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It’s all in the Bin: The bright future of Operator SLAs

A growing number of Service Level Agreements (SLA) between customers and Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are being expressed in terms of percentiles. This practice gives CSPs the opportunity to both refine the SLA collaboratively with their customer and also to monetize performance information obtained from their network. It also enables customer to choose from a wider pool of SLAs and adapt them to their specific needs. Some operators even pay penalties if they fail to meet the conditions of the SLA. What are SLA percentiles and how are they used? In the network environment, a percentile is a measurable percentage of performance either above or below an agreed level. Percentile measurements are commonly performed over an agreed interval, to ensure they adequately represent the performance of all the packets delivered over that network. A good example is packet d

By Jan Marien

Posted in Industry Trends On Tuesday, 05 February 2019

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How SD-WAN is Forcing Service Providers to Re-invent Themselves (…as NFV did with vendors)

Antoine Lecomte

Virtualization

Interesting similarities can be observed between SD-WAN and NFV. NFV aimed at ending the reign of monolithic solutions, with software and hardware decoupling, but also with the use of open APIs that facilitate the ability to pick, choose and replace

Monday, 17 December 2018

EKINOPS helps to bring optical transport a step closer to SDN

Guillaume Crenn

Optical Transport

Guillaume Crenn, EKINOPS Product line & Marketing Director, recounts a recent technical breakthrough enabling legacy optical equipment to function in tomorrow’s virtualized networks. Interoperability remains one of the biggest challenges facing o

Thursday, 06 December 2018

Why NETCONF beats OpenStack when managing uCPE

Antoine Lecomte

Virtualization

I know this question reads like comparing apples with oranges. In fact, I want to compare a uCPE managed with NETCONF versus a uCPE managed as an OpenStack compute node. First, it’s worth looking at why people think using OpenStack is a good idea. Op

Friday, 09 November 2018

SD-WAN at the CSP: Why gray solutions are slowing success

Antoine Lecomte

Virtualization

It’s striking the number of service providers that have recently started promoting SD-WAN offers, especially given that there is little evidence amongst them of its commercial success. Popularity and perceived demand are high in the telecoms world, b

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Fake Virtualization

Pravin Mirchandani

Virtualization

Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess (an EKINOPS brand), dissects a poignant phrase coined at this week’s SDN NFV World Congress. On day one of this year’s SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague, I was intrigued by a phrase used in the keynote: ‘fake virt

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Unpacking the technologies behind the Zero-Touch Provisioning of a universal CPE

Jan Marien

Virtualization

Explore the combination of technologies that enable remote provisioning and management of the uCPE and the VNFs this powerful new device supports. A Universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE) consists of both software and hardware components to cre

Friday, 13 July 2018

Fast Caterpillars: Solving the Complexity Crisis in Carrier Automation

Pravin Mirchandani

Virtualization

A new focus on simplicity and standardization holds the key, says Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess. At the recent Zero-Touch and Carrier Automation Congress in Madrid, I was reminded of a quote from George Westerman of MIT: “When digital transforma

Thursday, 19 April 2018

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EKINOPS and VMware Create Best of Breed Virtualization Platform for Telecom Operators and Service Providers

EKINOPS (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading provider of open and fully interoperable Layer 1, 2 and 3 solutions to network operators, today announces that it is partnering with VeloCloud, now part of VMware, to create a virtualization platform targeted for both telecom operators and service providers.
EKINOPS Opens Up With New Optical White Boxes

EKINOPS (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading supplier of optical transport equipment and router solutions for service providers and telecom operators, announces the release of its latest optical white box networking solutions, the RM ROADM-H4-WB and RM ROADM-H10-WB at this year’s OFC Conference in San Diego.
EKINOPS Delivers Advanced Access Virtualization Solutions to Support SD-WAN and IT Transformation for Enterprise

EKINOPS (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading supplier of network access solutions and optical transport equipment for service providers and telecom operators, today announces a collaboration with multinational enterprise and IT transformation specialist, Dell EMC OEM solutions (part of Dell Technologies).

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