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Telco Cloud: Why it hasn’t delivered, and what must change for 5G
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Telco cloud made big promises for the transformation of telecoms. It is a fundamental enabler for 5G and the exciting opportunities ahead. Why hasn’t it delivered yet – and what needs to change?
Description
Format: PDF file
Pages: 25 pages Charts: 11 Author: Matt Pooley Publication Date: February 2020Table of contents
- Executive Summary
- Telco cloud: big promises, undelivered
- A network running in the cloud
- The telco cloud promise
- The less-exciting reality
- The problem: flawed approaches to deployment
- Learning from those on the front line
- A function-first approach to telco cloud
- A platform-first approach to telco cloud
- The solution: change, collaboration and integration
- Multi-vendor telco cloud is preferred
- The internal transformation problem
- The need to foster collaboration and integration
- Standards versus blueprints
- Insufficient management and orchestration solutions
- Vendor partnerships and pre-integration
- Conclusions: A better telco cloud is possible, and 5G makes it an urgent priority
Table of Figures
- Figure 1: The telco cloud promise: Major buckets of value to be unlocked
- Figure 2: Telco cloud defined: New technology and new ways of working
- Figure 3: The telco cloud promise: Major buckets of value to be unlocked
- Figure 4: Total live deployments of telco cloud technology, 2015-2019
- Figure 5: Two starting points for deploying telco cloud
- Figure 6: ETSI NFV reference architecture framework (simplified)
- Figure 7: Pros and cons of the vertically-integrated approach to telco cloud
- Figure 8: Pros and cons of the horizontally-integrated approach to telco cloud
- Figure 9: Pros and cons of function- and platform-first approaches to telco cloud
- Figure 10: CNTT’s NFVi reference model
- Figure 11: ETSI NFV reference architecture framework (annotated)Keywords: 5G, AI, AI (artificial intelligence), artificial intelligence, automation, Cloud Computing, cloud-native, CNTT, containerisation, containers, digital transformation, distributed computing, ETSI, function-first approach, Innovation, integration, IT, MANO, multi-vendor, NEP, network equipment provider, Network Functions Virtualisation, Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), nfv, NFVi, open, platform-first approach, RAN, service-level agreement, skillsets, SLA, Software Defined Networking, Software-defined Networking (SDN), standardisation, standards, telco cloud, transformation, virtualization, VNF