Communication Service Providers (CSPs) understand the complexity and enormity of a telecom network. The size and breadth of these networks alone makes them a serious undertaking to deploy, commission and assure. With the added implications of technical complexity and aging technical debt, growing service delivery complexity and security concerns, network operations leaders already have their hands full.
The many promises of 5G
We’re familiar with the idea that 5G promises to move these networks to an open, cloud-native and disaggregated architecture with the benefits of agility, automation and a very attractive cost-to-operate built foundationally in the use of commodity infrastructure. We are far enough into this industry shift to be able to point to examples of early adopters that are showing us that that most, if not all, of these things can be true. We are also learning, however, that deployments of these IT-centric models and open-systems infrastructure have significant added implications for operations teams as they struggle to build proficiency with the new tools and processes necessary to add these new architectures to existing network assurance and support models.
The operations business case
The business cases for the adoption of these new network platforms and technologies are typically built from three primary elements:
- A shift to commodity infrastructure and X86 Hardware.
- Enabling CSPs to expand service offerings and capture new and emerging go-to-market opportunities.
- Scalability and agility of multi-cloud platforms and the promise of operational automation.
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