LUCA WiDS Madrid 2017 Roundup On Friday, we joined our colleagues from Synergic Partners to celebrate Stanford University’s Women in Data Science (WiDS) event for the first time ever in Madrid. This international event,...
LUCA The art of communication in times of change Confuncio said “what I hear, I forget; what I see, I remember; what I do, I learn”. By communicating we learn, and from Data Governance team we understand that...
Beatriz Sanz Baños GeoGestión, the Internet of Mobile Workforces GeoGestión is a solution that streamlines processes that were previously costly for businesses in terms of both money and resources. To illustrate this with some examples this system addresses...
Beatriz Sanz Baños New Business Opportunities with IoT IoT combines virtual and real worlds for smart devices to generate a wealth of information, such that objects can act without human intervention. One way or another, the development of...
ElevenPaths Trend Report: Hacktivist CyberThreats Report 2019 An analytical report that includes the periodic scanning of the hacktivist threat’s behavior in five observation rings: Europe and the United Kingdom, North America, Latin America, MENA / Asia...
Miguel Ángel de Castro Vendetta Group and the COVID-19 Phishing Emails A new threat has entered the COVID-19 scene: the Vendetta Group. How are their phishing campaigns different from others?
How Telefonica has implemented the first automatized SDN networkRocío Muñoz Paul 22 November, 2019 Much research and case studies have been put into the latest technologies as applied to telecommunications networks for automation and operational efficiency purposes aimed at the needs of future 5G networks and service provision in the B2B sector. What is more difficult to find are demonstrations in real environments that can verify that all the theories and tests being carried out by experts in this field can actually become a reality. Today we would like tell you about one of these deployments which also has the added value of being the first in the world ever brought to bear. In order to visualise the scope of this demonstration in a real environment it is first necessary to understand what SDN technology is used for. How SDN networks work A Software Defined Network permits the E2E control of a network in an intelligent, centralised way using software applications. SDN technology facilitates the consistent management of networks in which complex technological components coexist. On this occasion and as we have already said, we also add complexity by using components from different suppliers (multi-vendor) which requires full integration through open standardised interfaces. “The implementation of open standard interfaces will speed up the introduction of new applications for network automation and optimisation,” says Javier Gavilán, Director of Core, Network and Transport Platforms at Telefónica Global CTIO Telefónica has applied this technology for the first time in the world, in a commercial network in Colombia with four different suppliers: Infinera, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE, achieving the management of a multi-domain (different suppliers) and multi-layer (Optical and IP) unified network. World’s first implementation in Colombia “It is the first step on the evolutionary path of the transport networks, which allows us to automate processes and consolidate a medium-term horizon and, with it, the development of more streamlined services for our customers,” says Felipe Cucalon, CTO of Telefónica Colombia. Among the initiatives that the company is promoting in the industry there are 90 defined case studies, in which the application of SDN technologies offer notable advantages when it comes to provisioning, operating and planning an operator’s transport network. This first commercial-based deployment has contemplated two of them, the provision of services and the visibility of the complete network topology so as to notably facilitate network planning. The objective is to continue moving forward with other case studies such as performance management, inventory and traffic engineering optimisation, in addition to having an evolutionary model that allows us to continue progressing thanks to the incorporation of more vendors and operators interested in joining these initiatives.
Patrick Buckley How AI and Machine Learning help to develop vaccines As Christmas approaches this year, we have all been gifted the great news that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has shown to be both safe and effective in creating an immune...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Road safety and IoT Mobility is one of the key factors to consider in order to make cities more efficient, a necessity taking into account the millions of citizens travel to work or study centers in their vehicles. Taking...
Pablo Alarcón Padellano Move to the cloud with confidence supported by ElevenPaths and Check Point The goal of ElevenPaths Public Cloud Managed Security Services is to help you to secure any cloud workload and to mitigate cloud risks.
Óscar Mancebo Movistar Living Apps, a new technological experience in the home The fact that Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising and transforming the telecommunications sector is nothing new. Users, accustomed to dealing with virtual assistants and chatbots, increasingly rely on digital transformation. Anticipating...
Víctor Deutsch “Eurobeer”, artificial intelligence and a financial system without banks Among the challenges of the digital economy is security by default. Innovation, artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain … a whole series of enabling technologies for new business models but security...
Fernando Menéndez-Ros Aura arrives in Colombia to transform the relationship with its customers During the Andicom International ICT Congress, which took place last Friday in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), the CEO of Telefónica Movistar in Colombia, Fabián Hernández, announced the launch of...