TELECOM PROVIDERS AND 5G ACCELERATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

摘要

Enterprises clearly face a number of challenges when selecting their next generation communications services. It is equally clear that telecom operators face critical challenges of their own when delivering those services, says Dr Derek Long, Head of Telecoms and Mobile, Cambridge Consultants. Global internet traffic grew from 100 GB per day in 1992 to 2,000 GB per second in 2017, and is forecast to reach 150,000 GB per second by 2022. Telecom operators are expected to keep up with these massive increases in network loads while also trying to maintain the service level agreements (SLA) their enterprise customers frequently require. These contractually oblige the operator to guarantee a particular quality of service (QoS).Meanwhile, application and content providers, such as Google and Netflix, are focused, quite rightly, on delighting their end-users with a high quality of experience. In fact, web-service providers have gone a step further by developing their own protocols to secure network bandwidth, which have ultimately proved detrimental to the mobile telecom operator.