Earlier this week, Nokia Networks issued a press release naming NetNumber as one of several innovation champions in their Silicon Valley Open Innovation Challenge. Finalists were invited to participate in a two-day event to explore the topic of innovation. NetNumber was the most mature company to be included, having been Read more…
This week, NetNumber is at the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam. The event kicked off with a Signaling Focus Day. One question that came up a couple of times throughout the day – is NFV a solution looking for a problem? In our viewpoint, NFV provides value today where the Read more…
Brad Boston, NetNumber President and CEO In our multi-part blog series, we are examining how carriers can accelerate migration to next-gen services, increase service agility, mitigate signaling surges, and reduce operating costs. This week’s blogger is Brad Boston, NetNumber President and CEO. Before joining NetNumber, Brad served in several executive Read more…
Pieter Veenstra, NetNumber Lead Solutions Architect In our multi-part blog series, we are examining how carriers can accelerate migration to next-gen services, increase service agility, mitigate signaling surges, and reduce operating costs. In this week’s post, we examine how carriers can best solve the “signaling surge.” Our blogger is Pieter Veenstra, Read more…
Michael Senn, Lead Solutions Architect, NetNumber In our multi-part blog series, we are examining how carriers can accelerate migration to next-gen services, increase service agility, mitigate signaling surges, and reduce operating costs. In this week’s post, we look at the promise of NFV and caution carriers against choosing solutions that Read more…
Author: Kim Gibbons – Chief Marketing Officer, NetNumber Over the past several weeks, the NetNumber leadership team has been visiting with customers to discuss their most pressing technical and business challenges. We’ve heard pretty consistently that the ever-growing complexity in managing the signaling within and between their data, voice and Read more…
Author: Kim Gibbons – Chief Marketing Officer, NetNumber Signaling has become the hot buzzword in telecom networks. Managing signaling traffic, combined with the requirement for dynamic provisioning, is fast becoming one of the biggest challenges for operators–and one of the most-written about topics by reporters, analysts and bloggers. That’s understandable Read more…
Anyone who hires talent understands the process takes time and effort. For the past several months, I’ve been focused on finding and hiring the very best sales and solutions design talent in our industry. I’m ready to declare “success” as I’ve completed my initial expansion of the NetNumber Sales and Read more…
The next-generation IMS architecture shown in the diagram below provides our industry with a well defined set of standardized functional elements that interact over a well defined set of standardize interfaces. However, as I look at the diagram two thoughts come to mind: Wow, this is complicated. (In the end, Read more…
Virtually every communications service provider on the planet is engaged (at some level) in a transition from a legacy TDM circuit-switch network built on TCAP and ISUP signaling to a next-generation multi-service core based on SIP and DIAMETER signaling. As an industry, we’ve been making slow but patient progress in Read more…