The continuous development of telecommunications networks in recent years has made it extremely complex to manage both the elements of these networks and their underlying services. Network resource inventories offer telecommunications operators, also known as telcos, an opportunity to record and manage their complete set of “assets” (physical and logical) in a single system. This…
Before a few years ago, a company’s architecture was limited to hardware resources such as servers, switches or storage cabinets. Today, however, there are big differences that have enabled companies and end-consumers to design their architecture according to their real needs. If we go back a couple of decades, the few existing pay-as-you-go models were…
What is Cloud Native software development? Cloud Native Development is a set of software development methods that benefits from the cloud computing model to create and run applications, managing the complexity of the required architecture, and enabling faster delivery of functionality and updates. The Cloud Native approach focuses on splitting a large problem into smaller…
The Infrastructure as Code paradigm relies on the management and provision of infrastructure through code instead of manual processes. The state of the infrastructure is stored in files containing a representation of its configuration. However, this does not need to be the exact configuration. It can be a data model to generate the configuration or…
Metaverse The term “metaverse” comes from the Greek word “meta” (beyond) and the root “verse” from the word “universe”. Neal Stephenson was the first person to ever use this term in his novel Snow Crash, published in 1992, which recreates its own universe based on the real world. A rather unthinkable scenario thirty years ago.…
There is no simple answer to the question of our title. We have recently heard of different news related to different password managers which are listed below. But, before we start, it is necessary to contextualize and explain what a password manager is. According to Wikipedia, password managers are: “A password manager is a software…
Those of us who live inside the world of technology are used to the continuous wave of new terms and technologies, which very often are just noise and marketing. Fortunately, every now and then the waves throw some treasures. In this case, it has left Service Mesh on the shore. Monolithic architectures have long been…
According to a survey conducted by McKinsey Global, because of the COVID-19 crisis, companies have accelerated their digital transformation the equivalent of 3 or 4 years in a few months [1]. Communications service providers (CSP) are protagonists of the digital transformation of the rest of the sectors since they feed them by providing an important…
Towards digital transformation For a company that operates outside the telco sector, the corporate telecommunications network is not usually its business but simply a ‘utility’, necessary today, and that contributes to its viability. Through the digital transformation based on SDN, the aim pursued by any company is to improve the user´s experience of using the…
A bit of History If we look back, hasn´t been so long ago since the operation and maintenance (O&M) of big networks, such as those of a communications service provider (CSP), was done in a monolithic way. Initially, network problems were detected when it was too late. The current operator guessed which systems were related…