Executive Summary - Analysys Mason: Converging IT and Network Teams

Network automation is an imperative if operators are to deliver services with sustainable levels of agility and profitability. Automation enables the network to adapt to events and demands rapidly and efficiently, and supports a new speed of digital

Innovation in the telecom industry is accelerating. Networks need to adapt quickly to the changing capacity requirements and applications demands. These requirements include faster provisioning, deployment, and upgradeability for network services.

Users’ ever-increasing expectations—and the technology breakthroughs that continue to feed them—have created an unprecedented level of pressure and complexity for today’s network providers. Some strategic approaches suggest that complexity is the

This executive brief aims to set a clear vision for future ‘adaptive’ wide area networks and their operations. It provides an adaptive networks definition, analyzes the potential migration paths that providers can take, and recommends a stepwise

Developments in artificial intelligence mean network providers are now able to rethink their operations to achieve end-to-end automation. But most operators do not want to cede control to networks that decide their own direction and remove humans