Mobile network operators face an increasingly demanding and competitive business environment, a reality confounded by the fact that technology is changing more rapidly than ever before. Legacy, single-vendor network solutions are becoming antiquated as service providers find they can stand in the way of innovation and network modernization.

As operators invest in 5G networks and chart a course toward service revenues, scale is a key piece of winning consumer and enterprise business while also realizing the network resource and spectral usage benefits that 5G can unlock. However, achieving scale requires not just a massive investment in technology, but also an investment in rapidly deploying a steadily increasing stack of hardware and software.

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This white paper will explain why and how CSPs need to partner with their enterprise customers to offer business solutions that enable 'digital first' services to their customers, and introduce some of the use cases on that front.

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This Analysys Mason paper shows how Telenor NFV reduces cost and complexity despite high rates of traffic growth, and lays the foundation for 5G innovation.

Download this TM Forum report to learn where we are on the path to the Open API economy.

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.

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This paper highlights the findings from these interviews and provides insights to help operators determine the most effective alternatives they can pursue in deploying their 5G RANs.

In this exclusive report, Appledore Research principal analyst Francis Haysom argues that 2021 will be a critical year in which open RAN really begins to change the shape of the telecoms market.

This paper helps CSPs understand how VMware supports a path toward an Open RAN.

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In this paper, learn how Red Hat is building a comprehensive community that includes all parts of the NFV solution, including management and orchestration platforms, VNFs, and infrastructure add-ons to enhance the performance and functionality of your NFV environment.

Heavy Reading analysts conducted research on best practices and key considerations for building secure, fast 5G and edge computing networks. This report outlines their findings.

Discover the advantages to telecommunications companies in adopting a cloud native architecture approach, including agility and savings in overhead costs.

Cloud-native application development, a methodology for developing, deploying and operating applications, can help maintain reliable systems and meet increasing user expectations across multiple infrastructures. This guide includes research, case studies, and a discussion of 3 industry trends.

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This Analysys Mason paper shows how Telenor NFV reduces cost and complexity despite high rates of traffic growth, and lays the foundation for 5G innovation.

This whitepaper gives details of Saankhya Labs RAN-WiserTM, a hardware agnostic RAN framework that enables seamless portability of DU Software, allowing a mobile network operator to implement Open RAN by switching to a multi-vendor RAN hardware and software solution.

CSPs won't just be a key part of providing enterprise connectivity-to drive revenue growth, they will want to offer new solutions that ultimately help enterprises better deliver services to end customers.

Digital Mediation is an essential component for future cloud infrastructure and CSPs need to start preparing for the future today. We'll cover the three main Mediation challenges CSPs must overcome to stay ahead of the curve and the competition---and the three ways to conquer these challenges.

A CSP's enterprise leadership knew they needed to deliver a better customer experience for existing customers and reduce the time and cost to bring new customers online. The customer deployed CSG Singleview in a program designed to meet their requirements for scalability, along with the flexibility to cater to large and varied customers.

This is the third annual version of the Heavy Reading 2021 5G Network & Service Strategies Operator Survey.

In this white paper, you will learn about EMF measurement procedures, Radiated power/power emission measurements and the two critical EMF metrics.

This recent whitepaper from NetNumber quickly reprises what STIR/SHAKEN is all about, addresses what the FCC requires in the IP portions of networks, and shares insights into what must also be done in the non-IP portions of the network.