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Telecom Business Review | Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Several crucial network characteristics will necessitate open collaboration at both the business and technological levels.
FREMONT, CA: There is greater importance on open application programming interfaces (APIs) and network-as-a-service delivery. Future innovation in network-centric services will demand more than more transparency in commercial and partnership dealings. To ensure that new solutions can fulfill mission-critical promises of network stability and performance for businesses, the network itself will need to be more open so that its functions and data can easily integrate into them.
The success of network-as-a-service in the future will depend on adaptable parts and public APIs, which are now becoming the norm. The network, according to Soininen, will fail to meet the needs of the modern-day if it is not open to all users. In the future, networks will be less unified than they are now. Every possible service will be made available. Open APIs are a means by which CSPs can strive to provide value in an ecosystem and avoid being consigned to the plumbing layer.
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To compete, service providers will have to open up their networks as a platform for others to build on. This is what the web scales have very well with the cloud, and it's where network companies have to go. CSPs have an advantage over web-scalers because of their local connections to industry, government, and community, which can open doors to opportunities that web-scalers are too large to address.
One of the biggest obstacles will be creating a revenue model that benefits both the CSP and the end users of the network, which is necessary for effectively monetizing those open APIs. For instance, charging an extra $10 per month for each networked device is impractical. In the networking industry, there is a need to integrate more innovations from cloud computing, such as dynamically increasing or decreasing resource allocation and paying only for actual consumption.
Ubiquitous high-performance networks and complex network-centric solutions will necessitate large-scale collaboration. Each industry participant must resist the temptation to construct walls around its technological stack and customer interactions. Achieving an organizational culture in which openness is the default setting is one of the most crucial parts of this change. This may be achievable through a difference in people or intensive instruction and coaching for veteran players with ingrained attitudes.
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