The communications industry is at a critical point in its transformation as innovations such as 5G and edge computing are being planned and progressively rolled out. Virtualization, and now the telco cloud, act as a foundational component of this transformation with the promise of enhanced service experience, complete resilience, operational agility and optimized capital expenditure. This is a radical departure from the traditional, single-purpose hardware appliance model. CSPs now have to design and operate their services across a web of data centers bridging physical and virtual ecosystems while enabling interoperability across competing vendors. Designing and managing services requires the coordination of multiple VNFs. An automated approach is needed that abstracts the multi-cloud complexity and removes tedious manual tasks to achieve network transformation and operational efficiency.
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$1 in CapEx consumed by service providers today does 11 times the work it did just a few years ago. Also, for each $1 in CapEx spent by operators, almost $5 in OpEx gets paid. This can’t continue unless we reinvent the rules.
Cisco is changing the economics of the Internet for the Future by powering service providers and web-scale operators to build a durable network foundation, created using breakthrough innovations. This interactive session will provide details on the innovations covering silicon, optics, software and systems. We will review why they help customers, with real-world examples, to implement new network architectures using these foundational technologies.
So mark your calendars and learn how you can benefit from building converged, cloud-enhanced and fabric-based network architectures that improve CapEx efficiency, OpEx utilization and time-to-service.
5G and AI are two of the most disruptive technologies the world has seen in decades. While each is individually revolutionizing industries and enabling new experiences, the combination of both 5G and AI is going to be truly transformative. Applying AI not only to the 5G network but also the device will lead to more efficient wireless communications, longer battery life and enhanced user experiences. The low latency and high capacity of 5G will also allow AI processing to be distributed amongst the device, edge cloud and central cloud, enabling flexible system solutions for a variety of use cases. At Qualcomm Technologies, we are not only working on cutting-edge research for 5G and AI, but we are also exploring their synergies to realize our vision of the future.
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The world of digital and the rise of 5G create new opportunities for operators to expand into new business value chains. Consequently, operators need agile monetization systems that reflect a new portfolio of services, business models and a new approach to consumer payments and value. All of this plus ensuring they meet the technology requirements of 5G and cloud-native IT, while also lowering TCO and performing at scale.
Implementing charging systems as a fully cloud-native solution leverages the full benefits of the cloud, such as agility, elasticity and cost optimization. Furthermore, utilizing a distributed edge architecture to deploy charging functions closer to the end devices will serve to reduce HW and signaling footprint, which are expected to increase dramatically with the surge of connected devices over the 5G network.
In this webinar, Amdocs and AWS will present their approaches to bringing cloud and edge into the operator’s monetization domain, through Amdocs’ RevenueONE, AWS’ public cloud and AWS’ Outposts.
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We're delivering the highest volume of data traffic in history, with mobile traffic projected to grow to 131 EB/month in 2024 (74% of which will be video). Service providers must be deliberate with their application services for fast adaptation, as they are challenged by telcos as well as nontraditional competitors, while simultaneously transitioning to 5G. Industry leader James Feger, general manager of service provider for F5, will lead this session on how to do so.
Join this webinar and learn how F5 is visualizing and preparing secure and distributed application services that support agile and automated network transformation.
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SD-WAN has come a long way in a very short period of time. Not only in terms of commercial adoption, but also in the scope of services supported.
One area that has undoubtedly fueled this growth is the integration of powerful security capabilities. In order to fully understand the impact of security services on SD-WAN implementation, in 4Q 2019, Heavy Reading, in collaboration with Amdocs, Fortinet, Lavelle Networks and Nuage Networks, created and fielded a comprehensive SD-WAN security-focused survey designed to provide granular insights into the state of SD-WAN security services.
This webinar will provide a readout of several key survey findings. Topics to be addressed include:
The technological shift to dynamic and scalable architectures brings agility and flexibility to network modernization - reducing the time to bring new services to market while enabling rapid service deployment. In response, service providers are now building a highly-distributed telco cloud environment that spans across multi-vendor, multi-site cloud infrastructures, designed to meet the performance and scalability requirements that advanced 5G-enabled service offerings will require.
These evolving network architectural changes vastly impact security postures that mobile operators are required to adopt in their journey to 5G. As service providers prepare for building out 5G-ready telco clouds, they will need a resilient network with robust security mechanisms to support the diversity and performance requirements of 5G-enabled applications and services.
During this session, we will discuss:
We will conclude the discussion by providing a five-step approach for building a proactive defense around your 5G-ready telco clouds.
There has been a lot of talk about the edge, but generally, the industry is still in the process of transitioning from discussing the topic at conferences to deploying it in the field. One of the challenges is ensuring that specifically designed networking hardware and software can meet the requirements of constrained environments and highly distributed architectures. Retrofitting existing networking solutions designed for large centralized data centers results in high cost, complexity and compromise. Tune into this webinar to learn about how new hardware and software innovations purpose-built for these smaller distributed environments are transforming concepts of edge compute into reality.
Join Heavy Reading analyst Jim Hodges; Pluribus Networks CMO Mike Capuano and Vice President, Product Management Alessandro Barbieri; and Red Hat's Chief Technologist for Global Service Providers Ian Hood as they review multiple innovations for wireless and wireline telco operators, MSP/CSPs and even mid-market enterprise customers that are looking to automate small- and medium-sized, single- and multi-site data centers, including highly distributed edge compute environments.
Are operators virtualizing their RAN? When, and with what goals in mind? Heavy Reading surveyed over 80 global operators to gain their perspective on deploying virtualized RAN solutions. In this webinar we share the results of that survey, sponsored by Red Hat. We focus on vRAN deployment opportunities and challenges; how existing 4G RAN infrastructure and planned 5G implementations influence deployment, and how emerging container and cloud native technologies impact vRAN plans. We also examine how the operators' desire to avoid vendor lock-in may require evolving platform solutions to simplify managing and integrating multi-vendor VNFs in an NFV environment.
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$1 in CapEx consumed by service providers today does 11 times the work it did just a few years ago. Also, for each $1 in CapEx spent by operators, almost $5 in OpEx gets paid. This can’t continue unless we reinvent the rules.
Cisco is changing the economics of the Internet for the Future by powering service providers and web-scale operators to build a durable network foundation, created using breakthrough innovations. This interactive session will provide details on the innovations covering silicon, optics, software and systems. We will review why they help customers, with real-world examples, to implement new network architectures using these foundational technologies.
So mark your calendars and learn how you can benefit from building converged, cloud-enhanced and fabric-based network architectures that improve CapEx efficiency, OpEx utilization and time-to-service.
With 5G networks are live around the world, the industry is looking to the next phase of deployment and performance. For equipment vendors, this means the need to innovate in software and hardware is relentless. In this webinar Huawei will present its latest innovations from its commercial 5G RAN portfolio. Among the topics to be discussed are:
Join Heavy Reading Principal Analyst Gabriel Brown and Huawei’s Dong Zhang on December 18 to learn more on the status of 5G technology innovation as well as ecosystem development around the globe.
The deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices on a massive scale will have far-reaching service and security implications for service provider networks. This session will commence by covering the technology options for IoT deployment, including cellular IoT (e.g. NB-IoT and LTE-M) in 4G, how they will evolve with 5G deployments, and how 5G will help accelerate the deployment of cellular IoT.
This session will also document how the acceleration of IoT deployment increases the overall security threat to 5G networks. In order to address these threats, new strategies are necessary. One such strategy that will be covered is the adoption of a two-tiered security approach that is optimally positioned to handle security challenges posed by IoT and 5G adoption. Finally, the webinar will explore the role that governments and regulation will play in securing IoT and 5G networks.
Compared with building a physical network infrastructure, a Virtualized Private 5G Network by end-to-end network slicing saves TTM(Time to market) and huge investment, and there are no regulatory issues associated with spectrum licenses. 5G end-to-end network slicing solution integrates SDN/NFV, Network Slicing and related technologies to help different types and sizes enterprises to have their own Service-Level Agreement(SLA) guaranteed VPN/slice(eMBB, uRLLC, mMTC) at an affordable price. But the question is how mobile industry to make money from this?The mobile industry is facing many problems of business model crisis. The traditional B2C Model with unlimited data traffic packet will lead to the stagnation of operators' income, whilst the investment of network will continue to grow in 5G era. Whilst services such as autonomous driving, VR/AR are significant, however, the new features of 5G (low latency, ultra-bandwidth) are too difficult for end-user to understand and pay for them directly... What is the new strategy and major sources of income for operators in 5G era? What’s the enhancement of end-user experience in 5G?A New 5G business model is needed to solve all these problems above.
After getting off to a late start, the cable industry is now advancing in the software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) space, even leading the way in virtualizing its access networks. But, while cablecos are beginning to virtualize such key network functions and hardware as firewalls, routers, set-top boxes and even CMTS chasses, they still have a ways to go. In this session, we'll look at where cable stands in its cloud journey, what it should virtualize next and which challenges must still be overcome.
Huge growth in demand for network capacity and scale is driving service providers to re-think their network architecture. They are looking at how hyperscalers solved similar challenges in the cloud with a disaggregated architecture based on low-cost white boxes and resource virtualization, with network disaggregation gaining momentum among the large service providers. Operators that are disaggregating their network are excited about the service and operational opportunities that it opens up, but concerned about the operational complexities this creates, requiring them to pull together all the infrastructure elements – hardware and software – on their own. This is something that was entirely done for them through a single-vendor solution. This is where orchestration and management come into play.
Join this webinar and learn about the management and orchestration of a disaggregated network architecture, bringing it all together – simply.
Disaggregation is now here. Learn how.
Operator success in 5G will be built on innovative services that generate net new revenues. Quite a few use cases are emerging from the early-adopting country markets in 5G already, including Switzerland, China, and South Korea. This webinar will discuss the latest thinking from Huawei on the use case categories that can most benefit from 5G performance and can deliver tangible economic and social value to end customers.
To ground the session in a real-world context, you will learn from the world’s first 5G use cases including but not limited to:
Key takeaways from this webinar will include but not limited to:
Join Ovum Analyst Dario Talmesio and Huawei’s Daisy Zhu on December 11 to discuss these new insights into 5G use-cases and business opportunities.
A wide choice of Internet applications and services and ubiquitous connectivity across all devices are changing how online content and OTT video are consumed. Service providers need better insights into what is happening throughout their network -- most importantly in the "first mile" -- to optimize the delivery of their own and OTT services, and ensure premium customer experiences for both.
In this webinar, we will examine current OTT trends and service provider approaches, and how big data analytics can help provide real-time, multi-dimensional, subscriber-level insights for network optimization and marketing/service planning.
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Waiting to build-out your 5G network and capitalize on new 5G opportunities, such as Massive IoT, Smart City and Connected Cars? Since 4G handles today’s growing subscribers, devices and traffic, many operators are leveraging data analytics use cases to transform end-to-end customer experience. As 4G & 5G technologies coexist, we will explore how operators can monetize data analytics today, and seamlessly evolve into supporting the use cases of tomorrow.
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5G is a hot topic in 2019, and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is one of the most contentious domains. Some mobile operators see it as hopeful game-changer in a fixed market for significant growth, while other fixed network incumbent operators tend to view it as supplemental in remote, rural areas.
This webinar will discuss the real-world capabilities of 5G FWA networks, how operators' go-to-market strategies differ and what we can expect for FWA development in the short-term future technology-wise and ecosystem-wise.
In this webinar we will investigate how it is possible to empower CSPs with real-time topology to automate the discovery and pinpointing of common causes behind network outages.
We’ll examine a recent use case developed with a leading North-European Tier1 operator on how to lay a solid foundation for the safe adoption of automation. We’ll see how to get these key benefits::
Join us to learn more about solving critical business challenges standing in the way of automation.
Fixed Wireless Access has been gaining momentum as one of the key use cases being explored as part of service providers' plans for 5G. 5G WWC as defined in 3GPP Release 16 opens the door to brand-new user experiences, including service equivalency and wireline-wireless convergence. This helps service providers to leverage WWC to provide differentiated services, including the ability to offer enhanced SLAs along with network simplification and optimization.
Join our session to learn how Juniper can help you grow into newer markets enabled by FWA and offer converged services for enterprises and other key verticals.
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Automation is no longer a buzz word as companies are implementing solutions with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms to drive performance and handle menial tasks. We are all moving to bring automation into our network environments at a time where the demand is currently greater than its capabilities.
Join James Hodges, Chief Analyst from Heavy Reading and Scott Iekel-Johnson, Director of Product Management from NETSCOUT as they discuss automation for network security and the implications it has for service providers and large enterprises. During this webinar, we will share insights from a recent survey around automation for DDoS Mitigation and discuss the core tenets necessary for automation to be effective in today’s complex network infrastructures.
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Wary of the increasing number of hacks into enterprise and consumer data networks, cable technologists are pursuing ways to protect their increasingly complex networks and their customers from cyber attacks. CableLabs, for instance, is developing a “Micronets” framework to safeguard the home network. In this session, experts from CableLabs and elsewhere will discuss what cable operators can do to keep the bad guys out.
Communications service providers are investing in cloud technologies to transform their businesses and take advantage of new growth opportunities around 5G, digital media, IoT and other new markets. However, the speed of transformation has been slow as service providers have faced obstacles building telco cloud technologies due to a lack of in-house skills. Frustrated with the cost and delay of self-integrating a cloud stack, CSPs have often reverted to vertically integrated software stacks custom built for specific VNFs. These vertical stacks are a stop-gap "band aid" fix but do not deliver the long-term strategic value of well designed telco cloud infrastructure. To solve this problem, Juniper and Red Hat have teamed up to create Contrail Cloud, a completely pre-integrated, OpenStack-based, horizontal telco cloud offering, that simplifies cloud design, deployment and operations.
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Service providers pioneering 5G network rollouts are pushing the limits of transport networks and fiber infrastructure that was designed for earlier technologies. As high-bandwidth, low-latency applications such as IoT, connected cars and virtual presence become mainstream, operators will need strategies and tools to ensure that their front-, mid- and backhaul networks can stand up to the stringent new requirements 5G brings. Join Heavy Reading analyst Sterling Perrin and VIAVI thought leaders Reza Vaez-Ghaemi and Kashif Hussain to discover key considerations for preparing and testing transport networks for 5G.
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5G will enable many new use cases within many new markets. Fixed wireless access and enhanced mobile broadband are near term applications being deployed today. If a MNO architects their network to optimize for these early deployments, using traditional RAN and transport solutions, what happens when alternate configurations are required as other value add use cases mature? Building overlay networks to address these new applications is inefficient, not scalable and not cost effective. How does an operator develop a network that is scalable, flexible, fast to market and cost optimized to support the new diverse 5G use cases? In this webinar Fujitsu experts in Wireless and Transport will describe the convergence and virtualization of the RAN and Transport with multi-domain coordination to address this challenge.
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The potential for dynamic configurations in 5G requires new, dynamic and flexible security architectures. 5G network slices must be appropriately secured for different use cases, and as a result, telcos must focus on measurable security management and assurance. The webinar introduces new security strategies, architectures and practical use cases to transform security operations to be orchestrated & automated by using machine learning, multi-dimensional analytics and threat intelligence in order to drive rapid and predictive responses to threats.
Our live webinar highlights following operational sections:
Not too long ago, services like live 4k/8k video and AR/VR media were seen as futuristic capabilities, reserved only for next-gen trials or proof-of-concept designs by top cloud and communications service providers. But now these types of media have become a reality. We have moved rapidly from passive viewing of content to active, intelligent visual experiences. This transformation to what's known as the visual cloud calls for the use of advanced cloud-native technologies to boost video compression efficiency, manage network resources, offer real-time analytics and deliver more engaging content experiences.
Join Akamai, Iconic Engine, Intel and TiledMedia to learn how to deliver end-to-end 8k 360 Live VR using commercial off-the-shelf components, as well as discuss the new medium's business impact and transformative potential for transmitting live events.
With the first 5G networks now live, operators are now looking to scale the network and service offer to the mass market. Nowhere is the market moving faster than South Korea where 5G is already a mainstream proposition, in the hands of millions of customers. In this this special webinar we examine how and why Asia Pacific markets are poised for growth and look ahead to the next phases of 5G technology capability and the introduction of advanced services.
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Today’s network and application threat landscape is a complex, multifaceted and often intimidating environment. Threat actors continue to evolve their tools, tactics and procedures to evade detection and cause harm to hosted applications and network availability. As the threat landscape evolves, attacks are growing in complexity and persistency, and zero-day attacks exploit newly discovered vulnerabilities. These concerns are magnified as applications migrate to the cloud, the traditional enterprise IT perimeter dissolves, and organizations face a distributed data center that spans cloud providers and the organization's private network.
Enterprise innovation continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Data and applications now live in multiple cloud environments across both public and private clouds, spanning colocated and internally hosted infrastructure, platform-as a-service and software-as-a-service offerings with little emphasis placed on the security and compliance of these managed environments. Learn how cloud and hosting providers can leverage the Radware suite of security products and defend their customer-hosted assets with industry-leading Web Application Firewall, Bot Management, DDoS and Cloud Workload Protection.
Join us to discuss how clouds providers and managed service providers can institute a full-stack security suite into cloud transformation strategies for the enterprise. Bring a security suite to market that is backed by Radware Enterprise Threat Response team, providing CSP and MSP customers with 24x7x365 security team support.
5G drives a wealth of applications, from IoT to telemedicine. It's not just about latency; bandwidth is key to massively expanding the scale and availability of these applications.
The new age network architecture is shaping up to meet imminent demands on the scalable networks that need more bandwidth and app-driven functions. This, along with capex/opex reduction for service providers, is driving new age SDN/NFV-centric 5G architecture.
STL is at the forefront of driving key 5G innovations to disaggregate and program the 4G/5G ecosystem. The new ecosystem entails disaggregation across RU, DU, CU, vBBU, RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller), EPC, 5G, Orchestration and OSS/BSS.
In a bid to create multi-gigabit-capable access networks, operators across the globe are looking to build converged data networks that are scalable, resilient and can support multiple use-cases for both wired and wireless connectivity. However, creating such a service-oriented-network requires detailing out several considerations, including required network characteristics, architecture considerations, overlaying technologies and desired service parameters. In this webinar, we aim to discuss the practical challenges faced while designing and deploying gigabit-enabled access networks and best practices which allow CSPs to address them in the most effective manner, thereby bringing efficiencies across network capex and opex.
This session will discuss industry and market trends seen in 4G networks, and provide a scorecard on how secure some are and what we foresee in 5G networks. Are we moving into an inherently more secure network, or will old problems get carried across? To realize a strong and healthy communications framework in the future, the industry needs to maintain a focus on the security of 5G. The session aims to provide you with insights and themes on what we have seen from a number a telco networks worldwide, and what all of us need to prepare for a 5G world.
Service providers (SPs) are now well into the process of addressing the intricacies associated with successfully supporting IoT and 5G services in a cloud environment. And one major challenge is coming to terms with the additional security challenges the cloud introduces.
While these security challenges may at times seem overwhelming, 5G and IoT cybersecurity is not simply an additional operational cost, it also represents a business opportunity/competitive differentiator that can be integrated throughout the overall architecture. As a result, SPs can realize a profitable revenue stream that is built upon offering value-added security services on top of their already entrenched connectivity services important to verticals, such as education, healthcare and financial services, among others.
In order to assist SPs with their roll-out security services, Heavy Reading, in collaboration with Radware, recently developed a modeling tool designed to quantify the financial and Return on Investment (ROI) fundamentals of IoT security services.
This webinar will present the key findings from this collaboration, including presenting an overview of the model, as well as presenting deployment scenarios that validate the value proposition of IoT security services.
Edge computing is becoming a critical part of the virtualized infrastructure for wireless and wireline communications. However, it is not clear yet what software and hardware platforms will be most important for network operators and solution providers. Edge computing platforms will cover a wide range of server performance and may need to support extended temperature operation and harsh environments. In this webinar, we focus on providing a deeper understanding of network operator's requirements for edge computing and the software and hardware solutions that can best meet their needs. The webinar will draw on the results of an exclusive survey conducted by Heavy Reading during August and September 2019.
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SES has teamed with Amdocs to operationalize the first ONAP-based NFV and SD-WAN solution. This solution running on the public cloud utilizes an open, standards-based network automation and service orchestration platform. In this session, Amdocs, SES and Microsoft will share with the audience how a network automation and service orchestration platform, together with Microsoft Azure cloud, are used for scalable, automated delivery of intelligent network services.
The demand for a software-defined, converged, last-mile access infrastructure has grown significantly in the last few years. The experts' point of view is that this technology adoption will pave the way for 5G fronthaul transformation, large-scale IoT adoption, and will establish the use cases for edge cloud deployments.
But how far has the technology matured?
Has the software-enabled access network moved beyond the experimentation cycle and reached any stage of production readiness?
Is it ready to take forward and used for paving the way for a massive agile network transformation at the last mile?
This webinar deals with these questions and more. As a leader in data networking solutions, STL has engineered a programmable FTTx solution portfolio, teamed up with ecosystem partners and validated the suitability of the technology to field environments. The observations and insights gathered in the course of engineering the solution, hardening it and subjecting it to field trials will be the key topics of the webinar discussion.
This webinar will explain how communication service providers (CSPs) can save up to 80% of their total cost of ownership of Business Support Systems by deploying on the public cloud. Moderated by Heavy Reading’s Senior Analyst, James Crawshaw, with guests from Optiva and Google Cloud, this webinar will address the most common objections that telecom CTIOs have about moving their critical business applications to the public cloud. The presenters will share the positive, real-world results of CSPs that are successfully migrating to the public cloud.
Join us for this webinar to get answers to those questions and learn how your organization can become a market leader by embracing public cloud.
New technologies like cloud, 5G, and machine learning are revolutionizing the telecommunications industry. Service providers are increasingly turning to open, cloud-native technologies to deliver new digital services, increase business agility, and optimize costs. NEPs can take advantage of these same technologies to build an adaptable, standardized foundation for their own business. With a consistent infrastructure, you can reduce infrastructure complexity, streamline operations and development, and improve security and scalability. Plus, you’ll gain the experience you need to create and deliver cloud-native offerings to your own customers in the future.
Join this webinar to learn about the benefits of cloud-native operations and application development for NEPs and how you can start your journey to the cloud.
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Ansible for NEPs: Techniques to implement network automation and manage container applications
Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) are engaged with Communication Service Providers (CSPs) in a variety of areas. NEP’s offerings for CSPs include custom hardware/systems, VM and container-based software applications and platforms, and value-added services including design, operations and support. For these dynamic and complex networks and offerings, the importance of automation has dramatically increased.
Ansible is an open source IT configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tool. It provides large productivity gains to a wide variety of automation challenges and can perform the orchestration of complex multi-tier workflows and can assist in application software deployment.
Two areas of note for Ansible use are for network automation and to manage the deployment of container applications. In the first, Ansible’s task- based, agentless nature makes it easily applicable to the networking space, and support is included with Ansible for automating networking from major vendors.
Another important use of Ansible is to help simplify deployment, management, and operations of stateful applications in Kubernetes container clusters. This is done using Kubernetes Operators which can be mostly easily written using Ansible. Kubernetes Operators are Kubernets-native applications that use a standard API.
Join this webinar to learn about the benefits of using Ansible for NEPs and how you can get started quickly.
Digital business revolves around IT. Service providers are increasingly using integrated data and application programming interfaces (APIs) to better connect with their customers—and new revenue streams. NEPs can do the same thing to boost their own business. Integrate data across your organization to gain greater insight into your customers, operations, and infrastructure. Use APIs to connect systems, applications, and data sources both internally and externally. Agile integration tools can help bring your organization together and prepare you for the API economy.
Join this webinar to learn more about agile integration and the business benefits for NEPs.
Like other network operators, cable providers are seeking to automate their networks for a variety of reasons, including simplifying network provisioning, scaling services more efficiently, gaining more insights into their customers and cutting operational costs. They are also looking to boost bandwidth utilization and service quality. But putting AI and automation to work is no easy task. In this session, we’ll focus on where the industry stands with automation now and how operators can make strides.
It is clear that 5G's arrival is imminent and we'll start to see deployments as early as this year. How it will change our lives remains to be seen, but we do know that 5G content delivery will take place at the edge within the local community network or cluster – this is the only way to achieve the lowest latency. To reap the benefits promised by 5G, networks will require a transformation of how and where data is stored and processed, or a new data center architecture based on central core, metro edge core and local edge core clouds. This webinar will address the network of core and edge data centers that will be needed to support 5G and the configurable, flexible and secure solutions required to adapt for deployments at the edge.
Until now, telecom network design has been largely static and based on creating a one-size-fits-all infrastructure. However, the arrival of 5G brings about a new focus on specific use cases and how they can be supported. A roll out of 5G infrastructure will support a wide range of use cases with varying performance needs. Network slices will create virtual instances of a network, using the same underlying hardware, to meet each use case’s needs.
In addition, legacy network interwork with new technologies will bring more complexity that conventional design processes will not be able to deal with.
Nokia is innovating and enabling this new approach with ‘Digital Design’ for 5G use cases. The new of way of working involves network design process that is dynamic, automated, uses real-time simulation and directly impacts the technology & business KPIs. The ‘Digital Design’ process churns huge amounts of data from variety of sources to build up a ‘digital twin’ of the use case and consequently iterative process ensures a final design for the use case that meets the precise QoS & performance needs of the target use case.
But the story doesn’t end here. If you’d like to hear more about the potential for 5G to open treasure chests, please join our webinar on 16th October.
Service Provider (SP) cloud architectures and strategies are continuing to evolve. One of the most visible attributes of this transition is the shift to application-aware, programmable on-demand networks, that support real-time traffic routing and hybrid connectivity.
In this new model, application and security network functions, such as firewalls, application acceleration, and remote access, are being virtualized so customers can order these on-demand functions via self-service portals. In an implementation context, since the enterprise network is virtualized at the edge, control will depend on deep visibility into end-to-end application usage and behavior from the data center to the customer premises.
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Global bandwidth usage is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of approximately 40% between 2018 and 2025, and an increasing share of that demand is coming from hyperscale Internet content providers (ICPs) like Facebook and Google.
Over the last decade, subsea transmission cables have evolved from pre-coherent, dispersion-managed cables to all positive-dispersion cables that are optimized for coherent transmission. We are now seeing a transition to so-called space-division multiplexing (SDM), which represents the latest trend of subsea cables with higher numbers of fiber pairs to meet growing demand from ICPs. SDM-based solutions also enable subsea cable operators to achieve lower cost per bit.
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First impressions and positive experiences are key when adopting any new technology. This is especially true for the migration of voice and meeting services to the powerful new Microsoft Teams Calling services platform.
This webinar will present some simple yet impactful recommendations for a prosperous migration to Microsoft Teams Calling. The session will commence by focusing on the important first steps to ensure that quality of service and experience will continue to meet or exceed customer expectations.
The second half of the webinar will provide an in-depth view of architecture and related call flows designed to provide a granular services-level view of the technical requirements necessary to truly harness the power of Microsoft Teams Calling.
The strategic approach taken by CSPS around the world to launch IoT services is proving important when shaping the development of propositions, specifically with regard to the billing of IoT services. Many CSPs are still in the early stages of progressing billing and exploring new IoT monetization models, but there is also awareness of emerging billing models which are more frequently being used by small and medium-sized IoT vendors. As the diversity of IoT applications increases and the number of partners in ecosystems grows, the CSPs will need to adopt new business support systems [BSS] to move beyond being just a connectivity provider, and into the functional role of lead enabler.
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5G presents a potential $2 trillion opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs). But increasing revenue is only part of the equation. For CSPs to make 5G profitable, they will also need to look at the cost of spectrum, infrastructure and operations in order to drive profitable growth.
This webinar will focus on controlling the operational cost component of the profitability equation. New modes of operation will introduce new cost metrics which must be achieved in an evolving marketplace where quality of service will be more closely tracked through enterprise service level agreements and contracts.
In this webinar, we will explore several use cases that demonstrate how operations can be transformed to drive productivity, cut OPEX and reduce your time-to-revenue. When you modernize your network and service operations, develop efficient processes and consolidate operational tools CSPs not only lower their costs, they also enhance their ROI and profitability.
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Transitioning your existing network to 5G is a challenging task. How you arrive at your goal requires a process map built on best practices and use of the right technologies. The alternative is falling back to a status quo network that can translate investments into 5G success.
In this webinar, we focus on leveraging new technologies proven to reduce costs, accelerate time to market and simplify complexities.
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The 5G RAN evolution changes the mobile fronthaul and backhaul network architecture to deliver ultra-high capacity, availability and coverage. As wireless and wireline carrier networks prepare for 5G supported networks, field network technicians and service administrators face new challenges in implementing and testing optical wireline equipment and fiber. From fiber testing and CPRI, to eCPRI, RoE Ethernet traffic and network timing synchronization, this webinar will provide an overview of the latest technology and new test methodologies developed to tackle the increased demands of 5G networks.
The promise of 5G services is huge. Massively scalable, low-latency enabled applications will open up new ecosystems, business models and creativity across enterprise and residential markets. Sounds great, right?
At the same time, 5G will require mobile networks to increase availability, reliability and security to new heights that aren’t entirely predictable as the network surface grows exponentially and new services grow organically. Is your network a platform for new service innovation and will it enable your business to grow agilely in unforeseen directions as 5G technology opens new frontiers? Now is the time for network operators to evolve their transport networks in advance of mass 5G rollouts. Operators have many decisions to make, but what is the best path forward?
Join this Light Reading webinar to learn about the technical aspects of the 5G transport network, laying the foundation for deeper dives on the evolution of your transport architecture.
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In their drive to sell more 4K TVs, consumer electronics makers are embracing HDR, or High Dynamic Range, a technique that expands the range of both color and contrast significantly on a TV set. This technology makes images appear to have more depth and richness. But it puts even more bandwidth and compression demands on pay-TV providers. How can cable operators meet those demands? In this session, we’ll look at what’s possible.
Relentless competition is driving cable operators to squeeze more bandwidth out of their HFC networks within their existing opex budgets, a seemingly impossible task. In this webinar, we will share how operators are turning to signal leakage applications beyond government-mandated testing in light of recent tech breakthroughs, dramatically improving both plant integrity and subscriber QoE while spending no more on opex.
The 5G era will change everything for service providers but they will need to quickly launch entirely new services, embrace new ecosystems, and try new business models if they are to capture part of the US$2 trillion marketplace.
To be successful, service provides need to be more agile. They need to develop platforms for new services, so you can create, deliver, assure and monetize them with greater speed. Cloud-native network functions and operations automation, including DevOps, all help service providers be more agile. They enable on-the-go, highly customized digital services, underpinned by closed-loop, end-to-end service lifecycle management.
But it’s not just the tools; with an agile mindset and operational processes, service providers can seize opportunities as soon as they appear, and launch new services faster. This webinar will examine how 5G ecosystem operations and DevOps can contribute to significant revenue growth and reduce time-to-market.
A number of solutions exist to monitor the routing health of your network, but analytics at scale without an automation mitigation strategy can be tedious and even ineffective. The true challenge with any network analytics capability is how to automatically translate those insights into actionable intelligence.
In this webinar, we will focus on how to bridge the gap between the passive monitoring of routing analytics and active network risk mitigation. In addition, we will examine the challenges of an on-premises deployment and the advantages gained by utilizing a cloud-based SaaS approach to analytics.
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The wide adoption of cloud services changed the architecture of large data centers, driven by new virtualization technologies, low cost white-boxes and the development of automated operations. In contrast, service providers’ network architecture has remained almost the same for the last 30 years, with expensive propriety hardware, multi-layer architecture and dedicated systems per network service. While NFV attempted to bring some of the data center virtualization efficiencies to networking, it has been limited to just a few services and low-throughput access solutions.
The emergence of networking merchant silicon technologies opened the door for service providers to embrace web-scale networking by adopting the architectural concepts of large clouds. CSPs can now build high-scale converged infrastructures that support any service on any port, with cloud-native software and microservices. Such a disaggregated approach can scale higher than any traditional approach, at a much lower TCO.
Join this webinar and learn about the technologies and architecture behind the disaggregated router.
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NFV solutions have been available for seven years, but have yet to go mainstream. Service providers believe that NFV is very complex to implement, though critical to their overall business strategies over the next five years, in the race to get to 5G.
Join this webinar and learn how F5 is making purchasing, sizing and deployments of NFV easier.
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Massive data generated by connected devices require CSPs to consider new approaches that provide network flexibility and enable new service offerings and revenue streams. Moving from centralized processing to distributed or “edge” processing will enable CSPs to process data in near real-time directly at the edge, improving network efficiency and service levels. The infrastructure deployed at the edge must support workload and quality-of-service requirements while operating reliably in remote and harsh environments.
HPE’s new Edgeline EL8000 is a unique compute platform designed to provide the highest compute power in harsh conditions of edge locations. This platform is specifically developed to address unique challenges of massively distributed edge deployments of telecommunication edge.
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The threat landscape will only get more sophisticated with the transition to 5G networks. The exploding use of IoT devices from home, factory and agriculture automation to cashier-less retail outlets brings the potential of a massive proliferation of DDoS attacks coming into the 5G cloud-based network through multiple entry points. Detection and mitigation of these attacks in real time is an absolute requirement to protect both the network availability and the critical applications that depend on it.
DDoS is not just a nuisance in 5G but may, in fact, be a matter of life and death with the deployment of life-critical services like remote medicine and driverless and connected cars. Telco networks must borrow from the lessons learned in enterprise security – using these solutions to protect the telco network. In addition, more advanced security using machine learning will be critical to stop threats, particularly in low-latency networks.
Please join representatives from A10 Networks and Heavy Reading as we discuss.
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While DOCSIS may never die, it's not the only transmission technology in cable's arsenal anymore. With the industry's growing emphasis on Fiber Deep and FTTH rollouts, cable operators are increasingly turning to EPON, 10G EPON and other PON flavors to move bits over their fiber-rich networks. Where does the industry stand with PON now? What kinds of trials, pilots and rollouts are happening? How will NG-PON get deployed? In this session, our experts will assess PON's prospects in the DOCSIS world.
NETSCOUT has conducted over 2500 Continuous Wave (CW) measurements in 3.5, 28, and 39 GHz frequencies and created hundreds of 5G RF propagation models. The webinar will summarize key learnings from RF propagation modeling studies in Sub-6 GHz and mmWave for practical applications in 5G radio access network planning & design.
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Segment Routing (SR) was introduced to the market just a few years ago with a promise that it would simplify network transport by seamlessly interworking with IPv6, reduce complexity by moving state information from the network to the packet, and provide an end-to-end transport architecture that spans multiple network domains.
Adoption of SR is growing, but will SR deliver on its promise? In this webinar we will explore the state of SR today; what is working, what’s not, and perhaps more importantly, what is the industry doing to ensure broad, reliable adoption at scale for this promising new technology. Please join representatives from Heavy Reading and Juniper Networks as we discuss:
As communications service providers (CSPs) begin deploying 5G, they will leverage Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) where software is disaggregated from hardware. However, NFV implies a shift in end-to-end validation responsibility from equipment vendors to system integrators or CSPs themselves. CSPs will therefore incur new risks for the end-to-end solution as elements are acquired and integrated independently. The extensive use of IT infrastructure and the 5G network architecture also makes the networks more vulnerable from a security standpoint.
In this webinar, we’ll first look at 5G network adoption, use cases, requirements and deployment challenges:
We’ll then focus on the ways in which these challenges can be addressed:
By attending this webinar, participants will walk away with a greater understanding of how they can manage their 5G infrastructure costs while keeping their networks secure.
Globally, mobile data traffic grew around 60% last year and is expected to grow by a factor of four between 2018 and 2022. So how can operators leverage these massive amounts of data to their benefit?
With analytics, operators can leverage all that data to develop new business models that go beyond traditional connectivity. When harnessed effectively, analytics delivers new customer insights that help operators make smarter business decisions, reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies. Operators have only just begun to scratch the surface in terms of the lucrative business opportunities that data analytics presents.
In this webinar we will explore how big data analytics enables operators to proactively respond to changing network and market dynamics, such as:
Seeking to stay ahead of aggressive rivals like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, cable operators are busily upgrading their networks for multi-gigabit speeds, cloud-based IP video services and next-gen wireless services. But now, with the emergence of 5G technology, the big question is whether cablecos will be able to harness 5G to their advantage or find themselves fighting a rearguard action against it. In this session, we will tackle the opportunities and challenges that 5G presents for cable in an increasingly converged world and discuss how operators can make the most of it.
Industry 4.0 presents a $2 trillion opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs). To realize this opportunity, networks need to mutate into a new type of highly reactive, highly reliable and high-quality business platform, ready to on-board new digital services. In an increasingly complex environment, the digital evolution of operations – supported by AI and automation – is key to efficiently deliver the highest-quality standard and deliver the best experience. In this webinar, we will present real examples of how CSPs are benefiting from digital operations.
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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are reeling from cyber attacks such as malware and phishing. And, SMBs often have a good relationship with their service provider (SP) and rely on the SP for high quality Internet and mobile connectivity. These two realities combine to create a lucrative SP opportunity.
Cisco Umbrella is cloud security platform that provides the first line of defense against threats on the Internet. SPs can quickly and simply enhance their connectivity services with robust security for a value-add revenue source. Cisco Umbrella requires minimal investment and is simple to explain, deploy and manage. It just works, helping the SP keep costs down and margins up.
Learn how Cisco Umbrella can help you protect your customers with value-add security and grow your revenue.
Digital transformation is on the agenda of all CSPs with over 90% of CSPs across the globe having commenced their digital transformation journeys. Their objectives? To improve business profitability through reduced costs, increased revenue performance and customer experience.
Operational agility will play an important role in achieving these objectives. However, CSPs’ legacy IT environments hinder how quickly they can transform operations given the complexity of their IT estates. CSPs must therefore identify effective ways to address challenges associated with the increasingly complex IT environment. One approach to consider is the deployment of modern application development practices such as development and deployment on cloud, transforming enterprise architecture towards microservices, APIs and adoption of DevOps practices and tools. These concepts are aimed at simplifying CSPs’ IT applications ecosystems whilst providing capabilities to support their long-term ventures.
In this webinar we will look at how Vodafone UK is addressing the challenges associated with its IT environment, working in partnership with Infosys. During this webinar, we’ll cover the following:
Led by Apple, Disney and AT&T, some of the world’s largest media companies have entered or are now entering the booming streaming video space. For existing streaming providers, this will make the streaming space riskier and messier. For consumers, it may mean needing to subscribe to every streaming service they want separately. All of this may end up jeopardizing the biggest benefits of streaming video – namely, the superior user experience and lower costs of OTT.
But there may be a silver lining for cable here. Light Reading and Espial invite you to attend a webinar focused on the potential advantages that the increasingly crowded streaming space may offer for cable operators. This webinar will bring in industry leaders to discuss the new avenues and new ways that operators can reinvent their business models and services to make a profitable comeback in the streaming video market. Michael McCluskey from Espial, Candice Mayberry Storsveen from HBC and Alan Breznick will participate in a panel-style discussion to provide their valuable perspective on this topic.
Taking place on July 11 at 11 a.m. EST the webinar will cover:
As the battle for the smart home intensifies with services decoupling from the broadband ‘pipe’ and as new entrants compete over-the-top, this webinar will address the key issues that service providers are facing, and the strategies and technologies that they are adopting to stay ahead.
We’ll look at the prime factors causing today’s Wi-Fi home networking bottleneck:
We’ll focus on key technologies that are being deployed to address home networking issues:
We’ll then explore how service providers can go beyond the home networking issue and leverage Wi-Fi as a platform to create a host of new services and boost ARPU, increase NPS and importantly, reduce churn.
The session will feature speakers from both North American (Armstrong) and European (Melita) service providers. Executives from both companies will explain their strategies, results and insights, designed to ensure that they play smart in the rapidly expanding smart home market.
We have all heard the promises of mobile edge computing: 100X speed, extreme low latency, unlimited scaling. But what is the current mindset of operators today? While strategies for edge enablement are often masked under 5G evolution planning, the truth is that edge-enabled networks can unlock new features and capabilities now and are exponentially enhanced by the adoption of 5G.
Years of research have helped to identify use cases where application owners believe edge functionality is needed. We're sharing this research for the first time to explore where, when and how operators play a critical role in bringing the next generation of end-user experiences to the world through the power of the mobile edge.
Join us as we discuss the current state of the edge, enabling the future state of hybrid networks, and the industry need for edge-enabled capabilities.
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Like other network providers, cable operators are looking to leverage cloud computing to offer various hardware-based products as software-based services, including both residential and business services. Operators are taking this route to improve the customer experience, bring new services to market quicker, scale them easier and reduce costs, among other things. But getting started can seem daunting. In this session, we’ll explore how operators can begin putting cloud computing to work.
The 5G mobile era is officially here. In the second quarter of 2019 over half a dozen operators have launched 5G mobile networks to consumers and dozens more have progressed their plans to launch in the year to ahead. In this webinar Heavy Reading Principal Analyst Gabriel Brown will bring the audience up to speed on 5G progress worldwide and lead a discussion on how 5G mobile is driving the pace of change in service experience and network technology.
5G is offering a step change in wireless application performance but requires significant investment in optical connectivity for both the radio access network and wireless core. 5G networks will deliver high bandwidth and low latency and are built on a virtualized infrastructure that enables network slicing. 5G will accelerate the deployment of new services for mobile broadband, autonomous cars, smart manufacturing and IoT, opening up new revenue streams for service providers. 5G requires many more antennas than 4G and many connections between remote radio heads, virtual baseband unit servers and core data centers that support 25-100 Gbit/s and more.
This webinar will review the latest developments for 5G, the benefits this will bring to users and the challenges of building the 5G wireless infrastructure. We will also drill down into the optical connectivity required for 5G networks and some of the solutions already available and being developed.
According to a new research by Ponemon Institute, 85% of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) who took a survey reported that DDoS attacks against them and their subscribers are either increasing or continuing at the same relentless pace. However, 71% did not feel capable of effectively mitigating those attacks.
While CSPs work to improve their defenses, the survey showed that many also deliver DDoS scrubbing services to their subscribers, enhancing their client’s security posture, while creating profitable revenue streams.
Join this webinar with Jim Hodges, Principal Analyst from Heavy Reading, Dr. Larry Ponemon, the Founder of the Ponemon Institute and Paul Nicholson from A10 Networks, to gain deeper insight into the key findings of this report.
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The hyperconnected digital world is expected to generate about $2 trillion of revenues for telcos by 2022. Telcos, however, cannot address this opportunity due to complexity within their networks and service offerings, which will increase exponentially in the 5G era. They must adapt and respond to customer needs in digital time or lose out on these opportunities.
Interest in network analytics solutions is ramping up as telcos see the value these tools can bring to increase agility, reduce costs and improve customer experience. Analytics can provide a deeper understanding of the services and network performance, allowing telcos to make smarter and faster decisions. However, there are barriers that telcos must overcome if they are going to get a return on their investment. Network analytics vendors, on the other hand, must have a clear understanding of telcos' requirements and align their solutions accordingly.
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The evolution of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) infrastructure to support cloud-native applications is gaining traction for both fixed and mobile Communications Service Providers (CSPs). This presents an opportunity to think ahead and re-design the full IT environment to best meet future challenges – in particular being agile with services and scale in an efficient way.
Vendors need to up their game too, to helps their customers on this journey by providing cloud-native applications. This includes Lawful Interception systems, which must evolve to support the cloud-native world.
In this webinar, BAE Systems and Heavy Reading will discuss some of the considerations those designing, delivering and managing the changes should make with respect to regulatory obligations for lawful interception.
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With 5G, service providers can reach customers in new ways, quickly and efficiently experimenting with new business models. Cloud-native solutions are essential to deliver the scalability, dynamic configurability and unprecedented resilience that 5G demands. With the right design principles, cloud-native solutions are essential for 5G success. Legacy architectures deployed in the cloud may fail to achieve the performance required.
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It’s said that 5G will transform the role telecom technology plays in society and will fuel new uses cases and economic growth. But operators still need to focus on monetizing their network and that means assuring the experiences their investments are behind. Customer experience management control systems are how operators will tune the experiences they want to deliver and are critical to their ability to compete on factors other than product and price.
Learn where to invest in testing, assurance and optimization to have the largest impact on the quality of experience that 5G’s enhanced services can deliver by joining Heavy Reading Analyst Kevin Burden, VIAVI Solutions’ wireless strategy director, Paul Gowans and Accenture’s managing director of its 5G network practice, Tejas Rao on May 30th at 11am ET.
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Operators need to monetize the new mobile consumer. They need to eke a premium for 5G. But that requires more than just offering unlimited mobile data and a faster speed. Innovation around 5G-enabled digital services is also a prerequisite.
In this webinar, we focus on how technology first-movers are charging consumers for 5G and we assess what new differentiators have been introduced to drive usage and upsell.
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Private LTE networks already serve a wide range of industrial IoT use cases, such as in the mining, oil and gas, sea ports, manufacturing, and logistics sectors. Now, as 5G is here for smartphones, this webinar will investigate how the advanced capabilities of 5G technology can be applied in these environments and enable the transformation to Industry 4.0.
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Network traffic data has the potential to drive better business outcomes for communication service providers (CSPs). However, for many providers, measuring how IP traffic is delivered across large networks remains a slow, entirely manual process, and it’s difficult to put the data to work.
Learn how to leverage [and profit] from your network traffic data by joining Heavy Reading Analyst James Crawshaw and Kentik’s Product Marketing Director, Jim Meehan on May 22nd at 12 pm ET. Jim will demonstrate how CSPs can surpass revenue and cost targets with real-time analytics that combine network data and business data to deliver insights that can be put to immediate use.
The session will cover key network data opportunities for CSPs:
Now that most larger North American MSOs are wrapping up their rollouts of DOCSIS 3.1, it’s time to prepare for rolling out the next DOCSIS spec – Full Duplex DOCSIS. But that’s easier said than done because Full Duplex requires operators to extend fiber much deeper into their access networks and eliminate all amplifiers. What kind of impact will Full Duplex have on the HFC network? How can operators cope? Our experts will tackle these issues and more.
5G emerges at a time when global productivity growth is low. Can 5G, and other new technologies, lift productivity in key industry verticals? This webinar will explore:
To serve the needs of modern consumers and enterprises, digital services must be created, monetized and torn down in digital time. This pace of change is simply not possible with legacy, siloed IT systems. Instead, CSPs need to move towards a single, integrated operations paradigm with the primary goals of customer centricity and automation. This journey will be a step-by-step approach, bringing orchestration, fulfillment and assurance capabilities together to build capability-based, end-to-end lifecycle management. Unlike big-bang, boil-the-ocean mega-transformations, a progressive and phased approach to transformation can deliver tangible benefits along the way, reducing risk and demonstrating RoI.
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The distribution of video games currently still depends on physical and downloadable models however, the gaming industry is set to follow the evolution of the music and movie industries and move to an unlimited streaming model. This development is still in its early stages and, enabled by technologies such as 5G, will create new revenue opportunities for telcos as the technical challenges are overcome.
Imagine being able to choose from a library of games (including AAA premium titles) on any connected device (rather than just a dedicated hardware console) by paying a monthly subscription (rather than buying new consoles and games).
Carriers can dramatically lower the cost and eliminate the complexity of rolling out branded gaming-as-a-service offerings to their customers. This could be as disruptive in gaming as streaming has been in other entertainment markets. New technologies, such as the 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processor (Kaby Lake G) and Intel embedded SSDs, will help telecom carriers to overcome those challenges.
Intel and Artesyn are working with cloud gaming content providers and wireless operators to make streamed gaming a reality. During this webinar we will review the latest cloud gaming developments and explain how telcos can now offer their subscribers a cloud gaming service under their own brand to monetize the investment in their 5G and FTTH network infrastructure.
Every forecast for the IoT indicates a trillion dollar industry within a few years. CSPs are set to get a share of that revenue through device connectivity. But there is a far greater opportunity beckoning - providing monetization capabilities to the broader IoT ecosystem. This in turn has implications for CSPs as they expand their relationships into new verticals and business models.
This webinar will discuss the impacts to BSS systems and the essential monetization capabilities CSPs can put in place today to manage their 2020 and beyond revenue streams. We will cover:
As early 5G deployments get underway, leading CSPs are issuing an urgent call to the industry to collaborate to deliver robust automation for 5G. This call comes on the back of years of virtualization hype that has yet to fully live up to expectations and ongoing fragmentation in open source automation platform adoption. It’s a moment of truth for the industry that has led to questions of whether automation efforts will be mature enough to enable dynamic 5G networks to live up to their promise. The good news is that pragmatic approaches to getting started with automation are gaining traction and specific use cases such as network slice activation offer low-hanging fruit for CSPs – and the industry – to achieve early automation wins.
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5G is the buzz. Everyone involved in the large telecommunications ecosystem is developing, trialing, promising and dreaming about 5G networks. While this technology comes with great promises and applications, we seldom hear about the underlying physical network that will have to transport the data to the 5G radios. That’s right, the optical fiber network that has been installed and optimized for other applications (e.g., FTTx, Remote PHY) will now need to reach deeper with possibly more stringent requirements. What does 5G really mean for the network’s fiber foundation? What are the challenges and pitfalls to avoid? How can you make sure your fiber foundation is ready for the next generation of wireless communications?
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5G promises to be a game changer. It is not just about faster, but also about enabling a diverse new set of services and vertical use cases, including the support of IoT. Security is fundamental to the successful delivery of 5G networks and services.
This heterogeneity of applications and scale of 5G communication will be challenging to balance the efficiency and accuracy of security management and policy control. In addition, the use of edge computing, virtualization, CUPS and network slicing creates new attack vectors that service providers need to consider.
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Enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine-type communications, and ultra-reliable and ultra-low latency communications are the primary use cases that define 5G. While most of the industry focuses on 5G NR, the transport network has a critical role to play in 5G by providing the fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul infrastructure – collectively known as “xhaul” – that will enable these new use cases and applications economically and at scale.
In this special, multi-sponsored Light Reading webinar, top 5G experts from Ericsson, Fujitsu, Juniper, and VIAVI Solutions will discuss exactly what operators need to do to architect, build/upgrade, and maintain their xhaul transport networks to support massive 5G deployments -- including the roles of fiber, DWDM, microwave, switching/routing, and network testing.
Topics addressed in the webinar will include:
Digital transformation is the new imperative. CSPs worldwide are on a journey to cloudify their networks by leveraging software-defined platforms that provide agility and efficiency, streamline operations, expand revenue opportunities, and support advanced technologies like 5G and network functions virtualization (NFV).
This webinar will discuss new service opportunities enabled by VMware’s Telco Cloud and provide guidance on the operational enhancements that service providers must take in order to implement a cloud-based service model and manage the complexity of multi-cloud environments. Our panelists will walk you through their vision for a modern and unified Telco Cloud to support your network transformation. In addition, you will learn how to:
The global digital ecosystem is being re-defined around emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, etc. These ecosystems add new dimensions to the increasing volume, speed and nature of data capture and advanced analytics capabilities. To get an edge, leading telcos are heavily investing in analytics engines and capabilities to get structured customer insights. This will help them to improve their core business by offering more targeted products and services and hence elevating the end customer experience. To delve deeper into this, join us for an informative webinar where Shrirang Bapat, CTO - Software Business, Sterlite Tech will explain:
While industry technologists love to expound on their plans to upgrade and expand the cable HFC network to deliver new services, it’s at least as critical to monitor, manage and maintain the network to deliver existing services. And such maintenance work will only become more important as the HFC network becomes more complex and sophisticated. In this session, we’ll look at the key maintenance functions of network testing, measurement, fiber connectorization and cleaning.
With the proliferation of 4G LTE across the globe and evolution of WiFi standards to support Gigabit connectivity in building (home, enterprise, high-density venues, etc.), there has been a steady rise in data consumption at the network's edge. This demand for high bandwidth on the radio access has led to growing demand for high-bandwidth backhaul connectivity. The natural choice for backhaul connectivity has been fiber, and networks across the world are extending fiber reach to as close to the network edge as possible. But can a converged infrastructure or fiber++ bring better value to the end consumer and make case for a better economics? In the recent past, 5G and particularly the 5GNR standard, has generated renewed interest in fixed wireless access, with the focus primarily on offering broadband connectivity to homes.
However, fixed wireless can offer more than just wireless broadband connectivity to homes. We see a world of technological convergence where several FWA technologies – 802.11 standard based, LTE, 5GNR, FSO, LiFi and SATCOM will co-exist, collaborate, cohabitate alongside. Join us for this exciting webinar to learn more about:
The finite resource of radio spectrum is vital for mobile network performance and customer experience. Using this precious resource more efficiently has always been a key objective for mobile network operators (MNOs). Spectrum efficiency is not just a question of mobile standards, even though each new generation is more spectrally efficient than the previous one. This is why the efficiency discussion today goes beyond 5G New Radio (NR) and the 5G promise for optimal use of network resources.
Join Dr. Konstantinos Stavropoulos, solution marketing manager at EXFO, and Gabriel Brown, principal analyst at Heavy Reading, for an insightful discussion on a hot mobile industry topic. In this webinar, you will learn:
The market for public cloud keeps expanding rapidly, and running application workloads on a public cloud has become commonly accepted. However, when it comes to real-time communication (RTC) workloads on a public cloud, it is still early in the adoption cycle.
If you are a provider of real-time communications (e.g., VoIP, unified communications, call centers or SIP trunking), when it comes to deploying on a public cloud, you want to know it is secure, reliable, has global reach, delivers predictable quality of service (QoS) and will be more efficient and cost-effective than hosting these services in your own private cloud.
If you are a consumer of real-time communications, you need to be confident the service you purchase is secure, is delivered reliably, at the scale you need possibly across multiple sites or geographic regions and with the QoS you demand.
This webinar will address the following questions:
Following years of tech trials and pilot deployments, cable operators are starting to deploy distributed access architecture (DAA) techniques for moving legacy headend functions to the access network and expanding the capacity of that network for new, more advanced services. In this session, cable technologists will discuss their latest Remote PHY, Remote MAC/PHY and related moves; the new services they plan to deliver with DAA; and the challenges they must overcome to make DAA a reality.
In this webinar, Heavy Reading Principal Analyst Gabriel Brown, together with invited guest speakers, will review the status of 5G activity worldwide. Drawing on observations from this years’ Mobile World Congress (MWC), they will discuss timelines for commercial launch of 5G and the critical steps needed to scale the technology to the mass market. In terms of services, they will review the latest thinking on advanced 5G use cases.
The push to commercialize 5G networks is also sharpening the focus on the need to reconsider the security measures that service providers have implemented in their existing mobile networks. And coming to terms with these new requirements is not a trivial feat given how 5G expands service delivery models, introduces a new core reference architecture and even new control plan protocols.
To gain detailed insight on how service providers plan to secure 5G networks, Heavy Reading in collaboration with research partners F5 Networks, Fortinet, NetNumber and Palo Alto Networks launched a comprehensive survey designed to provide a detailed perspective of service provider strategies.
The survey, which attracted input from more than 100 service provider respondents, addressed a broad spectrum of security-related topics including, security service implementation priorities, preferred core architecture, opex and capex implications, as well the value of advanced capabilities that leverage artificial intelligence, control plane interworking and content inspection.
This webinar, moderated by Heavy Reading research lead Jim Hodges with subject matter experts from F5 Networks, Fortinet, NetNumber and Palo Alto Networks, will provide a grounded view of the strategies, timeline and concerns that will ultimately determine the steps service providers will take to secure their 5G networks.
As 5G momentum builds, network operators continue to have to test, prove and demonstrate evolving 5G use cases and capabilities. Meanwhile the complexity of existing networks, and technologies, as well as the complexity of the potential commercial models, make prioritizing 5G investment and integration difficult.
Unique research undertaken by Ovum, in partnership with Amdocs, reveals that, from among a multitude of potential 5G use cases, sports, and more specifically, large-scale sports and esports events, is one of the most compelling 5G use cases for operators today, heavily influencing their nationwide 5G strategies.
Beyond offering the perfect stage for demonstrating 5G network capabilities across design, performance and quality of experience to a global audience, operators also see their involvement with large sports events in the 5G era as providing them with the opportunity to take on a variety of roles beyond the role of the connectivity provider.
Join Ed Barton, Ovum’s Chief Analyst for Entertainment, and Amdocs’ Tomer Gingold and Yogen Patel to learn more about the attractive proposition sports and esports events provide for 5G tests and launches. Understand:
Most enterprises don't have the resources or expertise to build and operate their own DDoS defenses. As a result, the door is wide open for communications service providers (CSPs) of all sizes to step up to fill this critical gap for business subscribers. This is because CSPs are already in the direct path of clean and dirty traffic, and are optimally positioned to deal with DDoS attacks instead of simply routing the traffic to an off-net third-party Cloud DDoS scrubbing service.
However, many CSPs are reluctant to build and operate scrubbing services due to large initial capex outlays and the complexity of operating DDoS defense products from legacy vendors. What is needed are modern approaches powered by machine learning that automates defenses and supports broad tenant scale in small form factors that positively change the economics of CSP-delivered DDoS scrubbing services.
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Cloud-based applications and increasing traffic at the provider edge are driving major network changes that will require a significant investment from service providers, including:
These trends are dramatically changing the volume and nature of traffic on provider networks and creating a new mandate to route traffic as close to the edge as possible.
This webinar will examine these trends and how provider networks will have to evolve to accommodate them. Key questions the webinar will address, include: Should providers continue to invest in legacy routers? Is routing suited to NFV? How can routers be virtualized to meet the changing traffic patterns, economic realities and needed scale of the new provider edge?
As digital transformation permeates the industry, there is a strong demand for a global connectivity solution. Connected products demand changes in business processes. A combination of solutions satisfy the requirement, and need to be explored.
In this webinar, we will first look at key challenges related to connectivity that enterprises face as they embark on their digital transformation on a global scale. We will then discuss the current solutions that have been tried. In the end, some new approaches such as eSIM will be presented.
Topics that will be addressed in this webinar include:
Consumers dread contacting customer service. They like self service, but only if it actually works. Consumers want more control, more convenience, and they want you to know more about who they are and why they have an issue with you. All of this is especially true of the relationship between consumers and their CSPs. AI-driven virtual digital assistants (VDAs) are beginning to address these challenges for CSPs and also provide cost reductions in the form of human-resource savings. This webinar will examine market drivers and barriers, and the use-case details, including Tractica predictions and forecasts, for customer service-focused VDAs for CSPs.
