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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Netcracker 12 and Virtualization – A focus on End-2-End business cases and agile operations
May 2017 Grant Lenahan, Appledore Research Group If I might summarize the impression from Netcracker’s 2017 analyst day, positioning …
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 …
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Learning from MPesa
The Big Picture: Managing the “Telco Cloud” – Video and Free Research
Appledore Research Group is focused on what it takes to truly exploit the economic potential of the "telco cloud" - including SDN, NFV and XaaS. We believe …
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PREPARING TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS FOR CLOUD NATIVE VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS
Patrick Kelly and Francis Haysom, Appledore Research Group Cloud native applications and NFs, as an evolution of the virtualization of the …
AT&T Claims 34% Virtualization of Its Network But What Does This Mean?
Patrick Kelly, Appledore Research Group How much investment in virtualization technology is occurring today relative to overall capital …
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CSPs Discuss Concerns in “Crossing the Cloud-Native VNF Chasm”
Grant Lenahan, Partner and Principal Analyst We’re on our way to virtualization – primarily NFV and SDN, but where are we in terms of real benefits? …
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Ericsson reboot …. again
by Francis Haysom, Principal Analyst, ARG Last week’s announcement by Ericsson seems to signal the scaling down of their ambitions in media and …
Machine Learning Applied to Cloud Virtualization
Patrick Kelly, Appledore Research Group Virtualization of the network brings with it monumental challenges necessary to manage cloud services. This …
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Comptel gets a premium from Nokia
Bhaskar is taking a page from his Oracle playbook in his new role at Nokia. Our take on the deal: It is good for Comptel and its investors. Nokia will give …
AT&T ECOMP – Can it support cloud native?
AT&T has made some waves in the industry with its ECOMP software management architecture but does it go far enough to address the challenges of cloud native …
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Escaping the telecom event horizon – the quantum Telco!
- Francis Haysom My last blog The telecom event horizon attracted a lot of interest and comment. Whilst it was not my intention, the reader might have …
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Have we passed the Telecom Event Horizon?
- Francis Haysom The discussions at a recent event on OSS and NFV/SDN were interesting and lively. However, for all the discussion at the …
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Connected Cows: IoT BS or BSS?
The business and operational model of the telco is the number 1 impediment to telcos realising new revenues and avoiding …
NFV – Carriers fighting the Cloud rip current
- Francis Haysom, Appledore Research Group NFV - Carriers fighting the Cloud rip current A constant theme in my surfing lessons this summer …
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Closed Loop Automation & the New Role for Assurance
Fulfillment and Assurance cannot continue to be independent processes and stacks. There, I said it. For as long as any of us can remember, fulfillment and …
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The Economics of Virtualization: Huge potential, but success demands radical operational thinking
Virtualization is not just a new technology for telecom: virtualization revolutionizes the basic economics, and changes many long held assumptions about costs, …
NOKIA’s 2016 Global Analyst Function: Engineering tomorrow’s Telco Cloud network within the “Triangle of Truth”
This week, APPLEDORE RESEARCH GROUP attended NOKIA’s Global Analyst Event, the first since the merger of Alcatel-Lucent into the NOKIA family. Approximately 40 …
Micro-services, APIs, SOA, Orchestration and the New OSS Order
For the longest time, I’ve felt that a component-based approach to operations and OSS is essential for re-use, flexibility, agility, cost reduction, and …
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Shannon Continues to Teach Us: — Bell Labs’ Shannon Celebratory Event
Grant Lenahan Appledore Research Group had the opportunity to attend the NOKIA Bell Labs seminar honoring the 100th anniversary of Claude Shannon’s …
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SERVICE ASSURANCE OF THE VIRTUALIZED EPC
Virtualization of the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) is a priority for many CSPs based on our research of ongoing proof of concept trials and early deployments of …
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Leveraging Policy, Analytics and MANO to drive cost optimization in the Telco Cloud
By: Grant Lenahan Appledore Research Group has been outspoken on the importance of automation and optimization in the Telco Cloud. We have outlined its …
Telecommunication Software Trends for 2016 and Beyond: The Economic and Market Impact of NFV and SDN
By: Patrick Kelly As we close off 2015, many clients are looking ahead to economic and technology trends of 2016 and beyond. In the telecommunication sector a …
SDN & OpenFlow World Congress Event Wrap UP
By Grant Lenahan Appledore Research Group attended SDN & OpenFlow World Congress held in Swissotel Dusseldorf Germany October 12 – 16 2015. We had the …
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Nokia Business Update at CTIA Super Mobility
By Grant Lenahan Appledore Research Group attended Nokia analyst day that was held coincident with CTIA this year in Las Vegas, Sept 8th. The main topics were …
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Policy Management Shifting to Support New Services and Business Models
The 3 Missions of Policy Management | Author: Grant Lenahan Customization. Monetization. Optimization. These will be the three missions of “Policy” in the …
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Nokia Alcatel Lucent Cloud Management MANO Assets Post Merger
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Nokia Alcatel Lucent Deal Response to Telecom Shift to Programmable Networks
Nokia announced on April 15, 2015 that it had agreed to an all-stock deal to acquire Alcatel-Lucent valuing ALU at $16.6 billion. The combined company is …
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Build or Buy: 3 Things to Consider in Deploying IoT Application Platform
The IoT market will create the same sort of market disruption that preceded it with the World Wide Web. Almost every industry will be transformed by IoT in both …
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IoT Service Enablement Platform Role in 2020
The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating entirely new businesses and disrupting old business models. It’s fascinating to watch entire new business models emerge …
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A Fixation on Virtualization Technology Only Ignores the Manageability of the Hybrid Virtualized Network
Blog post author - Grant Lenahan I’ve been working closely with ETSI/MANO, TMForum and TMF ZOOM and several thought-leading carriers implementing …
For NFV and SDN to succeed management of the virtualized infrastructure must be implemented Day 1
Every five years a technology trigger comes along that generates hype, confusion, and inflated expectations that fade as the realities of commercial success and …
NetScout Seeks To Become The Leading Service Assurance Supplier In 2015
Every month, I will profile a supplier which is either outperforming peers in a respective market segment, or carving out a niche in a new high growth …
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Customer Experience Analytics Must Blend Real Time Network Usage Data with Customer Profiles
Voice of the customer is a repeated process used by companies that want to understand customer’s preferences for engagement and levels of satisfaction with …