Digital transformation – it can mean so much that it can be rendered meaningless. Is it about delivering new digital services? Platform economy ecosystems? Is it about embracing the cloud and becoming ‘cloud native’? Does it mean transforming the operations of the business? Well, yes, it can mean all those things.
Read MoreTopics: Automation, CSP Digital Transformation, Telco Cloud, SaaS
From launching the first city-wide 5G network to creating network slices to monetize new enterprise services, the roll-out of 5G is about more than base stations and devices. It’s not enough to just ‘deploy 5G’, there is a whole roll-out lifecycle. However, while the race to 5G is global, no two CSPs are alike. Each market and every CSP is at a different point in their 5G lifecycle.
Read MoreTopics: Automation, 5G, Cloud Computing, CSP Digital Transformation, 5G Transformation, Telco Cloud
5G; first there was a vision, then there was hype, then there were promises. Finally, it’s here (or at the very least coming soon to a network near you). Even in the UK, a market that was in danger of lagging behind on its 4G launches, we’re seeing EE switch on its 5G services in six UK cities this week, with Vodafone UK hot on its heels with a July launch.
So now it’s real, it’s timely to ask what will these new 5G services be? What will they deliver? And crucially how we can be sure that the promised answers to those first two questions are being delivered against?
These questions will among those posed to CSPs at the upcoming Telecom Assurance Cloud Summit (London: 11 June).
Read MoreTopics: 5G, CSP Digital Transformation, Service Assurance in Telecom, Digital Transformation, SaaS, Assurance Cloud, "RFP", "Procurement"
We have contributed to the most recent TM Forum research report “Time to Kill the RFP?”, looking at how the telecoms industry approaches procurement and how the process can be improved to save time, money and effort for all involved – CSPs and vendors alike.
Yes that’s right, a report into procurement processes – I can almost hear the collective groan.
But this is important. It’s costing the industry billions and erecting roadblocks to innovation that are actively harming the ability of CSPs to compete in the digital economy – and will be a key agenda item at the upcoming Telecom Assurance Cloud Summit (11 June 2019).
‘Time to Kill the RFP? Reinventing IT Procurement for the 2020s’ suggests that the telecom industry’s traditional Request for Proposal (RFP) process, which dates back to the 1980s, is broken – and that bad procurement is costing the industry over $1 billion annually.
Read MoreTopics: 5G, CSP Digital Transformation, Service Assurance in Telecom, Digital Transformation, SaaS, Assurance Cloud, "RFP", "Procurement"
As 5G rollouts begin in earnest, significant questions remain as to how the business model will stack-up for next generation networks. It’s actually a little shocking that despite investing billions in spectrum and billions more in network buildout, this is still even a question.
We know 5G will bring increased speed and decreased latency. But so what? Will this alone be enough to recoup the investment?
Read MoreTopics: Automation, 5G, Cloud Computing, CSP Digital Transformation, 5G Transformation, Telco Cloud
A strategic digital transformation and migration of infrastructure to the cloud can cut a CSP’s IT costs by up to 31 percent. This isn’t a number I’ve made up. This is the judgement of Three UK’s director of IT transformation, speaking at their media and analyst event last week.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, Automation, 5G, Cloud Computing, CSP Digital Transformation, Telco Cloud
Telecom Review interview with Mounir Ladki, President & CTO, MYCOM OSI. The interview was published on Telecom review on 21/01/2019.
MYCOM OSI is a global leader in providing cloud native assurance, automation and analytic solutions that enable communications service providers (CSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) and enterprises to manage their digital experiences and hybrid networks. MYCOM OSI was one of the first in its industry to introduce and commercialize next generation cloud native solutions coupled with innovative subscription business models. Telecom Review managed to secure an exclusive interview with MYCOM OSI president and CTO, Mounir Ladki, at the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, Automation, 5G, Cloud Computing, CSP Digital Transformation, EAA
Article written by Ray Le Maistre, Editor in Chief - Light Reading, and published on Light Reading on 30/11/2018
There's a good chance that the acquisition of telecom network assurance and optimization specialist MYCOM OSI by private equity firm Inflexion, announced Wednesday, might have escaped the attention of many in the industry. (See MYCOM OSI Acquired by Inflexion .)
But it's worth noting for a couple of reasons.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, MYCOM OSI, 5G, Cloud Computing, CSP Digital Transformation, EAA
NFV-core based 5G networks have already caught the fancy of the Telco Cloud service provider. The reasons for this are its promise of high QoS.
High speed/throughput, high reliability, low latency, high capacity, high availability, high connectivity and dynamic bandwidth allocation are the key QoS benefits that Telco Cloud service providers can expect from the 5G Cloud RAN and the NFV core networks.
Read MoreTopics: NFV, 5G, CSP Digital Transformation, Network Function Virtualization, Telco Cloud
There is a resurgence in the use of Service Quality Management (SQM) for digital service operations. The reasons for SQM’s growing importance are the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT), which gained significant momentum in 2016, and the anticipated rollout of NFV-based services in 2017. Both reasons expect the current functionality of an SQM system to be extended to cover the high speed and scale demands of a digital service environment.
Read MoreTopics: NFV, IoT, Analytics, Automation, CSP Digital Transformation, Service Quality Management
