MWC-A Los Angeles: 5G getting real
5G: Hype migrates to facts. 5G has been a hype machine. And so complex that few can truly distinguish reality from fiction. Appledore have recently blogged on Is the Bloom Off the 5G Rose?; this...
View ArticleAutomotive edge – we need business models!
Success in the automotive sector requires us to start with the business model not the edge technology. In an excellent halloween webinar, AECC described potential “Automotive Big Data” edge use cases....
View Article5G: Show me the money!
5G: Show me the money! MWC-A showed that the industry is moving beyond hype and beginning to look at the complex trade-offs that are inherent in 5G deployment and economics. Brass tacks: who will pay?...
View ArticleA tale of two 5Gs
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens 5G promises a revolution! However, the shape of this 5G revolution, for Nokia and its CSP customers, is still to be defined. At...
View ArticleGame changers at Juniper’s NXTWORK 2019
Game changers was the theme at Juniper Networks NXTWORK 2019 event in London this week, with the highlight being an audience with a true game changer, John McEnroe. Appledore identified three network...
View ArticleAI enabler – Active assurance!
AI has become the chosen term for marketers to promote. In the age of big data and cheap fast computing (GPUs) the business benefits are clear. Applied correctly, AI can achieve specific business...
View ArticleAT&T’s Claimed 6-8% Annual Opex reduction: Miracle, or obfuscation?
What AT&T claims: At a recent investor conference, AT&T COO John Stankey claimed that AT&T had achieved network operation cost reductions of 6-8% annually for the most recent 5 years, and...
View ArticleRetail edge success – NCR purchase Zynstra
The recent purchase of UK retail edge solution provider Zynstra by NCR, for approximately $129 million, highlights the real value of edge cloud solutions. Zynstra have focused at the retail sector for...
View ArticleCES 2020 and the Telco Impact
This year I decided to trek out to CES2020 to investigate business opportunities for the telco industry driven largely from the consumer and enterprise markets. For those of us that attend MWC in...
View ArticlePrivacy by Design? Apple and Facebook Square Off at CES 2020
Should companies collecting consumer data, storing it, and selling it be subject to more regulation? The subject of privacy has been gaining more attention from public policy makers. The EU implemented...
View ArticleWhy is SK Telecom and Rakuten at CES Las Vegas?
Why would a Seoul and Tokyo based CSP invest significant marketing budgets (read large booths) in an event outside their home markets where other geographical based CSPs like AT&T and Sprint were...
View ArticleQuantum Computing Moves into Production
In October 2019, Google AI, in partnership with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), published results demonstrating completion in 200 seconds a task the equivalent of which...
View ArticleCES Post Event Report
I attended CES 2020 in Las Vegas last week because of the impact 5G and edge computing will have on the consumer and enterprise markets in the next five years. The primary focus of the event is biased...
View ArticleCenturyLink – On the path to agile enterprise services
“As an industry we talk a lot about agility, flexibility and enabling customer focus; but it’s not often that we hear so many of the right words come together in one industry discussion.” Both we as...
View ArticleAPPLIED AI IN THE TELECOMMUNICATION MARKET
Applying AI for improving prediction and business outcomes will transform decision making in most job functions of telecommunication operators in the next decade. AI tools used in the right context...
View ArticleVMware leads the way to AI driven RAN
Uhana by VMware is a powerful AI engine driving real value for mobile network operators in detecting anomalies in the RAN. Its distinct value is real time intelligence using its stream processing...
View ArticleHuawei in the UK – 5G technical hype becomes political hype
The decision to allow Huawei equipment in the UK 5G RAN has set the proverbial “Cat amongst the pigeons” in international politics, 5G is portrayed as a “game changer”, enabling the Chinese state...
View ArticleThe battle for Telco Cloud wallet share – Redhat or VMWare?
“Redhat is the clear leader for opensource, supporting both Openstack and Openshift, but telcos that need six 9’s of reliability appear to favor VMWare as the supplier of choice for network...
View ArticleCOVID-19 could become the black swan event for the economy
For many of us, this past week was a surprise that MWC2020 telecoms biggest tech show of the year could be canceled just one week before the event was to begin. Much has been said both by me and others...
View ArticleEricsson leads in helping CSPs transition from 4G to 5G
Last week Ericsson presented its key messages for the now cancelled MWC. Appledore took away four major themes from the event. AI Ericsson showed its clear ambition in AI, and the practical steps it...
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