Patrick Kelly and Francis Haysom, Appledore Research Group Cloud native applications and NFs, as an evolution of the virtualization of the telecommunication network, have the potential to substantially improve capital efficiency for CSPs in an industry that spends $300 Billion annually on network, compute, and storage. CSPs are actively virtualizing network functions in the mobile core network, customer premise, and data center to both lower capex but more importantly change the operating cost curve that exists today in their operating environment. The cloud lets CSPs take advantage of delivering services more rapidly to their customers at a far lower operational unit cost. We believe that this journey towards virtualization and cloud-native which combines NFV, SDN, and cloud native applications will be more disruptive than the move from circuit switched to packet networking. The cloud native approach is application centric where applications consume resources, scale based on customer demand and are completely de-coupled from the infrastructure. Cloud native applications utilize a micro-service based architecture vs. a monolithic software stack which is pervasive in every CSP operational environment today. The challenge for CSPs is how to rapidly transform their processes and systems to achieve the inherent benefits offered by the cloud and […]