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On the edge: the challenges facing telcos in delivering new services

TM Forum

Verizon, which is offering MEC and private MEC to enterprises and expanding its fixed wireless access to consumers as well as providing new services such as immersive 5G-based experiences in American football stadiums, is starting to realize both B2B and consumer edge revenues, according to Beth Cohen, SDN Product Strategies, Verizon.

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Lumen imagines ‘what if’ to transform into a techco

TM Forum

Today the company has over 450,000 route miles of fiber and more than 2,200 public and private data centers on network fiber. Today the company has over 450,000 route miles of fiber and more than 2,200 public and private data centers on network fiber. Lumen looked to its hyperscaler partners and large enterprise customers.

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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. If the industry has learnt anything from 4G, surely, it is that an application’s success depends on it being able to work on any network and the device of a customer’s choosing.

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Which service model works best for B2B?

TM Forum

Is BSS ready to monetize enterprise 5G? As the market shifts, however, and CSPs compete in B2B verticals both with and against hyperscale cloud providers, questions may arise as to whether striving for customer ownership will continue to provide an advantage. In a new report entitled.

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How the Internet of Things Can Improve Environmental Sustainability

The Investing Edge

Lately, my personal interest in environmental sustainability has been intersecting with my professional interest in the Internet of Things, or IoT, where we are seeing a tremendous amount of new deal activity and generated a lively discussion at our last B2B IT Forum in Cambridge: From Industry 4.0 to iWatch: The Internet of Things.

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How NaaS deployment is shaping up

TM Forum

To date, communications service providers’ (CSPs’) implementations of network-as-a-service (NaaS) have focused on increasing efficiency and agility in business and operations while improving business customers’ service experience. TM Forum’s Network as a Service (NaaS) Requirements.

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Order management at the heart of modern service operations

TM Forum

This changed during the initial rollouts of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), which created new service orchestration possibilities, raising the question of how the next generation of OM functions will support them. CSPs have been shifting their focus to B2B lines of business.

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