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Next-Gen Satellites Revolutionize the Telco Industry

Apart from terrestrial network operators and vendors, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity satellite providers are important customers of Amartus. The below article contains our view on that booming industry and is mainly based on our hands-on experiences with satellite connectivity challenges.The global satellite industry is expected to double in size within a decade, from $12 billion in 2020 to $26 billion in 2029, according to estimates from Northern Sky Research (NSR). This is driven by the exponential growth in demand for satellite...

SASE: An Enabler for a Secure, Reliable Employee Remote Access – Part 2

by Dominik Ogrodnik and Michał Mordawski, Solution Architects at Amartus In our last post, we discussed the complexities of securing a remote workforce and also gave you an overview of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and its capabilities to enable secure and reliable access for remote employees. In this post, we present the most important benefits from using SASE for securing your organization in the work-from-anywhere future, our SASE-related experience, and key factors you should take into account while considering SASE for your business....

SASE: An Enabler for a Secure, Reliable Employee Remote Access – Part 1

by Dominik Ogrodnik and Michał Mordawski, Solution Architects at AmartusIn the wake of the unprecedented shift to tele- and hybrid work arrangements, companies worldwide seek to secure remote workforce and branches. To protect all users and devices, regardless of where they reside, they need to rethink their network security strategies. Is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) the answer? Last year has changed the working landscape forever. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, businesses worldwide faced an urgent need to adjust their workspace...

Perfect Storm: The Opportunity for Inter-Provider Services Disruption

Enterprises now expect global access to on-demand ICT services. The breakthrough technologies in Networking (SD-WAN, SASE, 5G Private Networks, 5G Access, Satellite), Cloud (Multi, Edge, Unified), and Application delivery (Cloud Native, Containerization, SaaS) are converging with the maturing of global standards for provider inter-operability and the drive to automate. The result is a major disruption of traditional inter-provider ICT service supply chains. How can providers take advantage of this? The time for inter-provider services...

Amartus invites satellite and 5G service providers to join MEF’s new initiative on mobile site connectivity standard

Amartus-led MEF BoF session, which was held during the virtual MEF Annual Members Meeting on July 20, is likely to result in a new MEF initiative to address the issue of mobile site connectivity and the gap in the MEF current standardization. All satellite and 5G service providers are invited to join the initiative. The Birds of a Feather (BoF) session was led by Bartosz Michalik, Principal Architect at Amartus, who initiated a discussion on generalizing geographic site APIs for the satellite and mobility markets. The discussion engaged...

MEF PoC 137 – Rapid, scalable partner onboarding & interop testing for API Driven Inter-provider Service Automation

As customer pressure for globally accessible, on-demand network and cloud services increases, service providers now more than ever must be able to seamlessly negotiate with tens or even hundreds of partners to achieve the reach and range that’s needed. Traditional disparate means of engaging partners using proprietary portals or APIs is not sustainable. Fortunately, Providers can now standardize the way they negotiate (Buying and Selling) with partners using MEF LSO Sonata APIs. LSO Sonata is a set of industry-standard APIs developed by MEF...