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5G core: Exploring CSP approaches

TM Forum

5G Core (5GC) networks are now coming online in live CSP networks and their functions are entirely software-based and cloud-native. 5G core networks form the heart of a standalone 5G ecosystem when they are connected to 5G RAN and SDN transport domains within a modernized IT environment.

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A week in telecoms: Rakuten expands, Nokia growth and high-altitude communications

TM Forum

It will be home to testing of its entire network architecture in a simulated environment, from radio access network (RAN) to Core to transport, as well as demonstrations of its Symworld platform. Rakuten is expanding in India with the opening of a. new Global Innovation Lab. It announced.

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Building enterprise use cases with 5G open RAN

TM Forum

The champions are the CSPs Axiata Enterprise, Dialog, Robi and Smart, which are each providing support for developing the solution architecture. E2E 5G network slicing: covering RAN, transport and core to bring in automation and service delivery of new 5G use cases that require eMBB, URLLC or mIOT slices.

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Lexmark International’s Vishal Gupta on next gen tech leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

As software and data move to the center of a company’s products and services, the background and skills of the executive leadership team must evolve. And when software shifts from enabling the revenue stream to being the revenue stream, the focus of the chief technologist must expand from internal productivity to the external market. “By

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Why 5G monetization depends on automation

TM Forum

Rick Hamilton, Senior Vice President, Blue Planet Software, shares his insights into why service automation is of growing strategic importance as telcos seek to monetize 5G; the challenges it poses and what the future holds. We talk a lot about automation – particularly in the context of 5G. Why is it so important?

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

We have become much more of a software company than we were 10 to 20 years ago,” says John Musser, director of engineering for Ford’s commercial division, Ford Pro. But it is — and Ford now positions itself as a software-defined vehicle (SDV) manufacturer, Musser says. Ford Motor Co.’s

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Unleashing creativity with the programmable telco

TM Forum

A programmable network (or a software-defined network) separates the network architecture from the software that controls network devices and services and exposes network services and capabilities through standards-based APIs. Defining the programmable telco. 5G is more than just a network upgrade.

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