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: 5G, NFV, Network Function Virtualization, Telco Cloud, CSP Digital Transformation
As CSPs undergo digital transformation - which means offering digital services through a Telco Cloud environment – they face a whole set of operational challenges, including operating a new virtualized network, focusing on customer experience more than before and providing high reliability and availability for upcoming IoT services. Simplifying the operations can help in tackling these challenges.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, OSS Transformation, NFV, SDN, Network Function Virtualization, IoT, CSP Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Service Quality Management, Service Quality Management, Analytics, Customer behavior, Telco Cloud, Automation & Orchestration
As CSPs undergo digital transformation - which means running their business out of a cloud, selling digital services and operating like web-scale internet companies - assuring the Telco Cloud business will take high priority. With networks virtualizing, services digitalizing and IoT looming large, the business risks are much higher than envisaged. Assurance of the Telco Cloud network and services will be key in assuring the new Telco Cloud business.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, OSS Transformation, NFV, SDN, Network Function Virtualization, IoT, CSP Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Service Quality Management, Service Quality Management, Analytics, Customer behavior, Network Monetization, Telco Cloud, Automation & Orchestration
The Telco Cloud, defined as virtualized infrastructure to run digital services and agile operations, has not only paved the way for digitalization of CSP businesses, but also opened up new avenues for data monetization.
Through 2017, CSPs will continue to make investments in analytics to drive focused investments in network and services, manage customer experience better and personalize services. To support this, data monetization solutions that offer customer intelligence out of a Telco Cloud and how it can be monetized will be critical and much in demand.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, OSS Transformation, NFV, SDN, Network Function Virtualization, IoT, CSP Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Service Quality Management, Service Quality Management, Analytics, Customer behavior, Network Monetization, Telco Cloud, Automation & Orchestration
Digitization of businesses and virtualization of networks promise business benefits but are also introducing new challenges for the communications service providers.
Ongoing exponential increase in data consumption by subscribers, especially of video applications and OTT, has taken a toll on the capacity of mobile networks, forcing CSPs to carry out continuous expensive capacity upgrades. In this context, IoT will only exacerbate the problem by adding another layer of traffic to the existing CSP networks.
Through customer-centric analytics, which offer insights into customer behavior, trends and predictions, a new approach to the resolution of capacity problems can be introduced. Carrier-grade business analytics with automation capabilities can solve critical capacity bottlenecks. Using such analytics (real-time and non-real-time), CSPs can trigger automatic processes for proactive or prescriptive actions to solve capacity issues.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, OSS Transformation, NFV, SDN, Network Function Virtualization, IoT, CSP Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Service Quality Management, Service Quality Management, Analytics, Customer behavior, Network Monetization
With transformation and incremental evolution of current OSS systems, the CSP’s digital business can realize digital business benefits faster
It is well acknowledged that digitization of services and networks reduces capex as well as overall cost of operation and allows launching services that are tuned to the customer needs. The future digital network, a multi-layer composite of NFV/SDN, IoT and 5G, will be technically equipped to meet the digital service demands of customers over the next 10 years. In this period, in order to make the digital business successful, OSS will play an instrumental role in supporting the required dynamicity, speed and scale of the digital networks and services.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, OSS Transformation, NFV, SDN, Network Function Virtualization, IoT, 5G, CSP Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Service Quality Management, Service Quality Management, Analytics, Customer behavior, Network Monetization
The introduction of NFV in legacy telecom networks will bring about disruptive changes, which will have an immense impact on network, service and customer experience
OSS systems are expected to fulfil many business objectives of virtualized telecommunication networks. One of the most spoken benefits of OSS for NFV is driving operational efficiency by over 50% through continuous closed loop self-healing, scaling up and down of resources and allowing introduction of new services to the market much faster than ever before.
Read MoreTopics: CEM, Customer Experience Management, CSP Digital Transformation, CSP, Network Connectivity, network design, NFV, Network Function Virtualization, OSS, OSS Transformation, QoS, SQM, Service Quality Management, Digital Service Quality Management
NFV (Network Function Virtualization) promises to fundamentally change the nature of telecom networks, by completely separating the hardware from the software; network functions and services will be virtualized and will be delivered using standard IT hardware resources (processing, storage and bandwidth) from data centers in the cloud. This will be the real enabler for operators’ transformation into Digital Services providers, as they will be able to design and deliver new services much faster, configure digital experiences in real-time and slice their networks to deliver on-demand network capabilities corresponding to different applications (connected cars, Smart Cities, etc.) In brief this will allow CSPs to become the true enablers of the digital transformation of many industry verticals (transport, energy, smart cities, etc.) and to deliver new lucrative managed services to these verticals.
Topics: NFV, CSP Digital Transformation, Network Function Virtualization, Predictive Analytics in Telecom
