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Thought Leadership Council Reports

Our Partners and companies with upgraded listings have the option of purchasing a report generated by the Thought Leadership Council (TLC), a unique research initiative. TLC is a select group of 140+ communications service providers (CSPs) with network-level expertise.

Council members take part in surveys and interviews about key communications trends and technologies. TLC circumvents traditional industry hype to ascertain how service providers are really responding to important industry happenings. What makes this initiative so unique is that participants discuss issues in a completely anonymous forum, enabling them to share insights and express business realities that otherwise could not be shared.

Following are examples of key TLC reports that address trends in automation:

This vendor-sponsored report indicates that service assurance is a key factor to CSP automation plans.

This TLC report indicates that CSPs already have started automating networks, despite that they don't have master plans in place to do so.


Automation Exchange Editorial Calendar

Check back for new products, provoking thought leadership and other exciting news from the Companies and Industry Organizations that partner with Automation Exchange! Contact us today to learn how your company can create research, white papers, webinars, videos and more that reflects Automation Exchange's Editorial Calendar:

Q4 2018 – Network Automation
Q1 2019 – Virtualization & Automation: The Impact of NFV, SDN and Cloud Native
Q2 2019 – Automation & Security
Q3 2019 – Performance/Service Assurance & Automation
Q4 2019 – Automation in the Era of AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain & Emerging Technologies
Q1 2020 – Monetizing Automation


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News

Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, Others Put $13M Into Blockchain Startup Clear
2/6/2020
The venture money for Israel-based startup Clear underscores not only the opportunity surrounding blockchain in the telecom space but also operators' interest in the technology.
Nokia Offers 5G Automation With Next Gen OSS
2/3/2020
Finnish vendor dishes up cloud-native network operations software designed to help automate 5G network management processes.
Inside Samsung's 5G Factory for AT&T
1/30/2020
Top Samsung and AT&T executives lay out the details of their efforts to showcase 5G technology in a factory setting.

Webinars

RAN Evolution Digital Symposium - Day 1
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Session 1: Evolving 5G RAN for 2025

11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

With 5G network buildouts now well underway, this session investigates the features, capabilities and requirements that will drive operators’ RAN strategies over the next ~3 years.


Session 2: Shifting RAN Automation & Analystics into the Next Gear

12:45 PM Eastern Standard Time

With 5G network buildouts now well underway, this session investigates the features, capabilities and requirements that will drive operators’ RAN strategies over the next ~3 years.

RAN Evolution Digital Symposium - Day 2
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Session 1: Taking 5G Indoors: 5G RAN for Public Venues & Enterprises

11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Operators have made huge investments in 5G RAN and provide excellent outdoor performance. Now, to deliver a consistently excellent service, operator attention is focusing on the need for dedicated in building 5G systems to deliver a great indoor and campus experience and enable advanced use cases in enterprises and public venues.


Session 2: Progress in Open RAN Technology and Deployment

12:45 PM Eastern Standard Time

This session explores how RAN operations will evolve as cloud methodologies, such as CI/CD/CT, and new technologies, such as AI/ML and Digital Twins, are applied to multi-vendor RAN environments.

5G, from connectivity pipe to Network-as-a-platform: A transformative approach to designing, deploying and operating Modern 5G multi-cloud networks from core-to-edge
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London

Communication service providers (CSPs) are changing the landscape of 5G networks as they continue to push the boundaries with new technologies and services. From containers to multi-access edge computing (MEC), to private 5G and more, these organizations are chasing innovative ways to deliver value in new ways.

The traditional telco cloud has evolved. 5G cannot be underutilized as yet another connectivity pipe. Instead, it must be leveraged as a vehicle to transform networks of connectivity pipes into highly flexible services on a network-as-a-platform. This will help CSPs leverage the full potential of 5G and 5G Advanced Service Based Architecture (SBA) to enable AI-to-AI communication, instant service creation, monetizable automated decision making, etc.

Learn how peers and leaders in the telco industry created network-as-a-platform models– discussing their migration to multi-tenant cloud-native converged core platforms; unified core; messaging; application services with Service Based Architecture (SBA) and Service Based Interface (SBI) multi-cloud autonomous operations; network slicing; and 3GPP-based AI/ML enablement.

5G pipe to network-as-a-platform discussion topics:

  • NFV journey with 4G LTE: what to apply to 5G cloud-native transformation
  • Converged 4G/5G telco cloud platform: the do’s and don’ts
  • Modernized Edge-to-Core Network: Considerations for unified architecture vision
  • 5G network-as-a-platform: Leverage the vision and monetize


Educational Resources