TM Forum has developed many assets to explore how providers need to evolve to maintain their focus on customers and service quality in a virtualized world.

Featured asset: IG1127 E2E Service Assurance and SLA Management is an information guide to bring out the challenges and impacts of end-to end Service Assurance and SLA management in a hybrid physical/virtualized environment.
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TM Forum has assets exploring how providers can increase business agility by adopting key aspects of DevOps methods.

Featured asset: NFV: What does it take to be agile? is an e-book outlining how to transform from SysOps/NetOps to an agile DevOps approach for the introduction of new services.
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TM Forum has assets exploring practical solutions for new business models requiring managing end-to-end a network that is not all owned by a single provider.

Featured asset: NFV: Can it be managed? is a blueprint for end-to-end management which addresses the essential requirements for effective management of physical and virtualized services end-to-end across multiple provider environments.
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TM Forum has assets exploring the practical reality of managing hybrid networks

Featured asset: IG1122 – NFV Readiness: Operating a Hybrid Virtualization Network Infrastructure R14.5.1 is an information guide which establishes challenges in a hybrid operating environment comprising both the new NFV based networks services and current network services.
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TM Forum has conducted Catalyst proof-of-concept projects to explore practical solutions for new partnership business models,  

Featured Catalyst: Dynamic API’s for Connected Carrier Agile Markets shows that the TM Forum Open Digital APIs can be used to integrate with a NFV MANO Orchestration for Domain Orchestration and used to support diverse market places where products are routinely created drawing on partner components.  
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TM Forum has conducted Catalyst proof-of-concept projects to explore how automation will be deployed in the operation center of the future.

Featured Catalyst: Closing the Loop – Next Phase demonstrates a practical implementation of closed loop functionality used to heal and optimize converged networks running on both traditional and virtualized infrastructures.
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TM Forum has conducted catalyst proof-of-concept projects to explore how automation can be used in practice to leverage the flexibility of a hybrid network.

Featured Catalyst: Recover First, Resolve Next – Towards Closed Loop Control for Managing Hybrid Networks demonstrates the move towards closed loop control of hybrid networks (both traditional and virtualized).
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TM Forum has conducted catalyst proof-of-concept projects to explore practical solutions to realizing new partnership business models.

Featured Catalyst: Multi-Cloud SDN-NFV Service Orchestration demonstrates how to reduce the time and cost of delivering complex multi-cloud services and handle lifecycle management for underlying virtualized infrastructures. 
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