Mobile Europe recently sat down with our very own John Baker, Senior Vice President of Business Development, to discuss why networks need to change for the 5G era in the latest 5G Insights Report. WHAT IS DRIVING OPERATOR 5G STRATEGIES TODAY – COST SAVINGS OR REVENUE GENERATION? John Baker: It’s actually both and you really can’t…
London Join Mavenir at UC EXPO to discuss how MNOs can leverage their existing networks to provide a seamless, prioritized user experience for enterprise customers. Today’s workforce is predominantly mobile, but traditional UCaaS solutions are designed around a wireline experience with mobility added as an afterthought. Find out how existing mobile network elements, such as…
A 32% local breakout will extend the current macrocell backhaul and EPC capacity by 25.6 months RICHARDSON, TX – May 15, 2018: Mavenir, a leader in software-based, end-to-end Cloud Native network solutions, today released a new study showing that U.S. mobile carriers could realize savings of more than $546 million over a five-year period by utilizing…
Operators are facing a dilemma – How to remain profitable while cost-effectively meeting rapidly escalating network capacity demands. Nearly 80 percent of user data that transmits an operator’s network is an encrypted video that only benefits OTTs. It is in each operator’s best interest to architect the network to off-load this traffic at the nearest…
We may not feel it yet, but something pretty significant just happened – and in a few years, we’ll be looking back at this moment as a paradigm shift for our industry. The xRAN Forum recently announced the availability of the xRAN Fronthaul Specification version 1.0, which defines open interfaces and simplifies interoperability between suppliers…but…
We have taken it for granted. When we use our smartphone, it is just another icon on the screen but, believe it or not, SMS is more than 35 years old. It was first proposed for the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) in 1982, although its most popular time was the late 90s and…
Meet Mavenir at CCA Mobile Carriers Show 2018 to learn how we are Transforming Mobile Network Economics. As the industry’s only end-to-end, cloud-native mobile network solution provider, Mavenir is focused on transforming mobile network economics. This vision is built on innovative, software-based solutions that enable new revenue streams while protecting existing revenue, and significantly lowering capex…
One of the leading enterprise opportunities for MNOs lies in the communications and collaboration space. There are two distinct options to deliver those services: on-premises software or software as a service. These options provide a similar, if not identical, user experience but represent different deployment models and cost structures. UCC ON-PREMISES SOFTWARE UCC encompasses applications and solutions…
Not so long ago (October 2017) Bloomberg reported how new start-up SMSChain would enable consumers to sell unused capacity from their SMS allowance to enterprises that wanted to use SMS as a communication channel: $75 each month for 500 messages per day (approx. 0.5c per message), according to SMSChain. On one hand, it makes sense: SMS can…
Operators are beginning to grasp the scale and potential of A2P (Application to Person) messaging revenues, and how advances in messaging technology will enable them to overcome the dominance of OTT messaging apps. Juniper research forecasts that A2P messaging revenues will hit $50B globally by 2022. With the right strategies in place, operators can dominate…
