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TM Forum's Piva on Creating a Common Smart City FrameworkTT: There's so much involved in establishing smart cities, from the technologies to the localities. How do you herd all these cats? CP: That was actually the first question we asked ourselves when we started the Smart City Forum. We started working on a long project -- it lasted well over a year -- where we tried to identify a recipe, cookbook-style model, on how you could implement your smart city, and we captured this in what we call the "smart city maturity and benchmark model" that is now freely available. We even turned it into iPad and Android versions. The first area is focused on leadership and governance aspects on what you need to do in order to align to "herd the cats," as you said. The second area is a consequence of that. You can actually look at the citizen in a new light and start doing some really interesting citizen-centric design and design services, not the other way around. The third element of our model is focused on usage of data. In the city context, unless you can combine the different data lakes, you are not going to be in the position of serving that citizen. The fourth area of this model is focused on how you make it happen. What must happen to the iCity estate in order for you to make the magic happen. The fifth area is when you have all those things aligned: Your leadership and governance informs your citizens-centric design, which relies on the right usage of data, which is implemented by an appropriate iCity infrastructure. When you have that, you can actually start creating some very interesting smart city services. TT: What's your gut-level feeling on how it's progressing? CP: My gut-level feeling is you're going to see a lot of things happening in data connections, things like data platforms and data economies. I think we're going to see a lot of things happening on the functional level. In areas such as transport, we're going to see these things merge together with the advent of autonomous vehicles and new ways of viewing transport as a utility and so on. In what we could call the non-tangibles data will be really big in the sense that you'll be able to access and create a whole new data economy.
— Carl Weinschenk, Contributing Writer, Telco Transformation < Previous Page 2 / 2 |
In part two of this Q&A, the carrier's group head of network virtualization, SDN and NFV calls on vendors to move faster and lead the cloudification charge.
It's time to focus on cloudification instead, Fran Heeran, the group head of Network Virtualization, SDN and NFV at Vodafone, says.
5G must coexist with LTE, 3G and a host of technologies that will ride on top of it, says Arnaud Vamparys, Orange Network Labs' senior vice president for radio networks.
The OpenStack Foundation's Ildiko Vancsa suggests that 5G readiness means never abandoning telco applications and infrastructures once they're 'cloudy enough.'
IDC's John Delaney talks about how telecom CIOs are addressing the relationship between 5G, automation and virtualization, while cautioning that they might be forgetting the basics.
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Orange has been one of the leading proponents of SDN and NFV. In this Telco Transformation radio show, Orange's John Isch provides some perspective on his company's NFV/SDN journey.
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