The Appledore Research Podcast

By Robert Curran

Appledore analysts and guests discuss trends and developments in the transformation of the telecom industry.

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September 07, 2023Episode 21 - DTW2023 Preview
It's back to Copenhagen! Now that we know where's hot (or not) to stay, how the trains work, how to find the Bella Center, the global telecom software community convenes again under the auspices of the TM Forum with extra confidence - and with plenty to talk about from the six months since MWC Barcelona.
Robert, Francis and John preview the event and look forward to a busy few days of on-site meetings.
Links...
Digital Transformation World
Excellence Awards Finalists videos
Catalyst Projects
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26min
August 16, 2023 Episode 20: Telecom and the Developer Community
Summertime gives many of us a chance to travel somewhere interesting and different, and gain a new perspective. We've taken that to heart in this episode, as Robert and Francis spend time with someone who lives full time within the fabled "developer community" that features as a box on countless slides from telecom CSPs and vendors. For well over a decade, Alan Quayle has led an initiative to rally developers to leverage the potential of programmable telecom networks - the aptly-title Telecom Application Developer (TAD) series of events.

We ask: does telecom actually "get" developers? What innovation have we seen from third party developers? What are CAMARA's chances?
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33min
August 09, 2023 Episode 19 - Big IT Meets Big Telecom, with Microsoft's Rick Lievano
Cloud continues to provoke fundamental change in telecom. Together with increasing software-ization, the landscape of the most prominent vendors in telecom continues to shift. Add in recent developments in AI, and a picture begins to emerge of an industry undergoing a complete revolution - with "Big IT" having a profound influence on the future of the industry.
In this episode Robert and John are joined by Rick Lievano, CTO for Worldwide Telecom Industry for Microsoft to get an inside view on how one of the most important technology companies in the world is driving the trend.
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33min
August 04, 2023 Episode 18 - Collaboration: the new "Transformation"?
On the path to open and disaggregated networks, a frequent cry is the need for greater "collaboration" between telcos and suppliers, between suppliers themselves, and a bunch of other stakeholders and interested parties from standards bodies to students, integrators to academics. That's all very well, but what does that mean, and what does it look like in practice? Robert Curran gets a perspective from Katja Henke, Senior Innovation Project Manager at DT and a lynchpin of the high-profile i14y Lab consortium in Berlin.
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19min
July 12, 2023 Episode 17 - What's next for CX? With CSG
"Customer Experience" is an endlessly evolving term in telecom, with new technologies and situations creating ever-increasing expectations for telcos to meet. What are the latest trends and techniques available to operators in their pursuit of that NPS-boosting "excellence in customer experience"? John Abraham returns with guest Chad Dunavant, Chief Strategy Officer at CSG International. Robert Curran hosts.
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28min
July 06, 2023 Episode 16 - AI in Telecom
AI has been back on the front pages in 2023, and seems to inducing a combination of panic and the sort of "irrational exuberance" not seen since the dotcom boom. In the context of telecom, which response is the right one? In this episode, we get the perspective of a true veteran of AI in telecom (and new recruit to Appledore), Roman Ferrando, Patrick Kelly summarizes the market progress of AI in telecom to date - use cases and notable adoptees - and separates froth from meaningful progress. And yes: we do look at #AIwashing and offer some advice on companies in telecom (operators and vendors) can avoid running into AI trouble.
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31min
June 15, 2023 Episode 15 - Rethinking Innovation
In this episode we explore how the nature of innovation, and the processes and practices around it, are changing as result of the new capabilities of cloud-native software.
Joining Robert and Francis are Marius Waldum of Working Group Two, and Justen Burdette, CEO of US mobile operator Mobi.
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37min
June 07, 2023 Episode 14 - Charging, Telecom and the Public Cloud, with TelcoDR
In a lively, wide-ranging discussion, John and Robert talk with Danielle Royston - TelcoDR - about the state of charging in telecom, and the impact of public cloud and SaaS more widely.
We also cover "that" MWC takeover in 2021, a certain rock star, and TelcoDR's plans for her $1bn Telecom Transformation Fund, beginning with Totogi.
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39min
May 22, 2023 Episode 13 - AI in Telecom, with IBM's Andrew Coward
Patrick Kelly takes the mic for this episode, with guest Andrew Coward from IBM, to discuss the accelerating story of telecom/IT convergence. But it isn't long before AI takes center stage. Offering solid perspectives on how to spot "real" AI from marketing froth, Andrew shares how AI in networks differs radically from enterprise use cases, and what the lifecycle of introducing AI into network operations really looks like.
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24min
May 11, 2023 Episode 12 - London Events Roundup (RCR Wireless Live! and FutureNet World)
London has been the focal point for a number of notable occasions recently...including two in-person events hosted by RCR Wireless (welcome to London!) and FutureNet World (welcome back!), respectively. Robert Curran and Francis Haysom discuss the mood and highlights from both.
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