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Today, communications service providers (CSPs) are working on rapidly accelerating plans to transform their customer experience through digital-first operating models. After all, B2B customers today expect personalized, intelligent, and seamless engagement at any and every point in their journey.
Customer expectations are changing fast and CSPs need to catch up. Thankfully, CSPs can transform their customer experience by focusing on three guiding directives: integrate, analyze, and act. In this white paper, learn how CSPs can transform their customer experience by focusing on three guiding directives: integrate, analyze, and act.
After years of strong growth, the telecom industry is showing signs of declining revenue. But telcos can now grow revenue, and add value to their business, in new ways. In this report, you’ll read about technical and organizational challenges facing telcos, strategies for evolving goals and operating models, and growing revenue in the current environment.
A recent report from Worldwide Business Research and Salesforce highlights how the communications industry can combine digital with a human touch to drive customer engagement, empower field service teams to generate leads and be more customer-centric.
Download this white paper to learn more about the first step in manage emerging 5G risks by embracing a leading cybersecurity mindset: It’s zero hour for zero trust.
5G will drive geopolitics, economic prosperity, and national security in the 2020s. Read how nations can safely and effectively roll out 5G strategies, using Booz Allen’s 5G Power Framework.
5G cellular technology is transforming industry and government operations. But with the benefits come real challenges – geopolitical power struggles over the 5G ecosystem, regulatory issues, legacy system modernization, and new threat vectors.
Download this report to discover insights about embracing zero trust for 5G, guidance on how to adopt this mindset now, and use cases and principles that show the value of this approach.
Customer expectations are changing fast and CSPs need to catch up. Thankfully, CSPs can transform their customer experience by focusing on three guiding directives: integrate, analyze, and act.
The paper examines the challenges facing today’s telcos and outlines several best practices aimed at mitigating increasing energy consumption, emissions, and costs. Complete the form below to download the research paper.
The exciting opportunity to deliver expanded services and benefits through 5G also presents an array of complex challenges. Existing networks must be expanded and rebuilt to meet bandwidth and latency demands. Network density is increasing with new types of sites that feature far more IT equipment than is used today. Is your critical infrastructure ready?
Distributing compute capabilities is creating massive opportunities for CSPs around the world. In this interview Juan Carlos Garcia, Global SVP for Innovation and Edge at Telefonica and Muneyb Minhazuddin, Vice President, Edge Computing at VMware join Stephen Spellicy, VP of Product Marketing and Solutions to discuss monetizing the edge.
This paper, prepared by Tom Nolle of CIMI Corp, highlights how the transformation of RAN will support a fully-enabled 5G strategy. In it, you will learn how Tom believes the obvious approach to take in the RAN transformation is to follow the cloud. Cloud computing has proven its ability to not only respond to change, but to lead it.
In this discussion with Simon Warner, Director of Business Services at BT, we learn how BT has transformed to empower a more robust relationship with the innovation ecosystem. Together with host Stephen Spellicy, VP Product Marketing and Solutions for VMware, and guest Kit Beall, VP Telco Sales for VMware, this interview covers the successes of BT’s transformation and how they’ve leveraged new partner relationships to inspire new business models and thrive in a digital era.
In this edition of the 5G Exchange E-Book, we’ll discuss the benefits and challenges to delivering secure 5G, how service providers and enterprises can utilize 5G to tap new revenue streams and improve the customer experience, and how service providers can rethink their business models to make the most of all 5G has to offer.
This executive playbook, written by The Economist Intelligence Unit, helps guide service providers looking to harness 5G business opportunities. To support the creation of actionable strategies to gain a competitive advantage, the playbook draws on comprehensive research and expert interviews with the telecom industry leaders and academics.
Security is becoming increasingly complex as networks make the transition from 4G to 5G. To learn more about why flexible, intrinsic security is more important than ever, read this VMware whitepaper.
This white paper outlines these new requirements and the challenges of current transport technologies. It also discusses the split options and related service level agreements.
This paper discusses how fiber is implemented in 5G networks, including use cases. Connections between the access point to the network core are reviewed; making the case that these fiber-powered connections and their flexibility are as important, if not more, for a successful delivery of 5G than the RF connections between users and cell towers/access points.
A supplement to the VIAVI book, Understanding 5G, Testing 5G explores the three phases of 5G test and measurement–Validation, Verification, and Visibility–and the essential elements of each phase. It also touches on O-RAN based networks.
In the fourth edition of The 5G Exchange eBook, we examine how the pandemic could impact the progress of 5G deployments in North America, and discuss what the future holds for standalone 5G. This eBook also takes a look at what enterprises hope to gain from 5G deployments, and how multi-access edge computing could provide new avenues of business for enterprises.
IDC introduces Cisco Ultra Traffic Optimization, and the impact it will have on mobile networking. Two operators — Spark and STC — attest to CUTO's efficacy in significantly improving cellular network capacity without breaking the bank.
As operators expand radio networks with upgrades and new buildouts, open architectures offer clear benefits regarding flexibility and agility. Avoiding vendor lock-in and the ability to build best-of-breed capabilities are very valuable, but many overlook a key benefit that comes along with standardized interfaces and greater visibility – improved security.
This whitepaper outlines the Cisco strategy for the synchronization of radio equipment that will revolutionize the mobile network and underpin the worldwide adoption of 5G technologies.
This paper presents the results of a TCO analysis comparing the economics of a converged IP/MPLS transport network with more traditional dedicated networks.
This whitepaper outlines the Cisco strategy for the synchronization of radio equipment that will revolutionize the mobile network and underpin the worldwide adoption of 5G technologies.
In this budding 5G era, communications service providers (CSPs) are looking to deploy 5G networks across a range of spectrum including millimeter wave (mm Wave) bands. This paper takes a closer look into why RF Propagation Modeling is an important consideration.
In this 5G Exchange E-Book, contributing authors examine how 5G could play an important role in delivering high-speed connectivity during large-scale crises.
This paper covers the latest wireless trends and different phases associated with technology adoption, including the licensed, shared license and unlicensed spectrum.
Mobile operators should accelerate edge computing initiatives rather than wait for 5G to mature. The Deutsche Telekom infrastructure in Germany using MobiledgeX deployment shows the practicality of 4G edge adaptation that evolves naturally into 5G.
Open RAN initiatives leverage the virtualization of functions which create opportunities for innovation. In this white paper, you’ll learn advantages to putting the approach to work for operators in all stages of deployment.
As the race to deploy 5G gathers speed, the reality of building out new and different network architectures presents a variety of complex issues for service providers to address. Building on this real-world experience, this paper examines 5G transport challenges, evolution of the radio access network (RAN) architecture, best practices for design and deployment, early business model opportunities and a vision for the future.
Planning and deploying a mobile network to support a myriad of 5G applications will be no easy feat, considering the complexities of these new architectures and the interdependencies between the RAN and transport network. To find out more about the opportunities and challenges facing 5G Backhaul/Fronthaul, download this whitepaper now.
In this edition of The 5G Exchange E-book, contributing writers explore how the telecom industry can evolve to meet rapidly changing demands from enterprise customers, and achieve ROI on their efforts to build and manage 5G networks.
In the 5G Networks Require Quality of Service white paper, you will learn about 5G QoS types and requirements such as Low Latency Network Requirements, Network Timing Requirements and Air Interface Latency Requirements which will be key to 5G network rollout.
Wholesale and open-access business models for fibre and network-infrastructure providers are not new. However, up till now, there has been only limited emphasis on delivering newer and more innovative models for wholesale backhaul. 5G will open up a whole new world of opportunities for wholesale backhaul. To learn more, download our white paper.
Expectations are high for 5G to enable everything from industry 4.0 to driver-less vehicles. Yet over time, there is growing dissension among the ranks, as even the most advance countries showing a decline in profitability after the launch of 5G. Are industry experts right in asking: Where’s the money?
Date : Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Time : 10:00 a.m New York / 3:00 p.m London
Join Heavy Reading analyst Sterling Perrin and VIAVI thought leaders Reza Vaez-Ghaemi and Kashif Hussain to discover key considerations for preparing and testing transport networks for 5G.
VIAVI is pleased to offer an indispensable resource, Test Guide to 5G Network Deployment, to simplify deployment complexities with easy-to-use fiber, x-haul and RF solutions.
Date : Thursday, September 26, 2019
Time : 12:00 p.m New York / 5:00 p.m London
The promise of 5G services is huge. Massively scalable, low-latency enabled applications will open up new ecosystems, business models and creativity across enterprise and residential markets. Join this Light Reading webinar to learn about the technical aspects of the 5G transport network, laying the foundation for deeper dives on the evolution of your transport architecture.
Date : Thursday, October 3, 2019
Time : 11.00 a.m. New York / 4.00 p.m. London
Transitioning your existing network to 5G is a challenging task. How you arrive at your goal requires a process map built on best practices and use of the right technologies. In this webinar, we focus on leveraging new technologies proven to reduce costs, accelerate time to market and simplify complexities.
Date : Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Time : 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London
From fiber testing and CPRI, to eCPRI, RoE Ethernet traffic and network timing synchronization, this webinar will provide an overview of the latest technology and new test methodologies developed to tackle the increased demands of 5G networks.