Our major new market share report ranks leading vendors of telecom network automation software, and reports on changes in the nature of spending from operators. In 2022, CSPs spent US$6.21B on software to automate their networks. This represents a CAGR of 20% since 2020 – a sizeable rate of growth, given the prevailing condition of telecom as a whole. In the last two years, telecom has continued to be affected by seismic forces and uncomfortable truths. The ending of the pandemic is only the start of a new kind of normal. Climate change and war in Ukraine have exacerbated concerns about energy costs. The march of hyperscale companies continues apace. Five years of hype in 5G is is coming home to roost. It is against this backdrop that telecom operators have been making their decisions about what, how and with whom to spend on network automation software. Software has historically been the “poor relation” to hardware spend in the telecom industry. Yet increasingly it is software that will be fundamental to the priorities of fixed and mobile telcos: agility, growth, innovation, profitability, security – all linked by the pursuit of automation. We see positive signs from our hundreds of hours […]