If 2017 was the year of NFV, then 2018 looks like the year of “automation”. At least if the recent SDN/NFV Forum in The Hague is anything to go by. And that’s good news because it’s a return to the historic focus for OSS. The bad news is that over.
Over the last year, many telcos have been vociferous on their calls for new thinking from their vendors. Not just new variants of existing ideas, but true innovation: novel technology, applied in new ways, to solve real business problems. Hence the increased relevance of Pipeline Magazine’s annual OSS Innovation.
LightReading’s “OSS in the Era of SDN and NFV” event in London last week provided a perfect snapshot of the state of the industry. Unfortunately, it ain’t that pretty. That’s not to say attendees didn’t learn anything. On the contrary, it was very informative. But what we learned wasn’t necessarily.
