Business impact brief: Cloud enables telco transformation via new technologies

This industry perspective, written by 451 Research, identifies the market forces driving the need for transformation in the telco space, and the opportunities for cloud-based technologies to enable this transformation for telcos. Capturing new opportunities in telco services related to 5G, edge and IOT, and bringing to market offerings built on AI, data analytics and other cloud-based tools, will require new investments in infrastructure. Supporting those investments requires telcos to find new operational efficiencies through datacenter consolidation, network function virtualization and software-defined networking. This paper provides an overview of the challenges telcos face in adopting cloud technologies, and the ways telcos are successfully employing cloud to innovate and support modern telco services.

In this brief, you'll learn the following: