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CENX Brings Ericsson the Secret Sauce for Closed Loop Automation

Ericsson’s acquisition of CENX is not simply a “business” event, it promises to move forward...

Ciena crosses the Don River

Ciena’s acquisition of DonRiver is a positive development for the telco software market. It has...

Preparing for an Agile Future: Agility is more than technology

Since our first coverage of the “Telco Cloud”, Appledore Research has emphasized that this is...

Jump in and innovate with customers

The highlight of the DTW 2018 event in Nice was the Bladerunner catalyst. This was...

Appledore Research releases major research: cloud native industry survey and commentary

Appledore Research has released a major survey and market analysis covering the state of virtualization...

Will MEF LSO’s pragmatic scope be more likely to deliver benefit than OSM’s wider and visionary scope?

  One of the interesting contrasts at the recent Layer123 Zero Touch Automation conference in...

Appledore Research publishes “Best Practices in Orchestration; Focus on Policy, Models, and On-boarding”

This major report builds on the foundation laid by our “Orchestration for Automation: 2018 Supplier...

Cloud Native Orchestration: Signs of Progress from MWC

At this year’s MWC, for the first time, I began seeing tangible examples of properly...

NFV Plugtest a good first step but are we building another silo?

ETSI held the second NFV Plugtests in Sophia Antipolis January 2018. This is a good...

RADCOM Winning Big Deals in the NFV/SDN Market

RADCOM made waves when it won the AT&T deal for its MaveriQ NFV network probing...

Mash Ups, Micro-services, Re-use and Agility at MWC

At MWC this year I saw a budding constellation of similar thinking around “micro-service” innovation. ...

Research Note: EXFO Completes Acquisition of Astellia

Germain Lamonde and Philippe Morin are quietly disrupting the market for service assurance in a...