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HCL Technologies acquire Cisco’s SON technology

HCL Technologies plans to acquire Cisco’s Self-Optimizing Network (SON) technology. This acquisition, which comprises of products and services built on Cisco’s SON technology, will help HCL meet the growing needs of its customers in the telecommunications industry, which includes tier-one communications service providers globally, by adding the power of Cisco’s SON’s multi-vendor multi-technology and application support to its clients.

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Maintaining network continuity in crisis time

With the coronavirus outbreak continuing to gather pace, many businesses around the world are having to provide remote access for all their employees, sometimes for the first time. This is being done under pressure to tight time constraints. It’s difficult for anyone to do their best work with deadlines looming, and worries and concerns about the current situation playing on their mind. IT staff are no different. By Alan Stewart–Brown, VP of EMEA at Opengear.

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Seven recommendations for your SD-WAN strategy

After years of hype, SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking) is finally going mainstream. And with it come a host of benefits including: increased agility and cost efficiency, higher quality and performance as well as enhanced visibility and network management. By Johan Ottosson, VP Strategy at Telia Carrier.

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SD-WAN: Sorting fact from fiction

Almost every new technology or innovation creates as much uncertainty as it does excitement. Businesses want to take advantage of solutions that can improve how they operate, but often need pointers on how they should go about it and why – opening the door for myths to develop around how things could and will work. By Jonathan Rowan, Business Development Director at SSE Enterprise Telecoms.

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The threat to and from your VPN Infrastructure

The early months of 2020 have changed how we think about our enterprise networks. Dial back a few months and many organisations assumed that the bulk of employee use of IT infrastructure was from campus and branch locations. Yes, remote access to corporate IT has been an accepted fact of life for some decades now and yes, many organisations had at least some of their workforce working remote to varying degrees. Also, the advent of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications...

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SD-WAN refusing to fit neatly into a Service Provider’s traditional way of doing business

Change is something the service provider industry is used to. Since the mid-90s UK Internet Service Providers have been evolving and adapting, adopting new technologies and chasing after the new opportunities they represent, moving into new untapped markets when an existing market has become saturated and commoditised. By Martin Saunders, Product Director of Highlight.

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Masergy has published results from its new market trends report for Unified Communications as a...
Deployment includes Ericsson’s 3GPP standards-based 5G New Radio (NR) hardware and software to...
Next step in Cisco partner program evolution to support partner competitiveness and recognise deep...
As live streaming and subscriber platforms become ever popular, network operators must urgently...
At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2018 (HAS 2018), the Japanese Internet company CyberAgent,...
InterContinental Shenzhen, Shenzhen Telecom and Huawei have signed a strategic cooperation...
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