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How Zero Trust is supposed to look

CIO Business Intelligence

Sometimes it is described as a specific capability or yet another appliance (either hardware or virtual). virtual machine, container, microservice, application, storage, or cloud resource) used either as needed or in an always-on fashion to complete a specific task; for example, AWS S3. A workload is any specific service (e.g.,

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Getting a foothold in the 5G applications ecosystem

TM Forum

Nonetheless, CSPs can have a key role to play in fostering the 5G application ecosystem and how it impacts their businesses, particularly as they look to support vertical 5G B2B use cases that rely on specific network capabilities. As Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Strategist, Verizon, pointed out in a Telecom TV debate entitled.

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Augmented Reality and the Network

Spearline Testing

Augmented reality and virtual reality technologies are now changing the way we interact, whether that interaction be with systems or other humans. Augmentation can be used in both directions – by increasing the virtual world with real objects and by increasing the real world with virtual data. So what exactly is AR?

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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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How do CSPs sell more to SMEs?

TM Forum

which still represents the lion’s share of the industry’s revenue, 75% now believe more than half their revenues will derive from the B2B sector according to TM Forum research. “Most telcos know about the B2B opportunity, including its inherent challenges, but are having a hard time operationalising it.”

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How NaaS deployment is shaping up

TM Forum

Virtually all Tier 1 CSPs with a sizeable enterprise services business (or serious aspirations to build one) have NaaS-supported B2B offerings; they have to in order to compete. Through this platform, the company supports an array of SDN-based services as well as some edge-based services such as VNS Application Edge.

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NWDAF through a new lens

TM Forum

This shift in network communication systems is driven by CSP network virtualization, cloudification, and the industrial and societal demand for faster, more efficient, flexible, and secure networks. The new products and services we're expecting to see will be automatically provisioned on-demand, on virtual network resources.

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