All Interview articles – Page 5

Interview

Droniq COO: BVLOS flight within sight

2020-12-11T10:31:00Z

Ralph Schepp talks regulatory hurdles, market potential, and use-cases. DT-DFS JV sets high ambitions for traffic management platform. Partners brought in, with DT staying close.

Interview

Interview: Telekom Security CEO Thomas Fetten charts growth course

2020-11-27T09:59:00Z

Thomas Fetten gets to work on focusing T-Sec portfolio and charting course for growth, while looking for M&A, JVs, and partnership opportunities. Key growth areas include industrial control, cloud, and consulting. Regional focus is Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for now; geographic expansion planned for next phase.

Vendor Voice

Salesforce Industries: bringing cloud Vlocity to telco CX

2020-11-26T11:47:00Z

As the CRM giant sharpens its focus on telco transformation, Salesforce Industries highlights the need for operators to lose legacy baggage, embrace cultural change, and focus on collaboration to move at digital pace. Experience of acquisition Vlocity demonstrates three trends in telco transformation, from gradual evolution to enthusiastic adoption ...

Interview

Gawendo strategy to “move the needle” at Telefónica

2020-10-29T14:15:00Z

Telefónica honing a venture strategy that aligns with current Group priorities and brings in new technology partners without dulling their edge. Gawendo paints picture of the telco ventures sector as collegial and collaborative as co-opetition reigns. Chema Alonso’s influence seen nudging Telefónica investment portfolio towards consumer propositions.

Vendor Voice

F5: telcos need allies for digital leap forward

2020-10-16T15:47:00Z

In an interview with BTwatch, key figures from F5’s European operations discuss the application security service provider’s relationship with BT Group in the wake of securing a place on the telco’s streamlined list of 15 certified security partners. Richard Holben, the vendor’s BT Global Account Manager, and Ian Harris, ...

Interview

Interview: Julie Snell of the Scotland 5G Centre

2020-07-28T10:49:00Z

Former BT executive is relishing new challenge of bringing together a distinct and inclusive 5G strategy for Scotland. 5G continues to be a disruptive and highly politicised step-change in the telecoms industry’s development, with devolved government seeking policy differentiation from Westminster.

Vendor Voice

Interview: NETSCOUT’s journey across telco border

2020-03-25T15:08:00Z

Massachusetts, US-based vendor tapping into themes of cloud infrastructure, cost efficiency, and churn reduction. Lightening of product portfolio, through disaggregation, enabling expansion into new use-cases around security, CX, bid data, and enterprise IoT. Cost-conscious Vodafone an early mover on shift away from integrated hardware/software.

Vendor Voice

ADVA: Taking on the heavyweights in an evolving market

2020-02-04T17:01:00Z

Increasingly bullish vendor aiming to build on core strategic contract wins with BT to change its image and bring the spotlight onto its software and solutions portfolio in a virtualising environment. Major vendors still possess heavyweight advantages, but ADVA leveraging agility and reflexes of a middleweight champion. Importance of ...

Network & Infrastructure

Mavenir’s Cantarelli on OpenRAN vision

2019-10-25T14:42:00Z

Vision of new flexibility and optionality in operator RAN deployments; not just a cost-slicer. 5G piece to be added to OpenRAN by end of 2019; vendors position for network densification role. Operators still to adapt themselves culturally and organisationally to exploit OpenRAN changes.