2021 Telco Infrastructure Report

“If we learned something during 2020, it is that flexibility of the network is extraordinarily important.” Staffan Göjeryd, CEO of Telia Carrier, shares some views on network infrastructure investments.

Telco-owned server farms will co-exist with public cloud alternatives. Peter Coppens, VP Product at Colt, talks about how Colt is moving more toward the telco cloud and network edge to deliver functionality to their customers vs the public cloud alternative.

As a carrier, networks need to scale. Jeff Lewis, Vice President, Software-defined Networking (SDN) at Comcast Business, talks about the importance of a forward-looking platform approach to bring in more products and services.

The Anuket Project brings together GSMA’s CNTT specifications with the implementation and testing work of OPNFV to create a project that defines the foundational infrastructure for next-gen telcos. In this video, Heather Kirksey, VP of Ecosystem and Community at LF Networking, introduces Anuket.

Great architecture begins with solid blueprints. Roshan Thekkekunnel, Group Manager, HPE, covers the fundamentals of a Telco Blueprint for next-gen infrastructure.

The public cloud is gaining so much momentum that the telco operators must give serious consideration to how they could exploit it. Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist at Spirent, discusses the fundamental ways the telco cloud varies from the public cloud.

“The strategic assets are still in the telcos’ hands. They are still fully in control of what’s running over at those other clouds.” In this video, Danielle Royston, Telecom's Leading Public Cloud Evangelist at TelcoDR, weighs the strategic risks for telco clouds.

Telcos don’t have the skill and appetite to manage tens of thousands of edge clouds, but the public cloud vendors do. Amar Kapadia, Co-founder at Aarna Networks, shares his top 5 ideas for the new telco cloud.

Timon Sloane, VP of Marketing and Ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, looks at ONF’s first release of the SD-RAN project that implements an O-RAN consistent end-to-end mobile 5G RAN stack intended to run as a key workload on future telco clouds.

Are you ready to move your telecommunications workloads to a cloud-native deployment? Here are three key considerations from Justin Hart, CTO, Cloud & Edge Business Unit at Ribbon Communications.

What is Azure for Operators? In this video, Shawn Hakl, VP 5G Strategy at Microsoft Azure, talks about how Microsoft Azure helps network operators adopt cloud technologies for their network workloads and the important changes Azure made to build a carrier-grade cloud.

Bill Lambertson, Vice President, 5G, Edge & Cloud Business at IBM, gives an overview of the IBM Cloud for Telecommunications, and why Red Hat OpenShift is a strategic advantage.

When we talk about embracing the principles of CI/CD, the goal is to automate Ribbon’s CI/CD pipeline to align with, and enable, our customer’s CI/CD environment. It also encompasses how automation enables cloud native operations. This engineering discussion delves into Ribbon’s adoption of CI/CD and cloud native operations and how the artifacts delivered by Ribbon enable frictionless integration with their customer’s automation environments.

With different laws in place around the world it can be challenging for cloud vendors to manage data locally. In this video, Sylvain Quartier, Vice President, Marketing and Product Strategy at Ekinops, talks about how these challenges drive a more secure network and highlight the importance of an open operating system.

It all starts with the infrastructure. In this video, Chadie Ghadie, Director of Business Development at Lenovo, looks at key infrastructure features required for telcos to become more agile, more software driven, and more automated in support of the data that is generated from 5G.