The communications industry is in a state of extreme change, both in services offered and the way they are delivered. This Aberdeen Group white paper, sponsored by Avalara, uncovers how top-performing communications organizations are utilizing technology to ensure tax compliance, while still enabling the business to remain agile and competitive.

All communications service providers (CSPs) face a wide array of taxation challenges: regulatory fees to track, nexus requirements to determine, tax on tax calculations to get right. This whitepaper, sponsored by Avalara for Communications, examines five methods and outlines how CSPs can resolve common location errors.

This white paper examines the various factors that cable operators should consider when deploying a virtualized network solution, with an emphasis on the energy ramifications of such virtualization moves.

5G New Radio (a.k.a. 5G NR) is the name for the new air interface being developed to enable advanced 5G services. Download this whitepaper to explore the key features of 5G NR as understood at this stage of development.

With the steep increase in using voice for interfacing with our world, voice biometric authentication is also on the rise. Ensuring the security of this authentication method is paramount to protecting consumers.

Authored by Dean Bubley from Disruptive Analysis, this paper explores emerging intersections between IoT and real-time communications. It frames and segments the use cases, and examines the opportunity for telecom-type services, especially where enabled by NFV and cloud-based IoT services platforms.

EANTC was commissioned by Intel under the Intel Network Builders program to perform independent tests of the Metaswitch Perimeta SBC Solution. This document details the testing methodology, the results of those tests and their applicability to VoLTE.

This white paper describes how CoSPs can address these challenges with a network functions virtualization (NFV)-based virtualized IP Multimedia Subsystem (vIMS) from Dell, Intel Metaswitch and Red Hat, that increases agility and lowers deployment and operational costs compared to traditional IMS solutions without NFV platforms.

How can telco-grade availability be achieved if we move this software into a cloud computing environment that offers, at best, 99.97% availability? That is the question that this white paper sets out to answer.

Monarch is the world’s first and most highly-optimized LTE-M (Cat M1) and NB-IoT (Cat NB1) chip. It is purpose-built for the Release 13 narrowband LTE standard. Monarch comprises baseband, RF, power management, and RAM in a single package and supports PSM and eDRX for 10 year plus battery life.

This white paper discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with Wi-Fi credential provisioning, authentication and management. The paper addresses the benefits and limitations of Hotspot 2.0, as well as the merits of a client-assisted approach to Wi-Fi credential provisioning and management.

Download the eBook, and understand how blockchains can bring integrity assurance to the Internet of Things.

The message is clear: today’s businesses require a data center that’s built for the digital economy. Our eBook guides you from the goal to the solution and the final result – this is the journey to winning with cloud.

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