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NOKIA’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...

Netcracker 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...

SDWAN market place assessment

Appledore Research is undertaking a major market place assessment of SDWAN solutions and vendors. As...

NFV Market at a Crossroad

Patrick Kelly Layer 123 hosted their annual SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague last...

CSPs need to change existing operational and business practice to achieve the benefits of software enabled networks.

I have been running regularly for over 20 years; ever since I realised that the...

Welcome to the new website

Appledore Research are pleased to announce the launch of our new website and brand design. We...

CENX 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...

Ciena crosses the Don River

Ciena’s acquisition of DonRiver is a positive development for the telco software market. It has...

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...

Jump in and innovate with customers

The highlight of the DTW 2018 event in Nice was the Bladerunner catalyst. This was...

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...

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...