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Enabling new, data-driven 5G services through a digital network twin

TM Forum

A TM Forum project is using a digital twin network (DTN) to demonstrate how telcos can build network twins to help manage the greater automation required by B2B2x and industrial 5G services. Network configuration is mostly done offline and requires manual interventions, making it slow and inflexible.

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1&1 contracts Rakuten for German 5G Open RAN network

TM Forum

Germany’s 1&1 AG has given a fillip to Open RAN and the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) by contracting Rakuten Group to help build its new mobile network, which will be Germany’s fourth. Its choice of partner to build a virtualized Open RAN 5G network points to Rakuten’s potential to shake up the telecoms industry.

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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network

CTOvision

The problem I have with these statements is that every network engineer I know segments their network more than just at the subnet level and their segmentation is not limited to just north-south traffic. Zero trust in my mind doesn’t really mean “trust no one” because then you would have no traffic on your network.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Integrating a new network after an acquisition can be a sizable headache for any CIO. Traditionally, to integrate its acquisitions, Koch would flatten the acquired company’s core network, says Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions at Koch. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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Don’t ignore virtual reality as you plan the future workplace

CIO Business Intelligence

Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. Next step: the office.

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Technology Short Take 175

Scott Lowe

Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. The Open Constructs Foundation recently launched a “community-driven CDK construct library initiative,” which seeks to provide a way for the CDK community to build and share CDK constructs.

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Composite orchestration is the key to delivering hybrid services through NaaS architecture

TM Forum

A major initiative used TM Forum’s Network as a Service (NaaS) framework to enable Ericsson’s composite orchestrator capability across multiple domains and vendors, to deliver low latency, simply integrated, network edge environments. By virtualizing the service edge: 0%. shipping costs and hardware complications.