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In the modern age of broadband services, providing a consistent and exceptional quality of experience (QoE) to every subscriber on your network is vital for retaining customers and keeping profits up. Subscribers, especially from the millennial generation, want access to on-demand HD video and music, 4K IPTV, and a wide variety of ever-changing over-the-top (OTT) content and applications, which in many cases must be delivered to multiple screens within the home network.... More Info

Over the last 10 years, service providers have been striving to roll out the next generation of services that include voice, video, WiFi, wireless -- and all the bandwidth customers can possibly digest. To accomplish this, providers need a more agile infrastructure to provision complex service offerings, across multiple platforms, hungry set-top boxes, smartphones and an army of tablets.... More Info

Episode 6 of Pipeline’s ongoing serial, IoT Noir, starts some 15 years from now immediately following the emergency treatment of Ninan Pakinar in an automated clinic run by the AI Nightingale. If our readers recall, Kiko-Lyn Greg was rescued in a raid by the mercenary cyborg Ninan on the Hong Kong lab of Jonathon Blake, the CEO of International Widget.... More Info

April was a dynamic month for all things telecommunications, including FCC activity, IoT monetization, carrier asset sales, and growing interest in carrier content acquisition and distribution. Also, it turns out millennials are having a significant impact on mobile.... More Info

As the communications landscape continues to change and digital transformation creates strange new bedfellows, upends traditional processes and infrastructures, and threatens to render even the most entrenched vendor/CSP relationship obsolete, providers of the business and operations support systems that have been the lifeblood of the industry for decades are left with a new challenge. They must find ways to move forward and find new customers.... More Info