White papers

In this section, you will find free white papers and thought leadership to download.

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An automated, platform-based approach to RAN virtualization is key to achieving its benefits

Mobile network operators are virtualising the radio access network (RAN) to gain benefits such as lower total cost of ownership, greater agility in sc...

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Enhancing operator business services with 5G

This report explores how telecoms operators should prepare themselves to benefit from the 5G opportunity in the business market....

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Falling Behind: Comparing 5G spectrum policies in Canada and OECD countries

This paper captures 3.4–4.2GHz spectrum availability in 24 higher-income OECD markets and contrasts spectrum availability in Canada with that in...

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The Whole Truth - how to become a successful wholesaler

This paper, sponsored by Nokia, assesses how new infrastructure providers can best exploit the wholesale opportunity, helping their customers to overc...

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Multi-vendor network management: bridging legacy and 5G networks

Digital transformation and network disaggregation has fuelled CSPs’ approach to multi-vendor networks, but legacy element and network management...

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  • 21 September 2021
  • Perspective
  • Research
The role and importance of automation in converged SDN transport networks

Consumers and enterprises continue to use innovative digital services that create increasing volumes of data traffic every day. As a result, service p...

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  • 15 September 2021
  • Perspective
  • Research
Large enterprises’ demand for communications and IT services: survey results 2021

This survey report explores how well-positioned communications service providers are to meet future enterprise demand for communications and IT servic...

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Digitization and virtualization of SATCOM networks: what does it all mean?

Satellite ground networks are in the midst of evolutionary challenges that will transform industry business ecosystems and ground network archite...

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The role of subsea cables in the economic transformation of the Middle East

This perspective focuses on the increasing investment in, and the socioeconomic impact of, subsea cable networks in the Middle East....

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Making the case for the true costs, benefits and risks of disaggregation in CSP IP networks

In this perspective, we discuss the key findings of Analysys Mason’s total cost of ownership (TCO) study that analyzes the capex and opex requir...

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