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Aside from mobile, no technology has impacted telecommunications and, in fact, the world more than cloud. Tired of paying electric bills and buying computers?... More Info

Solution provider sales to enterprises were simpler before the cloud arrived. Industry players focused on their niches; for example, EDS might provide systems integration, IBM the computing, and AT&T the connectivity.... More Info

When it comes to acronyms du jour and telecom, healthy skepticism is warranted. For every acronym that lives in the industry lexicon for a decade, there are several with extremely short lifespans.... More Info

Self-Organizing Networks have the potential to rapidly and simultaneously transform network economics and improve customer experience. Two variants of SON – Centralized and Decentralized – focus on different approaches.... More Info

For the last year the telecom industry has largely been in a holding pattern, with incremental developments slowly building toward a larger, mainstream transition to new technologies. This punctuated equilibrium has paved the way for 2014, when we expect to see significant changes that will characterize the next stage of development in telecom.... More Info