Going Virtual: Intel and Red Hat Demonstrate SDN Service-Chaining Solutions

whitePaper | February 22, 2022

The future of mobile networks will be software-centric, and Samsung is leading the way to transforming how wireless networks are designed and implemented using virtualization. The hardware-centric approach for network development, using vendor-specific hardware designs, has remained static for decades.

whitePaper | March 1, 2020

5G is gathering momentum at a pace not experienced with legacy technologies such as 3G and 4G. In fact, a growing number of operators that have existing LTE networks have now launched 5G, according to the GSA. We’ve already seen a great deal of investment in 5G, and we’ll see a growing number of operators targeting the enterprise market to support applications in agriculture, manufacturing, automotive and healthcare. It is anticipated that an acceleration of 5G roll-out will take place throughout 2020, particularly with non-standalone (NSA) designed to work with existing 4G networks.

whitePaper | September 19, 2022

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is unleashing fundamental innovation in the way organizations buy, deploy, and operate network infrastructures. By leveraging open standards and commodity hardware, NFV delivers cost savings, enhanced flexibility, improved performance, and more. However, without the right safeguards, organizations can also see their vulnerabilities increase when they move to a Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) architecture. This white paper offers a detailed look at the unique security implications of adopting NFV approaches, and it provides a number of best practices to employ to ensure sensitive data and transmissions remain secure in these environments.

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 | May 23, 2023

The future of wireless networking needs will continue to grow. Location based services, sensors, and IoT devices will continue to be added to wireless networks. Expanding and new uses of Wi-Fi that require high performing connections like AR/VR, AI/ML, and new technologies we don’t even know about yet will compete for wireless network resources. Finally, all the standard uses we currently associate with Wi-Fi like video and voice calls, streaming services and cloud hosted applications will continue to bring more devices to wireless networks with increasing traffic demands.

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.