Listen to MYCOM OSI president and CTO Mounir Ladki, who has been recognized twice by "Global Telecoms Business" as one of the leading 40 under 40 executives in the Telecoms industry worldwide. At AfricaCom 2015 in Cape Town this year, I noticed the MYCOM OSI team was always swamped with conference participant conversations, so I asked if I could record a conversation with Mr. Ladki about 5G, OTT, smart automation and analytics and other topics pertinent to communications service providers who are ready to become digital service providers. Happy new year 2016! Let's make life better than ever!
Service assurance in the mobile and telecommunications business helps companies to maintain and maximize networks for peak performance. Right? It helps to optimize quality of service with a goal of top proficiency and efficiency. OSS (operations support systems) services companies' portfolios cannot stick with just business as usual if they want to guide their first and other tier "communications service providers" to become "digital service providers." Two examples to expand services are automation and analytics. That is what MYCOM OSI does.
Mounir Ladki says in a recent DIDX telecom and mobile related podcast that to be really successful in the mobile and telecommunications space, one has to have more than one area of expertise, not just software, just telecom, or just OSS and IT, but a combination of all. There are, of course, proponents of specialization in one area, but MYCOM OSI makes the combination method work well for top tier communications service provider customers such as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Maxis, STC, Telefonica, Telenor, T-Mobile, and Verizon,
The business model of MYCOM OSI's solutions development is quite agile with input very welcome from customers. Collaboration with customers is one of their goals.
"We implement this agile cycle. Learn fast. Fail fast. Move on to discover the successful part," says Mounir Ladki (about 6:41 into the podcast.)
He compares 5G's deep impact of today to that of the industrial revolution of 1760 - 1840. The cotton gin, the telephone, the perfected design of the lightbulb and more were absolutely changemaking just as the smartest phones and other devices and the abilities to entertain, secure, inform and build business over the Internet are today.
The UK's 5G Innovation Centre is funded by the UK government. Mounir, who is on the advisory board of the TM Forum (TeleManagement Forum and the Network Management Forum,) says there is much conversation surrounding 5G, a mobile communications technology. What are the key capabilities that we want 5G to deliver? Other popular topics are modulation schemes and radio propagation.
Around 9:33.0, Mounir Ladki and I switch our discussion to the acronym "NFV" which stands for "Network Functions Virtualization" and the ITEXPO East 2016 NFV SDN schedule. He says that 5G translates to the telecom world what has been happening in the IT...computing industry in the recent past...virtualization. It is very costly to run a telecom network, so of course, communications service providers are looking for ways to reduce that cost. NFV enables them to take their data and operating systems back to the cloud, reducing expenses and increasing opportunity to innovate.
Mr. Ladki says that communications service providers "spend a lot of money on infrastructure, but in the end, most of the revenue goes to what we call OTT, over the top Internet companies, the likes of Google, Amazon, and Facebook...NFV gives the agility the communications service providers need to launch services that correspond to their customers' requirements in realtime."
MYCOM acquired OSI in 2014. Throughout the last 20 years, they both have become major industry-leading operations support systems experts, so together, they are well-respected OSS experts in mobile and telecommunications especially.
Related URLs:
Key differentiators for the mobile network of the future by Mounir Ladki
NFV Offers Potential for Carriers Looking to Profit from the Cloud by Susan J. Campbell
Questions to Ask in Choosing the Right VNF for NFV Solution by Jim Machi
DIDX Podcast with OSS and Communications Service Provider Service Assurance Expert MYCOM OSI president and CTO Mounir Ladki
Telecom, mobile, IT type events I will be and where I'd like to network with my readers:
Convergence India January 20 - 22, New Delhi, India
ITEXPO East January 26 - 28, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
GSMA Mobile World Congress February 22 - 25, Barcelona, Spain
Enterprise Connect March 7 - 10, Orlando, FL, USA
