I’m amazed to see our tremendous growth in the industry in this quarter. There’s plenty to be optimistic
about. With COVID vaccines readily available to more and more people worldwide in the coming months,
we will hopefully begin transitioning back to the post-COVID landscape. I know I’m not alone when I say
that I can’t wait to get back into in person customer and partner meetings. We’re forging ahead with
getting customers ready for the new normal. Proud to see TIM Brazil to move 100% of their datacenters to
the cloud.
If one thing’s for sure, organizations in the telco space have transformed rapidly in this unprecedented
year. I’m excited to share The Network, Microsoft’s newest podcast series focused on digital resilience and
acceleration of technology for the telco industry, with stories from business leaders around the globe.
Today, the telecommunications industry stands on the brink of a pivotal new era—one in which advances in multiple technological areas, specifically 5G, edge computing, and AI, are congregating to fundamentally change the world. These technologies have the potential to alter how consumers communicate, consume content, work together, and interact with the environment. As well, they are poised to shift the dynamics of industries, both inside and outside of telecommunications.
German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production.
6G INTERNET - "Connecting Communities"
6G is an internet service provider positioned at the forefront of the digital revolution.
Using new, future-proof technologies, we supply superfast broadband services to the UK’s commercial and residential consumer markets.
Governed by Ofcom and adhering to the broadband industry’s code of practice, 6G’s unique network is constructed of wired and radio telecommunications that permit greater access, scalability and the rapid deployment of internet solutions from the single residential user to1000 + enterprise level users.
Fuelling innovation, we invest one third of our profits back into our R&D programme to ensure that our products and services remain ever-evolving within the telecommunications playing field.
Working with local councils, chambers of commerce and social housing providers, 6G Business is an active supporter of the government’s digital inclusion strategy and is an accredited partner of the Super Connected Cities voucher scheme for businesses.
Website: https://6gdsi.co.uk/
Read on to find out how 6G is committed to delivering digital inclusion in the real world
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Want to know how TenneT manages the national high-voltage grid? And how we rebuilt our legacy system for balancing demand and supply of electricity in a volatile energy market? In this talk, we will show how we were able to implement a modular event-driven microservices architecture in a traditional JEE7 infrastructure environment. We will discuss the trade-offs that we made, lessons learned in realizing the system, and how we will further evolve to our cloud platform. In addition, we will give an insight into our agile transformation journey, and how this was essential to the success of the project.
Today, the telecommunications industry stands on the brink of a pivotal new era—one in which advances in multiple technological areas, specifically 5G, edge computing, and AI, are congregating to fundamentally change the world. These technologies have the potential to alter how consumers communicate, consume content, work together, and interact with the environment. As well, they are poised to shift the dynamics of industries, both inside and outside of telecommunications.
German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production.
6G INTERNET - "Connecting Communities"
6G is an internet service provider positioned at the forefront of the digital revolution.
Using new, future-proof technologies, we supply superfast broadband services to the UK’s commercial and residential consumer markets.
Governed by Ofcom and adhering to the broadband industry’s code of practice, 6G’s unique network is constructed of wired and radio telecommunications that permit greater access, scalability and the rapid deployment of internet solutions from the single residential user to1000 + enterprise level users.
Fuelling innovation, we invest one third of our profits back into our R&D programme to ensure that our products and services remain ever-evolving within the telecommunications playing field.
Working with local councils, chambers of commerce and social housing providers, 6G Business is an active supporter of the government’s digital inclusion strategy and is an accredited partner of the Super Connected Cities voucher scheme for businesses.
Website: https://6gdsi.co.uk/
Read on to find out how 6G is committed to delivering digital inclusion in the real world
Jfall 2019 - Driving the energy transition with javaCaspar Derksen
Want to know how TenneT manages the national high-voltage grid? And how we rebuilt our legacy system for balancing demand and supply of electricity in a volatile energy market? In this talk, we will show how we were able to implement a modular event-driven microservices architecture in a traditional JEE7 infrastructure environment. We will discuss the trade-offs that we made, lessons learned in realizing the system, and how we will further evolve to our cloud platform. In addition, we will give an insight into our agile transformation journey, and how this was essential to the success of the project.
A scheme to promote the development of Germany to become
a lead market for 5G networks and applications. In the autumn of 2016, the Federal Government launched
its 5G Initiative for Germany, which represents a
framework for action that is to support the deployment of
5G networks and the development of 5G applications at
an early stage. The 5G Strategy of the Federal Government
describes the context and the elds of action with regard
to the rollout of 5G networks in Germany over the period
to 2025.
This presentation summarizes the many technology ideas and business models to achieve Ultra-efficient network operation while safeguarding customer quality and expectations. This work was presented at Informa's Broadband MEA conference in Dubai, 26th of Match 2012.
Keynote delivered at European CTO Telecoms Forum looking at Telco World beyond the initial roll-out and path to 5G. Will Marketing lapfrog out of the Access-based thinking and really sell what Technology enable with converged broadband networks, cloud and visualization supporting IoT, Industry 4.0, Connected Car@s (or X in general) and so forth.
If you are interested in the slide or discussions related to the content, don't be a stranger, get in touch!
Mobile networks are now dominated by data. If we rewind back to a decade ago, smartphones and application stores were unheard of. Twitter and Facebook were not in existence and YouTube wasn’t as popular. Culturally, consumers are valuing the need to be socially connected in the present day Internet.
The traditional cellular network cannot cope with the increase in data and signaling traffic that is generated and thus is driving carriers in the direction of offload. The Phase 1 approach was centered on immediately relieving congestion on the network by encouraging offload to any available Wi-Fi hotspot. In this second part of the five part offload series, we draw attention to Direct Internet Offload. The concept of Direct Internet Offload is nothing new, but has taken a slight shift considering Wi-Fi’s popularity. And the flexibility to integrate them into mainstream network design offers transformative opportunities for carriers without losing sight of the commitment to make the user experience secure and controlled.
According to different situations and needs, combined with the advantages of different technologies, 5G and WiFi-6 can flourish in the fields of industry, Internet of Things, self-driving cars, etc., and help the industry to further move toward intelligence.
Mobile Network Infrastructure Sharing - Industry Overview & Coleago's ApproachColeago Consulting
Coleago's experts provide an overview for CxOs about mobile network infrastructure sharing, including:
- Status, trends and drivers
- Potential solutions, benefits and risks.
- Approach, methodology, deliverables and timescales.
- Database of network sharing deals.
Mobile spectrum and network evolution to 2025 slides coleago - 24 mar 21Coleago Consulting
A review for telecoms regulators and operators of key global developments, insights, trends, and best international practices, to inform future spectrum policy and management and operator strategies.
Evolving the service provider architecture to unleash the potential of IoT - ...FrenchWeb.fr
D'ici 2020, il y aura plus de 28 milliards d'objets connectés installés, et le marché présentera un potentiel de 7 trillions de dollars, selon les résultats de l'étude. Pour atteindre ces niveaux de performances, les infrastructures de réseau actuelles doivent cependant évoluer, pour gérer les grandes quantités de données qui seront produites, le nombre croissant de connexions qui auront lieu sur ces réseaux, ou encore assurer la sécurité de ces infrastructures.
Ericsson Technology Review: Flexibility in 5G transport networks: the key to ...Ericsson
http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/our_publications/ericsson_technology_review
The more people have been able to achieve while on the move, the more dependent society has become on mobile broadband networks. As applications like self-driving vehicles and remotely operated machinery evolve, become more innovative, and more widespread, the level of performance that 5G networks need to deliver will inevitably rise. Keeping pace with ever-increasing demand calls for greater flexibility in all parts of the network, which in turn requires tight integration between 5G radio, transport networks, and cloud infrastructures.
The deployment of 5G has the potential to facilitate and accelerate the digitalisation of society. By enhancing existing mobile and fixed communications services and enabling a range of new solutions (e.g. augmented/virtual reality, analytics supported by artificial intelligence), it promises to have significant impact on consumer experiences, business processes and operator revenue models. This white paper gives operators an overview of the key business and technology drivers of 5G maturity, which emerged from the study, and recommendations for how to adopt the best practices of the 5G leaders. This will be a valuable tool to help them to assess how far their plans are focused on the right drivers, and how to improve their current business and technology maturity to achieve the best results from 5G.
5G is cellular service and Wi-Fi 6 is a short-range wireless access technology. Both technologies have characteristics that make them useful in specific corporate roles.
We have seen the hype about whether 5G cellular or Wi-Fi 6 will win in enterprise use, but the fact is that the two are largely complementary, which will create an interesting competitive environment in the early 2020s.
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | September 2021Rick Lievano
Monetizing the edge continues to be a top priority for telcos, and not a day goes by where we don’t have a meaningful conversation on the topic with a telco partner. While the edge’s killer app continues to elude the industry, private mobile networks and video analytics are quickly becoming the critical building blocks for bringing it to market – whatever it is.
So where can you learn more about monetizing the edge? The TM Forum Digital Transformation World Series 2021 provides a collaborative environment for operators and suppliers to come together, share ideas, and solve the industry’s toughest problems. Microsoft is an active participant in this year’s event, sharing best practices, successes, and industry insights across wide-ranging areas including edge, artificial intelligence, cloud transformation, and customer experience.
See the Events section for details on how Microsoft is participating at this year’s show. We look forward to seeing you virtually at the event!
A scheme to promote the development of Germany to become
a lead market for 5G networks and applications. In the autumn of 2016, the Federal Government launched
its 5G Initiative for Germany, which represents a
framework for action that is to support the deployment of
5G networks and the development of 5G applications at
an early stage. The 5G Strategy of the Federal Government
describes the context and the elds of action with regard
to the rollout of 5G networks in Germany over the period
to 2025.
This presentation summarizes the many technology ideas and business models to achieve Ultra-efficient network operation while safeguarding customer quality and expectations. This work was presented at Informa's Broadband MEA conference in Dubai, 26th of Match 2012.
Keynote delivered at European CTO Telecoms Forum looking at Telco World beyond the initial roll-out and path to 5G. Will Marketing lapfrog out of the Access-based thinking and really sell what Technology enable with converged broadband networks, cloud and visualization supporting IoT, Industry 4.0, Connected Car@s (or X in general) and so forth.
If you are interested in the slide or discussions related to the content, don't be a stranger, get in touch!
Mobile networks are now dominated by data. If we rewind back to a decade ago, smartphones and application stores were unheard of. Twitter and Facebook were not in existence and YouTube wasn’t as popular. Culturally, consumers are valuing the need to be socially connected in the present day Internet.
The traditional cellular network cannot cope with the increase in data and signaling traffic that is generated and thus is driving carriers in the direction of offload. The Phase 1 approach was centered on immediately relieving congestion on the network by encouraging offload to any available Wi-Fi hotspot. In this second part of the five part offload series, we draw attention to Direct Internet Offload. The concept of Direct Internet Offload is nothing new, but has taken a slight shift considering Wi-Fi’s popularity. And the flexibility to integrate them into mainstream network design offers transformative opportunities for carriers without losing sight of the commitment to make the user experience secure and controlled.
According to different situations and needs, combined with the advantages of different technologies, 5G and WiFi-6 can flourish in the fields of industry, Internet of Things, self-driving cars, etc., and help the industry to further move toward intelligence.
Mobile Network Infrastructure Sharing - Industry Overview & Coleago's ApproachColeago Consulting
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- Status, trends and drivers
- Potential solutions, benefits and risks.
- Approach, methodology, deliverables and timescales.
- Database of network sharing deals.
Mobile spectrum and network evolution to 2025 slides coleago - 24 mar 21Coleago Consulting
A review for telecoms regulators and operators of key global developments, insights, trends, and best international practices, to inform future spectrum policy and management and operator strategies.
Evolving the service provider architecture to unleash the potential of IoT - ...FrenchWeb.fr
D'ici 2020, il y aura plus de 28 milliards d'objets connectés installés, et le marché présentera un potentiel de 7 trillions de dollars, selon les résultats de l'étude. Pour atteindre ces niveaux de performances, les infrastructures de réseau actuelles doivent cependant évoluer, pour gérer les grandes quantités de données qui seront produites, le nombre croissant de connexions qui auront lieu sur ces réseaux, ou encore assurer la sécurité de ces infrastructures.
Ericsson Technology Review: Flexibility in 5G transport networks: the key to ...Ericsson
http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/our_publications/ericsson_technology_review
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The deployment of 5G has the potential to facilitate and accelerate the digitalisation of society. By enhancing existing mobile and fixed communications services and enabling a range of new solutions (e.g. augmented/virtual reality, analytics supported by artificial intelligence), it promises to have significant impact on consumer experiences, business processes and operator revenue models. This white paper gives operators an overview of the key business and technology drivers of 5G maturity, which emerged from the study, and recommendations for how to adopt the best practices of the 5G leaders. This will be a valuable tool to help them to assess how far their plans are focused on the right drivers, and how to improve their current business and technology maturity to achieve the best results from 5G.
5G is cellular service and Wi-Fi 6 is a short-range wireless access technology. Both technologies have characteristics that make them useful in specific corporate roles.
We have seen the hype about whether 5G cellular or Wi-Fi 6 will win in enterprise use, but the fact is that the two are largely complementary, which will create an interesting competitive environment in the early 2020s.
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So where can you learn more about monetizing the edge? The TM Forum Digital Transformation World Series 2021 provides a collaborative environment for operators and suppliers to come together, share ideas, and solve the industry’s toughest problems. Microsoft is an active participant in this year’s event, sharing best practices, successes, and industry insights across wide-ranging areas including edge, artificial intelligence, cloud transformation, and customer experience.
See the Events section for details on how Microsoft is participating at this year’s show. We look forward to seeing you virtually at the event!
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | October 2021Rick Lievano
Microsoft is heavily invested in running a well-managed, always-available global network. We have been incorporating multiple
groundbreaking technologies, including scalable optimization, formal verification of routing policies, machine learning, and AI.
This network provides the perfect foundation to complement and extend an operator’s own network, an ideal way to transfer
5G packets with low latency, while benefiting from multiple network services such as DDoS protection, firewalls, traffic
accelerators, connection analytics, load balancers, and rate limiters. Victor Bahl, CTO, Azure for Operators, explores how
operators can leverage the Azure network for unleashing the true potential of 5G in his latest blog.
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | December 2021Rick Lievano
Across industries, organizations are venturing deeper into their digital transformation journeys every day, and the telco industry is no exception. Microsoft is front-and-center helping to lead the transition of mobile networks to an open, disaggregated, and software-based model, leveraging Azure for Operators as the platform of choice. In this edition, you’ll find numerous stories about telcos transitioning IT, BSS, OSS, and their most critical network workloads to the cloud—and how Microsoft and partner solutions are key to those efforts.
This transformation doesn’t stop with core services, but it extends to innovative solutions that generate new revenue streams for operators. In this place where cloud meets the edge, compute meets mobile, and 5G trends continue to drive innovation, customer demand for advanced network capabilities is surging. Azure Edge Zones with AT&T is a great example of how Microsoft partners with operators to dramatically improve an application’s performance while reducing overhead and complexity for enterprise customers. And our extensive portfolio of private network offerings, cited as the most innovative globally in a recent Omnia report, provide operators new private LTE/5G solutions to bring to market.
Finally, we’d like to welcome Francesco Venturini to the Microsoft family as the executive leader for Media & Communications, and we look forward to working alongside him. Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season.
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter - April 2022Rick Lievano
As operators continue to search for the pot of 5G gold at the end of the rainbow, they’ve begun to realize that success in delivering 5G services requires a significant cultural and mindset shift within their business and an obligation to understand customers’ needs at a much deeper level.
We explore this “telco to techco” transformation in the recent TM Forum research report, along with how they can address this enterprise opportunity head-on. We can’t forget the technological changes that will come along with this transformation—thus Microsoft is bringing to life carrier-grade edge-cloud solutions that empower operators globally to deploy Open RAN network functions easily and securely. Our tools and services can manage RAN deployments at scale. With Azure machine learning and AI, a core component of our technologies, operators can perform analytics that optimize performance, improve management, and proactively detect and solve problems.
With Microsoft as a trusted 5G partner, that pot of gold is now closer than ever!
Microsoft Telecommunications Industry News | October 2020Rick Lievano
The Microsoft Worldwide Telecommunications Industry team is pleased to share with you the October 2020 Telecommunications Industry Newsletter, available to both internal and external audiences. We encourage you to share it with your colleagues and distribute it to your customers and partners as appropriate. As always, we welcome your input, feedback, and suggestions!
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | May 2022Rick Lievano
As 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) technologies mature and are more readily deployed, use cases are beginning to coalesce across a few distinct areas, one of which is video analytics. Vision is everything.
Azure private and public MEC capabilities enable low-latency applications at the edge of the mobile operator’s network, providing Azure compute services integrated with 5G connectivity. To light up new compelling video edge applications that benefit from low latency 5G connectivity, we are making available a video analytics library under the umbrella of Edge Video Services (EVS). The apps you create can include traffic management in a city, managing machines and robots in connected factories, handling customer demands and services in retail stores and restaurants, or tracking pedestrian traffic in sports arenas.
With Azure and EVS, your edge apps have both eyes and a brain to interpret what they see and take appropriate action. Our top story this month details the evolution of EVS along with its deployment on Azure public MEC connected to AT&T’s 5G network. It’s exciting to witness new use cases and apps that exploit the power of the cloud, AI, 5G, and edge as operators continue to innovate. What will you do with EVS?
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | June 2022Rick Lievano
There exists an industrywide consensus that 5G will unlock use cases across many sectors of industry and society. This new paradigm shift will enable massive machine-type communications (MMTC) for billions of devices, ultra-reliable low latency (URLLC) for AR and VR-enabled video devices, and enhanced mobile broadband (EMBB) to allow thousands of sports fans in a packed stadium to enjoy the on-field action live on their devices, all at the same time. This new breed of apps will bring together the cloud and the network, with 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) capabilities pushing computing closer to the problems they’re trying to solve. Developers will leverage network APIs as a control plane to make the best use of available infrastructure and the network, with more control over application performance and required capabilities for those next-generation video analytics, quality control, real-time management, and metaverse applications.
At Microsoft, we’re opening the door to the power of 5G to help developers take full advantage of the opportunity. We are committed to helping developers create on their own terms with a distributed, open-source environment and to build on a consistent, carrier-agnostic platform. And we are at the forefront of an effort to help standardize APIs, coordinating work across technology and communications providers. Last month, we touched on Edge Video Services (EVS), a Microsoft platform for developing video analytics solutions that can be deployed on Azure public MEC. In our top story this month, we learn that EVS is just the beginning, and partners are now broadly exploiting the power of Azure edge services to deliver even more incredible applications.
Let’s build the future of communications together!
Microsoft Telecommunications Industry News | November 2020Rick Lievano
The Microsoft Worldwide Telecommunications Industry team is pleased to share with you the November 2020 Telecommunications Industry Newsletter, available to both internal and external audiences. We encourage you to share it with your colleagues and distribute it to your customers and partners as appropriate.
Transforming to a digital business is a key theme across global communications service providers and many industry leaders are pursuing a new paradigm by leveraging agile new technologies, systems, and services to enable this transformation. This newsletter showcases how the telecommunications industry leverages Microsoft and partner technologies like 5G, cloud, artificial intelligence, big data, virtual network functions, and blockchain to accelerate the transformation to digital services.
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | February 2022Rick Lievano
Microsoft believes the telecom edge is the catalyst creating a new world where the telecom and cloud industries join forces to eliminate duplication while creating a new era of latency-sensitive applications and services.
Edge video analytics will be the dominant service for edge computing, with our operator partners not only providing the underlying 5G connectivity, but edge capabilities close to end-users as well. Earlier this month, Singel announced Microsoft Azure Edge Zones integrated with Singtel’s 5G network, a key building block for delivering these advanced edge services. And these rich, multi-cloud, edge-aware applications can all be singularly managed via Azure Arc, as partner Nokia has shown as they empower telco customers in a multi-cloud world.
We’ll visit these themes and many more at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona next week. Pack your bags and see you there!
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | May 2021Rick Lievano
In almost every conversation, I’m astounded by the amount of folks who mention the recent disruption that’s occurred in this industry. As the old adage goes: “…the only constant has been change.” Digital disruption has fueled digital transformation, and with the proliferation of companies offering broader arrays of services, enterprises are scrambling to keep up and offer newer and better things.
There’s been major consolidation across Telco and Media, and the fight for audience and revenue is more fierce than ever. As we have seen in these last few weeks, there have been industry changing merger talks between Warner Media and Discovery, Bouygues and M6 Groupe from Bertelsmann, and even Amazon and MGM. While we’re proud and confident in our most recent acquisitions, it’s safe to say that the competition is heating up.
Microsoft Telecommunications Industry Newsletter | December 2019Rick Lievano
The Microsoft Worldwide Telecommunications Industry team is pleased to share with you the December 2019 Telecommunications Industry Newsletter, available to both internal and external audiences. We encourage you to share it with your colleagues and distribute it to your customers and partners as appropriate. As always, we welcome your input, feedback, and suggestions!
Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | November 2021Rick Lievano
This past month was teeming with events, from Microsoft Ignite 2021 wrapping up on November 4 to our glorious return to in-person events at MWC Los Angeles 2021 during the last week of October.
Among the many telco sessions at Ignite, we were joined by partners STL and Nokia to explore how telcos can apply analytics, artificial intelligence and automation across their organization and extended value network to improve business results, efficiency and organizational agility.
MWC LA provided a great opportunity to meet with many customers and partners, and get a pulse on new developments across the telecom industry, including Open RAN, edge, AI everywhere, and the tireless hunt for 5G’s killer app.
Most importantly though, MWC LA provided a return to normalcy as it paved the way for MWC Barcelona 2022, where we hope to once again meet our customers and partners to share our vision for the future of telecommunications, along with flavorful tapas and breathtaking views.
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Microsoft Telecommunications Newsletter | January 2022Rick Lievano
Many of the benefits that Microsoft delivers to the enterprise are directly applicable in the networking space. But these capabilities must be modified to account for the unique carrier grade needs of operators. Our efforts are aimed at getting workloads on the network to function on a carrier-grade cloud, which is a hybrid cloud, spanning both public and dedicated
on-premises cloud infrastructure.
Telecommunication services are highly distributed and will likely become more so over time. As a result, the value of creating a carrier-grade hybrid cloud model lives in its ability to meet
customers where they are—at the edge of the cloud, the edge of the network, or the edge of the enterprise. In this edition, we provide an update on our acquisition of AT&T’s Network
Cloud, and explore how we’re partnering with telcos like Telefonica, Vodafone, and NTT to deliver new capabilities that streamline their business and reduce cost.
Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2022 will gather policymakers and key industry stakeholders to discuss trends and developments in government and public policy, as well as
explore the event’s overall theme of Connectivity Is Unleashed across six topic areas: Cloud, 5G, IoT, FinTech, Tech Horizon, and AI. Microsoft comes to MWC with tremendous momentum in the telecommunications sector driven by new innovations from Azure for Operators. It’s time to plan your trip and prepare for an exciting four days of 5G, cloud, and edge! We look forward to meeting with you at the Fira and sharing the latest developments in our ongoing effort to create the future of telecommunications. ¡Nos vemos en Barcelona!
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The Microsoft Worldwide Telecommunications Industry team is pleased to share with you the July 2019 Telecommunications Industry newsletter, available to both internal and external audiences. We encourage you to share it with your colleagues and distribute it to your customers and partners as appropriate. As always, we welcome your input, feedback, and suggestions!
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This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
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Microsoft Telecommunications Industry News | April 2021
1. NEWSLETTER Microsoft in Telecom Customers Partners Events
Bob De Haven
General Manager, Worldwide
Media & Communications
Hi folks,
I’m amazed to see our tremendous growth in the industry in this quarter. There’s plenty to be optimistic
about. With COVID vaccines readily available to more and more people worldwide in the coming months,
we will hopefully begin transitioning back to the post-COVID landscape. I know I’m not alone when I say
that I can’t wait to get back into in person customer and partner meetings. We’re forging ahead with
getting customers ready for the new normal. Proud to see TIM Brazil to move 100% of their datacenters to
the cloud.
If one thing’s for sure, organizations in the telco space have transformed rapidly in this unprecedented
year. I’m excited to share The Network, Microsoft’s newest podcast series focused on digital resilience and
acceleration of technology for the telco industry, with stories from business leaders around the globe.
MICROSOFT IN TELECOM
Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey
When it comes to operators’ path to cloud migration, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-
all solution. Operators have unique needs for security, observability, resiliency, and
performance. As a result, Microsoft offers a level of support for operators that is far greater
than simply taking existing cloud services and repackaging them. We understand that it is
critically important to know exactly what operator workloads require.
| April 2021
2. In this blog, we delve into one such example of Microsoft’s commitment to operators and to developing a hands-on product strategy born from
years of research. This has led directly to solutions that we offer operators today as part of Azure of Operators.
Microsoft leaders’ perspective on the transformation in the
telecommunications industry
In this video, Microsoft telecommunications industry leaders
provide their perspective on the current transformation in the
telecommunications industry, the immediate challenges, and the
opportunities that should be top-of-mind for telco business
leaders.
The Network: Media, entertainment, and telecommunications
transformed
This piece focuses on how the media, entertainment and telco industries
imagine new ways to accelerate innovation and improve customer
experiences as more organizations adopt cloud-based services. Host Steve
Franklin, Microsoft’s global marketing director for both industries, leads
these fascinating conversations.
3. Podcast: Microsoft Azure's Khalidi curates carrier clouds
Yousef Khalidi, corporate VP of Azure for Operators at Microsoft
and a member of the founding team of Azure, joins the podcast to
discuss how his role has evolved to working on Azure for
Operators. Khalidi explains why working with service providers
requires a different approach to enterprise customers.
LF Edge’s State of the Edge 2021: Global Edge Computing Infrastructure
Market to be Worth Up to $800 Billion
Hybrid and multi-cloud solutions from major players like Microsoft Azure
are extending the cloud experience to far flung locations with the promise
of a consistent application and operations experience - read more to
understand Microsoft's thoughts on the promise of the edge.
Network Planning: A More Power-full Approach
Like most people, I was horrified by the Texas power grid’s recent
failure and the devastating impact on many citizens’ lives. I think
many people wondered how something like this could happen. As
someone in the telecommunications industry, it occurred to me
that the power and telecommunications sector face similar
planning issues.
A hyperscale public cloud provider’s role in operator networks and
private 5G
During a recent industry event, Metaswitch CTO, Martin Taylor, spoke in-
depth about the role large public cloud providers are poised to play in
evolving service provider infrastructures.
Metaswitch: Azure Edge - Single platform for delivering
enterprise 5G
Built on the Azure Stack Edge platform, Azure Private Edge Zones
are small-footprint extensions of Azure that are deployed on a
Metaswitch supports dtac Business cloud-based service for SMEs
Metaswitch Business Services solutions have powered an innovative new
offering from dtac, one of the largest mobile operators in Thailand. dtac
business, which delivers services to small and large businesses, recently
4. customer premise. This distributed public cloud offering enables
low latency access to localized computing and storage. This enables
enterprises to deploy industrial IoT applications together with 5G
network functions and other networking components as Azure
managed services.
launched a cloud-based phone service called dtac OneCall for small- and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is built on Metaswitch’s Max UC,
our Unified Communications (UC) and Collaboration solution portfolio.
ADDITIONAL NEWS
▪ Microsoft accelerates industry cloud strategy with the acquisition
of Nuance
▪ Business Services for the New Worker Paradigm
▪ Microsoft sharpens edge focus with Marsden buy | FierceTelecom
▪ Microsoft prioritizes telco space, highlights Azure's growth
▪ MTN shows acceleration of webscalers’ blockbuster growth in
telecoms
▪ Orchestrated Multi-Edge Clouds - MEF
▪ MPTC, Microsoft agree to promote digitalisation in Cambodia
▪ Rubén Caballero: Another adventure and loving it!
▪ What are Metaswitch Business Services?
▪ Microsoft announces significant investments to further Canadian
innovation and growth
▪ Building Computer Vision, and Speech edge AI applications is a
breeze with Azure Percept
▪ Announcing Azure AD Verifiable Credentials
▪ Deepen the value chain for geospatial earth imagery on cloud
using Azure Orbital
▪ Danielle Royston, TelcoDR: On buying Ericsson's MWC stand and the
public cloud-telco opportunity
▪ Edge Secured-core: Azure Certified IoT devices with built-in security
▪ Innovate across hybrid and multicloud with new Azure Arc capabilities
▪ Our commitment to expand Azure Availability Zones to more regions
▪ What’s new for Teams phones | Microsoft Tech Community
▪ Automate note-taking in Microsoft Teams with meeting transcription
▪ The public cloud can come to your private data center, here's how
▪ Microsoft adds Azure routing preference for user flexibility
▪ Battle for Telcos: Next Phase in War for Global UCaaS Domination
▪ Channel Convergence: What Does This Mean for MSPs?
▪ Microsoft Shows Off Its First Azure Orbital Ground Station
▪ Cloud Computing Will Be a Goldmine in the Post Covid-Era
▪ Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 release is now generally available
▪ Microsoft targets cloud AI boost with $19.7B Nuance deal
▪ 5G innovations for agriculture food resiliency
CUSTOMERS
5. AT&T Debuts the 5G Innovation Studio
AT&T is officially opening the doors to a new innovation space – the AT&T 5G Innovation
Studio. The studio, located in Plano, Texas, brings together the power of AT&T’s business,
consumer and network organizations to accelerate the path to market for new 5G-centric
product offerings and key initiatives. You can even take a virtual look around today. In this
space, AT&T will work with customers and industry collaborators to ideate, test and
validate new 5G-centric applications across a variety of industries.
“We recently worked with Microsoft and the drone company EVA to deploy a test environment representative of our Microsoft Azure Edge Zone
with AT&T. The environment, enabled by AT&T Network Edge, was equipped with cloud services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to host
EVA’s drone command control application. The low latency of 5G combined with Eva’s app deployed at the network edge on Azure enabled
autonomous drone control beyond visual line of sight. This proof of concept, along with ease of network and cloud scalability, demonstrates how
AT&T and Microsoft’s technologies will enable the future of drone delivery in metro areas.”
NTT developers create popular chatbot quickly using Microsoft
Teams and RPA, boosting employee efficiency and morale
NTT Communications Corporation helps its clients make digital
transformation (DX) a reality by providing the infrastructure services
needed to go online and go digital. It has actively pushed its own DX
using Microsoft Teams. As part of that effort, the company developed,
in-house, a simpler way for employees to sign in to its duty
management system (DMS). It combined a chatbot with robotic process
automation to create Oruri-chan, which is Japanese for “flycatcher.”
Developers lowered potential resistance to adopting Oruri-chan by
using the familiar Microsoft Teams as its platform. T
T-Mobile adopts Microsoft Power Platform for fast and powerful
low-code development
One of the largest wireless carriers in the United States, T-Mobile
always seeks to improve its business processes and gain greater insight
into operations. With low-code development using Microsoft Power
Platform, T-Mobile employees from all different backgrounds—
computer science experts to coding novices—now develop solutions
themselves that help the company with everything from device
promotion approvals to store closure management in response to
COVID-19. T-Mobile has a thriving internal Microsoft Power Platform
community and is creating a T-Mobile Center of Excellence to promote
further low-code development.
6. Granite uses Metaswitch Perimeta SBC to deliver their Direct Routing
solution to customers
Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams is quickly becoming a must have for
SMBs and enterprises. Watch as Marguerite Cogliano, Product
Development Manager and Shawn McElroy, Director of Telephony
Engineering of Granite Telecommunications discuss how they are using
the Metaswitch Perimeta SBC to deliver their Direct Routing solution to
customers.
TIM is the first carrier in Brazil to migrate 100% of its datacenters to
the cloud
Anticipating the market, TIM announces another stage in its digital
transformation journey with focus on its customers. The company
becomes the first carrier in Brazil to announce the migration of 100%
of its datacenter, located in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, to a multi-
cloud environment. Following its strategy, the carrier has just signed a
partnership with Microsoft and Oracle, which will allow the company to
improve customer service processes, internal operations, billing, speed
the collection and management of digital platforms, scalability, and
security, in a project that combines innovation, sustainability and
efficiency.
SoftBank Corp. quickly develops app with Azure Kubernetes Service
(AKS), improves in-store service for customers
The IT Division at SoftBank Corp. plans, develops, and operates systems
in the domestic telecom provider arena (mobile and landline networks).
The IT Division constantly seeks to advance its engineers’ skills and
approaches to problem solving and to proactively create learning
opportunities in new technologies. Starting around 2017, the division
introduced the agile development method, wanting to take advantage
of its ability to give young engineers lots of practical experience. Now, a
new success story is being written at SoftBank using advanced
technology to improve engineers’ skills. A business department
Maxis and Microsoft strengthen partnership to support an
expanding digital workforce
Maxis and Microsoft continue to leverage their combined strengths to
provide innovative digital solutions to business in Malaysia. The latest
step in their partnership sees both companies modernizing the digital
workforce for increased productivity, efficiency, and convenience.
Maxis has introduced its Digital Workspace solutions as part of its
expanding Maxis Business suite of services and solutions, becoming
the first in the market to offer an all-inclusive managed laptop solution
with built-in data connectivity from Maxis. This means businesses will
be able to set up their office securely from anywhere they are and be
7. supervisor serves as “product owner,” and the IT Division coordinates
closely with the business department in a process of agile development.
supported by Microsoft Office 365 and other leading software
solutions in a bundled package.
Microsoft facilitates Vodafone’s Group Data Centre (GDC) journey to
hybrid cloud
Vodafone highlighted early successes in a major, ongoing
re-platforming exercise for desktop and application remote access,
bringing a well-timed enhancement of flexibility and functionality in the
post-COVID-19 environment.
The prescient refit, being run by Vodafone’s Group Data Centre (GDC)
organization, is seeing the operator shift to a “next-generation”, hybrid
cloud-based platform to support an estimated 100,000-plus users
across Local Markets, Group functions, and external partners.
Telstra drives broader network connections - Microsoft Advertising
In partnership with their full-service digital agency, Resolution, Telstra
set out to increase customer orders derived from their online channels.
The Resolution team looked to the Microsoft Advertising account team
of Sam Atwood (Account Executive) and Natalie Takchi (Account
Manager) to exceed these sales targets. Historical performance showed
that campaigns with Microsoft Advertising were much more cost
effective than the leading search competitor, delivering a 51% lower
cost per acquisition than similar campaigns on other platforms.
Naturally, given the focus on online conversions and cost efficiency,
Microsoft Advertising paid search campaigns provided an ideal
solution to include in their digital marketing campaigns.
Verizon turns Microsoft Teams into your enterprise phone system
You may have chosen Microsoft Teams® as your collaboration tool. But are you connected with the outside world? Verizon’s new offering,
Verizon Calling with Microsoft Teams, allows you to expand your unified communication capabilities outside of your enterprise network—all on a
single platform.
ADDITIONAL NEWS
8. ▪ Africa’s Talking simplifies access to telco infrastructure via APIs
with Azure Arc
▪ Mobilezone connects the dots with Dynamics 365 for richer
customer engagement, enhanced shopping experiences
▪ Transport for NSW presses pedal to the metal on digital
transformation
▪ Businesses can set up office anywhere with Maxis digital
workspace
▪ Microsoft, CHT, Teco team up for Industry 4.0
▪ CallTower Rolls Out Native Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Unlimited
Conferencing
▪ 8x8 Launches 8x8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams
▪ ODA and APIs help M1 transform into cloud native DSP
▪ TIM Brasil moves entirely to the cloud with Oracle, Microsoft
▪ RXR Realty reopens for business using Azure IoT and the intelligent
edge to empower tenant safety
PARTNERS
Nokia partners with Microsoft on cloud solutions for enterprise
Nokia today announced an agreement with Microsoft to develop new
market-ready 4G and 5G private wireless use cases designed for
enterprises. The collaboration will combine Nokia’s Cloud RAN (vRAN)
technologies with Microsoft Azure cloud-based services and developer
ecosystem to drive end-user functionality via new business cases. The
initiative supports Nokia’s strategy of partnering with best-in-class
public cloud providers to drive end-user business outcomes essential
for monetizing 4G/5G deployments.
Empirix KLEARITY® Service Assurance for 5G now available on
Microsoft Azure
Empirix is a leading provider of carrier-grade customer experience
assurance for the 5G era, empowering Communications Service
Providers (CSPs) and Enterprises to deliver high quality digital service
(voice, data & IoT) experiences and deep insights with KLERITY, the
world’s first cloud-native, by design, monitoring and service assurance
solution.
KLERITY’s cloud-native monitoring and service assurance capabilities
support a broad range of hybrid (physical, virtual, cloud) networks
(3G/4G/5G/Wireline Telco, IT and IoT) and Use Cases (eg Analytics,
CEM, Enterprise/private 5G, Industrial IoT monitoring and analytics, and
network slice monetization) enhanced by automation and AI/ML, and
available under a subscription-based business model that provides up
to 40% reduction in TCO versus traditional assurance systems.
9. Preventing Fraud with Biometrics by Enhancing Telco Customer
Experiences
Using Nuance’s biometric authentication and fraud prevention
solutions, telcos can improve customer experiences, increase profits,
protect their customers and their brands from fraud, and tap into all
the benefits of Microsoft Azure and AI services. Microsoft’s Azure cloud
delivers security advantages to telcos on an innovative and trusted
platform that underpins Nuance Gatekeeper.
In a recent white paper, Nuance and Microsoft reveal why telcos must
start embracing biometrics in order to maximize fraud prevention and
facilitate exceptional, frictionless customer experiences across channels.
Explore an overview of the white paper below.
IDEMIA Collaborates with Microsoft to Deliver Secure, Digital Verified
Credentials Solution
IDEMIA, a global leader in Augmented Identity, announced today that it
is collaborating with Microsoft to support its new Microsoft Azure
Active Directory (Azure AD) verifiable credentials identity solution, now
in public preview. Azure AD verifiable credentials enable organizations
to confirm information about individuals, such as their education,
professional or citizenship certifications, without collecting or storing
their personal data.
AudioCodes Selected by Algar Telecom to Deliver Microsoft Teams as
a Managed Service
AudioCodes, a leading vendor of advanced communications software,
products and productivity solutions for the digital workplace, today
announced that it has been selected by leading Brazilian
communications service provider, Algar Telecom, to deliver Microsoft
Teams unified communications and collaboration, including
comprehensive Direct Routing voice connectivity, as a managed service.
Powered by the AudioCodes Live Cloud for Microsoft Teams managed
offering, Algar’s hosted Microsoft Teams service enables business
10. customers to migrate their existing voice infrastructure simply and
cost-effectively to Microsoft Teams and enjoy reliable voice calling, all
delivered on a monthly subscription basis.
ADDITIONAL NEWS
▪ Bandwidth announces a comprehensive Direct Routing & E911
solution with Duet℠ for Microsoft Teams | Bandwidth
▪ Socure to Provide Identity Verification for Microsoft Azure Active
Directory Verifiable Credentials | Socure
▪ Microsoft partners with leading ID verification partner IDEMIA Group
| IDEMIA
▪ Ciena Insights Podcast: Software is the Secret Sauce: Singapore’s M1
Prepares for 5G | Ciena
▪ Contact Centre for Microsoft Teams Tech Clinic webinar on-demand |
Enghouse
▪ How to Choose a Microsoft CSP Billing Platform? 10 Must-Ask
Questions | interworks.cloud
▪ Voice enabling Teams - the quiet revolution that needs shouting
about, Podcast | Call2Teams
▪ Plenom release their most requested feature for Microsoft Teams -
‘Call Alert’ | Plenom
▪ Ribbon expands Microsoft relationship & support with New Operator
Connect services offered | Ribbon Communications
▪ How to Choose a Microsoft CSP Billing Platform? 10 Must-Ask
Questions | interworks.cloud
▪ Alkira Teams Up with Microsoft to Transform the Cloud Networking
Journey to Azure | Alkira
▪ NTR-X Next Generation Compliance Recording & Microsoft Teams |
NICE
EVENTS
11. FutureNet World | Join Microsoft on April 20 in Foe or Friend: Can
telcos & hyperscalers truly collaborate & co-create to achieve
commercial gains?
At FutureNet World we discuss the strategic & commercial priorities
in today’s digital world and the considerations for the future of the
network. Dedicated to driving the agenda around ‘Network
Automation and AI’, a key foundational pillar for the next wave of
growth in telecoms.
Mobile operators, it’s time to get your mojo back | FutureNet World
Mobile operators are about to become liberated in a way that they’ve
never felt before. And I choose that word because what’s happening with
the convergence of cloud, edge computing, and the everything-as-a-
service consumption model is an unburdening for mobile operators that,
for the first time, allows them to soar with the startups and service
innovators.
The After Show Live – DSP Revenue Streams | TelecomTV
The After Show was broadcast live at the end of Day Five of the DSP
Leaders World Forum 2021. TelecomTV’s Guy Daniels and Ray Le
Maistre were joined by panelists for this end-of-day question and
answer session. Among the questions raised by our audience were:
• How important is edge roaming to the development of the
telco edge services market?
• Will the edge services market only take off and be cost-
effective once the market develops better-performing silicon
and new acceleration options?
• Telcos can’t be expected to come up with all the new service
ideas themselves, so is there a better way for them to partner
commercially with third-party providers to generate new service
revenue?
Edge as a driver of new service revenues | TelecomTV
There are plenty of research studies that value the Telco Edge service
revenue opportunity at multiple billions of dollars. There’s no denying its
promise. But how do telcos realise this potential? Are vertical services a
viable choice, or are telcos better off focusing on horizontal edge services?
Does it have unique attributes, or is the Edge just a locally-extended
cloud?
We ask the panelists whether or not there is a danger of assuming the
presence of physical locations equates to new revenue, whether telcos
should adopt an App Store approach to the Edge, and if there is too much
talk about low latency being a key criterion for Edge success?