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The C-suite wants answers. In the C-suite it’s all about performance, problem solving, and progress.... More Info

Are some mobile operators heading down the road of their businesses becoming commodities where the only real differentiator, in the eyes of the customers, is price? Voice and text services, for so long the mainstay of their business, are now commoditized and data could well be heading the same way.... More Info

Big ideas always seem so simple in hindsight. Ontology's "Project Rothko" is one of those kind of elegant solutions.... More Info

In this article, Doug Bellenger of Nakina Systems discusses the best methods for setting up a network integrity practice, the necessary components, and the benefits for carriers.... More Info

Location confers powerful advantages, and no one understands this better than bricks-and-mortar retail chains. Choosing where to put a new store can be such a big differentiator that many companies, particularly Starbucks and Walgreens, guard their site-selection processes like trade secrets.... More Info

In this article, Editor-in-Chief addresses the topic of telecommunications wireless data capacity. As bandwidth usage increases, wireless communications service providers must address the capacity crunch through techniques like the usage of spectrum white space, small cells and femtocells, capacity management OSS/BSS, and even twisted light laser usage.... More Info

Intel explores AI for HPC data centers, or high performance computing, in this Pipeline article and its unique properties and the use cases it enables for research and beyond.... More Info

Driving business outcomes is the goal of every CEO. Using technology to automate introduces new challenges, new opportunities, and many potential benefits.... More Info

The retail MVNO is an established marketing and branding tool. The mobile home-screen has always been a valuable piece of brand real estate, a chance to put a logo in front of the customer on an hourly basis.... More Info

Presentation matters. And I’m not just talking about a Tiffany blue box or an Apple Store.... More Info

This episode of Pipeline's fictional IoT series begins at Rachael’s house immediately following the conclusion of the cyber-attack on her suburban home and her corporation, North East Control Analytics. Medical With the potentially lethal cyber-attack seemingly behind her, Rachael begins cleanup and getting on with her life.... More Info

There’s a compelling argument that, when it comes to data processing, telcos underutilized an application in their IT stacks: mediation. It’s worth understanding why because with a grasp of the reasons, CSPs can make significant progress in both data and service management for little additional outlay (of either time or money) simply by re-purposing or extending an existing technology investment.... More Info

At the end of October, Adobe Systems announced that data belonging to 38 million of its customers had been obtained by hackers, who’d infiltrated the company’s systems at least two months earlier, along with the source code for three of its products. The server that housed Adobe’s database also housed a PR Newswire database of customer logins and passwords, which hackers stole and leveraged for various additional exploits, such as uploading fraudulent press releases.... More Info

Pipeline is the world's leading magazine for OSS and BSS news and information. This article examines the details surrounding cloud data ownership and the ramifications of the unthinkable: losing access to your data.... More Info

Pipeline is the world’s leading magazine for OSS and BSS news andinformation. In this article, Phil Britt examines the massive power needs of enterprise and telecom data centers, and how these centers are becoming more efficient through technology.... More Info

We exist in a world today that has witnessed more transformation in the last decade than over this past century. Knowledgeable systems digitally driven by powerful and innovative platforms and next-gen technologies like distributed cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the all-encompassing Internet of Things (IoT) make up only a partial list.... More Info

While navigating through the throngs of attendees and dodging schwag-slingers at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, I overheard someone say, “If you want to know what the future looks like, spend half an hour observing the habits of a digital native.” Certain that my aging collection of cassette tapes disqualified me from this demographic, I began to consider these digital natives and the profound impact they are having, and will increasingly have, on everything from transportation and commerce to entertainment, education, healthcare and communities of all sizes…... More Info

Reading the tea leaves of Big Data analytics reduces churn and provides insight into customers who can be leveraged to improve the overall customer experience, from network performance to customer service. And that’s important, but for communications service providers (CSPs) on the hunt for new sources of revenue, Big Data has a much larger role to play.... More Info

In this article, F5 Networks explains how service providers can monetize the use of mobile data on their networks with innovative policy management.... More Info

Sustainable data center power, generator environmental considerations, and the importance of power for the future of communications services are explored in this Pipeline magazine article.... More Info

The digital revolution is changing how we do business, requiring a new class of mobile data services that meet today’s business needs. Introduction In just a few years there will be over 20 billion networked devices around the world.... More Info

As a society, we collect an awful lot of data: about people, about processes, about things. The volume, variety and velocity of Big Data is growing exponentially, and over the next 10 years, global traffic is predicted to reach over 100 trillion gigabytes.... More Info

Mediation is a source of an immense amount of useful data that is no longer exclusive to billing. Numerous critical operational processes and systems rely on crucial event data captured from the network, but external data representations (XDRs) alone cannot paint a complete picture of customer experience, nor can they protect revenue and reduce risk.... More Info

Cloud connected cars and data monetization is discussed in this Pipeline Magazine article by CerebrumX. Click to learn how to tap into the vehicle and connect-car ecosystem.... More Info

Pipeline's managing editor, Scott St. John discusses the September 2021, AI & Analytics issue of Pipeline magazine including topics such as AI, automation, orchestration, AI, big data, data lakes, mobile analytics, usage data, and B/OSS.... More Info

Big Data, BI, AI. These buzzwords seem to have been circulating in the industry for years now.... More Info

Data is big business. As the saying goes, information is power, and this has never been truer than with traditionally hardware-focused companies shifting toward a software-based model.... More Info

In this article we profile Razorsight, a cloud-based analytics provider for CSPs and look at the value of data analytics.... More Info

AI, 5G, and IoT are explored in relation to edge computing and interconnection in this Pipeline Magazine article on redefining the edge from DE-CIX.... More Info

Advertisers need help. Between social media and the web at large, the average consumer is being hit with more promotional messages than ever before.... More Info