Due to the ongoing transformation of the industry against the background of the rapid development of technologies, the implementation of effective BSS/OSS systems and monetization tools will become a key success factor for telecom operators. The need to implement new ways to generate income will lead to better interaction between players in the global telecommunications market.
Digital ecology
The big data revolution took place a decade ago. Today, data centers around the planet are buried in exabytes of information that is hardly ever used. Such waste in the use of storage facilities threatens serious consequences for the environment. Therefore, telecom operators must rethink their approaches to collecting and processing data to move from endless ‘data lakes’ to more functional and cost-effective solutions. This will allow them to simultaneously reduce costs and become greener.
Internet of Things
Public and private initiatives are creating billions of new devices that require connectivity to operate. Operators must provide this array of low-cost connections without sacrificing the quality of service to their subscribers. A key success factor in working with smart devices will be the introduction of new technologies (for example, NB-IoT and NIDD) at all levels of the infrastructure to optimize the use of resources.
Global partner ecosystems
The search for new models of monetization will lead to the fact that the operator will need to qualitatively cooperate with partners at the global level. Successful implementation of a strategy for building relationships with other companies within and outside the industry will depend on having an effective technology stack that provides a wide range of integration opportunities. For example, it can be decentralized platforms for providing services in international roaming or invisible to customers two-way integration with content providers and financial service providers, guaranteeing a completely new level of service for subscribers.
The dramatic increase in the number of disparate remote workers is by no means the only thing that is placing extreme stress on the IT infrastructure. The COVID-19 pandemic has also caused unprecedented fluctuations in customer numbers, application traffic patterns, and new use cases such as e-learning, video conferencing, virtual events, remote services, process automation, and other network services.
Networking teams can achieve permanent improvements in performance and ability to respond to growing threats by taking a step-by-step approach:
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Automate repetitive administrative tasks such as network provisioning, configuration, and management to reduce administrative burden and improve compliance in each domain.
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Automate your network access, adaptation, and segmentation to protect groups of distributed users and prevent attacks from spreading;
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Automate network policy in the corporate data center with application-centric segmentation that protects applications and data and monitors workload.
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Automate policy outside the datacenter — in the cloud, with a cloud operating model that provides consistent application policy for on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
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Automate policy-based end-to-end segmentation across multiple domains to establish a consistent zero-trust end-to-end access model from users to workloads.
