Fast-Tracking Digital: A Blueprint for Communications Services Providers

whitePaper | February 28, 2023

With the ambition to prepare for the future, Orange is contributing to the design of the 6th generation of mobile communication, what we refer to as 6G. Orange is actively involved in several 6G collaborative research projects and leading initiatives, including the European flagship Hexa-X project [1], the NGMN Alliance [2], and the IOWN Global Forum [3]. Committed, as a trusted partner, to give everyone the keys to a responsible digital world, we think it is our role to provide inspiration and vision, as well as an informed explanation about this future technology currently in the making.

whitePaper | June 20, 2022

5G HAS FINALLY BECOME AVAIL ABLE. COMPARED TO 4G, 5G CAN DECREASE latency tenfold, increase throughput tenfold, and boost trac capacity by 100 times. More important than 5G technology itself for telecom carriers and service providers, however, are the wealth of capabilities enabled by 5G.

whitePaper | May 10, 2022

The purpose of this document is to emphasize necessity of cross-standardization collaboration to realize E2E Network Slicing Architecture designed from an End-to-End (E2E) perspective, spanning over different technical domains (e.g., device, access network, core network, transport network and network management system) and multiple vendors and to provide guidance on actions in each Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) and open source projects.

whitePaper | April 28, 2021

Alongside connectivity and power, a third area – the antenna – needs to be equal attention because of the fundamental impact it has on device performance. The antenna is the means by which an IoT device receives and sends signals to the outside world and therefore is a fundamental element of an IoT device. However, antenna decisions are often neglected until the end of the development process, resulting in unnecessary compromises and sub-optimal siting of antennas that could have been avoided with better planning and design.

whitePaper | July 20, 2021

In 2Q21, Heavy Reading surveyed 86 communications service providers (CSPs) across global regions on their plans for customer premises equipment overall and universal CPE (uCPE) specifically. This report presents the highlights of that survey. Omdia’s uCPE Tracker – 1H21 Annual Forecast report projects that the worldwide uCPE hardware market will grow from $52.5m in 2020 to $2.3bn in 2025—an impressive CAGR of 113% over five years. With this in mind, Heavy Reading expected to see good support for uCPE from survey respondents, and we were not disappointed. We targeted the survey at CSPs planning to implement uCPE within, at most, 24 months. Nevertheless, the respondent pool showed a more lively than anticipated adoption of uCPE. 59% of US, 61% of Asia Pacific (APAC), and 39% of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) respondents have already deployed uCPE.

whitePaper | July 20, 2021

As the telecommunications industry speeds toward 5G, organizations are looking for new technology that will enable them to deliver more capabilities to their customers, faster. As part of this need to transform, companies are increasingly looking to open technology to help them build out that framework to develop real solutions to real problems.