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RADCOM Winning Big Deals in the NFV/SDN Market
RADCOM made waves when it won the AT&T deal for its MaveriQ NFV network probing solutions to support AT&T Integrated Cloud in August 2016. Now the company appears to be making further inroads...
View ArticleNFV Plugtest a good first step but are we building another silo?
ETSI held the second NFV Plugtests in Sophia Antipolis January 2018. This is a good first step to help CSPs get more comfortable in deploying virtualization in their existing networks. The market...
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Cloud Native Orchestration: Signs of Progress from MWC
At this year’s MWC, for the first time, I began seeing tangible examples of properly designed NFV orchestration. They were tangible in the sense that real NFV suppliers were solving real customer (CSP)...
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Appledore Research publishes “Best Practices in Orchestration; Focus on...
This major report builds on the foundation laid by our “Orchestration for Automation: 2018 Supplier Assessment”, and expands on the specific orchestration related methods that represent, in our...
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Will MEF LSO’s pragmatic scope be more likely to deliver benefit than OSM’s...
One of the interesting contrasts at the recent Layer123 Zero Touch Automation conference in Madrid was the juxtaposition of the work being undertaken by the ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) project and the...
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Appledore Research releases major research: cloud native industry survey and...
Appledore Research has released a major survey and market analysis covering the state of virtualization in telecom. This report consolidates input from major service providers, NEPs/Suppliers,...
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Jump in and innovate with customers
The highlight of the DTW 2018 event in Nice was the Bladerunner catalyst. This was notable in being a non Telco centric, dynamic and transient service. Most NFV products or proof of concepts still...
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Preparing for an Agile Future: Agility is more than technology
Since our first coverage of the “Telco Cloud”, Appledore Research has emphasized that this is a business model and economics shift, more than a technology shift. Technology is merely the enabler. This...
View ArticleCiena crosses the Don River
Ciena’s acquisition of DonRiver is a positive development for the telco software market. It has the potential to accelerate legacy network transformation and to enable hybrid physical/software network...
View ArticleCENX Brings Ericsson the Secret Sauce for Closed Loop Automation
Ericsson’s acquisition of CENX is not simply a “business” event, it promises to move forward Ericsson’s ability to execute an effective closed loop, and therefore automated healing, scaling and...
View ArticleWelcome to the new website
Appledore Research are pleased to announce the launch of our new website and brand design. We hope you like it and look forward to your feedback. Over the last few months we have been working with our...
View ArticleCSPs need to change existing operational and business practice to achieve the...
I have been running regularly for over 20 years; ever since I realised that the plane, hotel, taxi lifestyle of a telco consultant was not conducive to a healthy body. Increasingly though, I have been...
View ArticleNFV Market at a Crossroad
Patrick Kelly Layer 123 hosted their annual SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague last week. The event attendance was down from last year. We estimate that less than 1,000 stakeholders attended the...
View ArticleSDWAN market place assessment
Appledore Research is undertaking a major market place assessment of SDWAN solutions and vendors. As part of this initiative we are pleased to announce that the first two solution profiles for Nokia...
View ArticleNetcracker point the way to a Telco cloud business model
In The Hague Netcracker announced its new Business Cloud solution, with a first announced customer Telefonica Mexico. Netcracker is supporting Telefonica Mexico in providing SDWAN solutions to its...
View ArticleNOKIA’s Global Analyst Forum – Saving the World with 5G
Here’s the skinny: 5G will enable industrial automation, propel the next stage of world economic growth and productivity, improve standards of living, make industrial environments safer, and generate...
View ArticleMycomOSI Sold to Inflexion
Inflexion has made its first purchase in the software automation domain with the purchase of MycomOSI. The addition of MycomOSI does not currently complement other portfolio companies in the Inflexion...
View ArticleWhy NFV should Lose the N – Another Bite
Recently I revisited a blog I wrote in 2015 (see below), prompted by Appledore’s attendance at SDN and NFV World Congress (see NFV Market at a Crossroad) Deja Vous all over again What surprised me in...
View ArticleValue of Virtual Probes in Closed Loop Automation
By: Patrick Kelly The network transformation from physical network functions to virtual network functions requires a fundamental design change in how application and services are tested and assured in...
View ArticleLearning from the failure of Ericsson Revenue Manager
Fail fast and fail often The announcement by Ericsson of the complete write down of its next generation BSS “Revenue Manager” and a refocus on its legacy BSS did not surprise us. Ericsson deserve...
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