The Role of Network Inventory in Streamlined Telecom Service Delivery

The Role of Network Inventory in Streamlined Telecom Service Delivery

In the fast-evolving world of telecommunications, efficiency and accuracy are the cornerstones of providing high-quality services to customers. At the heart of this system are several critical processes, including order management, service orchestration, and network inventory management. These processes, when tightly integrated, allow telecom providers to streamline service delivery, reduce operational costs, and ensure the reliability of the services they offer.

Understanding the Basics: Order Management, Service Orchestration, and Network Inventory

At its core, order management ensures that telecom customers receive the services they request in a timely and accurate manner. It’s a process that begins with receiving customer orders and extends through provisioning and activation of services. However, managing customer orders becomes a complex task when those services depend on a vast array of network resources.

Service orchestration bridges this gap. It ensures that the ordered service is not only provisioned but also activated correctly across all the necessary network platforms. The orchestration system acts as a conductor, guiding how different network components collaborate to deliver a service. Without proper orchestration, service delivery would be manual, slow, and error prone.

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Fibocom Debuts Industry-first “AI Buddy” Set to Expand AI-enhanced Interaction to Consumer-centric Scenarios at CES 2025

Fibocom?debuts the industry-first “AI Buddy” catering to bring an AI-enhanced real-time interaction to broader consumer-centric scenarios at CES 2025. The AI Buddy innovatively integrates a Fibocom’s self-developed –?Fibocom AI Stack?on the edge device, fueling AI intelligence and boosting the natural interaction with end users via voice control among scenarios such as international business negotiation, global travel, etc.

AI Buddy: Unboxing the Intelligence in Pocket-size AI Assistant

The AI buddy is a small and powerful device converging the intelligent interactions with users, and it is engineered in a sleek design and plays as a personalized AI assistant with pocket size for end users. Fibocom develops the solution from smart module and innovatively implements the up-to-date ChatGPT 4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to the device and enables real-time tasks like translations, AI image recognition, multi-account model services, global data roaming, fast network registration and Wi-Fi hot-spot. Additionally, by connecting to external smart wearables like OWS (Open Wearable Stereo) earbuds, smart glasses, and smart bracelets, AI Buddy forms a complete system to enable an AI-enhanced, hand-free experience via voice control, suitable for diversified user scenarios.

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Trends & regulations in cellular IoT security

With 18.8 billion connected IoT devices expected by the end of 2024, it’s no surprise that device-level security is a growing concern for regulators. The new Cyber Trust Mark in the U.S. is designed to help consumers easily identify smart devices that meet certain cybersecurity standards like smart home cameras, routers, thermostats and other IoT products. And while that’s currently voluntary, other mandatory measures are coming into force like the EU’s CRA which will see manufacturers bring compliant products to market by 2027. This is in response to a market that previously saw 29% of cellular IoT modules shipped in Q2 2024 with no dedicated protection features.

Dive into this report that looks at security considerations for software and hardware in the IoT module supply chain, covering topics like:

  • The role of SBOMs and VEX documents – Manufacturers need to verify that no vulnerable or unauthorised software components are introduced during firmware updates, for example.
  • Anti-tamper measures – Cryptographic signatures and hashes are essential for ensuring software updates and components have not been tampered with during distribution or implementation.
  • Verifying country of origin – Understanding where software comes from helps ensure software components in cellular IoT modules have robust native cybersecurity practices, further protecting IoT devices.
  • Pen testing, hardware-based RoT and trusted vendors – Measures should be taken to also ensure hardware-based security elements, supported by initiatives like IoT SAFE.

This report also suggests best practices; in collaboration with Quectel, that software, hardware and holistic manufacturers should take to ensure vulnerabilities are not present like testing, PKI, robust SBOM and other approaches. To get an edge on device security and prepare your operation for the connected marketplaces of tomorrow, click to access this report now.

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Why iSIM is your frictionless enabler of IoT connectivity

This webinar, featuring executives from Kigen, Murata, Sony and Vodafone Business IoT, details how the iSIM ecosystem is coming together to deliver pre-integrated iSIM solutions that help simplify and accelerate iSIM adoption and deployment. By having leading vendors of low power wide area connectivity, chipset, operating systems and module providers collaborate, holistic solutions can be created that ease procurement, simplify production and distribution and enable a new generation of IoT devices with significantly improved SIM functionality.

Why You Should Attend:

  • Kigen will explain how its secure SIM operating system unlocks iSIM's potential
  • Murata will explain how their iSIM module drives key advancements
  • Sony's Altair will share its view of chipset innovations for iSIM
  • Vodafone Business will detail how iSIM helps IoT organisations access high quality LPWA networks globally.
  • All speakers will also take questions from the audience.

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Telefónica Tech, Tata Communications and Thales eecognised as Champion Connectivity Vendors by Kaleido Intelligence

Kaleido Intelligence, a leading connectivity market research and consulting firm, has announced its latest Connectivity Vendor Hub research, providing the most up-to-date product assessment and scores for connectivity service providers across Connectivity Management Platforms (CMP), eSIM Connectivity and eSIM Subscription Management.

The?Connectivity Vendor Hub: Competitive Analysis 2025 research analysed 39 established service providers. It includes an in-depth evaluation of the service offerings and updated Kaleido Scores for all companies. Kaleido’s method entails categorising vendors based on their product excellence, recognising each company’s distinct market positioning, problem-solving skills, innovative prowess and their ability to align with current market needs and future demands.

The study is the culmination of more than 5-months’ worth of primary and secondary research, including product demos, questionnaires and detailed interviews and briefings to collect relevant information.

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Focused on IoT connectivity?

Learn about the five key technical, commercial and regulatory considerations for IoT adopters right now.

Why Tune In? Discover the Future of IoT and eSIM

  • Discover the latest trends

Find out what's happening with eSIM technology and how it impacts you.

  • Hear from thought leaders

Explore the decisions, opinions and predictions of in-industry experts.

  • Learn where growth lies

Dive into insights for expansions within the eSIM space and ways to capitalise.

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Fibocom Launches the Fibocom AI Stack to Facilitate On-device AI Deployment with a Fully Manageable Service at CES 2025

Fibocom has announces its brand-new Fibocom AI Stack, an integrated set of hardware, AI tools, AI engines, resourceful AI models, offering a fast-to-deploy solution for industry customers to intelligentise their devices with on-device AI. Laying the focus on device-side AI adoption, Fibocom AI Stack is designed to address the challenges of diverse demands for intelligent transformation across different industries by providing a complete solution to facilitate the deployment of AI models on smart devices.

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IIoT and AIoT efficiency is empowered by a unified software stack

The IoT market is maturing and that means there’s a growing focus on edge intelligence. It’s a simple way to minimise communication, eliminate latency and streamline processes and data analysis; hence the widespread adoption. Adding embedded AI at the edge is helping boost IIoT and AIoT operations as they can now manage their deployed devices efficiently and reap huge benefits.

In this report, learn all about:

  • Why management platforms matter – As hyper-scale industrial IoT becomes a reality, device design and development impacted by edge capabilities means management platforms begin to take centre stage.
  • The risks to IIoT and AIoT – As the market adopts more smart manufacturing, there’s an increased reliance on innovation to keep the costs of utilisation down and avoid latency issues.
  • Where the ‘edge’ is – Thick, thin and micro are terms used to describe the types of computational resources located at or below the cell tower data centre or on-premise data centre. Where does your operation fall?
  • How the Eclipse Kanto supports – Developed by the Eclipse Foundation and initiated within Bosch IO, this is the lightweight, connected, containerised and flexible system that AI edge resources need. Empower cloud connectivity, digital twins, local communication, container management and software updates from a remotely manageable IoT cloud ecosystem that’s easy to use.
  • Why you don’t want vendor locks – By supporting other Eclipse IoT projects, the Bosch IoT Suite, adapters for Azure and Amazon Web Services plus connectivity via message queueing telemetry transport (MQTT), you’re not locked in and can follow tech innovation wherever it leads.

No matter how you’re capitalising on the IIoT or AIoT markets, choose a software stack that has no licence fees and doesn’t restrict you. Get fragmentation under control, reduce the impact of latency and tap into the value of open-source ecosystems. Learn how Kanto and a unified approach can abstract away operational complexity and streamline the development of your next groundbreaking features and services.

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