The industry has made considerable progress in the past 3 years following our first report titled “MANO SUPPLIER SCORECARD: TOP PICKS FOR 2015” published in May 2015. Our research shows more CSPs have moved out of the PoC phase and investing in SDN and NFV deployments for mobile core, enterprise edge, RAN, and firewall/security based virtualized solutions (figure 1). We reflect this progress against the four management domains that we believe show a critical importance to future operational and business outcomes. These four domains are Dynamic Inventory, Rapid, Automated Service Assurance (RASA), Modeling/Onboarding, and Policy Driven Orchestration. This report is a follow up to “2017 MARKET SUMMARY: CRITICAL ADVANCES IN ORCHESTRATION FOR AGILITY AND AUTOMATION” published in July 2017. The full report expands Appledore’s update of the state-of-the-art in MANO and orchestration (“MANO+”), with a survey of industry progress, tables showing the progress of leading suppliers, and 22 “mini profiles” with our summary analysis. Supplier assessment is useful for CSPs to understand the maturity of products and solutions and more importantly how each supplier fits into the overall MANO+ ecosystem. Suppliers include Aria Networks, Amdocs, CENX, Ciena, Cisco, Cloudify, CoMarch, Dell EMC, DonRiver, Ericsson, EXFO, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Moogsoft, MycomOSI, […]