Communications service providers (CSPs) are finding themselves facing fierce competition in the business services segment, both from OTT giants offering simple – and cheap – cloud connectivity services, and from SD-WAN vendors offering a low-cost alternative to IP VPNs.
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Welcome to the official blog of RAD, a global telecom access solutions and products vendor. We’ll be blogging on a wide range of hot topics affecting service providers and critical infrastructure network operators. Our resident experts will be discussing vCPE, Cyber Security, 5G, Industrial IoT and much, much more.
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- Aug 19, 2019
- Jul 21, 2019
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has gone through interesting dynamics. From a predominately enterprise data center technology to a distributed solution adopted by communications service providers for the network edge in the form of vCPE (virtual Customer Premises Equipment).
- Jul 08, 2019
The telecommunications community has been so fixated on the question of whether we can afford not attaining 5G as soon as possible that no-one in the community seems to be asking whether we can afford attaining it.
- Jul 01, 2019
This is the final post in a three-part SD-WAN series by AvidThink on the evolution of SD-WAN, vCPE, uCPE and the emerging importance of the vCPE operating system.
- Jun 24, 2019
In the last installment I endeavored to convince you that a lot of what you have heard about 5G is both technologically plausible and has real-life application.
- Jun 17, 2019
This is the second of a three-part SD-WAN series by AvidThink on the evolution of SD-WAN, vCPE, uCPE and the emerging importance of the vCPE operating system. The first article examined the origins of the vCPE and SD-WAN. This second article focuses on the importance of the vCPE operating system, while the third and final article will discuss the future evolution of the vCPE platform.
- Jun 10, 2019
Unless you live an incredibly sheltered life, you have probably heard a lot about how great 5G is going to be. And unless you are incredibly naïve, you probably don’t believe a word of it.
- Jun 03, 2019
This is the first of a three-part SD-WAN series on the evolution of SD-WAN, vCPE, uCPE and the emerging importance of the vCPE operating system. In this first article, we'll examine the origins of the SD-WAN with respect to vCPEs and follow with a second article focusing on the vCPE platform; the third and last article will discuss the evolution of the vCPE and SD-WAN.
- May 27, 2019
In our last blog post, we’ve discussed how critical infrastructure communications networks are affected by equipment vendors discontinuing their legacy devices in favor of newer generations.
- May 20, 2019
RAD’s blog typically focuses on new, disruptive technologies, but we mustn’t forget that many network operators – including critical communications such as for utilities, transportation, first responders, etc., – still employ a vast array of legacy communications equipment and infrastructure to transport voice and sensitive data, including SCADA and Teleprotection.
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