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Assuring Dynamic Services in the Hybrid Virtualized Network
— Patrick Kelly, Founder Appledore Research Group The telecommunication industry is amid a major transformation both in terms of business models and technology. Virtualization, cloud computing, and 5G...
View ArticleNetcracker 12 and Virtualization – A focus on End-2-End business cases and...
May 2017 Grant Lenahan, Appledore Research Group If I might summarize the impression from Netcracker’s 2017 analyst day, positioning Netcracker 12, it would “let’s quit messing with technology and make...
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NOKIA – Revolutionizing Evolution? Maybe, just maybe.
Does a huge NEP “get” cloud? Appledore Research Group attended NOKIA’s full-day analyst event, scheduled coincident with TMForum Live! In Nice, France (May 15 2017). Most of these events showcase...
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Nice reflections
This year was my first TMFLive since it was hosted in Dublin. In my absence the show seemed to have become smaller and less crowded. Surprisingly at the same time the show seemed to have become much...
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NOKIA FP4 Launch: Packet Processing can be about more than “speeds and feeds”
— Grant Lenahan, Appledore research Group Diagram courtesy NOKIA There’s a saying: “You can forward packets, count them or classify them. Pick one.” For as long as i can remember, there have been...
View ArticleCENX selects a new CEO; reinforces focus on active assurance
CENX, an assurance supplier based in Ottawa, Canada, has announced the appointment of Ed Kennedy as its new CEO. Mr. Kennedy, until recently President of Tollgrade, comes to CENX with a background in...
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Mobile World Congress Americas: Back in Business and Down to Business
Appledore Research Group attended the inaugural Mobile World Congress Americas (MWC-A), held this year at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The main event, MWC Barcelona, is well established as the...
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Two-factor Authentication —“tip of the digital services iceberg” for CSPs?
Today there was a press release that the “big four” US mobile operators are collaborating to provide a universal two-factor authentication system. And we applaud their effort. The real news here,...
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SDN World Congress: Making Automation Real
Automation was a key point of discussion at Layer 123 event in The Hague last week. In some ways it reminds me of other terms the industry has used that means different things to different people....
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SDN World Congress: Culture and trust in The Hague
Appledore Research Group is just back from an excellent week at SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague (my first since the early years of this event in Bad Homburg). Whilst I have been away the...
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Nokia Global Analyst Forum 2017: a focus on enabling transformation and...
Appledore Research Group attended NOKIA’s annual Global Analyst Forum, held at the firm’s experience center in Espoo Finland. The event covered nearly two full days, and spanned the (extensive) scope...
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Why loose coupling and independent domains matter
“End to end” thinking is a mantra in our industry. We have always felt need to understand the entire experience delivered by service, ideally as a customer sees it. This much is true. Too often...
View ArticleThe “MANO+” Market: a Work in Progress: Major Survey by Appledore Research Group
Appledore Research Group has just published Part 2 of our major survey of the “MANO+” market. This looks at the major needs and trends in orchestration, necessary to achieve hands-off, flexible...
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Winning at the edge
There have been a number of 5G trial announcements in the last few months that show exciting progress in terms of increased network speed and lower latency. What all of these trials have in common, is...
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Ericsson emerges from the clouds
Ericsson held its analyst day in London last week. High up in The Shard, (surrounded by grey clouds, torrential rain and strong winds) we learnt about Ericsson’s new vision for 5G and the wider...
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Appledore Research publishes 2018 MANO Supplier Assessment Report
The industry has made considerable progress in the past 3 years following our first report titled “MANO SUPPLIER SCORECARD: TOP PICKS FOR 2015” published in May 2015. Our research shows more CSPs have...
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Why Models Matter for Automated Network Operations:
New Research from Appledore Research Group plots the status and trajectory of the industry and leading players. Appledore Research Group has recently released the 2nd major report in a series of 3 that...
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Key Findings from MWC in Cloud Management – 1
The big themes for MWC 2018 in Telco cloud management software were focused on automation, cloud native readiness, and machine learning. The Appledore Research analyst met with 55 companies during the...
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Research Note: EXFO Completes Acquisition of Astellia
Germain Lamonde and Philippe Morin are quietly disrupting the market for service assurance in a segment known as the network test and monitoring market. EXFO is not going the route of Netscout which...
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Mash Ups, Micro-services, Re-use and Agility at MWC
At MWC this year I saw a budding constellation of similar thinking around “micro-service” innovation. This is a very positive trend. Every service provider wants greater agility, easier innovation,...
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