Two salesmen are standing outside the convention center. The
server salesman looks up at the sky and says "look at that cloud up
there...looks like a big dollar sign to me". The service provider
salesman looks up a bit confused and says "I'll take your word for
it; I just don't see it yet".
I have recently made a circuit of a number of industry
tradeshows trying to get a view on the service providers play in
the cloud market. From Digital Hollywood, to MPLS World to CloudConnect, every...
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Much is in the news lately concerning advances in
Carrier Ethernet technology. Network infrastructure build-out
is continuing at a rapid pace on every continent, with some of the
biggest growth taking place in the
Middle East and Africa. In addition,
domestic U.S.
service provider infrastructure continues to grow as the
insatiable consumer demand for more services such as video, apps
and on-demand media content (at ever faster speeds) seems to know
no bounds. For example,
Light Reading has...
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"
Collaboration" is a big buzz-word these days
- but what exactly does it mean? Along with the word "cloud," this
is probably one of the most talked-about - but least understood -
concepts in the tech world today.
Network management
personnel in both the
Enterprise
and
Service
Provider spaces are all wanting to get a piece of the
efficiency, problem-solving ability and cost savings that
collaboration provides. At the same time, there are vendors out
there making promises and claims that are...
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Service
Providers are constantly looking for ways to speed
delivery to market without compromising quality.
Automation is the only way to effectively accomplish this task.
Manual solutions and CLI are labor intensive and error prone which
results in lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction.
A single system to
automate repeatable processes not only makes the fulfillment
process significantly quicker but also
eliminates costly
errors. But it can't stop there. Once services are
deployed,...
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As the pace of
unified communications accelerates, the future is looking
better and better - both for the
Service
Providers and Large Carriers who are deploying
LTE networks and the vendors who help them manage change.
For vendors of equipment and software to these Service Providers
(such as
Dorado Software :) the
future has also never looked brighter. For example, headlines such,
"Worldwide revenue for Carrier Ethernet switches and IP routers
surges" and "
At
Last: Ethernet Backhaul Booms for...
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Question: Can you
find the Bandwidth Hog in Your
Network?
OK, I admit it. For
the folks who operate networks, it can
be a headache to
manage bandwidth. For the rest of us, bandwidth represents
something awesome - amazing - the pinnacle of human network
achievement. Like the power of millions of people to collectively
getting to see hundreds of people getting their
balls whacked on YouTube.
Yet regardless, for all its splendor, there is also an
undeniable truth to managing modern networks which...
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There's a new/old movement in the air: that
of the
Venerable Art of the
Urban Ninja. While watching one of these maestros of movement
on YouTube referred to me thru Facebook (yes, they really do pay
people for that) I was struck by the similarities between Redcell
and what these guys do. Witness the Urban Ninja contemplating his
environment. Does this remind you of a network administrator
contemplating change?
Being nimble, fast and accurate is important to
both Urban Ninjas and Network...
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Anyone who has television knows
Cisco has been
ramping it up lately, especially if you made it to the recent Las
Vegas CES (Consumer Electronics Show). Since we at Dorado Software
are
Global
Strategic Partners with Cisco, now seems like a great time to
share some of our software solutions specifically made for
Cisco.
Dorado
Software's Redcell ASWAN Solution offers Service Providers a
unified Network-Based security service management solution for
creating, provisioning, and managing
VRF-Aware...
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Customer Profile: United Arab Emirates International
VPN Project from Dorado Software
Etisalat is one of the largest
telecommunications companies in the world and the leading operator
in the Middle East and Africa, headquartered in the UAE. Etisalat
operates in 18 countries and services over 100 million
customers.
Etisalat is also the major hub in the Middle East, for
internet, voice, mobile, broadband, broadcast, roaming and
corporate data services, with an extensive regional...
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Let's talk Dell. One of the nice things about Dell is they provide
lots of resources for people who buy their products, especially in
the B2B space. And one of those resources is - you guessed - it...
us!
A
Dell ISV certified product, Redcell System Commander provides
integration of Dell OpenManage(tm) hardware management
functionality for Dell PowerEdge Servers and Blade platforms. In
addition to Dell infrastructure (switches, servers, blades, and
printers) there are affordable upgrades to...
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IT infrastructures are a collection of disparate
and converging products, yet all of these technologies must be
configured and monitored to ensure viability of
mission-critical applications and services.
Deploying, configuring and managing a variety of
complex voice and data devices from the same vendor - let alone
multiple vendors - is a daily battle that challenges even the most
experienced administrator. No matter what software solution you
decide to use for
managing complex services and...
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How nice would it be to have
1 common interface...
A single GUI, not a bunch of different tools... for
everything?
One aspect of network management:
Inventory/deep discovery. This is something that on the surface
sounds simple, but really is the foundation for everything else
that takes place in your network. For example, "How are my devices
configured?" or "How are my services provisioned?" You can't begin
to fix a system or process that's broken without knowing first what
you have.
Discovery al...
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What to do if you're managing Cisco? The first thing to do is
research the tools that are out there.
Redcell Service Provider Solutions for Cisco provide an
integrated network and service management for Cisco advanced
technologies. They provide a solid foundation so you can build
successful and scalable service offerings for next generation
security,
Ethernet,
VPN and other services, delivering the level of service and
range of options your customers expect. With visibility across the
network...
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The
world is full of marketing talk. Any company can say they are a
“leader”, “largest” or “most comprehensive”.
Marketing messages and logos pop up everywhere. IBM recreated their
logo on an atomic scale and Rolling Rock generated buzz by
suggesting they were going to imprint their logo on the moon. I
stepped out of my car the other day to see advertisements on the
paint stripes in the parking lot. Seriously, everywhere.
But the real marketing rubber hits the reality road in two words:
Customer...
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Problem! Service Providers lose millions of
dollars annually because of poor processes during the provisioning
process.
Partially integrated business and operation support systems
force operators into manual and tedious processes such as manual
CLI, validation, and data entry. We all love our excel forms, but
that data is only as good as the last person who entered
it. So manual and tedious processes result in slow, error
prone provisioning that ultimately reduce efficiencies, upset
customers...
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In a recent post we covered a
Customer Success Story available on our website that
highlighted Dorado Software’s ability to gain control of an
enterprise IT network, including network monitoring, network
management and network traffic analysis.
There’s another
success story on the Dorado Website that speaks to our ability
to provide similar successes in a service provider solution. You
can see the success story
here.
In brief, a tier one service provider in the UK implemented Dorado
Redcell in...
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We consider
Dorado’s
Redcell V6 Service Studio a significant step forward in the
ongoing effort to help service providers and network managers
improve time-to-market, streamline service provisioning and realize
new revenues. In this post we continue to highlight the benefits of
Redcell V6 Service Studio and specifically the service activation
definition aspect.
To reiterate, Redcell Service Studio offers an intuitive,
feature-rich toolset to model custom network services (ones that
aren’t already...
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