Telcos Accelerating Cloud-Native Deployments for Greater Scalability and Business Agility

This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's view on telecom service provider's cloud-native network deployments strategies to enhance scalability and agility driven by the need to support 5G, edge computing, and advanced network management. Telecom service providers are accelerating their cloud-native deployments to enhance scalability and business agility. Despite ongoing efforts to introduce new services, they face challenges such as commoditization, intense digital competition, and the complexity of integrating multiple generations of technology. The adoption of virtual network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs) is driven by the need to support 5G, edge computing, and advanced network management. Regardless of challenges, such as managing hybrid networks and ensuring security, telcos are making significant progress in digital transformation, leveraging containerization and dual-engine architectures for enhanced flexibility and efficiency."Telcos must embrace cloud-native deployments to overcome complexity and competition, unlocking new revenue streams, and driving scalability and agility in an evolving digital landscape." - Ajeet Das, research director, Telecom Network Infrastructure at IDC