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Ahead of Total Telecom Congress 2022, we caught up with Will Townsend, Vice President & Principal Analyst – Networking & Security Practices at Moor Insights and Strategy to hear his views on these business critical topics.
Can you tell us about your role at your Moor Insights Strategy?
I manage the networking and security practices for our firm and am considered an expert on 5G as a featured Forbes contributor and through other media outlets such as NPR Marketplace, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.
From your perspective, how do telcos need to evolve to remain competitive in the modern connectivity ecosystem?
Find new ways to monetize their significant investments in next generation telco networks with an emphasis on enterprise service delivery. They must also embrace cloud native and virtualized platforms for scale and agility.
Given your experience working with major players in the industry – what, in your opinion, is the key challenge faced by telcos today?
Innovative service delivery for consumers and enterprises while managing opex and capex pressures and an ever expanding threat surface resulting from the continual disaggregation of network infrastructure.
You will be moderating a panel on O-RAN, the opportunities it can offer the industry and addressing barriers for successful O-RAN deployment. What’s your own view on this? What’s the key opportunity telcos should be looking at when it comes to O-RAN?
With disaggregation comes complexity so managing the integration while ensuring the highest levels of security, performance and resiliency over traditional RAN architectures.
What are you looking forward to at Total Telecom Congress next month?
Returning to an in-person event and the opportunity to meet and network with telco professionals from around the world!
Will Townsend will be chairing a panel on the O-RAN opportunity at Total Telecom Congress 2022 on 1st November. For more details on how to join Will and 1,000 senior leaders from the global telecoms industry, head to the event website.
In today’s hyperconnected world, consumers rely on telcos and multiple system operators (MSOs) for just about everything. They serve as a lifeline for healthcare, providing telehealth to communicate with the chronically ill. They act as the primary enabler of home schoolers, accessing the curriculum and collaborating with teachers and other students not enrolled in traditional school. And the entertainment and connection to friends and family that MSOs provide is critical to the quality of life. Telco and MSOs are technology intensive businesses that generate revenue by providing service to a diverse population of consumers. Success depends on simple formula – … [visit site to read more]
Vodafone Oman has added analytics, DevOps processes and an integration layer to its ongoing engagement with Netcracker. This latest expansion to the partnership will, says Netcracker, further add to the operator’s data-driven capabilities, allowing it to grow and enhance its business and deliver an improved experience for customers.
Vodafone entered the Omani market in December 2021 as the Sultanate’s third mobile operator, leveraging Netcracker Advanced Analytics to achieve end-to-end visibility across its business and operations and gain improved system availability and resilience. Netcracker DevOps Enablement includes a number of components to help Vodafone improve its DevOps processes as part of an overall operational transformation.
The operator will also utilize Netcracker Support & Managed Services to optimize and improve business performance and extend coverage for Netcracker’s products and surrounding third-party systems. Overarching these projects, says Netcracker, is a new integration layer that will be critical to improving customer management, including functions such as service onboarding.
“After a successful partnership with Netcracker to support the launch of our mobile business less than a year ago, we are taking the next step to leverage critical data and bring in DevOps and managed services processes to further improve our business and operations,” said Stelios Savvides, Technology Director at Vodafone Oman. “By using these functions alongside a robust integration layer, we are confident that we will achieve increased revenue, lower OpEx and improve our engagement with our customers.”
Vodafone’s Oman operation has clearly been busy in recent weeks. As we reported on 11 October, Ericsson is to provide the operator with AI-based cognitive software solutions for network optimization to facilitate data-driven decisions and support Vodafone in implementing zero-touch operations (ZTO) and anomaly detection capabilities.
Telxius, the leading digital telecommunications infrastructure operator, has teamed up with NJFX, the carrier-neutral Cable Landing Station (CLS) colocation campus in Wall, New Jersey, to give customers on-demand access to redundant subsea cable infrastructure across the Atlantic and Latin America. This collaboration allows Telxius to provide its customers with fully diverse global solutions through submarine cables landing at or nearby NJFX and serve subsea cable restoration needs between cable systems landing at NJFX and the Telxius’ Virginia Beach cable landing station.
Telxius is now offering a direct terrestrial fibre route between its CLS in Virginia Beach to NJFX’s campus. This new, unique route is the most direct link between NJFX and Telxius VA Beach CLS, extending the capabilities and services related to Telxius’ Marea, Dunant and Brusa subsea cable systems. Customers in key hubs in Chicago, Montreal, New York, Richmond and Toronto will benefit from multiterabit capacity, a wide range of advanced services on next-generation subsea infrastructure and enhanced diverse connectivity across international digital hubs. This vital link bypasses Ashburn, VA, satisfying the requirements of customers seeking diversity from overly dense infrastructure in Ashburn.
“We are continually finding new ways to enhance the reliability and resiliency of our global infrastructure. Our collaboration with NJFX gives customers rapid access to critical infrastructure and satisfies the diversity and low latency needs of some of the most demanding customers in the financial sector,” said Gerardo Bonilla, Head of Sales at Telxius. “NJFX has a track record of supporting some of the largest players in international networking and is continually growing its ecosystem. We look forward to growing together and offering ultra-reliable global connectivity.
Telxius’ new presence at NJFX will provide NJFX’s customers with direct access to the Telxius global submarine network consisting of over 80,000 km of high-capacity fibre optic submarine cables with diverse terrestrial backhauls. This will allow NJFX’s customers access to Telxius complete array of services Including Tier-1 IP Transit, global capacity, colocation and security solutions. Telxius’ low latency, diverse and robust Atlantic routes are powered by almost 100 PoPs in 18 countries, 25 landing stations and two communications hubs connecting to world-leading data centres. By joining the NJFX interconnection platform, Telxius and its customers gain direct, on-demand interconnection with Havfrue/AEC-2, Seabras-1, TGN1 and TGN2, providing diverse connectivity across both the Atlantic and to Latin America.
“Telxius provides customers with fresh connectivity options to crucial European digital hubs as well as Latin American markets that are expanding quickly. The ‘trusted middle mile’ of interconnected independent networks is improved thanks to our cooperation with Telxius,” said Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX. “It’s wonderful to see new redundancy to boost service quality throughout the Atlantic and Latin America as we work to increase uptime and lessen the effects of service interruptions. We are thrilled to have Telxius at NJFX and to be collaborating with them to provide clients with the finest services.”
Enterprise, content, media, government, and communications providers can take advantage of redundancy, decreased latency, and high-quality connectivity with fewer global points of failure thanks to NJFX. Through a physical presence and access to the Meet-Me-Room (MMR) within its Tier-3 CLS campus, NJFX ensures that each carrier network interconnection is designed and maintained with reliable architectural diversity. NJFX is home to some of the biggest and most cutting-edge companies in global networking.
Want to learn all the latest updates from the world of submarine connectivity? Join the experts in discussion at the upcoming Submarine Networks EMEA conference
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MTN Group joins the Telecom Infra Project’s Board of Directors
Infinera announced two customer wins so far this week, with subsea deals helping two consortium partners on the same cable system to better connect North and South America. … [visit site to read more]
Nokia certainly started off this week with a bang with news coming in from five different fronts, each worth noting individually: … [visit site to read more]
Global telecommunications networks are phasing out physical legacy infrastructure in favor of IP-based communications. But for some businesses, the new technology and compliance practices that come with transitioning to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems can be intimidatingly complex.
The cost of maintaining physical infrastructure coupled with the notoriously inflexible nature of copper wire telephone lines has caused many countries to rethink their dependence on the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). While this shift toward internet-based calling began in the 1990’s, it has steadily gained momentum since the emergence and broad global adoption of smartphones. Now, countries worldwide are decommissioning their physical telephony infrastructure, such as Australia and the United Kingdom who have committed to decommissioning their PSTN networks altogether by 2025.
As most of the western world begins to minimize investment in the PSTN, it is more important than ever to start thinking about making the switch to VoIP for your voice communications.
VoIP offers flexible calling plans, access to local numbers in geographies all across the world and additional number features–all at a cheaper cost than maintaining legacy systems associated with fixed-line communications.
It may be a surprise that moving away from the PSTN and expanding globally can be done in a cost-effective manner. How? There are two main reasons:
VoIP has many benefits for the end-user, but it also has a number of unique selling points for resellers. Whether you are a large company or a small business, the same benefit applies: cost savings. On-premise PBX (private branch exchange) has its prospects, but for most use cases, cloud PBX is the way to go.
Access markets all across the world with Bicom Systems and Telnyx. Through our partnership, we make it easier for businesses to scale their communications globally with a suite of self-service tooling for number search and provisioning, SIP Trunk creation and management, debugging, and QoS reporting. Telnyx offers Bicom Systems customers PSTN Replacement in over 30 countries, including key markets such as the U.S., Australia, the U.K. and the Netherlands.
To learn more about Bicom Systems and Telnyx and how we can help you expand your global offering, register for our upcoming webinar–the first in our new series, “Expanding global connectivity”.
Treten Networks, an ICT solutions and enterprise security services business, has partnered with Africa Data Centres. This partnership will, it says, allow Treten’s customers access to the cloud and infrastructure they need to realise their digital transformation goals.
Treten Networks offers specialist business advisory services that provide advanced network and security solutions. It has a footprint in over 18 countries across Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Canada and the UK.
In addition to its existing services, Treten will now leverage Africa Data Centres’ physical infrastructure and ecosystem of connectivity partners to support cloud deployments for its customers.
Both organisations aim to solve customers’ business challenges with this partnership by providing what are described as sustainable game-changing technologies and solutions.
Operating the continent’s largest carrier-neutral data centres, Africa Data Centres has access to tens of thousands of connections to cloud, content and network providers from Africa and across the globe. As a result, Treten says that its own customers will reap the benefits of connecting directly with secure, low-latency connections to key providers and business partners.
Together, Africa Data Centres and Treten say they can provide organisations with secure private infrastructure and access to hyperscale cloud providers through numerous interconnections and exchanges.
Treten Networks is rapidly expanding its footprint with its bespoke cloud service offerings, including compute, storage, networking, backup and recovery. « We already boast of an extremely low latency and the fastest cloud service in Nigeria, and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership with Africa Data Centres, » says Karo Esemitodje, Head of Cloud Services from Treten Networks.
With demands for digital connectivity at an all-time high in the UK, and so much fibre still to be deployed across the country, how do you deploy quickly with quality AND at scale? For test & measurement manufacturer VIAVI Solutions, the answer is simple – work smarter, not harder.
Tom Ronan, Director of Global Product Line Managers at VIAVI, joined us for a chat at Connected Britain to discuss the UK’s accelerated FTTH deployment, Smarter Testing technology, and how to become a Fibre Ninja!
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VIAVI Solutions is a world leader in test & measurement technologies across fibre, 5G and more. Find out more at viavisolutions.co.uk
