5G is a forcing factor to rethinking Mobile Network economics. Virtualization is driving cost savings, enabling services and capabilities...and virtualizing the RAN (vRAN) is a critical success factor.
Mavenir: Monetizing RCS through Innovation on Cloud Native NetworkMavenir
A Rich Communication Services (RCS) market overview, how RCS is adding value to mobile networks, and the RCS evolution.
Presentation from Rakuten Showcase at Mobile World Congress 2019.
Mavenir: OpenRAN: The Infrastructure Hump and 5G Network EconomicsMavenir
The TCO Benefits of OpenRAN and how moving the core to the edge enables 5G low latency services and a profitable business plan. Presentation from 5G Business Summit 2019.
Mavenir: Monetizing RCS through Innovation on Cloud Native NetworkMavenir
A Rich Communication Services (RCS) market overview, how RCS is adding value to mobile networks, and the RCS evolution.
Presentation from Rakuten Showcase at Mobile World Congress 2019.
Mavenir: OpenRAN: The Infrastructure Hump and 5G Network EconomicsMavenir
The TCO Benefits of OpenRAN and how moving the core to the edge enables 5G low latency services and a profitable business plan. Presentation from 5G Business Summit 2019.
The evolution from SMS to Universal Mobile Messaging (RCS) and its role in enabling omni-channel customer engagements. Presentation from Enterprise Connect 2019.
- Telco market opportunities and new value creation
- 5G is a giant leap powered by a set of new technologies
- 5G is a giant leap - mandatory to make the 4th industrial revolution happen
- 5G market traction - the market is accelerating
- Nokia Bell Labs' Future X Vision set the direction for 3GPP's 5G architecture
- Nokia 5G commercial references in key markets
- Nokia speed of innovation with the wider 5G ecosystem
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5G is an end-to-end ecosystem to enable a fully mobile and connected society. Check out TEMS' 3-step innovation strategy towards 5G, and see how TEMS is prepared to transform its experience and expertise with QoE and device-centric measurements, analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis into an unparalleled opportunity to help operators cope with 5G technological disruptions.
The first OpenRAN deployments are now underway, and the 4G & 5G industries are about to see a significant transformation. Presentation from 5G World 2019.
In the past, we’ve seen a regular 10 year technology refresh with 2G, 3G and 4G each being added incrementally. Some believe that 5G will follow in the same cycle, although at the moment it remains vague and unpredictable. Others point out that the benefits of each new generation – mainly increasing spectral efficiency and releasing new spectrum – are reaching their full potential. This has been a key argument for small cell deployment, which increases capacity through frequency reuse without the need for additional spectrum or spectral efficiencies.
Mavenir: OpenRAN – What It Is and What It Means for Rural OperatorsMavenir
This presentation highlights OpenRAN, the Capex/Opex savings, and how it’s being deployed in different parts of the world. Originally presented in an educational webinar specifically designed for Rural Operators. Presentation from the "OpenRAN – What It Is and What It Means for Rural Operators" webinar.
TADSummit Closing Keynote: BYOSpectrum – Why private cellular is a game-changerAlan Quayle
Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis.
The telecoms industry loves to claim that 5G will disrupt and transform industries. What it hasn’t realised is that the first industry that will get disrupted is telecom itself. New local or shared spectrum bands (such as CBRS in the US), programmable cloud-based cores, eSIM and various other enablers are making it much easier for enterprises, IT companies, cities and Internet/cloud players to build their own private 4G – and soon 5G – networks.
That’s not to say it’s as simple as installing Wi-Fi, but for various organisations from airports to oil companies to hospitals, it’s becoming a more realistic proposition. There are also various hybrids, where telcos can sell “slices” or local/enterprise MVNO deals, or allow companies to just run a separate private core network. Add in a new set of wholesale models (called Neutral Host), and the future wireless operator landscape looks very different from today.
We’re seeing the democratisation of “programmable cellular networks”.
The evolution from SMS to Universal Mobile Messaging (RCS) and its role in enabling omni-channel customer engagements. Presentation from Enterprise Connect 2019.
- Telco market opportunities and new value creation
- 5G is a giant leap powered by a set of new technologies
- 5G is a giant leap - mandatory to make the 4th industrial revolution happen
- 5G market traction - the market is accelerating
- Nokia Bell Labs' Future X Vision set the direction for 3GPP's 5G architecture
- Nokia 5G commercial references in key markets
- Nokia speed of innovation with the wider 5G ecosystem
-
5G is an end-to-end ecosystem to enable a fully mobile and connected society. Check out TEMS' 3-step innovation strategy towards 5G, and see how TEMS is prepared to transform its experience and expertise with QoE and device-centric measurements, analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis into an unparalleled opportunity to help operators cope with 5G technological disruptions.
The first OpenRAN deployments are now underway, and the 4G & 5G industries are about to see a significant transformation. Presentation from 5G World 2019.
In the past, we’ve seen a regular 10 year technology refresh with 2G, 3G and 4G each being added incrementally. Some believe that 5G will follow in the same cycle, although at the moment it remains vague and unpredictable. Others point out that the benefits of each new generation – mainly increasing spectral efficiency and releasing new spectrum – are reaching their full potential. This has been a key argument for small cell deployment, which increases capacity through frequency reuse without the need for additional spectrum or spectral efficiencies.
Mavenir: OpenRAN – What It Is and What It Means for Rural OperatorsMavenir
This presentation highlights OpenRAN, the Capex/Opex savings, and how it’s being deployed in different parts of the world. Originally presented in an educational webinar specifically designed for Rural Operators. Presentation from the "OpenRAN – What It Is and What It Means for Rural Operators" webinar.
TADSummit Closing Keynote: BYOSpectrum – Why private cellular is a game-changerAlan Quayle
Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis.
The telecoms industry loves to claim that 5G will disrupt and transform industries. What it hasn’t realised is that the first industry that will get disrupted is telecom itself. New local or shared spectrum bands (such as CBRS in the US), programmable cloud-based cores, eSIM and various other enablers are making it much easier for enterprises, IT companies, cities and Internet/cloud players to build their own private 4G – and soon 5G – networks.
That’s not to say it’s as simple as installing Wi-Fi, but for various organisations from airports to oil companies to hospitals, it’s becoming a more realistic proposition. There are also various hybrids, where telcos can sell “slices” or local/enterprise MVNO deals, or allow companies to just run a separate private core network. Add in a new set of wholesale models (called Neutral Host), and the future wireless operator landscape looks very different from today.
We’re seeing the democratisation of “programmable cellular networks”.
Hr. David Simon (Juniper Networks, Inc.)Praxistage
AI-betriebenes Netzwerk des nächsten Jahrzehnts - Welche Vorteile werden sich für Unternehmen und Benutzer daraus ergeben? David Simon (Juniper Networks, Inc.)
In this deck, Greg Wahl from Advantech presents: Transforming Private 5G Networks.
Advantech Networks & Communications Group is driving innovation in next-generation network solutions with their High Performance Servers. We provide business critical hardware to the world's leading telecom and networking equipment manufacturers with both standard and customized products. Our High Performance Servers are highly configurable platforms designed to balance the best in x86 server-class processing performance with maximum I/O and offload density. The systems are cost effective, highly available and optimized to meet next generation networking and media processing needs.
“Advantech’s Networks and Communication Group has been both an innovator and trusted enabling partner in the telecommunications and network security markets for over a decade, designing and manufacturing products for OEMs that accelerate their network platform evolution and time to market.” Said Advantech Vice President of Networks & Communications Group, Ween Niu. “In the new IP Infrastructure era, we will be expanding our expertise in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), two of the essential conduits to 5G infrastructure agility making networks easier to install, secure, automate and manage in a cloud-based infrastructure.”
In addition to innovation in air interface technologies and architecture extensions, 5G will also need a new generation of network computing platforms to run the emerging software defined infrastructure, one that provides greater topology flexibility, essential to deliver on the promises of high availability, high coverage, low latency and high bandwidth connections. This will open up new parallel industry opportunities through dedicated 5G network slices reserved for specific industries dedicated to video traffic, augmented reality, IoT, connected cars etc. 5G unlocks many new doors and one of the keys to its enablement lies in the elasticity and flexibility of the underlying infrastructure.
Advantech’s corporate vision is to enable an intelligent planet. The company is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with the Edge Intelligence WISE-PaaS core to assist business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-lPQ
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* Solution page: https://www2.advantech.com/nc/newsletter/NCG/SKY/benefits.html
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The Intelligent Edge - Managing Network Traffic at the EdgeTelcoBridges Inc.
As networks grow in scale and complexity, the edge of the network is increasingly seen as the first line of defense for security, traffic shaping, quality monitoring and other network functions. Cloud software technologies and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) have created opportunities to migrate network functions from the core of a network to the edge.
During this session, we'll look at the Intelligent Edge as a network strategy, covering the evolution, use cases and drivers made possible with low-cost NFV software.
Topics covered in this session:
- Cloud adoption
- Network Function Virtualization
- Trends in Edge Computing resources
- Use Cases
- Your Questions
The Intelligent Edge - Managing Network Traffic at the EdgeAlan Percy
As networks grow in scale and complexity, the edge of the network is increasingly seen as the first line of defense for security, traffic shaping, quality monitoring and other network functions. Cloud software technologies and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) have created opportunities to migrate network functions from the core of a network to the edge.
During this session, we'll look at the Intelligent Edge as a network strategy, covering the evolution, use cases and drivers made possible with low-cost NFV software.
Topics covered in this session:
- Cloud adoption
- Network Function Virtualization
- Trends in Edge Computing resources
- Use Cases
- Your Questions
Enterprises around the world are anticipating the imminent rollout of 5G connectivity as a complete solution to current network challenges. As applications and services move to the cloud, leveraging 5G provides a reliable way to stay connected and ensure mission-critical deliverables are met.
Introducing our 5G Platform for the first movers in 5G, the first completely end-to-end solution that combines core and radio solutions in 5G to enable new opportunities and use cases
Beyond 5G: A marketplace approach for Adjacent Growth OpportunitiesBenjamin Hourte
Support slides used during the Luxembourg 5G conference (11-12 December 2019).
The focus of the presentation is highlight the potential Adjacent Growth Opportunities when deploying 5G. It can be great opportunity for the operators.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 preview
Mavenir 5G is a forcing factor for Virtualization and vRAN is critical success factor.
1. 5G: A Forcing Factor to Rethinking
Mobile Economics
JOHN BAKER
SVP Business Development
October 2018
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• Declining ARPU
• Limited subscriber growth
• Data doubling YoY
Source: Mavenir
3. Network Cost Challenges
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• Network cost increasing
• Access charges
• Network license cost
need to decrease
greater than data growth
Source: Mavenir
4. Network challenges with declining ARPUs
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• How to handle with projected Data volumes?
• How to support increased demand on low latency?
• How to decrease network costs to maintain profitability?
• How to maximise use and increase longevity of existing investments?
– GTP & IP Transmission
– EPC
• How to migrate of centralized services to the edge?
– Monitoring of Signalling and Media
– Lawful intercept
5. The Network of the Future
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RAN HW Core HW
Static TransportStatic Backhaul
Data
Center
Distributed Open Automated
RAN SW
Functions
Flexible Transport (SDN)
HW HWHW HW
NFVI/Cloud
Service
NFVI/Cloud
6. Telco Cloud requires New Web-scale Approach
From Network Functions to Services
Cloud Compute
Cloud Native
Virtualization
NFV and SDN
Network Slicing and DevOps Ready
For Web-Scale agility
Stateless
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Micro-services
Modularity and reusability
State externalized
Commodity, shared, independent
Not monoliths
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7. Drivers for Open RAN
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• Dependence on walled garden suppliers
• Frustration around the ability to change
• Open standards for RAN are achievable
• OpenRAN ecosystem in formation
• Not a revolution – need Carrier adoption
Operators need to start now or face the consequences
8. Just announced …
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Vodafone and Telefónica have today announced the selection of
vendors as "leading candidates“ for RAN solutions.
Mavenir, Altiostar and Parallel Wireless
9. Core Moving to the Edge
BBU
vEPC
NIC
VM VM
MEC micro
services
Internet
• Deliver low latency services (AR, VR etc.)
• Reduce cost (e.g. Caching)
• Improve customer experience (video caching)
• Split control and user plane
• Private LTE networks
• Combined Cloud RAN and vEPC functionality
• Cloud RAN is an edge function
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“Open interface Software on open market hardware –
Anything else is considered proprietary”
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Cloud RAN (vRAN)
11. Addressing 5G Challenges
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Low Latency – Micro Services at Network Edge
Bits/sec/hertz/$ - New Business Models, Cost and Resiliency
Virtualization - All Elements Virtualized except the Radio
Open Interfaces – Front haul and Networking
Low cost RRUs - Massive Densification
Spectral efficiency – Massive MIMO
12. One Solution to the Problem: Cloud RAN
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Operators can save 49% in CAPEX
Front haul bandwidth
reduction
Dramatic cost reduction
Up to 10x compared to CPRI
Increased distance
between RRU and VBBU
Significantly expanding choices
in network planning
Enhanced business agility
Provides network elasticity,
flexibility, ease of deployment, and
dynamic RAN
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Source: Senza Fili TCO study
14. Operator Vendor Selection Mantra
“Nobody ever got fired if they buy from ……”
WRONG
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100,000 redundancies
have been
completed/notified
in the last 6 months
with major Tier one
operators
Current business
models are not
sustainable within the
next three years.
“Three suppliers
shrinking to Two”
15. Summary
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• Operators need to start now our face the consequences
• Virtualization
• Open standards and interfaces are achievable
• OpenRAN ecosystem in formation
• Not a revolution – need Carrier adoption
• RAN is an edge service
• Moving the core to the edge allows great cost savings against
declining ARPUs
With 5G Industry is about to see significant transformation
Cloud Native
- Designed to run in the cloud and in commodity virtualized environment
- Decomposition
- All active redundancy model
Dynamic scaling
Independent scaling