Insights - FutureNet World

AI rises up the network automation agenda

Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up the summer’s news headlines and notes how AI is moving beyond ML and positioned to unlock telcos’ data to speed automation Heavy Reading has published a timely and, as far as we know, the first study into the future of network automation for Tier 2 and Tier 3 network […]

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

7th September 20237th September 2023

AWS tees up gen AI for telecoms, Nokia shifts to Red Hat as primary infra platform

June was a hectic month for developments in network automation. Contributing editor Annie Turner rounds up some highlights. AWS’ CodeWhisperer “coding companion” came out of beta in April. It has been trained on trillions of... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

4th July 20235th July 2023

FutureNet World 2023: Highlights Video

Catch up with the highlights from FutureNet World in May 2023. Hear what the CxO Speakers & Delegates thought were the key topics and talking points from the event.

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Automation and Sustainability, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

27th June 202327th June 2023

FutureNet World 2023 Awards – The winners who cleared the ever-higher bar

FutureNet World was delighted to announce and congratulate the winners of its prestigious industry awards... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Automation and Sustainability, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

3rd June 20236th June 2023

Panel: Dynamic service orchestration across multiple domains to leverage 5G

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 4th of May 2023. Christoforos Sarantopoulos,... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

2nd June 2023

Automation’s chickens start to roost, Open RAN goes local in Turkey

Annie Turner rounds up network automation and AI stories from what turned out to be... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

2nd June 20232nd June 2023

FutureNet World 2023: The Six ‘Ps’ Shaping Automation Strategies

Robert Curran, Consulting Analyst at Appledore Research shares his takeaways from FutureNet World 2023 I... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Automation and Sustainability, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

24th May 202325th May 2023

Panel: Network as a Service and accelerating the path to automation and use cases

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 3rd of May 2023. Camille Mendler,... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

22nd May 2023

Network automation market to rise at 23% CAGR to 2033, action at the edge

Contributing Editor Annie Turner takes a fast but insightful look at new tech, continuing trends... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

1st May 20231st May 2023

Effective NaaS Solution Development & Why Its Critical to Look Internally First

Contributed By: Morgan Stern, VP Automation Strategy, Itential. Service providers find themselves in an increasingly... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration

19th April 202319th April 2023

Tough times for new entrants but network automation is set to soar

Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up some highlights and low points of the last month... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

5th April 20235th April 2023

Orange puts automation at the heart of telecoms’ future fortunes

Automation has been absolutely everywhere in the welter of announcements made at and around MWC... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

3rd March 20233rd March 2023

Microsoft reportedly invests $10 bn in ChatGPT, DT hits €100bn market cap

AI and automation seem to be entering a new era, generating headlines the world over... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

2nd February 20232nd February 2023

Microsoft ups the Open RAN ante, SA and private 5G to rise in 2023

As a tumultuous 2022 ends, network automation and intelligent operations went out with a bang... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

5th January 20235th January 2023

ETSI says network automation can improve telcos’ finances

Annie Turner, Contributing Editor, rounds up news from October and reports that while network automation... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

1st December 20222nd December 2022

Keynote Panel: Automation Today: What is the role of automation in running a network with disaggregation technology

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet Asia on the 18th of October 2022. Nathan Bell,... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

4th November 2022

Announcing the FutureNet World 2023 Advisory Board

FutureNet World is excited to unveil the 2023 Advisory Board, a group of 22 senior... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Automation and Sustainability, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

3rd November 20224th November 2022

Vodafone announces slew of ambitious Open RAN plans with multiple partners

The operator is looking beyond accelerating its own Open RAN goals to those of Europe... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

3rd November 2022

Cloud infrastructure market on the up, service assurance gets a makeover

It’s been a busy month for new products and solutions that will power future networks.... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

5th October 20225th October 2022

Network slicing Down Under, revitalised BSS/OSS and very different greenhouse effects

Contributing Editor Annie Turner looks at some of the market and technology moves around network... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

8th September 20228th September 2022

Automation: Moving CX from engaging with service providers to deep interaction with products

Telstra’s Angela Logothetis explains to Contributing Editor Annie Turner how the next phases in automation... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Zero Touch Automation

8th September 20228th September 2022

Keynote Panel Discussion – Automation Now: Role of automation in running a network with disaggregation technology

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 11th of May 2022. Patrick Kelly,... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

17th June 2022

Opening Keynote Panel – Future Networks: Injecting intelligent automation into network and service operations

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 11th of May 2022. Amy Cameron,... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

6th June 2022

BT private 5G partnership buoys Ericsson, while declarative code gets a grip

Contributing Editor Annie Turner looks at some of the market and technology moves around network... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

6th June 20226th June 2022

Dynamic Orchestration- Driving end-to-end network automation and service

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 10th May 2022. Francis Haysom, Partner... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

6th June 2022

FutureNet World 2022 – Review

Contributed by Robert Curran, Appledore Research. Back to the Future(Net) May 2022 saw the welcome... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

1st June 20221st June 2022

Google moves further into telco, HPE automates the RAN and DISH ponders 5G deadline

The Linux Foundation, the open source community, said it has formed project Nephio in partnership... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

6th May 2022

The Growth of CI/CD in Network Automation

Contributed By: Morgan Stern, VP Automation Strategy, Itential Among the more enjoyable tasks that my... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration

10th April 202210th April 2022

Multi-cloud dangers for telcos, automating fixed networks and the future of network slicing

March kept up the pace of developments for future networks that was set by MWC... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

7th April 20227th April 2022

Intelligent infrastructure was at the heart of this year’s MWC

This year’s theme was Connectivity Unleashed, and so it was, writes Contributing Editor Annie Turner.... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

8th March 20228th March 2022

MTN ups network automation ante across its entire footprint

Elsewhere Jio celebrates accolades for its pioneering use of API and clouds continue to gather,... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

7th February 20227th February 2022

Panel Discussion – Dynamic orchestration & intelligent assurance – paving the road to the intelligent, zero touch networks

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet MEA on the 26th January 2022. Srushti Ghisad, Senior... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Intelligent OSS

7th February 20227th February 2022

AWS Outage Fails to Encourage Migrating Network to Public Cloud

Contributing Editor Annie Turner takes a brief look at recent network automation highlights – and... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

12th January 202213th January 2022

New Approaches Address End-to-End Network and Service Orchestration (E2ENSO) Challenges (Updated)

Report Snapshot Next generation networks and 5G are all about services delivered with high reliability,... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

10th January 202210th January 2022

Why end-to-end service orchestration is a must for conducting network symphonies

Contributed by Ofer Farkash, Product and Solutions Marketing Director, Amdocs. Why does an orchestra need... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

4th January 2022

AWS launches Private 5G – an automated, managed network out of the box

Contributing Editor Annie Turner looks at November’s biggest moves in network automation. Amazon Web Services... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

2nd December 202127th January 2022

Panel Discussion: Dynamic orchestration: Paving the road to the intelligent, autonomous networks

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet Asia on the 27th October 2021. George Glass, Chief... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

10th November 2021

Reinventing operations through cloudification, automation and disaggregation

Thomas van Briel is SVP, Architecture & Strategy at Deutsche Telekom. He talked to contributing... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

4th November 202110th November 2021

DISH add Helium to 5G, IBM buys Volta to manage cloud resources

News in brief: a lot went on in October in network automation. Were you paying... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

4th November 20214th November 2021

Panel: Intelligent assurance for next-gen services & dynamic orchestration: Evolution or Revolution?

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet Asia on the 27th October 2021. James Crawshaw, Principal... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

3rd November 20213rd November 2021

FutureNet Asia 2021 Preview

Six key speakers at our FutureNet World Asia event answered a rapid round of questions... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS , Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

21st October 202131st March 2022

Removing Telco Ecosystem Complexities through End-to-End Service Orchestration

Free Download. The telecommunications industry has undergone major transformations over the years. As many Communications... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

20th October 20211st April 2022

FutureNet Asia,Telstra Speaker Interview

Kim Krogh Andersen, Product & Technology – Group Executive, Telstra, is speaking on a Panel... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration

18th October 202110th November 2021

FutureNet Asia, Airtel Speaker Interview

Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Airtel, is speaking on the Panel: The Network of the Future and... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS

15th October 202110th November 2021

News in Brief: Open RAN breaks into an autumn gallop

A brief look at developments in network automation in September by Contributing Editor Annie Turner.... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

4th October 20215th November 2021

News in Brief: Microsoft acquires AT&T’s automation IP as operator moves 5G core to Azure

Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up the latest automation highlights. AT&T caused something of a... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

5th August 20215th August 2021

News in Brief: Hard to tell where telco ends and cloud begins

Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up the latest automation highlights. Google announced it has joined... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

1st July 20218th September 2021

Hear from the Winners

FutureNet World announced the world-beating winners of its prestigious industry awards during its eponymous, award-winning... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

3rd June 20214th June 2021

News in Brief

Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up the latest automation highlights. Blue Planet (a division of... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

3rd June 20214th June 2021

FutureNet World selected as the WINNER of the Virtual Events Awards

We are delighted to announce that the 3rd edition of FutureNet World that took place... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Service Assurance & AI, Zero Touch Automation

2nd June 20213rd June 2021

April 2021 News

Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up April’s automation highlights. Automation everywhere: cranes, RAN and business... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

7th May 20217th May 2021

Panel: Dynamic Orchestration: Driving end-to-end network automation and service orchestration across multiple domains

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 20th April 2021. Accelerating new service... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Service Assurance & AI

3rd May 202119th November 2021

Getting the most out of the 5G Revolution

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 20th April 2021. Zero-touch orchestration of... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

3rd May 202119th November 2021

How service orchestration and customer experience can be smarter than the network

Watch On-Demand. Broadcast live at FutureNet World on the 20th April 2021. Network orchestration: Breaking... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

3rd May 202112th May 2021

Learn to Love Your Network Again

Contributed by Christian Uremovic, Director of Marketing, Infinera. Top Six Key Learnings from Automated Orchestrated... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

9th April 202110th November 2021

Airtel’s network automation is as inevitable as water obeying gravity

Airtel’s CTO Randeep Sekhon and Bradley Mead of Ericsson talked to Contributing Editor Annie Turner... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Intelligent OSS

6th April 202122nd September 2021

March 2021 News

Operators embrace automation as a disruptive force Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up March’s automation... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

2nd April 20216th April 2021

February 2021 News

Network automation market set to boom post-Covid Contributing Editor Annie Turner rounds up February’s automation... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

3rd March 20214th March 2021

January 2021 News

Access networks are where the action is. Contributing editor Annie Turner rounds up AI and... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

4th February 20214th March 2021

AI and ML in the networks: risky business or critical to success?

STL Partners and Futurenet World are running a free survey for telecoms operators, benchmarking the... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Service Assurance & AI

4th February 20215th August 2021

December 2020 News

Automation moves up the agenda As we look forward to what 2021 brings, Contributing Editor... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

6th January 20216th January 2021

Betting on the automation clash: Sumo vs Kung Fu

Contributed by Stefan Walraven, Co-founder and CEO, Inmanta. Automation is all about change… The real... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

6th November 202010th November 2021

How will orchestration work across all layers: transport, core, access?

Telefonica, NTT DoCoMo and TEOCO talk orchestration and the key drivers for a new ops... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Service Assurance & AI

22nd September 202012th November 2020

AT&T & Colt inter-operator commercial automation use case: Lifecycle Service Orchestration

Colt’s Global Head of Network on Demand shares insight into the interoperator use case with... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration

22nd September 20204th May 2021

Zero Touch Operations – creating sustainable reductions in operational costs, managing the complexity and simplifying service introduction: what are the keys to success?

Listen to DT, Vodafone Egypt and HPE exploring the roadmap to Zero Touch operations and... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Zero Touch Automation

22nd September 202012th November 2020

5G and Network slices to revolutionise Enterprise networks: Can we really launch and scale 5G without automation?

This case study focuses on Telia’s automation journey and how they are leveraging the 5G... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

22nd September 20204th May 2021

Automated AI-Enabled Networks: A competitive edge – Does the first mover win?

This panel features Elisa, TIM, Proximus and Nokia and focuses on the lessons learnt from... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Intelligent OSS

22nd September 202012th November 2020

Zero Touch Automation: Myth or Reality

Listen to Blue Planet’s view on the role of Zero Touch in business transformation

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks, Zero Touch Automation

22nd September 20204th May 2021

Automated Service Orchestration: delivering true value and new capabilities in a 5G world

Orchestrating and automating network functions with agility from the core to the edge, and from private to... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Autonomous Networks

9th July 20205th August 2021