Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 11/14/2018 | Post a comment
The Linux Foundation's Acumos AI Project has issued its initial release on schedule but its 'app store' is still rather bare.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 11/13/2018 | Post a comment
Operators need an accurate, up-to-date network and service topology view in order to determine the 'Eulerian path' of service configuration and implementation.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 11/6/2018 | Post a comment
Most communications service providers (CSPs) surveyed for this month's Thought Leadership Council (TLC) report feel they are on track with network security planning, but more than 80% of respondents worry about future technology being used to launch complex attack vectors.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/31/2018 | Post a comment
The growth of public and private cloud data centers is driving a strong and growing market for high-performance switch chips, and the choices dominating operators in the market make will have a dramatic impact.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/22/2018 | Post a comment
The BT executive shares his views on NFV, automation, in-house development, what he wants from his team and more.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/19/2018 | 2 comments
Zen Internet, an alternative ISP in the UK, has ambitious growth plans and is looking to a refresh of its back office software, including the introduction of SDN capabilities, to help achieve its goals.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/18/2018 | Post a comment
Almost 70% of service providers in this month's Thought Leadership Council (TLC) survey say they either already have or will move compute and application execution to the edge by 2020.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/18/2018 | Post a comment
For CenturyLink, transformation is about enhancing its business in terms of effectiveness, cost efficiency and customer experience. So how is it trying to achieve that?
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/15/2018 | Post a comment
Open source MANO (management and orchestration) developments are providing network operators with something of a conundrum.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/10/2018 | Post a comment
Collecting large volumes of data is one thing. Making sense of it is another.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/9/2018 | Post a comment
Further innovation is needed if optical transport networks are to support traffic growth and there was plenty of evidence at a recent ECOC workshop that key work is already underway.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/5/2018 | Post a comment
Survey finds that many CSPs are boldly forging a path towards the open, agile, automated and efficient networks the telecom industry requires.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/5/2018 | Post a comment
Communications service providers (CSPs) are working towards more open architectures as they develop their next-generation networks.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/5/2018 | Post a comment
The 5G market is set to take off soon, and vendors are racing to make their first 5G radio access network (RAN) offerings available.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/4/2018 | Post a comment
Yves Bellego, director of network strategy at Orange, explains how the operator is approaching automation, how it has developed a data lake and the ongoing challenges associated with NFV.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/1/2018 | Post a comment
Open source may have gained support from the communications service provider (CSP) community, but there are some major challenges in making use of it.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 10/1/2018 | Post a comment
Cable is exploring coherent optics technology to better access the cable network and improve fiber networks to increase capacity tenfold.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/27/2018 | 2 comments
To really get the benefits of the applications that are possible in a 5G world, the industry first needs to transition to software-defined testing and assurance solutions that are flexible and efficient.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/25/2018 | Post a comment
Issues relating to services orchestration have still not entirely been resolved.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/24/2018 | Post a comment
The 5G Transport event will examine how packet/optical networking, edge data centers and distributed cloud platforms can combine to support the new 5G RAN and core architecture, and the many new service types associated with 5G.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/17/2018 | Post a comment
Key developments and research for future optical networks will be discussed during a special workshop at ECOC on Sunday, September 23.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/13/2018 | Post a comment
To meet the goals of network quality, customer experience and cost containment, operators will need to embrace even more intelligent forms of network maintenance.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/12/2018 | Post a comment
Communications service providers (CSPs) are slowly adopting automated processes for their Internet of Things (IoT) network architecture, with more than 80% of CSPs who participated in this month's panel citing automation as critical to their IoT networks.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/12/2018 | Post a comment
When it comes to mobile technology generations, telecom operators are highly procrastinational.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/7/2018 | Post a comment
Respondents to Heavy Reading's Multicore Processor and Switch Survey consider programmability as the most important differentiator in switch functions.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/5/2018 | Post a comment
5G looks to be much more than just a way to deliver faster wireless access… it could lead to a new way of designing, deploying and operating communication networks.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 9/4/2018 | 2 comments
While more locations – perhaps orders of magnitude more – presumably mean better service performance, it also means more devices that someone needs to install, monitor, maintain and troubleshoot.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/30/2018 | 1 comment
Half of the communications service providers (CSPs) in the Thought Leadership Council say they'll need to supplement their current service assurance tools as they virtualize networks.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/29/2018 | 1 comment
Once a brick, always a brick? In preparation for disasters, users around the world are turning to technologies that use smartphones to create a resilient mesh network layer that underlies the current cellular network.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/27/2018 | Post a comment
Since the launch of Light Reading's NFV & Carrier SDN event, the trajectories of SDN and NFV have continued to converge while also diverging and separating more than we expected.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/24/2018 | Post a comment
As the market continues to push toward 5G, test and measurement (T&M) will expand, offering many more opportunities for T&M vendors.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/16/2018 | Post a comment
This year's NFV & Carrier SDN event will examine the industry's progress in monetizing virtualization efforts, but will also consider the impact of process automation, which is now positioned as a ubiquitous add-on to any technology.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/13/2018 | Post a comment
Depending on who you listen to, blockchain is either an over-hyped oddity or a milestone in legal and financial innovation comparable to double-entry bookkeeping. But how significant is the opportunity for communications service providers?
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/8/2018 | Post a comment
With the use of microservices and AI, AT&T is looking to speed up and change the processes that will ultimately help it transform its network operations and become more efficient.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/6/2018 | 1 comment
The concept of digital twins could be taken to a much higher level in areas like network planning and design, programmable networks and field service management.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 8/3/2018 | Post a comment
More than 60% of communication service providers (CSPs) in this focus group are not sure how they will automate the orchestration of services that include both physical and virtual resources.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/27/2018 | Post a comment
The OSS/BSS market is changing quickly thanks to the move to network virtualization and, more broadly, by the transformation of communications service providers into digital service providers.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/20/2018 | Post a comment
UK mobile operator Three UK is undergoing a revamp of its radio access network and supporting IT systems.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/16/2018 | Post a comment
The use of artificial intelligence by telcos is currently limited, but the Acumos AI Project looks set to make machine learning applications more easily created and readily available.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/13/2018 | Post a comment
Cable is moving in on the wireless market, with many exciting opportunities opening up across the board, including in WiFi, mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and 5G.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/9/2018 | Post a comment
On July 27, Nick Read will become Vodafone Group CEO designate before assuming the role of Group CEO on October 1. What can we expect from the operator's current CFO once he's in the hot seat?
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/6/2018 | Post a comment
More than half the communications services providers surveyed for this report expect to have 5G backhaul ready by 2020, even though they still do not know which vendors they plan to use for this step.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 7/5/2018 | 10 comments
Mobile operators may find that all their investments in VoLTE and RCS are for naught as OTT providers win and they are left monetizing the data pipe.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 6/20/2018 | 1 comment
ETSI's wonderfully named Experiential Networked Intelligence (ENI) group, which aims to help operators better understand and improve the management of their networks, has sprung to life.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 6/15/2018 | 3 comments
SPRING has sprung in the routing community.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 6/11/2018 | 8 comments
Call it Industry 4.0, Industry-X, Industrial IoT, the Industrial Internet – by any name, it offers tremendous opportunities to transform productivity across many sectors of the economy.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 6/8/2018 | 1 comment
Just like 3G, 4G and Long Term Evolution (LTE), 5G isn't kicking WiFi to the curb. Mixing WiFi with LTE and 5G networks offers mobile operators numerous market opportunities.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 6/5/2018 | Post a comment
Service providers surveyed for this report are cautiously optimistic about automating business/operations support system (B/OSS) – more than half are already taking steps to automate B/OSS, and even more plan to do so within the next two years.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 6/4/2018 | Post a comment
Automation was one of the key themes discussed at the recent Big Communications Event (BCE), including how artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, intent-based networking and open source solutions are all helping CSPs on their journey to zero-touch automation.
Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes | 5/21/2018 | Post a comment
Three strategic initiatives &ndash Novitas, Stratus and Sentio &ndash have powered Colt's move into on-demand services.
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