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Since we entered the era of the cloud, 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), terabit-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have increased in their frequency, impact and sophistication. How bad is the problem? What is causing it? And what can you do to protect your network, services and users? Read this white paper for answers to these questions.

This application note looks at how a multilayer, embedded approach to IP network security can provide: High service quality and network integrity without compromises to IP network performance or functionality, High effectiveness and automation to identify and mitigate increasingly sophisticated attacks with greater speed and accuracy, and Universal, cost-effective customer protection to increase satisfaction, reduce churn and minimize impact from attacks that target your customers.

Read this eBook to find out how to build a self-defending IP network and protect your IP network from within.

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This white paper provides an overview of Network Slicing, as well as how to use testing and verification of network slicing functionality as part of a bottom-up strategy for designing secure and reliable products.

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This new AI in Zero-Touch Network Monitoring survey report uncovers the motivations, challenges, and business value of investing in AI-based network monitoring and automation. The survey examines the need for solutions that help network operations improve customer experience and accelerate troubleshooting when things do go wrong, while also saving costs through automation and reducing OpEx.

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The telecommunications industry is transforming rapidly, and people around the world are relying on digital technology more than ever. Download this eBook to find out how leading CSPs are accelerating their digital transformation to overcome their top service and operations challenges.

Download this research report to learn why communications service providers (CSPs) are rapidly moving to support cloud-based services to meet the demands of enterprise and consumers alike who are looking for on-demand applications in a secure, highly available network.

This report by Aberdeen reveals the role of customer operations in helping telecommunications companies retain customers and maximize customer spend over time—highlighting the key pillars top performing Communications Service Providers (CSPs) use to attain their service and back-office objectives.

Download this report to find out how a new breed of OM systems has emerged to sit at the heart of the orchestrated service fulfillment process.

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As network providers prepare for full 5G functionality, there are interim steps they can take to gain competitive advantage now using strategic partnerships and existing assets to efficiently and cost-effectively serve customers business-critical services on demand.

This report highlights the results of our 2021 survey, comparing and contrasting them with the results from our 2019 survey.

A reference architecture from Red Hat, Dell, Altiostar, NEC and Netcracker designed to help digital service providers deploy a cell tower in less than an hour.

Red Hat and Intel offer a modern, integrated, validated radio access network (RAN) foundation to help deploy, accelerate and optimize radio access networks.

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Part of a series developed by ACG Research and Red Hat to highlight new revenue opportunities available to communications service providers (CSPs) using edge computing to deliver applications and services in distributed open hybrid clouds.

This RTInsights eBook walks through four key benefits of edge computing, explaining why businesses should consider expanding existing IT infrastructures to the edge, and offering examples of use cases likely to gain the most from an edge strategy.

This Heavy Reading 2021 5G Network & Service Strategies Operator Survey is designed to provide insight into how 5G networks and services will evolve as operators and the wider mobile ecosystem invest in and develop 5G technology. (Edge cloud and security sponsored excerpts).

The business review report on capturing new business revenues in the 5G era explores how the new network slicing solution will drive further innovation in areas such as smart manufacturing, public safety and online gaming—all with lightning fast connectivity and enhanced overall performance.

Some people watch sports, others live it! 5G stadiums will revolutionize the stadium experience, bringing a real-time, immersive experience to fans at the venue and beyond. 86% of industry leaders believe that live sports viewing will become significantly richer, immersive, and interactive in the future. Read the latest ebrief to explore how 5G stadiums will bring a real-time, immersive experience to fans at the venue and beyond and how does this translate into revenues and profits?

Read the brochure to explore examples of exciting indoor projects wherein service providers have delivered high-quality indoor 5G experiences in consumer and enterprise sectors.

This case study focuses on Telstra International's transport network automation strategy and the role of Cisco Systems as Telstra's partner for multi-domain services orchestration. The report details Telstra International's network automation goals, early use cases, expected benefits and next steps.

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Create new disruptive CSP experiences by embracing rapid product and service innovation — all while redefining customer engagement for the 5G age.

This guide explains the impact of 5G on transport networks and key test considerations for ensuring reliable performance and high quality of service—insight you’ll need because 5G demands the network supporting it to be as flexible and reliable as the services running on it

VIAVI is pleased to offer you this comprehensive 5G Deployment Handbook where you'll find insights to simplify deployment complexities and learn about easy-to-use fiber, x-haul and RF solutions.

This business white paper outlines the benefits of deploying virtualized radio access network (RAN) platforms within 5G telco networks, and also provides a total cost of ownership analysis.

Virtual radio access network (vRAN) architecture strategy is a key to achieving cost-effective agility. But the RAN can be a very challenging workload for commercial off-the-shelf server platforms. This white paper presents a vRAN strategy for achieving cost-effective agility within 5G environments.

Learn about the new value opportunity in the 5G economy.

Learn how the right partners can help CSPs monetize 5G.

How traffic classification and inspection support networking and security solutions today, and how it will do so tomorrow as encryption usage and standards evolve.

As 5G continues to evolve, so do the plethora of new use cases that unveil additional dimensions of capability in terms of higher bandwidth, lower latency, and efficient scalability. While these create new opportunities and innovations, the way design and manufacturing engineers verify their products and test procedures must also keep pace with the new challenges these capabilities bring to an already complex 5G ecosystem.

This white paper makes a case for operators to consider a multi-vendor 5G core deployment and cites the 3GPP service-based architecture (SBA) and cloud-native infrastructure as key technology enablers.

In 2Q21, Heavy Reading surveyed 86 communications service providers (CSPs) across global regions about their plans for customer premises equipment overall and universal CPE (uCPE) specifically. This report presents the highlights of that survey. The respondent pool showed a more lively than anticipated adoption of uCPE with 59% of US; 61% of Asia Pacific (APAC); and 39% of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) respondents already deploying uCPE.

Edge computing is poised to significantly reshape telecom networks. Beyond changing the ways communications service providers (CSPs) operate, it also holds huge potential for capturing much more of the enterprise market. TM Forum’s analysts surveyed communications service providers to learn more about their edge computing plans and deployment experiences.

See what Heavy Reading analysts discovered when they conducted research on digital service provider best practices and key considerations for building secure, fast 5G and edge computing networks.

This report highlights the results of our 2021 survey, comparing and contrasting them with the results from our 2019 survey.

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Within data centers and 5G broadband infrastructure systems, the ‘more, faster, better’ ambitions continue. While there are many elements to delivering on these objectives, enhancing the functional performance of electronic systems plays an integral role. This paper provides practical application examples about how smart thermal strategies can maximize system performance and lifetime.

This paper explains the technology evolution of SONET and lays out the case for why service providers should consider migrating their legacy networks to IP-based transport.

This paper highlights how an innovative and economical access-to-core Optical Transport Networking (OTN) switching solution can enable service providers to provision these lucrative services rapidly, speeding up time to revenues, maintaining customer satisfaction, while also guaranteeing service availability.

This paper explains the benefits of both and how service providers can reap the rewards of disaggregated networks regardless of which approach they choose.

This paper explores how service providers can quickly capitalize on all of the benefits of 400G ZR+ and essentially change the economics for IP and Optical transport.

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>How do you turn the Rip and Replace program into a serious network advantage? By replacing your at-risk components with Open RAN equipment. Now that Open RAN solutions are eligible for reimbursement by the FCC, you can. Don’t just replace equipment – Revitalize your network for faster innovation and future growth with Open RAN.

How do you turn the Rip and Replace program into a serious network advantage? By replacing your at-risk components with Open RAN equipment. Now that Open RAN solutions are eligible for reimbursement by the FCC, you can. Don’t just replace equipment – Revitalize your network for faster innovation and future growth with Open RAN.

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This white paper addresses the challenges designers face in ensuring that 5G RAN infrastructure is efficiently and effectively powered, with a focus on the capabilities of DC-DC modules.

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Learn how Nokia 400G everywhere enables operators to upgrade their IP optical networks to 400GE speeds across the network, from metro access and data center interconnect (DCI) links, to metro/regional aggregation and core networks.

This white paper takes a closer look at pluggable coherent 400G router optics technology advances, and their impact and applications.

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This ebook offers insights that will enhance your understanding of how advances in 400G transport will support the next generation of IP services at 400 Gigabit Ethernet. It also explains how you can implement efficient IP-optical solutions for every application that runs on your network – from the metro edge to subsea communications.

This executive brief explains that with full deployment flexibility that includes virtualized network functions (VNFs), cloud-native network functions (CNFs), physical network functions (PNFs) and pre-integrated and modular server-based appliance solutions, Nokia’s CPC solution will enable service providers to deploy without limitations and host whatever they envision to profit from opportunities.

This ebook outlines how the ability to deploy a core network as software on any cloud, whether private, public, hybrid or on-premises and to leverage any access technology including licensed wireless (2/3/4/5G) and unlicensed wireless, shared spectrum and wireline or fixed access will be important capabilities that give service providers complete flexibility regardless of where they are in terms of their cloud maturity.

In the 5G era, a universal adaptive core becomes the critical key, freeing Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to thrive by offering different services to everyone and everything. This white paper examines how CSPs can simplify the core, allowing them to innovate, execute, and take advantage of new opportunities.

Many CSPs are deploying 5G NSA with the aim of evolving to 5G SA as the technology matures. This calls for the transition from 5G NSA to 5G SA to be straightforward for the CSP and transparent to the end user. This paper describes ways to make that transition happen, focusing on the 5G core.

How are BSS-to-cloud journeys progressing? Where are CSPs focusing their efforts? This 2021 Futurum Research report, based on a survey of 324 CSPs, explores BSS cloud journeys, providing a status overview and detailing key patterns and different perspectives.

What are the key elements of telecom agility? Which activities must be pursued by service providers to achieve it? This 2021 STL Partners report examines the concept of agility to see how it’s evolved since it first interviewed service providers about the topic in 2015.

Do legacy billing systems limit a service provider’s ability to target enterprises? Which new services and use cases are driving billing requirements? These questions are considered in the 2021 TM Forum report, Future Enterprise Billing.

Gaming, fixed wireless access and enhanced video are three 5G consumer use cases showing strong growth. This ebrief discusses the various BSS capabilities, including 5G consumer charging and billing, network slicing, and partner management.

Learn more how you can make most use of policy management in a cost-efficient way.

Learn more about CI/CD today and tomorrow in telecom networks. Fully automated software pipelines are the future, and as it requires both technological and organizational changes, the best time to start is now.

Our holistic strategy for the cloud native transformation offers CSPs the possibility of decreased time to market combined with opex reductions, along with a more modern operational model where software flows continuously from development to production environments.

Do you question yourself ‘How to best prepare my network to a cloud native 5GC?’. If so, this guide will help you identifying the different network domains to be impacted and finding solutions to tackle the challenges along the transformation journey.

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This paper covers everything you need to know about building an end-to-end network slicing architecture. It’s a complete guide for communication service providers who want to put network slicing into action already now.

This paper explores key steps and considerations for communication service providers who want to start, and accelerate, their network slicing transformation journey.

This new report analyzes more than 400 digital use cases in 70 industries and identifies the top 10 industry segments and use cases that will drive the majority of the revenue potential.

This new report analyzes more than 400 5G use cases and isolated the network slicing value potential. How can CSPs get a slice of the action?

This white paper describes the structure and application of an integrated and transparent methodology to characterize mobile network performance.

Service support is about answering inquiries and resolving problems. B2B customers of communications services have needs that go well beyond the typical B2C customer care approach of FAQs, chat boxes, instructional videos, and general agent dialogs. Download this IDC Analyst Connection and find out why B2B customer care needs to be different.

As the telecom ecosystem expands, it has become increasingly complex to deliver high-quality, reliable service. But for an industry that increasingly relies on service assurance as one of its competitive differentiators, getting it right has never been more critical. Find out how to deliver superior service by connecting network and customer workflows.

Find out how CSPs can bring the old and new worlds of network resources together in order to deliver proactive experiences and automate service assurance.