Top 10 telco cloud vendors

STL Partners recently updated (November 2021) its Telco Cloud Deployment Tracker, a our comprehensive database of live, commercial deployments of virtualised and cloud native network functions (VNFs and CNFs) and SDN technologies by leading telcos worldwide. It builds on an extensive body of analysis by STL Partners over the past eight years on NFV and SDN strategies, technology and market developments with over 900 individual deployments. 

Our recent analysis of vendor deployments between 2018 and 2022 shows the current top 10 telco cloud vendors to be:

Source: STL Partners’ Telco Cloud Deployment Tracker

1. Ericsson – has come from third place in 2018 to top in 2020 and 2022, overtaking Nokia due to its greater number of 5G core deployments

2. Nokia –  remains strong in core, with several 5G SA core deployments slated for launch in 2022

3. Cisco –  has strengths in multiple parts of the telco cloud stack, particularly SD-WAN, transport SDN and orchestration

4. VMWare –  deployments both in telco cloud infrastructure and SD-WAN

5. Huawei – Huawei has declined sharply, owing to political pressures to remove its tech from Western mobile networks

6. Fortinet – has a growing presence in telco networks, linked to both SD-WAN and SASE

7. Mavenir – Open RAN and IP multimedia systems

8. Metaswitch Networks – IP voice and multimedia platforms

9. Affirmed Networks – diverse, cloud-native core and orchestration solutions

10. Juniper –  SDN and telco cloud platform components

Access a trial of our Telco Cloud Tracker here

Previous telco cloud tracker releases

Each new release of the tracker is global, but is accompanied by an analytical report which focusses on trends in given regions from time to time:

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