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B2B growth is coming, but how can CSPs capture it?

TM Forum

According to a recent TM Forum report for telco growth, more than 50% of surveyed (communications service providers) CSPs are optimistic about the growth of B2B revenues in the next five years. That B2B will bring a new wave of growth in the future has been accepted by most CSPs. Challenges to expanding B2B business.

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Getting a foothold in the 5G applications ecosystem

TM Forum

Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. Yet there has been no stampede by communications service providers (CSPs) to repeat the attempts made during the early days of 4G to create an application ecosystem.

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What are the emerging B2B hotspots for telcos?

TM Forum

Yet no killer B2B application has emerged to give CSPs immediate and sustained business growth. As such, many of the technologies that CSPs are now deploying for 5G era operations are part of the effort to broaden reach or are being packaged up and sold as a service to boost the IT-centric capabilities of B2B offerings.

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How Zero Trust is supposed to look

CIO Business Intelligence

Zero trust has quickly cemented itself as the go-to solution to the problems of these perimeter-based architectures. Zero trust is an architecture ; it is neither an extra lever for the status quo nor a mere figment of a hopeful or naive imagination. Read on to see the four key areas protected by a complete zero trust architecture.

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2030 Vision: How the telco industry’s past successes will shape its future

TM Forum

One example is combining new applications with connectivity (e.g., To be successful beyond B2C, telcos will need to continue to expand into the B2B market and become ecosystem service providers. will come from B2B. This time, it’s the B2B market that will be the business driver. TM Forum Open Digital Architecture.

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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange provides a holistic approach to securing users, workloads, IoT/OT devices, and B2B partners. Zscaler’s zero trust architecture for building a security service edge (SSE) ecosystem is second to none.”

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The Top Three Solutions For B2B Commerce In 2022

Forrester IT

The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022 surfaced a significant shift in the market, which we predicted but did not expect to see so quickly or so clearly. So What Did The Results Reveal About The Market? Three solutions scored higher than more broadly adopted solutions. In all three cases, these solutions take a […].

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