Patrick Ostiguy is Founder and Executive Chairman at Accedian, provider of network performance and end-user experience analytics solutions.
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Telecom carriers are becoming giant IT organizations, and the needs and architectures of telcos and enterprises are converging as they both engage in deep digital transformation. Meanwhile, public cloud hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) are facing similar challenges as they spread across networks and extend their offerings into telco-based edge compute.
Telcos are cloudifying everything.
Fleeing from the specter of the proverbial dumb pipe, communication service providers (CSPs) are becoming nothing but giant IT and cloud organizations, and that’s a really good thing. Doubling down on their real estate footprint to roll out 5G and edge compute, they are refreshing their technical expertise with all the buzzwords du jour and are uniquely positioned to take a very sizable bite of the digital transformation…