Navigating the Open Source Landscape

Communications service providers (CSPs) globally are being challenged to transform their networks to meet the demands of the 4th Industrial Revolution and move from connecting people to connecting 50 billion devices. Traditional networks built with expensive proprietary platforms from incumbent vendors are unable to quickly and cost-effectively scale to meet bandwidth demand, while keeping CSPs locked into a single supplier. New open architecture business models have emerged as a disruptive force to enable CSPs to add network capacity and accelerate service innovation, while eliminating vendor lock-in, reducing complexity and lowering costs.