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MWC 2019 – Key themes and analysis

The Appledore team attended MWC 2019 in Barcelona and after a full week distilled some...

Building a Stronger Business Case for 5G

The telecommunication industry is preparing for the next technology upgrade cycle which will bring with...

Learning from the failure of Ericsson Revenue Manager

Fail fast and fail often The announcement by Ericsson of the complete write down of its...

Value of Virtual Probes in Closed Loop Automation

By: Patrick Kelly The network transformation from physical network functions to virtual network functions requires...

Why NFV should Lose the N – Another Bite

Recently I revisited a blog I wrote in 2015 (see below), prompted by Appledore’s attendance...

MycomOSI Sold to Inflexion

Inflexion has made its first purchase in the software automation domain with the purchase of...

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...