Telco Cloud and Network Automation Intelligence Service

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) became a very popular term in the telecommunications industry a decade ago. SDN promised to revolutionize the way networks were designed, managed, and operated by providing a centralized approach to network control and management. The concept of SDN was based on the separation of the control plane from the data plane (or forwarding plane), allowing network administrators to program and manage their networks more efficiently and programmatically.

Covers the evolution of NFV from VM-based deployments to today’s CaaS architecture, based on K8s. Provides recommendations for CSPs regarding the use of public cloud to complement private cloud and why vendors must rearchitect their NFs.

Omdia's NFV tracker represents the sum of multiple regional and software product forecasts. Starting from an estimated $25.3bn in 2021, the market for global NFV software and services is projected to reach $43bn in 2026.

Starting from an estimated $12.3bn in 2021, the market for global carrier SDN hardware, software, and services is projected to hit $32bn in 2026. Operators understand that network operations must be automated at the lowest levels of the network. Carrier SDN is pivotal to any network automation strategy and is the main high-level driver of this forecast.

It’s been a solid year of telco cloud momentum. This came from cloud-native architectures in production, accelerating migration to cloud-native functions, and growing partnerships between telecom heavy hitters and cloud providers.

Starting from an estimated $10.3bn in 2020, the market for global carrier SDN hardware, software, and services is projected to hit $27.6bn in 2025.  Operators understand that network operations must be automated at the lowest levels of the network. Carrier SDN is pivotal to any network automation strategy and is the main high-level driver of this forecast.