Tag: telco digital transformation
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MWC21: Boots, or in Our Case, ‘Robot Wheels’, on the Ground in Barcelona
Read more: MWC21: Boots, or in Our Case, ‘Robot Wheels’, on the Ground in BarcelonaThis was a Mobile World Congress (MWC) like no other. Thanks to COVID, I was not there with a team of five-plus colleagues, pounding the halls, connecting with customers and partners, and attending executive meetings. Instead, I ‘manned’ our stand in #cloudcity…
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How to Use Contextual Decisioning to Optimize Business Outcomes
Read more: How to Use Contextual Decisioning to Optimize Business OutcomesMore and more organizations are seeking to operationalize their decisions into software-enabled platforms as part of their digital transformation. These same organizations have invested quite heavily (and recently) in big data and machine learning. This has led them to understand how fast…
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What’s an in-memory database?
Read more: What’s an in-memory database?An in-memory database is a modern data management system that stores data in the system’s main memory (most often RAM), as opposed to a traditional database that uses disk/device storage. When you process data in an in-memory database, only the RAM is…
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What is Network as a Service?
Read more: What is Network as a Service?Network as a Service is a cloud computing model in which managed cloud vendors provide virtualized network equipment and networking functionality as a subscription service. A concept similar to the better-known software/platform as a service model, Network as a Service lets enterprises…
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Why ‘Digital Transformation’ for Telcos Means Stack Simplification
Read more: Why ‘Digital Transformation’ for Telcos Means Stack Simplification5G promises a brave new world of connectivity. Be it life-saving remote surgery, immersive learning, intelligent fraud detection, or predictive resource conservation, everything is possible. This is because the new generation of superfast ultra-reliable millisecond-latency networks make it possible. The most impactful…
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Why Telcos Need a Simplified Stack
Read more: Why Telcos Need a Simplified StackEvery day, we move deeper into the 5G era, as the new technology rapidly becomes the standard for telco providers. In fact, it’s expected that 5G will account for 1.2 billion connections by 2025, covering one-third of the global population. There is…
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Why Milliseconds Matter: The 5G Real-Time Opportunity
Read more: Why Milliseconds Matter: The 5G Real-Time OpportunityAdvances in 5G have given telecom providers the opportunity to adopt agile, future-proof infrastructures. Organizations that adapt their data platforms as 5G capabilities evolve, or those that anticipate changes, will have an advantage over the competition. However, those that stick with a…
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More than Digital Twins—Today’s Telcos Need ‘Active’ Digital Twins
Read more: More than Digital Twins—Today’s Telcos Need ‘Active’ Digital TwinsTo successfully monetize their infrastructure investments and make 5G-based capabilities a reality, telecom operators need to explore both enterprise and consumer markets. Digital twins have become a common practice for this and for monetizing 5G in the form of keeping customers and…
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5G+ is Here? Here’s Why We Agree and What it Means
Read more: 5G+ is Here? Here’s Why We Agree and What it MeansA FutureIoT article published this month by Fuad Siddiqui, senior partner and vice president at Nokia Bell Labs, describes a new era of 5G he calls “5G+”. In this era, industries “assess and implement next-gen connectivity that acts in concert with a…
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What is a Data Platform?
Read more: What is a Data Platform?A data platform is a total stack solution for end-to-end data processing, from ingestion to action. Data platforms are typically used to process very large data sets at scale without compromising on latency. Companies in all industries are increasingly using modern data…
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How to Drive an Action-Oriented Event-Driven Architecture
Read more: How to Drive an Action-Oriented Event-Driven ArchitectureRecently 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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Why Monetizing 5G Depends on Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Decisions
Read more: Why Monetizing 5G Depends on Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency DecisionsTelco 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…