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 …
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Appledore Research releases major research: cloud native industry survey and commentary
Appledore Research has released a major survey and market analysis covering the state of virtualization in telecom. This report consolidates input from major …
Will MEF LSO’s pragmatic scope be more likely to deliver benefit than OSM’s wider and visionary scope?
One of the interesting contrasts at the recent Layer123 Zero Touch Automation conference in Madrid was the …
Appledore Research publishes “Best Practices in Orchestration; Focus on Policy, Models, and On-boarding”
This major report builds on the foundation laid by our “Orchestration for Automation: 2018 Supplier Assessment”, and expands on the specific orchestration …
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 …
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NFV 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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. …
The “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, …
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 …
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Nokia Global Analyst Forum 2017: a focus on enabling transformation and automation
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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CENX 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 …
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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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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 …