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Virtualization Brings Service Providers and Customers Closer. Communications service providers (CSPs) are changing who they are as brands, how they run as businesses and how meaningful their services are for the companies and consumers they serve. Technology trends like network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) have the potential to underpin these massive changes. When completely transformed, the businesses we once called phone companies will be digital service providers (DSPs), capable of providing networking capabilities and new digital services on-demand, at scale, and in the cloud. Read More  

SDN & OpenFlow World Congress will cover a lot of ground this week, including many aspects of how to operationalize SDN and NFV so operators can realize the full benefits of virtualization. Operationalization will naturally lead to new revenue streams for operators, including the ability for them to offer new and compelling business services to better compete against OTT players. This could include voice and video services but also cloud-based security, file sharing and a whole host of other offerings that will be directly enabled through a virtualized infrastructure. Read More  

For carriers to create a strong IoT business case, they need to move away from legacy technology. In order to support the tremendous growth anticipated in the Internet of Things (IoT) – MachNation predicts 24 billion devices and $2.1 trillion in revenue in 2025 – carriers are creating new OSS/BSS technology stacks rather than relying on legacy technology. Read More    

Three different models can help CSPs lower costs, improve time to market and boost overall efficiency. The primary driver of managed services today is the extremely rapid pace of change of technology, which can be extremely challenging for organizations to keep up with. This includes upgrading software licenses, enhancing hardware platforms, and ensuring support staff is trained on the relevant software and up-to-date with the most recent versions. This can result in significant expenses on the part of an organization and in many cases is starting to become a very real burden to the bottom line. Read More     

After so many years of investing in CAPEX, telcos have become reliant on partners to develop new products for them. Now, they have the chance to become self-sufficient. Today's telcos are in the middle of a transition to agile, cloud-native networks hosted on a mix of partner cloud platforms and their own. As such, they don't just want to find a way to work with technology companies—they want to be technology companies. Read More