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MWC 2022: Netcracker Digital Platform Enlightens Path for CSP Business Growth and Innovation – New Futurum Research Report

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Netcracker Digital Platform sets out to enable the creation of immersive digital experiences, provide innovative monetization solutions, and delivers the intelligent automation key to fulfilling CSP digitalization objectives. There is a lot of opportunity facing CSPs as they continue their digital transformation journeys. Futurum Research explores the capabilities of the Netcracker Digital Platform and why we feel the open, modular, digital-native solution is capable of powering the innovation that CSPs require to drive growth and overall business value.

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ADTRAN Takes a Chance on Adva to Capitalize on Burgeoning Fiber Networking Opportunities

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ADTRAN buys Adva to strengthen its overall fiber networking proposition through the integration of Adva’s optical networking assets, obliging fiber and optical rivals to respond to the new deal. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the ADTRAN acquisition of Adva enables ADTRAN to address a wider range of optical networking opportunities, puts fiber access rivals such as DZS and Calix on the defensive, and foments a more formidable competitor in the optical transport market segment.

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Ericsson Digital BSS: Make Cloud Deliver on its Promises in BSS Transformation

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Accelerating cloud adoption for BSS is essential for communication service providers (CSPs) to attain and maintain profitable services. CSPs can ill-afford to lose their influence across digital value chains and their top priority investments in the 5G-IoT ecosystem. Through cloud, CSPs deliver the virtualized, on-demand service delivery platform to ensure the creation of new, profitable services and sustaining innovation through collaboration with ecosystem partners and developers.

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Netcracker 2020 Galvanizes Service Provider Digital Transformation Renaissance

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Netcracker 2020 is redesigned and upgraded to accelerate the top-priority transformation goals of CSPs including personalization of digital services, customization of B2B commerce, secure multi-cloud flexibility, agile partner management, and broader automation. Through Netcracker 2020 adoption, CSPs become firmly positioned to play a far more strategic and central role across the digital value chain. Netcracker’s rivals must take heed.

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Nokia and VMware Strengthen Ties to Smooth Multi-Cloud Operations in 5G Edge Environments

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Nokia and VMware announced an expanded partnership that includes the development of integrated solutions to support communications service providers’ (CSPs) drive for operational improvements and cost efficiency through large-scale, multi-cloud operations. This alliance meets the burgeoning CSP demand to design and deliver their services across a nexus of hybrid data center environments, while also enabling interoperability among competing suppliers. Through their expanded alliance, both companies are enhancing their competitive position by automating complex multi-cloud implementations, as well as streamlining the onboarding of network functions and services.

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Mastering the Management of Complex Cloud Environments

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Cloud environments continue to get more complicated as businesses evolve. Most businesses now use at least one public cloud and one private cloud. Research indicates that most businesses probably use a combination of three to four, and some are even introducing fog or edge computing to the mix. Management of this complex cloud environment has proven to be difficult, and …