Category Archives: Appledore Blog

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...

Cloud Native Orchestration: Signs of Progress from MWC

At this year’s MWC, for the first time, I began seeing tangible examples of properly...

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...

Ericsson emerges from the clouds

Ericsson held its analyst day in London last week. High up in The Shard, (surrounded by...

Winning at the edge

There have been a number of 5G trial announcements in the last few months that show exciting...

SDN World Congress: Making Automation Real

Automation was a key point of discussion at Layer 123 event in The Hague last...

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...

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...

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...