Category Archives: Public Blog

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...

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...

Jump in and innovate with customers

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

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...

Cloud Native Orchestration: Signs of Progress from MWC

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

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...

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. ...