Software Defined Networking (SDN): A Potential 'Game-Changer'

Software Defined Networking is a technological approach to designing and managing networks that has the potential to increase operator agility, lower costs, and disrupt the vendor landscape. Its initial impact has been within leading-edge data centres, but it also has the potential to spread into many other network areas, including core public telecoms networks. This briefing analyses its potential benefits and use cases, outlines strategic scenarios and key action plans for telcos, summarises key vendor positions, and why it is so important for both the telco and vendor communities to adopt and exploit SDN capabilities now. (More)

Drive Transformation and Innovation - NOW!

Red Bull Media, Orange Digital, Neul, Telefonica Digital and Barclays will now join senior executives from Tesco, Amazon, Everything Everywhere, Visa, Telefonica O2, BBC Worldwide, Etisalat, Virgin Media, Deutsche Telekom, Anghami, Mobily, Orange and Verizon converging in London in June this year for the New Digital Economics EMEA Executive Brainstorm, to review and share best practice and apply creative thinking to drive and enhance digital transformation and innovation in their industries and organisations today.

There are just 15 seats remaining, if you have not yet secured your place, please apply to participate here.

Confirmed participants include:

James Brown Head of Business Development Amazon		Paolo Campoli CTO Cisco		Jurgen Hase Head of M2M Competence Center Deutsche Telekom		Peter Northing Director of Commercial Red Bull Media
Ricardo Varela Head of Customer Development @ BlueVia, Telefonica Digital		Shuja Khan Commercial Director Virgin Media		Luke Vinogradov Product Lead, Mobile Apps & Online User Experience Tesco		Pierre Briffaut CEO Orange Digital

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This year’s invitation only Exec Brainstorm is taking place on 5-6 June at the exclusive Wyndham Grand Hotel in Chelsea Harbour. Building on the success & agenda of last year’s event, discussions will focus on:

Digital Economy: Strategic Growth Opportunities for a Hyper-Connected World
• Digital Transformation: How to build 'Industry 2.0'
• Customers: How to address new sources of value
• Infrastructure: Harnessing Cloud, SDN, and Security

Digital Commerce: Closing the Loop between Advertising & Payments
• SoMoLo: resolving merchants' pain points and delivering to customers
• Advertising and Marketing: Making Mobile Pay

Digital Things: New Opportunities from the 'Internet of Things'
• M2M & IoT: Strategies and Business Models
• Platform Requirements (infrastructure, commercials, standards)

Big Data: Exploiting the New Oil for the New Economy
• Best use cases to realise value from data
• Who will be the leading brokers of personal data?

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Cloud 2.0: Telco Strategies in the Cloud

Telco 2.0 presents a new strategy report examining the evolution of cloud services; the current opportunities for vendors and Telcos in the Cloud market, plus a penetrating analysis on the positioning Telcos need to adapt in order to take advantage of the potential $200Bn global Cloud services market. This report offers over 140 pages of insightful commentary from those who've been working at the cutting edge, and includes an introduction to the sector's key technologies and emerging trends, as well as detailed recommendations for Telcos and vendors. (More)