Skip to content

An Industry Analyst's Perspective on Telco Cloud#

Open Networking & Edge Summit 2025 digest Program Adjacent pick 31 March 2025

Abstract Recording

Christoforos Sarantopoulos, James Crawshaw & Inderpreet Kaur, Omdia

Play the recording: An Industry Analyst's Perspective on Telco Cloud

  • Why: A condensed analyst view of telco cloud trends — operational complexity, resource-utilization architecture choices, CI/CD, and AI in cloud ops. The reskilling/data-governance/CI-CD recommendations are the transferable part for anyone running private cloud or NFV estate.
  • What: An overview of telco cloud evolution from NFV through cloudified 5G core, with recommendations for service providers (reskilling, data governance, CI/CD) and advice for vendors on supporting open-source adoption and a common automation framework (from abstract only).
  • How: Analyst synthesis across operators and vendors; no single mechanism.
  • Where applicable: Telco/operator context. Analyst talks of this kind are useful for pattern-spotting but carry no empirical evaluation — and vendor-recommendation content can shade into pitch.