By rebuilding its applications and services as modular microservices hosted in Red Hat's enterprise container platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Turk Telekom has improved processes, increasing customer satisfaction.
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The increasing size and competitiveness of the video delivery segment places new economic and technological pressures on content delivery networks (CDNs), especially as more premium content is live-streamed. Broadpeak(R) BkS400 video cache server handles massive CDN capacity for video streaming with highly efficient use of resources across adaptive standards. It offers cloud-native operation with certification for Red Hat(R) OpenShift(R) Container Platform, optimized for Intel(R) architecture.
Learn about technologies that can serve these critical needs and more, while making the most of existing network investments.
This strategy report analyzes a Heavy Reading survey showing the virtualization strategies that cable operators are implementing.
Consumer demand is reshaping the cable industry. Cable operators are transforming their existing network investments in response, with many now recognizing the value of edge computing.
Telecommunications service providers (telco SPs) transforming themselves into digital service providers to better meet their customer requirements remains an ongoing process.
Turkish telecommunications and technology service provider Turkcell has seen a 50-70% reduction in the cost of hardware servers using Red Hat OpenShift.
Most operators expect to have more than 50% of their IT processes automated by the end of 2024, around two-thirds plan to use automation in their cable headends within the next 12 months, and almost half plan to deploy AI in their network operations over the next 12 months. In 'Cable Next-Gen Broadband Technology Plans & Strategies 2021', Heavy Reading examines these trends and more.
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This white paper is based on the global survey results and provides the industry's most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of open, automated, and programmable transport networks, including requirements and timelines, cloud automation for transport, optical line systems (including disaggregated, open lines) and multilayer transport (including IPoDWDM).
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When it comes to providing service to off-net enterprise customers, our research shows nine out of ten operators agree the process for buying broadband is broken.
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Read this report to learn how CSPs can implement intent-driven automation, and what might help accelerate adoption.
Read the story of Rogers Communications to learn what fundamental internal shifts lead to the creation of a customer service philosophy that ensures more stimulated people who stay longer and happier.
Customer experience is the key battleground for brand differentiation in today's hyper-competitive, always-on, highly connected world. Explore the top business imperatives driving the most successful customer service organizations, including how to harness the power of your entire enterprise to deliver outstanding experiences.
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This content will take you off the Light Reading site.Dell and Marvell Technology have collaborated to create a new Open RAN accelerator card that processes all layer 1 functions in-line, greatly enhancing the performance of the Open RAN vDU. The Dell Open RAN accelerator card eliminates frees up valuable server CPU cores and eliminating the need for a fronthaul network interface card (NIC), helping to make Open RAN a reality today.
IoT devices present a number of verification challenges for engineers. Understanding the use cases in which the devices will be used will help establish an interactive software-based test environment that will create cost and time efficiencies while giving engineers greater confidence in their product performance.
The ability to intelligently automate radio access networks is key to reducing operational costs and improving customer experience. Ericsson's service management and orchestration (SMO) platform, The Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform, extends the O-RAN Alliance architecture to automate multi-vendor, multi-technology networks including Open RAN, Cloud RAN and purpose-built 4G and 5G RAN, but the key to success is the RAN automation rApps.
Will the migration of SON to SON rApps, which runs on a standardized service management and orchestration (SMO) platform, re-energize the SON market?
Intelligent RAN automation unlocks advanced automation through increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. It also enables AI operations by using AI and ML to manage the RAN SW lifecycle. Read this new Intelligent Automation Guide on Intelligent operation to understand more.
The cloud introduces security advantages for 5G Open RAN deployments, but it also expands the attack surface. The visibility and intelligence of the Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) make it an ideal platform to enhance the security posture of Open RAN cloud deployments, aligning with a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).
Cloud metro introduces a paradigm shift in how metro networks are designed, implemented, and operated. As edge computing and cloud metro networks continue to increase, minimizing both TCO and CO2 emissions is necessary to improve service profitability and decrease the environmental impact of networks.
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Communications service providers' (CSPs') attitudes to SaaS solutions are rapidly changing. This change has been driven by innovative commercial models from vendors, an increased enthusiasm for cloud-based delivery models, and an acute imperative to deliver complex new services quicker, without increasing operational costs. SaaS adoption is beginning to increase among CSPs because it reduces the time to value and better aligns costs with business benefits.
This whitepaper presents the key findings of the April 2022 Heavy Reading global Service Provider metro network evolution survey.
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The ability to intelligently automate radio access networks is key to reducing operational costs and improving customer experience. Ericsson's service management and orchestration (SMO) platform, The Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform, extends the O-RAN Alliance architecture to automate multi-vendor, multi-technology networks including Open RAN, Cloud RAN and purpose-built 4G and 5G RAN, but the key to success is the RAN automation rApps.
This white paper examines what service providers can do during the planning stages to build in the necessary capabilities for a profitable, future-ready network, and the roles that automation, orchestration and assurance play in that preparation.
Learn about the benefits of applying AI/ML to your network.
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5G changes the game for communication service providers (CSPs), enabling new kinds of services and business models to transform their businesses.
Customers' ideal service experience has evolved into a desire for preemptive communication from their network provider in their preferred channels about any disruptions or issues regarding service, with resolutions readily at hand.
Discover new use cases and economic value that 5G is expected to create, empowering CSPs to provide more than connectivity alone.
This Omdia case study describes several OSS use cases regarding service discovery, design and activation that were recently implemented as a proof of concept (POC) within Telefonica's German network.
Technology has transformed the way we work, shop, learn, and play. People want real digital experiences everywhere, including from their CSP. This guide shares the best practices and learnings we've built with our customers along the way.
5G is ushering in Industry 4.0 and revolutionizing manufacturing. This ebrief examines an augmented reality (AR) use case, with a closer look at AR for inspection and remote support.
Technology has transformed the way we work, shop, learn, and play. People want real digital experiences everywhere, including from their CSP. This guide shares our best practices and learnings we've built with our customers along the way.
What do 170+ telco service providers think about their readiness to monetize 5G services for enterprises? This TM Forum report examines their answers, outlines which BSS capabilities are needed most urgently, and explores the strategies to get BSS 5G-ready for business.
This ebrief explores why communications service providers are uniquely qualified to be perfect partners for gaming organizers and outlines three key ways to enhance the 5G business customer experience. Find out what businesses are looking for in their 5G customer experience.
5G promises to make innovative new digital experiences a reality for consumers and enterprises alike. Realizing this promise-and monetizing these experiences-requires network slicing.
This content will take you off the Light Reading website. Open RAN, the opening up of the proprietary functionality of a mobile radio access network, is arguably the most significant initiative in the mobile telecom industry today.
This content will take you off the Light Reading website. New 5G use cases present a host of challenges: identifying strategies to beat the competition, meeting unprecedented capacity demands, increasing network coverage, winning customers, and reducing churn - all while minimizing impact on capex and opex.
This content will take you off the Light Reading website. Open RAN, the opening up of the proprietary functionality of a mobile radio access network, is arguably the most significant initiative in the mobile telecom industry today.
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This whitepaper explores how an O-RAN compliant RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) will enable opportunity growth by providing new levels of service agility, automation, and operational efficiency in mobile networks.
Read Brandon Larson's perspective on why a cloud-native IMS is important.
Technology is not the biggest hurdle; old paradigms must change. Read their perspective on how to overcome the three main challenges and respond quickly when the winds shift.
Hear Mavenir's perspective on how a Digital Marketplace approach can radically transform the way CSPs operate and deliver new products and services. See how the unlimited number of Marketplace ideas and ways to bundle services, products, or connectivity can be quickly implemented.
See how Mavenir's non-RT RIC Live Trial with a Tier 1 Operator demonstrated compelling improvements in Coverage and Capacity Optimization (CCO) and Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) KPIs by training ML models with live data to enable dynamic and adaptive policy and control.
Mavenir's Dejan Leskaroski shares thoughts on how using an SBA can drive the change CSPs, enterprises, and other industry players need to break free and deliver the innovative 5G services customers want.
This whitepaper showcases how the Benu vBNG based on Intel architecture provides a solution with many benefits and scale to 100 Terabits.
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One Wi-Fi standard that is gaining fast market traction is the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi EasyMesh(TM), and Airties has been one of the pioneers in adopting this standard, working with Telstra on the world's first service provider deployment of EasyMesh.
Today, service providers are swimming in performance and telemetry data. Yet, 98% of performance impairments go unnoticed. Network operators need to cut through that big-data clutter to find the data that matters to their business.
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Since extracting, moving and storing data is very expensive, stockpiling data "just in case" doesn't make sense. Learn how an adaptive service assurance platform includes adaptive data collection, keeping only what's essential.
Technology demands by enterprises and individuals worldwide increase as the digital transformation of all aspects of life continues. The generation of massive amounts of data continues to grow, which means new solutions are needed that allow employees and the public to quickly make better and faster decisions and participate in the global economy.
The third annual Supermicro Data Centers & The Environment report looks at how data center operators are currently planning to increase efficiency and reduce E-waste. Geographically, there are some differences in how operators are attacking this worldwide challenge.
This fact sheet highlights the factors that operators must consider when deploying open architectures, and the keys to successful Open RAN integration.
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This White Paper discusses the merits of both approaches and how service providers can decide what is best for their individual networks.
This White Paper explores the many benefits of disaggregation as a mechanism for increasing network agility and lowering Total Cost of Ownership such as accelerated innovation and reduced vendor-lock-in.
This White Paper introduces Ribbon's new IP Wave approach to network architecture, which enables service providers to move to a services-driven approach, providing the services agility required to deliver the dynamic, highly optimized, profitable services that their end-customers are demanding.
Communications service providers (CSPs) perceive hyperscalers as potential partners. CSPs are beginning to partner with hyperscalers across the edge value chain. CSPs choose whom to partner with for different benefits, like strength of cloud platforms and accelerating go-to-market.
Developing edge-enabled services is complicated; there are key decisions to be made at each level of the value chain, starting with infrastructure. CSPs are important stakeholders that can determine the growth of the edge market, namely because they are the only ones that can build a significant propertion of it - the network edge.
This sponsored content is ungated and does not require registration. It will take you off of the Light Reading site. 5G enables highly immersive experiences for people and ultra-reliable, low-latency communication between devices. At the heart of each 5G network lies the 5G Core, which empowers service providers to make several key decisions during the build.
This white paper helps to dimension Network Performance Score (NPS) centric benchmarking measurement activities according to the methodology published by ETSI in TR 103 559. This planning approach provides benchmarking results that are representative typical for the target market with thanks toa sufficient statistical relevance.
Explore the value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for your organization and the associated customer experience you can expect to have through seven essential areas of IT.
Read this checklist to understand how telecommunication companies can get more from a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy.
In this report, TM Forum analysts looked at eight of the most important key themes that are forecasted to see significant developments in 2022 and made predictions about the implications of these macro trends.
IT automation is now a strategic initiative and long-term IT strategy. The division between the stated importance of IT automation and its lack of widespread use could be due to the way these tools have historically been employed.
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Whatever version of 5G infrastructure and services is used, whether public, private, or hybrid, and whatever the implemented use case, security must be in place to help protect the attack surface across augmented 5G environments.
5G deployments are evolving gradually to deliver upon the promise of 5G.
As worldwide 5G deployments evolve and scale, a better understanding of the related opportunities and challenges is formed.
5G is now a reality, but for service providers the question of how to make money from it remains. By speaking directly to investors, we've unearthed insights that help provide answers.
Cloud-native represents a fundamental change in the way communications service providers (CSPs) design, deploy, and manage applications and services.
This whitepaper explores the critical role of location intelligence in The critical role of raster mapping in fueling the telco networks of tomorrow. This eBook explores how successful network planning and deployment depend on your ability to analyze huge volumes of raster file-based GIS data, in both spatial and temporal contexts.
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