The Dark NOC

When to turn off the light? The dark NOC is the ultimate goal of network operations automation. We have been automating numerous aspects of the work of network operations engineers, but in recent years, the ultimate goal of a “Dark NOC” has started to seem like an...

The Art of Processing Large (3GPP) XML files

XML formatted Configuration Management (CM) data files published by 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G mobile networks via the Northbound Interface (NBI) of the OSS are very common. The corresponding standards and their specifications are developed by 3GPP. Processing these XML files...

The hidden cost of slow application code

Introduction Developers are often told not to focus on the performance of applications before it is required (to prevent premature optimization). And that a productive language (low effort from the developers to produce the code) is more important than a language that...