QUEBEC, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – EXFO, the communications industry’s test, monitoring and analytics experts, today announced that MTN Group has successfully deployed EXFO’s Context dynamic topology solution in 14 African countries as part of MTN’s digital transformation initiative, targeting improved network inventory, security, and performance functions. MTN is Africa’s largest mobile network operator, providing voice, data, fintech, digital, enterprise, wholesale, and API services to more than 270 million customers in 19 markets. [Read more…]

DUBLIN, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The “Mobile Wallet and Payment Technologies: Global Markets” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The market for mobile wallets and payment technologies is shifting toward digitization and expanding options for customers for online transactions and cashless payments. The rapid surge in the adoption of intelligent devices such as smartphones, growing internet penetration and rising government initiatives to develop smart cities in many countries fuels demand for mobile wallets and payment technologies, globally. Increasing acceptance of mobile wallet payments and offers provided by key market players, along with government initiatives and regulations, will enhance the growth of mobile wallet payments across end-use industries. [Read more…]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Communications Data Group (CDG) is pleased to announce that Archtop Fiber, a new fiber-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) serving residential and business customers across the Northeast, has selected CDG’s online subscriber billing and customer care system, MBS, as their BSS/OSS solution.

“We are very excited to welcome Archtop to the CDG family,” remarked CDG’s CTO, Tony Stout. “Archtop Fiber is a great example of the evolution of ISPs. They are creating a next generation network, with an aggressive growth plan to deliver the latest fiber network services to homes and businesses in their region. CDG is proud to partner with Archtop Fiber, and we look forward to providing them with our next generation BSS/OSS tools to fuel their growth goals.” [Read more…]

Nokia and Telia Finland have announced the launch of the first commercial 5G standalone network (SA), with network slicing to provide Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), services. Telia will be offering 5G SA as part of its 5G Fixed Wireless Access home broadband services. It is also able to offer a variety of broadband deals that provide guaranteed service levels to customers in Finland. Telia will be able to leverage its leadership position to offer enhanced connectivity and capacity benefits for its customers with these solutions. The deployment is under way. [Read more…]

Nokia has announced that it will expand its industrial portfolio of equipment to enable private wireless network connectivity across North America. Nokia Connectivity Operations Dashboard, the new Nokia 5G Industrial Fieldrouter and Dongle, radio access spectrum capabilities, and the Nokia 5G Industrial fieldrouter will give more options for the deployment of private, reliable 4G/LTE/5G wireless networks for cities, schools, and other entities. [Read more…]

Skyline Communications is a global leader in digital transformation solutions for ICT media, broadband and other industries. Viaplay chose Skyline’s DataMiner to manage their production workflows, signal routing, and distribution across multiple countries. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), recently announced new user experience testing solutions for the most resource intensive – and latency sensitive – OTT applications and interactive 5G services. Innovatively combining various generic testing techniques, sophisticated real live service traffic pattern emulations and machine learning (ML) algorithms, Infovista enables mobile operators to fully test not only their networks, but also the user experience of any native or OTT applications and services running over them. The Infovista user experience testing portfolio includes sQLEAR, Infovista’s VoLTE and VoNR voice quality testing solution, and new generic testing solutions for OTT voice services, OTT video streaming, and interactive services including e-gaming, remote drone control and video conferencing. [Read more…]

The number of providers who are adopting MEF LSO APIs to standardize and automate negotiation of services with customer and suppliers has increased significantly. The APIs currently cover serviceability, quoting and ordering of services and are already being used in production with many providers. AT&T was one of the first providers to adopt LSO APIs with more than a dozen suppliers already in production, increasing to around twenty suppliers by the end of this year. In the past each supplier had to work directly from the standards specification documents and API definitions to develop their implementation. This often led to differences in interpretations and basic errors resulting in prolonged and problematic interoperability testing. As the number of suppliers who implement the LSO APIs increases the need for an efficient, scalable means to onboard and test interoperability is apparent. [Read more…]

Anritsu and Comprion has recently announced the availability of downloadable 5G and 4G eSIM test profiles for use with Anritsu’s MT8000A Radio Communications Test Station and Rapid Test Designer (RTD) application software. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), recently announced Precision Drive Testing™ to bring a ML/AI data-driven approach and automation to network testing, significantly reducing the cost and time of 5G network testing. The patent-pending Precision Drive Testing leverages 5G network, service and customer data, and ML/AI techniques to increase the speed and accuracy of 5G testing process. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), recently announced Infovista Ativa™, its new suite of cloud-native applications for Automated Assurance and Operations of cloudified, fixed, IP and wireless networks. The Ativa suite of applications addresses the complexity of network and service management to provide CSPs with a single source of truth for 360° visibility, interoperability and predictive automation, from the customer to the network resource and underlying infrastructure. [Read more…]

Reformis, the award-winning global financial services consulting firm, recently appointed Dave Harvey as Principal Consultant within the Advisory Practice. Dave has worked at some of the world’s leading investment firms such as; Northern Trust, Barclays Wealth, BlueBay LLP and Pictet Asset Management. Most notably, he brings over 20 years of experience of working with Charles River systems and specialises in developing target operating models, system selection advisory services, as well as leading implementation and business change programmes. [Read more…]

Rimes recently announced the appointment of Renaud Larzilliere as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. Renaud leads the sales engineering, implementation, client services and enterprise project management teams, and is a member of the Executive Committee. Renaud will continue to lead the Rimes technology group, of which he’s been the CTO for the five years. [Read more…]

MDX Technology (MDXT), a leading provider of trader collaboration solutions, continues the expansion of its leadership team by announcing the appointment of Nigel Someck as global VP of Sales. Nigel joins from Livingstone Technologies, where he was the commercial Head of the Managed Services team. Before this, Nigel spent over 12 years in business leadership roles in several highly successful fintech firms, including Sungard (now FIS) and Imagine Software. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), recently announced Automated Single Site Verification (SSV) to automate 5G cell site validation, saving time and cost for mobile operators deploying and testing new and existing multi-site 5G networks. The new automated 5G network testing solution reduces testing time and errors by only testing and collecting required service-specific testing KPIs. Automated SSV enables automatic sweet spot selection by not only predicting where to drive and what tests to perform, but also which hot spots and critical areas should be tested and then autonomously conducting the network testing routine. This automation of network testing processes removes trial and error and significantly reduces the time to market of 5G. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), has announced its innovative Smart CAPEX solution for operators and businesses designing, deploying and operating 5G networks. Smart CAPEX accelerates and increases the return on investment (ROI) from 5G network rollout, expansion and densification by intelligently calculating and optimizing the predicted business outcomes – including revenue, churn and quality of experience. The solution enables senior business and technology leaders to develop a holistic business case for network investments based on a common expectation and understanding of how network investment drives revenue growth. This enables, for the first time, a shift in focus in network planning, from network KPI optimization to business outcomes optimization, by combining diverse and numerous network and business predictions within a single vendor-neutral software application. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced its 360° Assurance set of solutions to support predictive, real-time and automated customer experience assurance across any operator’s end-to-end network, from a single application. The 360° Assurance solutions provide unified visibility and automation capabilities designed to support and enable more efficient service operations driven by CSPs’ end customer experiences, for specific services, including SLA-backed 5G network slicing, mobile voice (VoNR), fixed voice and SD-WAN. They are designed to accelerate the monetization of differentiated Quality of Experience (QoE) and new business services based on advanced network connectivity, at scale, whilst reducing the cost of advanced customer experience assurance scenarios through automation. [Read more…]

RIMES has apppointed Stuart Pemble as Chief Financial Officer. Stuart will oversee Finance, Legal Affairs and Corporate Strategy for RIMES and join the Executive Committee. [Read more…]

Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) announced that XL Axiata, the number one converged network operator in Indonesia is using the VIAVI ONMSi Optical Network Management System to increase visibility into their fiber network. With intelligent remote test and monitoring capabilities, the ONMSi solution allows the operator to ensure peak performance, minimize downtime and optimize subscriber experience. [Read more…]

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) recently announced an expansion of its relationship with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) that will further TIP’s Open AFC Software Group and help spur global adoption of Wi-Fi in the new 6 GHz unlicensed band. The partnership will maximize the full benefits of 6 GHz Wi-Fi – today Wi-Fi 6E, and the near future, Wi-Fi 7 – and all types of use cases that can benefit from it, including indoor and outdoor venues that have adopted OpenRoaming. [Read more…]