2H20 CommSoft Insights Report
$1,999.00This bi-annual report brings together the key learnings and trends in the CommSoft markets and provides my current views of future trends in important areas of evolution of the technologies and markets.
The report includes major themes in telecom operations and communications softwar:
Major Themes in Telecom Operations and CommSoft
- Automation
- Network Slicing
- Network Function Virtualization
- Cloud Native Software
- MEC
- SD-WAN
- 5G xHaul
- Element Disaggregation
- 10xNetwork
- Open Source and CSP as Software Developers
- Inter-Provider Network Interfaces
- Network Security
General Operations Trends
- Leading-edge investment money continues to move out of BSS and into OSS and NFV
- AI, automation, and analytics are solving significant problems by being combined
- There is a slow, but continuous movement to SaaS delivery models for BSS, OSS, & VNFs
- Cloud-native software architectures have been proven
- 5G is becoming real – slicing will be hard
- Virtualized DSPs have exploded on the scene, lowering barriers to entry for new carriers
- Substantial opportunity for private industrial 5G
- Edge computing will require new management of the distributed applications
- Governance functions will be needed by DSPs, making them the next major new investment area in BSS/OSS in five years.
- Business Operations Trends
- Digital-centric customer interfaces are the future
- CSP investments in omni-channel user experience, NBO and NBA functions have matured and are moving down-market
- AI has proven itself to be of immense value in business operations
- Blockchain technology will find its niche, but not be an overall transformative technology for CSPs
- Network Operations and NFV Trends
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA) will be a major technology for the lower-Tier CSPs.
- Integrated physical/virtual network resource orchestration and service provisioning is still in its infancy
- Dynamic scaling of virtualized network resources is currently limited, but increasing
- Resource orchestration and management by domains is, and will continue to be, the standard network operations architecture for the next five years
- “How many network slices will there be?” is a critical question
- Procurement practices and DRM for VNF licenses need to mature
- Virtualized DSPs have exploded on the scene, lowering barriers to entry for new carriers
- Edge computing will require management of the distributed applications
