Principles of Autonomous Networks, Part 3: Market and Vendor Landscape
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Telecom is progressing from abstract concepts to practical implementation, with organizations such as TM Forum and ETSI emphasizing granular, intent-driven, hyper-local autonomous domains. Many suppliers, including NEPs, ISVs, and hyperscalers, offer solutions across domains (e.g., RAN, IP, Optical) and for cross-domain service orchestration (CDSO), though full maturity is not yet achieved.
CSPs are adopting autonomy cautiously, driven by the demands for cost reduction, service innovation, and the need to manage network complexity. Ultimately, autonomy is seen as essential for simplifying operations and enabling new services at scale.
“Principles of Network Autonomy – Part Three: Market and Vendor Landscape,” provides a market and vendor overview for network autonomy, advocating a fundamental rethink of network operations beyond traditional OSS/BSS to a new network automation software (NAS) taxonomy. It stresses that autonomy is not an incremental improvement but requires significant investment, urging Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to buy rather than build autonomous network software due to its sophistication and the market’s multi-vendor nature.