Ask anyone in a CSP what their top ask from BSS is and across the board, you’ll pretty much get the same answer: Agility. However, as the rate of change is accelerating in telecoms, agility is a moving target. Once a CSP has implemented changes to become more agile, the market has already evolved and so the CSP has to look at the next level of agility. There’s no end goal here. For CSPs, change...
This article was first published in The Fast Mode.
When any industry undergoes significant change the legacy systems that have been used for years start to struggle to cope with new advances. The sticking plaster approach of throwing more money and resources at legacy systems in order to get them to just about cope with the demands of the business will work for a short time.
This article was first published on Telecoms.com
The recent news that AT&T is moving its 5G core to Microsoft Azure is the latest advance that we’re seeing in the industry moving towards the cloud. OSS and BSS have been running on private, hybrid, and public clouds for some time and now this is spreading to networks.