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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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Moving BSS Cloud Journeys Forward – Transforming the Monetization Engine of Investment

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Moving the BSS cloud journey forward is essential for CSPs to create differentiated and innovative offers and capture revenue in a meaningful way in the ultra-competitive 5G era. Futurum’s Ron Westfall uses the recently released research report “The BSS-to-cloud journey: Powering innovation across the digital value chain” to analyze why a step-wise approach is essential to advancing and fulfilling challenging BSS cloud journeys and how CSPs can best prepare their organizations to meet the challenges and compete successfully long-term across multi-cloud environments.

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ADTRAN Goes FWA to Broaden Residential Broadband Mass Appeal

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ADTRAN’s new MetNet 60GHz solution is providing exactly what CSPs require to push residential broadband to their most challenging to serve customers and environments. ADTRAN’s MetNet 60 GHz solution is not gated by the underlying physical infrastructure, which has limited the deployment range of fixed access broadband technologies like FTTH. Fixed wireless services are becoming an invaluable compliment to fiber and fiber extension networks in terms of reaching any potential residential or business customer with gigabit capable services, no matter where they are located.

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Nokia Network Operations Master Launches — Designed to Spur Automation of 5G Network Ops

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Nokia announced the launch of its Network Operations Master to provide CSPs with highly automated and scalable software for managing their 5G networks. This is key, as CSPs will require an intelligent management system as 5G adds new layers of technical complexity. Here is a closer look at Nokia’s Network Operations Master, along with my thoughts on why this is not only important, but also what Nokia should do moving forward to further differentiate its Network Operations Master offering.