMgrid CEO on M&A Rumors: Nope By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/14/2016 Rumors are swirling around Silicon Valley that SDN startup PLUMgrid is looking for a suitor to buy the company. But PLUMgrid's CEO denies it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) RCom May Soon Join 4G Race in India By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/14/2016 India's Reliance Communications appears to be getting ready to launch 4G services in India now the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has finally cleared its ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Dreams of a Greater Upstream By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/14/2016 The advent of DOCSIS 3.1 is once again raising the question of whether cable operators should extend the frequency range they use for upstream data traffic, or ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) CORD Connecting as ONOS Expands By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/14/2016 SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit -- Open source project ONOS is using this week's Open Networking Summit to show off significant progress for its efforts ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: msilbey Carol- I thought it was fascinating to hear Cox's Jeff Finkelstein talk last... The Real NFV Revolution Is 5 Years Away By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/14/2016 Revolutions do not always have revolutionary outcomes. Monarchs were back on the thrones of England and France not many years after the upheavals that first toppled ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Juice264 I like the introduction of 'first generation' by the panel and writer. Are... WiC Rewind: Advice From Intel, Rogers, Level 3 & Charter By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 3/14/2016 What do an engineer, geophysicist, head of sales and Starz's 16th employee all have in common? They are all women who have risen through the ranks to be leaders in ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Shut Up About Open Source 'Ulterior Motives' Already By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/11/2016 You know those mean rumors about companies joining open source out of nasty, ulterior motives? They're true -- every one of them. Post a Comment \| Read (8 comments) Latest Comment: brooks7 There is a huge difference between Open Source and a Standard though. A Standard... Arbor: Bake Your Security In Early By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/11/2016 DENVER -- Cable Next-Gen Technology Strategies -- In an era when hackers advertise on YouTube, compete on price and even offer service level agreements and free ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cisco Hits Prime Targets With Virtualized Security By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 3/11/2016 In virtualizing its service provider security platform, Cisco managed to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing technology vendors as they migrate from ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: alanethan In virtualizing its service provider security platform, Pass4sure 300-115... Eurobites: Orange Eyes Cybersecurity Buy By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/11/2016 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson upgrades Vodafone's Dutch network; Etisalat profits rise as CEO resigns; data breach at Ofcom. Post a Comment \| Read (0) T-Mobile Eyes 4G Growth & 5G Standards By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 3/11/2016 T-Mobile is planning to increase its 4G footprint this year and the next, even as it anticipates real 5G standards arriving in 2019 or so. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: MrGreen Straight Path owns ~ 2.6 Billion of 28 and 39gHz Mhz-POPs - does anyone know... Leveraging Open Source for the Telco Data Center By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 3/11/2016 Ericsson's Patrick Jestin and Netronome's Nick Tausanovitch explain how their companies are working together to develop open source-based solutions for more efficient telco data center deployments. Post a Comment \| Read (0) BT Expands G.fast Pilot Plans By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 3/10/2016 BT's access network division, Openreach, is extending its G.fast pilot scheme to two new locations where it will trial the next generation copper broadband technology. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: jbtombes I thought field trials clocked G.fast at 1 Gbps- but maybe that's under optimum... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive In D3.1 First, Comcast Goes Gig in Atlanta By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/15/2016 Making good on its promises to roll out DOCSIS 3.1 early this year, Comcast announced today that it's now launching gigabit service in Atlanta based on D3.1 ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: msilbey No, I don't think so. Comcast will want to keep the multi-gig service on the... AT&T Shares ECOMP Vision, Might Share Software By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/15/2016 SANTA CLARA -- Open Networking Summit -- AT&T is lifting the hood on the massive two-year software development of the network engine known as ECOMP and promising to ... Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Ray@LR Donovan to developers - deal in Tabasco, not ketchup.... Eurobites: Vodafone Beefs Up Security Offer By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/15/2016 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone powers smart streetlights with Philips; Liquid Telecom broadens connectivity in South Africa with new hub; Ofcom ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) No-Growth Altice Results Send Shares Falling By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/15/2016 Altice has reported a slight decline in sales last year despite a sharp rise in underlying earnings, prompting further concern about the sustainability of the cable ... Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mendyk It sounds like Altice is doing exactly what it has said it will do -- which... Alphabet, Cisco Join $30M Skyport Security Funding Round By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/15/2016 Skyport Systems, which provides hardened servers designed to be both secure and easy to deploy, has scored a $30 million funding round from GV -- formerly known as ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) US Operators Eye Cuban Opportunities By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 3/15/2016 US companies are opening up relations with Cuba as President Obama loosens the 54-year US economic embargo on the Caribbean Communist nation, and major American ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Averna Buys Its Way Into Europe By Brian Santo, Senior editor, Test & Measurement / Components, Light Reading, 3/15/2016 Averna has bought itself an international presence with the takeover of privately held Test & Measurement Solutions, a company with operations in Belgium, the ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Peregrine Chip Eases D3.1 Transitions By Brian Santo, Senior editor, Test & Measurement / Components, Light Reading, 3/15/2016 Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a single RF switch for DOCSIS 3.1 customer premises equipment (CPE) that will enable MSOs to deploy a ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Don't Bet on Full Duplex Yet By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, 3/14/2016 Don't get too excited about Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 just yet. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: KBode ....Would be nice to see this take off. Comcast unveiled its first DOCSIS 3.1... PLUMgrid CEO on M&A Rumors: Nope By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/14/2016 Rumors are swirling around Silicon Valley that SDN startup PLUMgrid is looking for a suitor to buy the company. But PLUMgrid's CEO denies it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) RCom May Soon Join 4G Race in India By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 3/14/2016 India's Reliance Communications appears to be getting ready to launch 4G services in India now the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has finally cleared its ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Dreams of a Greater Upstream By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/14/2016 The advent of DOCSIS 3.1 is once again raising the question of whether cable operators should extend the frequency range they use for upstream data traffic, or ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) CORD Connecting as ONOS Expands By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/14/2016 SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit -- Open source project ONOS is using this week's Open Networking Summit to show off significant progress for its efforts ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: msilbey Carol- I thought it was fascinating to hear Cox's Jeff Finkelstein talk last... The Real NFV Revolution Is 5 Years Away By Iain Morris, News Editor, 3/14/2016 Revolutions do not always have revolutionary outcomes. Monarchs were back on the thrones of England and France not many years after the upheavals that first toppled ... Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Juice264 I like the introduction of 'first generation' by the panel and writer. Are... Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Launches Public Cloud By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 3/14/2016 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Swisscom's Internet of Things; Ericsson launches NFV platform for NTT DoCoMo; drones take off in Finland. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WiC Rewind: Advice From Intel, Rogers, Level 3 & Charter By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 3/14/2016 What do an engineer, geophysicist, head of sales and Starz's 16th employee all have in common? They are all women who have risen through the ranks to be leaders in ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Gigabites: Google, ITU Think Beyond the Gig By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 3/11/2016 TGIF. In this week's Gigabites, the industry looks ahead to multi-gig services, Google Fiber continues to fight for pole attachment rights and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Gigabit 4G Radio By Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading, 3/11/2016 Back when IMT Advanced -- a.k.a. LTE, a.k.a. 4G -- was first formally proposed, the aim was to achieve 1 Gbit/s downlink to stationary/nomadic users. At the time it ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Shut Up About Open Source 'Ulterior Motives' Already By Mitch Wagner, West Coast Bureau Chief, Light Reading, 3/11/2016 You know those mean rumors about companies joining open source out of nasty, ulterior motives? They're true -- every one of them. Post a Comment \| Read (8 comments) Latest Comment: brooks7 There is a huge difference between Open Source and a Standard though. A Standard... Arbor: Bake Your Security In Early By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/11/2016 DENVER -- Cable Next-Gen Technology Strategies -- In an era when hackers advertise on YouTube, compete on price and even offer service level agreements and free ... Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Virtuapedia Indexes The Future of Virtualization Index project provides CSPs with a clear and concise set of benchmarks to measure their progress in the migration to virtualized networks using a series of surveys involving more than three dozen of the world's most important CSPs. Message Boards TV Monitor, 3/15/2016 2:03:53 PM New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Re: Re: New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Sarah Thomas I am sorry to say this, but you asking for link on this scientific fact of gender differences in brain wiring is like asking for link on the Earth revolves around the Sun. That difference should be very much... Ray@LR, 3/15/2016 1:57:13 PM AT&T Shares ECOMP Vision, Might Share Software Re: Re: Got to hand it to AT&T - subverting the telco norm Donovan to developers - deal in Tabasco, not ketchup.... EmmaDaniels1960, 3/15/2016 1:12:12 PM What's Hot in Mobile Commerce? Re: Wow That was very interesting. I really enjoyed reading. Great to know someone cares. KBode, 3/15/2016 1:08:08 PM Don't Bet on Full Duplex Yet Re: Still... ....Would be nice to see this take off. Comcast unveiled its first DOCSIS 3.1 based gigabit cable offering, and it's got a surprisingly skimpy 35 Mbps on the upstream! msilbey, 3/15/2016 1:07:59 PM In D3.1 First, Comcast Goes Gig in Atlanta Re: Re: Gigabit Pro No, I don't think so. Comcast will want to keep the multi-gig service on the books for bragging rights. Also, eventually FTTH will become viable and cost-effective for them. When it does, the cost will drop below that prohibitive... KBode, 3/15/2016 1:07:08 PM In D3.1 First, Comcast Goes Gig in Atlanta Re: Caps... Apparnetly if you go the no-contract route you're also subject to the company's usage caps. Meaning they're using the threat of caps to drive users to long-term contracts so they can't sign up for Google Fiber when it comes... Sarah Thomas, 3/15/2016 12:51:24 PM Who do you promote / hire? Re: Re: Who do you promote / hire? Great quote/advice. Got a link to where it was said? Sarah Thomas, 3/15/2016 12:48:14 PM New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Re: Re: New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Link to your sources?? Carol Wilson, 3/15/2016 12:43:22 PM AT&T Shares ECOMP Vision, Might Share Software Re: Re: Got to hand it to AT&T - subverting the telco norm According to Donovan, it took 300 agile developers, 8 million lines of code and 18 months to develop. So this is something significant - and he seems to be saying that if the feedback is clearly helpful to moving... Ray@LR, 3/15/2016 12:39:43 PM AT&T Shares ECOMP Vision, Might Share Software Re: Got to hand it to AT&T - subverting the telco norm Obviously this is not something that just happened, overnight... but what is impressive with AT&T's approach for the past 3 years or so is its consistency... it knows where it wanst to get to and it knows how it wanst to... inkstainedwretch, 3/15/2016 12:19:19 PM In D3.1 First, Comcast Goes Gig in Atlanta Re: Gigabit Pro Can we assume that this is the end of Gigabit Pro, the $300/month service Comcast talked about having last year? --Brian Santo brooks7, 3/15/2016 11:48:41 AM Shut Up About Open Source 'Ulterior Motives' Already Re: Re: Weird There is a huge difference between Open Source and a Standard though. A Standard Body, generally, has voting based on membership of some sort. OS project has direction set by those in charge. If you contribute... inkstainedwretch, 3/15/2016 11:43:25 AM II-VI Gets Anadigics – Good Luck With That Re: Update March 15, 2016 ...And that's a wrap. In contrast to previous deals assumed to have been finalized, this one actually is, according to II-VI. -- Brian Santo MrGreen, 3/15/2016 11:10:04 AM T-Mobile Eyes 4G Growth & 5G Standards Re: "5G" MM Spectrum holdings of STRP, XO, Fibertower etc Straight Path owns ~ 2.6 Billion of 28 and 39gHz Mhz-POPs - does anyone know the 28/39 figures for XO and (less importantly and disputed) Fibertower? mendyk, 3/15/2016 11:08:50 AM Shut Up About Open Source 'Ulterior Motives' Already Re: Re: Weird A big part of this disconnect is the utopian view held by some that complete standardization is the ideal. It's hard to reconcile this mindset with the reality that advancement comes through innovation, which by definition... TV Monitor, 3/15/2016 10:55:15 AM T-Mobile Eyes 4G Growth & 5G Standards Re: Re: Different providers danielcawrey But it is T-Mobile customers who are going for unlimited data plans vs Verizon which doesn't even have one. It is the vendor allegiance that's driving each carrier's network evolution strategy. Verizon Wireless... TV Monitor, 3/15/2016 10:41:46 AM New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Re: Re: New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Yes, women outperform men in emotional intelligence and language. Men outperform women in visual tasks and systemizing. Men and women's brains are wired differently for different tasks due to evolutionary selective press... Sterling Perrin, 3/15/2016 10:37:35 AM Shut Up About Open Source 'Ulterior Motives' Already Re: Re: Weird jbtombes- You make a good point. The model of the standards group is changing with open source but the political dynamics are the same. Historically, there have always been two types of complaints when a big vendor comes... mendyk, 3/15/2016 10:18:46 AM No-Growth Altice Results Send Shares Falling Re: Qua? It sounds like Altice is doing exactly what it has said it will do -- which makes you wonder about this stock-market reaction. alanethan, 3/15/2016 7:39:36 AM Cisco Hits Prime Targets With Virtualized Security Re: Cisco In virtualizing its service provider security platform, Pass4sure 300-115 Cisco managed to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing technology vendors as they migrate from hardware-based products to software -... stellajalford, 3/15/2016 6:10:17 AM Accenture: Digital Skills Narrow Gender Gap Re: Our future Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers are the three generations that can change our future. I'm sure women of Millenials are totally different from other two. We at ghostprofessors.com/term-papers-assistance did a research... neelamghuliani, 3/14/2016 8:41:36 PM New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence Re: New Study Shows Women Consistently Outperform Men In Emotional Intelligence http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2016/03/11/new-study-shows-women-consistently-outperform-men-in-emotional-intelligence/?utm_campaign=Forbes&utm_source=LINKEDIN_COMPANY&utm_medium=social&utm_channel=Leadership&li... neelamghuliani, 3/14/2016 8:34:35 PM Who do you promote / hire? Re: Who do you promote / hire? Who do you hire? Dee Hock (CEO of Visa), was asked "who are the right people to promote into leadership positions?" He said, " I hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third,... KBode, 3/14/2016 8:09:00 PM Verizon Sees Video Through Rings of Fiber Re: Re: Trucks vs. vans No matter the generation, I don't think most marketers give young people enough credit. They can smell somebody or a company "trying too hard" from about 100 yards, and I certainly think that's probably the case here.... Juice264, 3/14/2016 7:04:42 PM The Real NFV Revolution Is 5 Years Away Re: 1G, 2G, 3G? I like the introduction of 'first generation' by the panel and writer. Are we headed for 1G, 2G, 3G etc. now for virtualisation like we did with mobile technologies from the late 80's? danielcawrey, 3/14/2016 3:47:20 PM T-Mobile Eyes 4G Growth & 5G Standards Re: Different providers T-Mobile and Verizon have very different types of customers. This is why I think T-Mobile should focus on 4G while Verizon 5G. For Verizon, its customers are clamoring for more data, which 5G can provide. For T-Mobile,... danielcawrey, 3/14/2016 3:39:44 PM Don't Give Up on Converged Cable Access Yet Re: Re: C stands for... I would guess a movement towards distributed architecture with more reliance on Ethernet is not playing to the strengths of some providers. If I were making the choice, the distributed one I think would better, primarily... danielcawrey, 3/14/2016 3:32:24 PM Cisco Hits Prime Targets With Virtualized Security Re: Performance I think some of the fears over virtualized performance are warrented – if you've working in IT, you've probably had to contend with a poor virtual product or service. It's good to see this change. Cisco didn't... More Message Boards		Telco Transformation Sony Extends Reach of OTT Service Across the US Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 3/14/2016 Sony has upped its OTT game by offering its PlayStation Vue service in 203 ... (3 comments) Cable Next-Gen: Mile-High Moments Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 3/11/2016 Light Reading recently hosted its Cable Next Gen Technologies & Strategies at The ... 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Darryl Stork Regional Director, WebNMS Heavy Reading Preparing for Virtual Reality February 2016 This report analyzes the state of the market for VR technology and services. It assesses the impact that different VR applications will likely have on telecom operators by considering application throughput and latency requirements, and assesses which applications will likely be mass-market and which will remain small-scale. It describes the elements that make up the technology and service value stack for VR and profiles 14 innovative players across the broad VR market. See Details Cable Has Its Eyes on the Enterprise Business Prize January 2016 This report explores cable's prospects in the enterprise market and the opportunities and challenges ahead. 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CEO Chat With Gigamon's Paul Hooper

In the heart of the Silicon Valley, Steve Saunders, CEO of Light Reading, sits down with Gigamon CEO Paul Hooper to discuss the Gigamon success story, virtualization, 5G and the other new hot trends in the industry.

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Deutsche Telekom's Kerstin Günther on New IP Network Transformation

Deutsche Telekom's Senior Vice President Technology Europe, Kerstin Günther, gives Light Reading CEO Steve Saunders an update on the operator's transformational network revamp, which is set to have a dramatic impact on operating costs and new business development.

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LTE in unlicensed spectrum continues to be a hot topic at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and in this interview, Dr. Yongbin Wei, Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., shares his insights on the multiple options that are now available to expand the benefits of LTE to unlicensed spectrum, and how the evolving LAA will help to ...

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Parallel Wireless Innovates With vRAN for Small Cells
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Cost-Effective vCPE Solution for Enterprise Users
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In this video, we show a multivendor service chaining demo to illustrate a cost-effective virtual CPE solution for enterprise users. The demo comprises NFV infrastructure provided by Wind River, and three different VNFs provided by Brocade, Checkpoint and Riverbed.

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Wind River's vCPE Plan
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Wind River's Charlie Ashton introduces its reliable vCPE solution.

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Progressing Towards 5G: Qualcomm at MWC 2016
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5G was a big theme at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Dr. John Smee, senior director of engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, shares his insights on how 5G will expand mobile networks to new industries; the timeline for 5G standardization; and the leadership role Qualcomm is playing to drive 5G to commercialization, including advanced technologies ...

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It's surprising to hear rumors about companies joining open source out of nasty, ulterior motives. These rumors were even circulating at the recent Open Compute Project Summit, where they ought to know better. The rumors are true -- every time. Profit and enlightened self-interest are what open source is all about.

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Leveraging Open Source for the Telco Data Center
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Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs
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Davide Cherubini of Vodafone and David Sharpley of Amdocs introduce a multivendor NFV live demo with three enterprise vCPE use cases at MWC 2016.

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Digital Operations Transformation Summit Highlights
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Huawei hosted an event which covered some of the hottest topics in communications technology.

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Communications service providers are transforming their business models, service portfolios and networks to compete in a digital age. A critical enabler of this business transformation is the evolution of traditional telco operations model into digital operations model that supports a digital user experience and digital service delivery. At Huawei’s Digital Operations Transformation Summit in Barcelona, the world’s leading service providers and industry thought leaders are sharing their business and digital operations transformation visions and experiences. In this radio show, Huawei and the TM Forum summarize the key findings from the Summit, including service provider drivers for digital operations, the challenges they have faced and the best practices they are adopting on their transformation journeys.

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