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A1 Telekom Austria Group and Amdocs showcase end-to-end 5G network slicing
Amdocs , a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies , has announced the completion of an end-to-end 5G network slicing Proof of Concept ( PoC ) with A1 Telekom Austria Group . The PoC demonstrates the ability of Amdocs ’ endto-end service and network orchestration offering to drive next-generation experiences and on-demand connectivity for consumers and enterprises through the deployment , management and monetisation of 5G network slices .
Network slicing , which is enabled by 5G Standalone ( SA ), allows communications service providers to address specific customer requirements through the creation of multiple high capacity , low latency dedicated and shared services across the same physical and virtual network .
The project with the European operator highlights the benefits of Amdocs ’ vendoragnostic , multi-domain , flexible service and network orchestration solution and its ability to automate and simplify the provisioning and life cycle management of 5G network slices . During the trial , Amdocs ’ solution was used to demonstrate end-to-end life cycle management of 5G network slices and virtualised applications over public / private cloud and Edge , including design , build , instantiation , modification and termination with automatic closed-loop capabilities .
Amdocs also showcased the monetisation potential of next-generation 5G SA by creating new and innovative commercial models that are aligned with 3GPP standards , including a simulated customerfacing portal for ordering network slices . The conclusion of the PoC was that both design time and time to market were significantly reduced from hours or days to just minutes .
Critical operations threatened by application incompatibility for over three-quarters of businesses
Over three-quarters of organisations ( 77 %) have at least one application that is not compatible with the latest version of Windows , with up to a quarter of all applications ( 25 %) incompatible for 89 % of organisations . This is according to new research of UK and US CIOs commissioned by Cloudhouse – an application compatibility packaging and configuration management solutions provider .
Despite these findings , almost a third of businesses ( 32 %) reported that between 16-25 % of their applications are critical to their business operations , while 36 % cited modernisation as an urgent priority . Ensuring application compatibility is therefore pivotal , but organisations are also hesitant to initiate such projects , with almost a quarter of organisations ( 24 %) either not at all or not very confident in their ability to fully upgrade these platforms to be 100 % compatible with the latest version of the Windows operating system .
This lack of confidence among CIOs may stem from the fact that half of all businesses ( 50 %) feel that there is a significant amount of work to still be done to modernise applications for compatibility with newer Windows versions . Additionally , 25 % believe that they ’ ve now ironed out most issues , but there is still some work to be done to ensure modernisation . Only one in five ( 20 %) have a comprehensive plan in place .
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