“As an industry we talk a lot about agility, flexibility and enabling customer focus; but it’s not often that we hear so many of the right words come together in one industry discussion.” Both we as Appledore, and “we” as the industry talk a lot about agility, flexibility and enabling customer focus. We are about to publish major research linking service abstraction, well-structured intent, and automation – successfully. But it’s not often that we hear so many of the right words come together in one industry discussion. We believe that CenturyLink‘s story is one of many that illustrate that the industry is turn a corner in virtualization/modernization, and is well worth watching to see how it plays out – from the perspectives of commitment, implementation and metrics. CenturyLink is making a large capital investment in transformation CenturyLink is making large (as a percentage of revenues) capital investments to truly transform their business, and especially the enterprise and global networking business, reporting that they will have spent between $3.5 and 3.9B USD on capital in 2019 on revenues of $23.4B. This marks a major bet on the future, both in terms of revenue acquisition and operational streamlining. So what are they […]