Digital transformation is a popular buzzword that has entered the lexicon of the telecommunications industry, but what does it really mean for communications service providers (CSPs)? What we’re seeing in the industry isn’t so much a single transformation as a series of transformational trends around convergence, diversification and densification.
For example, CSPs are converging their LTE/4G, 5G, wireline and other networks into a single, unified network architecture based on the cloud. At the same time, they’re diversifying their network investments across multiple vendor platforms to build a best-of-breed network instead of locking into the 5G vision of a single vendor. And they’re densifying network resources by moving them where they make the most sense: far edge, near edge, centralized, in public clouds and on bare metal cloud servers. Read the full article here.