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
The annual GSMA Mobile Economy Europe paints a mixed picture for CSPs, with continuing consolidation helping to stabilize the competitive landscape, but saturation in B2C pointing to slow growth in traditional revenue streams. The silver lining however, is a faster than expected adoption of 5G and a determined march into new verticals, showing many green shoots of growth.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, OSS, NFV, 5G, OSS Transformation, Digital Transformation, SDN, Telco Cloud, EAA, Artificial Intelligence
In May 2018, TM Forum held their annual flagship conference, Digital Transformation World (DTW), in Nice, France. This leading industry event was a rich and inspiring gathering of industry experts and CIOs/CTOs exchanging visionary ideas and sharing experiences about the latest advancement in our industry.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, NFV, IoT, 5G, CSP, Digital Transformation, SDN, Telco Cloud, Artificial Intelligence
5G networks are taking their first steps out of trials and labs into reality with innovative use cases demonstrated during the winter Olympics in South Korea early in 2018. Now the “how” of deploying dynamic, self-orchestrating networks has been explored and successfully demonstrated in recent TM Forum proof of concept Catalysts focused around providing new service provision and connectivity for the Tour de France cycle race, to demonstrate the real world benefits and value of 5G and new technologies available.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, NFV, IoT, 5G, SDN, Telco Cloud
Blog written by James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst - OSS/BSS Transformation, Heavy Reading, and published on Light Reading on 14/12/2017
Back in 2014 the regulatory winds were favorable in European telecoms with consolidation in both the German and Austrian markets taking the number of mobile network operators from four to three. "Market repair" was the buzzword of the day and operators were keen to see if they could achieve similar consolidation in other countries. In the UK, there were four MNOs: EE (itself a merger of Orange and T-Mobile's UK arms), O2 (part of the Telefonica Group, Vodafone and Three UK (part of Asian conglomerate CK Hutchison). With EE being snapped up by BT, Three made an audacious offer for O2 that would have created the largest mobile operator in the UK with over 40% share of mobile subscribers and a strong portfolio of spectrum. However, after a year of deliberations, in May 2016 the deal was blocked by the EU commission on competition grounds, leaving Three UK in a quandary.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, NFV, IoT, Orchestration, 5G, SDN, Telco Cloud
CSPs need to simplify and rationalize their service assurance systems across all networks: mobile and fixed, enterprise and IT/data center, so that they can be maintained at peak performance and maximize the utilization of the network resources. As a consequence of evolving digitalization, there is a great need to build operation centers that are predictive, customer-centric, analytics-driven and highly automated to help CSPs achieve speed and massive opex savings.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, Virtualization, IoT, Analytics, Automation, CSP Digital Transformation, Service Quality Management
Consolidation is not a buzz word. It is a biz word. This is because network consolidation in a telecom operator network cuts down costs (operational costs and infrastructure costs). Consolidation of OSS systems also reduces the operator costs tremendously. If you add automation to it, the results are remarkable. Not only does efficiency increase, but also the quality and speed. This is because you remove elements of human error, inefficient repetition, and decrease time for delivery of new services.
Topics: Service Assurance, OSS, Network Performance Management, Fault Management, NFV, Analytics, Automation, Network Analytics
Complexity of telecom operators' business models, offers, networks and systems has never been higher. The result of this increased complexity is higher costs and reduced operational margins, lengthy time to market and degraded customer experience. The reasons for the surge of complexity is partly rooted in the nature of the mobile industry and partly related to current business trends.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, Network Performance Management, TM Forum, CSP, Network Analytics
