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Recently Gartner issued a newly updated version of its foundational research report, Maturity Model For Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). We believe it is required reading for leaders of any real-time-sensitive digital business. The report presents the business benefits modern EDA provides beyond what…
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Directing Network Traffic with Telco Policies Imagine a crowded New York street. There are pedestrians shuffling along on the sidewalks, Ubers—yes, Lyfts and yellow cabs, too—jostling ahead, bicyclists weaving through gaps, and pizza delivery guys cursing the 30-minute-or-free guarantee. Suddenly, a wailing…
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Telco operators across the globe have been making heavy infrastructure investments to enable 5G rollouts. Boston Consulting Group anticipates that US communications service providers (CSPs) alone will spend more than $250 billion on these rollouts between 2020 and 2025. These investments are…
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Big data and analytics offer a key source of revenue for telcos at a time when many are looking for new growth avenues, according to a new report from Research and Markets. In fact, it’s estimated that 22% of carrier app value…
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Today’s telcos and communication service providers (CSPs) are seeking new ways to monetize their offerings and services, especially in light of 5G, IoT, and industrial IoT. In their quest to help telcos ultimately increase average revenue per user (ARPU), telco software vendors…
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In February, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched a new Enterprise Communications Technology Group (CTG) to help telcos and enterprises capitalize on the 5G opportunity. As a partner of HPE, the Volt Active Data team couldn’t be more excited about this development and…
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Volt Active Data was recently added to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a Linux Foundation subsidiary that is committed to building sustainable cloud ecosystems. As big believers in cloud-native technology, we couldn’t be more excited by the news. The CNCF maintains…
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Business support systems (BSS)—specifically, charging and policy functions—hold the key to monetizing 5G investments for telecommunications companies and their partners. However, for this key to unlock new revenue for communication service providers (CSPs), there are a couple of things that need to…
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It’s shaping up to be a massive year of growth for 5G, with major telecom providers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T competing for market dominance. Over the next several months, we should see large-scale domestic rollouts of 5G networks, as mmWave deployments…
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Modern telcos have a bandwidth issue—not the same bandwidth-limitation issue they’ve had for the last three decades or so but the fact that an entirely new and far more powerful bandwidth age is upon us, unleashing new threats and new opportunities that…
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CSPs: What’s your BSS sourcing and partnering strategy, and is it truly 5G-ready? That’s the central question addressed by Gartner’s Market Guide for CSP Business Support System Solutions, which explores the BSS landscape, how new technology is changing it, and what you,…
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5G has a headline requirement for 1ms latencies. Legacy RDBMS products can’t come anywhere near this. Many newer database products will face serious problems because they use Eventual Consistency. Why? Latency In order to provide scalability and resilience, new DB technologies keep…