WiFi is a critical part of the consumer experience, as it is clearly the dominant connection in terms of download bytes by mobile consumers. This makes WiFi management an important piece of software that can not be overlooked. WiFi dominates also corporate broadband, as public WiFi hotspots remain a [...]
As we look back over the past year, we see some technologies that finally made their way into the market. So, let's take a moment to reflect on all that we have seen in 2017 and try to select 5 Technology Challenges for 2018. Please give your input, and [...]
Fabien Voyer, Director of Marketing Strategy, Orange mentioned during the recent TMForum Live event that roles that have been traditionally held by Telecom Operators, Service Providers, Vendors and System Integrators are changing hands. It seems like operators are resuming roles that they had seemingly left behind. According to Voyer, there [...]
Over the past several years, an immense transition has taken place as networks have become more diverse and complex. Companies large and small have many branch sites – users at the edge that need to connect securely and quickly to the network and the cloud. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) [...]
More and more companies are pursuing digital transformation initiatives to support their business goals and increase business agility. Digital transformation is related to next-generation infrastructure, including software defined networking services, that must be monitored. Thus the need for Software-Defined Wide Area Networking or SD WAN Performance Monitoring emerges. Software defined environments [...]
Entuity CTO has recently published an interesting article presenting Entuity SDN predictions for 2017 and it is about SDN, SD-WAN and Right Sizing In The Cloud. The piece on predictions for 2017 was published on VMBlog by Entuity’s CTO, Jeff Roper. Interestingly, Entuity SDN predictions describe that the slow pace [...]
Operators are busy working to define and publish wireless transport standards in an effort to drive the wireless transport ecosystem - software providers, integrators and hardware vendors, towards a software driven vision. The goal of operators is to create a standardized interface for connecting all types of microwave devices to [...]
5G is expected to realize an important digital transformation. This will be made possible through innovative radio access technologies but also by integrating cross-domain networks. 5G must support a wide variety of use cases and their performance requirements, and a key to realize that seems to be "Network Slicing". Network slicing [...]
Partnership Provides Autonomous Cloud and Infrastructure Orchestration Zenoss Inc. , the leader in hybrid IT monitoring and analytics software, and SaltStack , the creator of intelligent orchestration software for management of any infrastructure or application stack at scale, announced the industry's first integrated solution to enable the autonomic software-defined data [...]
Greater network flexibility and improved operational efficiencies are the chief drivers for implementing network functions virtualization (NFV) within the backhaul network, says IHS Infonetics. "With the evolution of mobile networks in progress, mobile backhaul solutions need to be more flexible, scalable and simplified to deliver increased capacity with quality of [...]
