Service providers spend billions to assure network availability and avoid service outages. The typical result of that spend is overprovisioning of the network. Common wisdom says that while overprovisioning is expensive, it’s necessary – just to be on the safe side. Even so, network availability often comes up short, as evidenced by numerous customer outages…
5G was conceived to improve multiple facets of network performance – higher bandwidth for sure, but also lower latency and high resiliency. In effect, 5G brings to the consumer domain service levels that were so far reserved for business. The Covid-19 pandemic, which is keeping many people at home, is accelerating this trend. Consumers are…
Communication service providers (CSP) have all kinds of customers. Some of them, especially large enterprise and business customers, require premium connectivity services with guaranteed delivery, and they are willing to pay for it. Typically, premium enterprise services include high capacity, low latency, and full geographic diversity guarantees. A few examples are financial services connectivity, connectivity…
5G is not a single technology, in fact it is an ensemble of technologies which together herald a transformation for operators and their customers. Exactly how and when these technologies will be deployed is not always clear, however, discussions with our customers have revealed several key assertions that most agree with: Latency expectations underwrite the…
As standards for Software Defined Networking (SDN) solidify, the telco industry is converging around a common architecture for SDN implementation in service provider networks. While SDN-based networks have been a long time in the making, SDN rollout is now accelerating globally across multiple service providers, with the majority aligning around a three-tier SDN control hierarchy:…
The Promise of 5G 5G technology is being promoted mostly on the basis of dramatic increases in network speed and reliability. This will be accomplished to a great degree by moving intelligence and computing to the edge of the network. Through edge computing, 5G promises to eliminate the latency created by the centralized mobile core…
Our News from MWC and OFC The past month was an insanely productive and exciting time for the Sedona team. With one major customer announcement and back to back industry events (MWC Barcelona & OFC San Diego) I am happy we are still standing. Everything went by so fast, I wanted to make sure you…
Challenges in the Face of Digital Transformation The Communication Service Provider (CSP) landscape is changing rapidly in the face of the digital era. New and stronger competition, growing customer demands, increased operational costs and evolving technologies are just a few of the challenges CSPs face today. CSPs are now required to adopt a digital strategy…
Introduction Accurate network inventory data is a critical foundation for delivering new services and minimizing the impact of maintenance and outages, with significant flow-through impact on both cost and revenue. That said, access to accurate inventory data is a big challenge for most, if not all Communications Service Providers, because today’s inventory validation and audit…
Automation is one of the big rising stars of networking. It has attracted huge industry interest of late, with Light Reading dedicating a whole category to the topic and many industry events, including Layer123’s SDN NFV World Congress, hosting significant automation tracks. Carriers are building requirements around it in their RFP processes, and analyst firms…