Our major new market share report ranks leading vendors of telecom network automation software, and redraws the market landscape in the light of seismic changes. In 2020, CSPs spent $4.3B on software to automate their networks. Just less than half (49%) went to to major telecom equipment vendors such as Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson, Cisco and Ciena. But the other 51% was with pure play software vendors such as VMware, RedHat, Splunk and smaller vendors. This represents a significant change of state in the network automation software (NAS) market, as we highlight in our latest report Leading Suppliers in Network Automation Software: A Market Transformed. The modernization, digitization and cloudification of telecom networks over the last few years has not only resulted in a change to architectures and strategies. In our view, the telecom software market landscape itself has now been transformed. Traditional categorisations of “element management systems” (EMS), “network management systems” (NMS) and even “operations support systems” (OSS) no longer adequately reflect the context of telecom network automation software, nor the position of vendors in the market. So, our new analysis redraws the NAS market landscape. It is a picture that reveals the true presence and potential of “new” players […]