Category Archives: Public Blog

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. ...

Research Note: EXFO Completes Acquisition of Astellia

Germain Lamonde and Philippe Morin are quietly disrupting the market for service assurance in a...

Key Findings from MWC in Cloud Management – 1

The big themes for MWC 2018 in Telco cloud management software were focused on automation,...