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NOKIA FP4 Launch: Packet Processing can be about more than “speeds and feeds”

— Grant Lenahan, Appledore research Group There’s a saying: “You can forward packets, count them...

Nice reflections

This year was my first TMFLive since it was hosted in Dublin. In my absence the...

NOKIA – Revolutionizing Evolution? Maybe, just maybe.

Does a huge NEP “get” cloud?  Appledore Research Group attended NOKIA’s full-day analyst event, scheduled...

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...

Assuring Dynamic Services in the Hybrid Virtualized Network

— Patrick Kelly, Founder Appledore Research Group The telecommunication industry is amid a major transformation...

Learning from MPesa

“The [MPesa] pilot project didn’t always look destined to be a success.” I have been...

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...

Preparing Telecommunication Operations for Cloud Native Virtual Network Functions

Patrick Kelly and Francis Haysom, Appledore Research Group Cloud native applications and NFs, as an...

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...

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...

Ericsson reboot …. again

by Francis Haysom, Principal Analyst, ARG Last week’s announcement by Ericsson seems to signal the...

Machine Learning Applied to Cloud Virtualization

Patrick Kelly, Appledore Research Group Virtualization of the network brings with it monumental challenges necessary...