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This document will provide an understanding of optical fibre, optical fibre cable (OFC), application standards, and key considerations that one should make before selecting optical fibre products. Typically, the first document shared with a user (Purchasing Manager, Technical Manager, and Installation Manager) is a technical datasheet. When several optical fibre cables are to be compared, as per the requirements of a project, a short list could be created based on the datasheets. However, all datasheets are not equivalent even if they look similar. One should know what the minimum relevant data are, how to find them, and how to compare them...
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This document will provide an understanding of optical fibre, optical fibre cable (OFC), application standards, and key considerations that one should make before selecting optical fibre products. Typically, the first document shared with a user (Purchasing Manager, Technical Manager, and Installation Manager) is a technical datasheet. When several optical fibre cables are to be compared, as per the requirements of a project, a short list could be created based on the datasheets. However, all datasheets are not equivalent even if they look similar. One should know what the minimum relevant data are, how to find them, and how to compare them...
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"Gartner consider the 20 suppliers listed in the report to be representative of the CSP CM&X solutions market as they represent a wide variety of solutions, offering different portfolios, deployment/ implementation approaches and focus areas for various segments of CSPs. However, there are many more suppliers with appropriate offerings for various CSP requirements"...
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As 5G network deployments continue to ramp up, communications service providers (CSPs) continue to look for new ways to extract value from their core networks and radio access networks (RANs). A vital element of this exercise will be how to achieve further service differentiation from previous mobile generations such as 4G. While this process will be gradual, the 5G core (5GC), which adopts a services-based architecture (SBA) that supports application programming interface (API) exposure, will drive the next wave of mobile service innovation. Two key components critical to the process of monetizing 5G innovative services are policy control and charging...
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"Gartner has covered 13 vendors in this research which can be classified across three categories based on their background" 1. Large network equipment vendors: Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Samsung, ZTE 2. Specialist small cell and traditional digital adoption solution (DAS) vendors: Airspan, Baicells, Comba Telecom Systems Holdings, CommScope, Corning 3. New Open vRAN vendors: Mavenir, Radisys, STL (Sterlite Technologies)..
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As communications service providers (CSPs) continue to embrace cloud services, they must also look inward and assess how this shift will transform their existing operational processes. A key component of this assessment process is documenting the operational and design impact on business support systems (BSS) and their ability to support cloud key performance indicators (KPIs) and open application programming interfaces (APIs) in an Open Digital Architecture (ODA) environment...
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STL has been recognized as an Enabler for enhanced partner ecosystem support in digital marketplaces in the 2021 Gartner® report, Market Trend: Expand CSPs' Monetization with 5G, AI, Edge Compute. The report also identifies STL as a BSS vendor offering 5G CHF, for developing and promoting new pricing levers for monetization...
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In the first part of this whitepaper series, we discussed how an enterprise marketplace could prove to be a panacea for telcos' digital transformation woes. We also discussed, at length, numerous use cases that can be explored using the enterprise marketplace, such as, IoT-as-a-Service, SD-WAN-as-a-Service and virtualized RAN-as-a-Service...
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Mobile network operators (MNOs) throughout the world are experiencing an exponential growth of data traffic, mainly driven by an increase in the demand for video streaming services, peer to peer services such as video conferencing, OTT applications, as well as by tremendous proliferation of mobile devices...
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Users have been demanding higher bandwidth since the 24x7 availability of internet connectivity has become ubiquitous. The COVID-19 pandemic situation has further spurred the demand for higher bandwidth and stable broadband connectivity to support new lifestyle norms. People are required to stay at home due to COVID-19 lockdowns, and connectivity has given them the flexibility to continue with daily activities such as work, learning and entertainment from their homes...