Mavenir, Nokia and Viavi talk Open RAN
A “Status of Open RAN” webinar this week saw Nokia, Viavi and Mavenir vying for attention on Open RAN. Did they succeed? Nokia Nokia broadly took the position that OpenRAN was, frankly, nothing that...
View ArticleLumen Adds Bare Metal Edge Cloud To Advance “Enterprise Technology Platform”...
Lumen’s aspiration for enterprise is a perfect combination of cloud, edge and network. Lumen is pushing hard to effect a vision of a seamlessly interconnected world of industrial sites, clouds, edges...
View ArticleUK’s Open RAN Interoperability Program: SONIC Update
SONIC’s program is ambitious but pragmatic, and is well aware of the wider challenges to Open RAN adoption. One of the sidebar discussions in Open RAN has been what the role of governments can or...
View ArticleSpirent Communications Delivers Good Results despite Covid
Spirent Communications reported revenue of USD 539.4 Million for FY 2020. Spirent had over 600 5G-related wins in the year. The LSA division had strong top and bottom-line results during the year...
View ArticleIs Telecom Finally Getting Intent?
It’s taken a while, but it looks like the true meaning of “intent” is finally being recognised. Intent is both a “shiny object” – a buzzword du jour – but also a critically important concept and best...
View ArticleUnpacking Open RAN Business Value
Our latest research explores open RAN business value looking at the detailed benefits and risks of an Open RAN strategy. It’s been less than six months since we published our first report on Open RAN....
View ArticleReview: FutureNet World 2021 – Network Automation
Futurenet World is a top-notch experience. Not only slick production, but thoughtful curation of speakers and content. Zeroing in on Network Automation Futurenet World has zeroed in on network...
View ArticleCisco announces acquisition of Sedona Systems
Exciting news as Cisco announce their intention to acquire Sedona Systems. We’ve recently spent a lot of time with the Sedona management team looking at the benefits of Sedona’s optimized management of...
View ArticleQuantifying the Business Benefits of Automated, Multi-Layer Network Management
It’s one thing to understand the technical challenge of combined IP and Optical network management– but it’s quite another to quantify the business benefits. Appledore recently completed an extensive,...
View ArticleEvent Review – RCR Wireless “Private Networks Forum”
RCR Wireless and Enterprise IoT Insights Private Networks Forum event proved pretty revealing, especially on the position of telcos. Why Private Networks? Now that it’s widely accepted that consumers...
View ArticleWho’s Winning in Open RAN?
Warm words, MoUs and webinars aplenty – but who’s actually winning in Open RAN? Open RAN was originally conceived of as a way to free CSPs from restrictive roadmaps and slow delivery timescales. It...
View ArticleRakuten’s “No More Secrets” is Just the Beginning
Rakuten’s latest announcement is more important than it seems – and not just for the audience you might expect. In a briefing to press and analysts on Tuesday 15th June, Rakuten Group CTO Tareq Amin...
View ArticleThis Week in Open RAN – 18 June 2021
It’s been a bumper week for progress in Open RAN: a 280-million customer mobile operating group (that’s as big as Vodafone) commits to Open RAN, technical breakthroughs – and more vendor selections....
View ArticleUK’s SONIC Labs for Open RAN: Update
SONIC is a unique program of activity aimed at accelerating open-based innovation to diversify the UK telecom supply chain. How’s it doing? in March 2021, we covered the launch of SONIC, the UK’s...
View ArticleAzure for Operators + AT&T: A Marriage Made in Heaven (or at least in the...
The Telco Cloud world shook today as AT&T and Microsoft made what could be one of the largest announcements of the decade, at least in directional importance. Appledore believe that this deal has...
View ArticleNetwork Automation Software: A Market Transformed
Our major new market share report ranks leading vendors of telecom network automation software, and redraws the market landscape in the light of seismic changes. In 2020, CSPs spent $4.3B on software...
View ArticleHosted Open RAN networks
Hosted Open RAN networks will be an important component in enabling successful 5G network roll out. They will also be be an important part in enabling mobile network operators (MNOs) to differentiate...
View ArticleDisaggregation as a Growth Strategy: Telco-as-a-Platform
To Telco, or Not to Telco? That is the question… The move from closed, custom, hardware-based networks to open, cloud native, software-based networks bring with it the opportunity for disaggregation....
View ArticleDisruption-as-a-Service: Rakuten Symphony Emerges
Rakuten’s Disruption-as-a-Service business tunes up for global domination. Even Tareq Amin struggled (momentarily) to explain the category that the newly revealed Rakuten Symphony entity fits into....
View ArticleFierce Wireless Open RAN Summit: Review
FierceWireless put on a good show for Open RAN, and deserve credit (along with their guest moderators and speakers) for pushing the edges of the Open RAN discussion. Panel moderators didn’t ignore the...
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