Telco Cloudification Poses A Huge Systemic Risk
LighReading, Friday, October 13,2023
Operators champion their multivendor strategies even as they increasingly demand a single cloud platform - and the options are limited.
Telcos these days supposedly detest single-vendor deals. It's hardly a surprise - if something happens to that vendor, the network could fail. Trapped in the bear hug of a big supplier, an operator can be squeezed on payments and as shabbily treated as a Ryanair passenger with no escape. All this is a problem because many telcos - besides grumbling about "lock-in" and poor vendor diversity - also want to virtualize or cloudify their networks. And one reason for that is to have a single platform for managing all workloads.