Communications service providers of all shapes and sizes are undergoing an evolution of their network architectures in order to become more agile and to better serve their customers with web-scale operations and services.
The big challenges for communications service providers' digital transformations are the legacy infrastructures that have been built up layer-by-layer over many years. While hybrid networks are the short-term goal for CSPs, they want to rebuild their architectures by virtualizing network elements to take advantage of cloud-native operations.
A recent report by Heavy Reading , which was sponsored by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. , outlined the elements of CSPs' digital transformation journeys and identified five key pillars to the evolutionary process.
— Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation