As they expand into enterprise digital transformation, operators commonly encounter the following environmental complexities:
- Technological challenges:
- The complexity of integrating various components, passing security requirements, and managing the platform at scale makes it difficult to launch new services quickly.
- The lack of common service delivery platforms prohibits accommodating network, applications, and IT workloads, and makes it difficult to deliver services using the customer's own cloud-Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) or Dev Ops model.
- Unique challenges of Telecommunications Service Providers (TSPs) at the edge:
- The complexity of building out the cloud distribution model from the network edge to an on-premises edge
- The need to leverage the existing assets of the TSP, including last-mile connectivity and 4G/5G networks, while incorporating new technologies that extend into the customer premises (for example, SD-WAN)