The newly appointed Chief
Technology Officer for Iskratel, Damijan Slapar has said that
telecommunications service operators must learn new tricks to profitable
business model, if they want to survive in the changing world, reports
ITRealms.
Speaking at the
opening day of Fiber to the home (FTTH) Conference 2017, in
Marseille, France, Mr. Slapar said that operators that continue
to rely on box equipment for fiber networks will not be as successful
as those working with system integrators which could install, manage and
monitor end-to-end solutions, enabling the provision of new services and
generation of additional revenue streams.
According to him, the time has come for local operators to
embrace the new business models being created by fiber networks and
virtualization techniques, with those that ignore these opportunities likely to
miss out on their share of the market.
“Following the
disruption to the telecoms market from over-the-top (OTT) players, operators are
now in an advantageousposition,” says Slapar. “Instead of
having to find ways to fight against the cloud-service offerings from traditional
web service providers, they can now prepare their own and capitalize on
the market’s shift towards virtualization.
“Once operators take
advantage of this, a plethora of new opportunities will open up to
them. These are not just the moretraditional triple-play services, but improved,
agile offerings such as local-cloud connectivity, fully managed
services andenterprise networks.
“These managed OTT services not
only provide operators with an easy win in terms of service delivery, they also
benefit their local community in the long term by empowering
residents, driving innovation and facilitating new businesses.”
Slapar was speaking as the
FTTH Conference, held in Marseille, France, opens its doors to
an expected 3,000 visitors.Iskratel is among the companies that will
exhibit, with its portfolio of fiber products providing end-to-end
networking solutions for operators across the globe.
Iskratel’s range of
offerings includes its software-defined broadband solutions – which
help operators easily migrate tosoftware-defined networking based
infrastructures to increase productivity and reduce costs. At the
show, visitors will be able to experience first-hand Iskratel’s innovative equipment portfolio of optical
line terminals and home gateways for seamless smart home
connectivity, which allows operators to provide improved service
quality and increase revenues by offering cloud-based product bundles.
“It is critical for
operators to be able to evolve their methods to fit the changing connectivity
marketplace,” added Slapar. “Asfiber deployments grow and
software-defined networks become the norm, operators need to be agile enough to
take advantage of the business benefits provided by reduced complexity and
simpler mass provisioning.”
Pix: Damijan Slapar
