Cloud native: Just another technology generation?
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Cloud native networking offers operators a promise of efficiency, automation and innovation to underpin their future in the coordination age. But it should also mean a new operating model, new skills and organisation that few feel they are ready for.
Description
Format: PDF file
Pages: 31 pages Charts: 11 Author: Philip Laidler Publication Date: January 2021Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Table of Figures
- Preface
- Cloud native networking: Telecoms’ latest adventure
- Telcos’ business model is reaching end-of-life
- Understand, then emulate the operating model
- The coordination age – a new role for telcos
- 5G: Just another G?
- Cloud native: Just another technology generation?
- Different perspectives: Internal ability, timing …and what it means to be a network operator
- Organisational readiness, skills and culture
- Target operating model and ecosystem
- Assembly versus Engineering
- Wider perceptions across the business functions
- Operator segment 1: Risk of complacency
- Operator segment 2: Align for action
- Operator segment 3: Urgent re-evaluation
- Operator segment 4: Stay focused and on track
- Appendix 1
- Interviewee overview
- Appendix 2
- Defining Cloud Native
- There is consensus on the meaning of cloud native software and applicability to networks
- Agreement on the benefits: automation at scale for reliability and faster time to market
- …and changing supplier relationships
Table of Figures
- Figure 1: Telcos’ route to growth is through innovation at scale
- Figure 2: Different visions for building and running cloud native networks
- Figure 3: Telco cloud native operator matrix
- Figure 4: The telecoms industry is reaching the end of its last growth cycle
- Figure 5: Tech companies are more highly valued than telcos
- Figure 6: Telco vs tech-co investment models
- Figure 7: New challenges for telecoms in the Coordination Age
- Figure 8: New business models for the Coordination Age
- Figure 9: Different visions for building and running cloud native network
- Figure 10: Telco cloud native operator matrix
- Figure 11: Interviewee Profile Summary
Technologies and industry terms referenced include: 5G, Cloud, cloud-native, NFV/SDN, telcos, Telecom, Telecoms