The mission of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) has never been so important. With work, education, and entertainment extremely reliant upon internet connectivity, building and operating high-performance communication networks means delivering better lives and opportunities to the communities served.
Yet, CSPs face unprecedented obstacles. New competition, from satellite to overlapping fiber builds to Fixed-Wireless-Access (FWA), adds to the ever-growing power and influence of hyperscalers—on top of burgeoning bandwidth demands and technology evolution challenging the toughest business cases.
The key to surviving and winning in this market is to develop capabilities to quickly adapt, flexibly respond to demand and competition shifts, and create new revenue streams.
The future is built now. In every investment you must prioritize open, programmable, and intelligent platforms that can enable your success and deliver longer and higher returns.
Ciena’s Adaptive NetworkTM will help you own the edge, optimize investments, and create new revenue streams.
Video and cloud applications are driving unprecedented bandwidth demand growth, overstressing service provider networks from access to core. Concurrently, competition keeps knocking the cost per bit down, setting the need for sweeping efficiency gains. CSPs need to swiftly increase capacity cost-effectively while assuring long-term scalability for continued growth.
With connectivity prices continually falling and the need for nonstop investments in network capacity and modernization, CSPs need to develop new revenue streams to sustain their business. For example, wholesale services (mobile xHaul, regional transport, and last-mile) and business services are a few new exciting revenue streams that providers have been developing.
In the era of AI, big data, and analytics, it’s time to face the competition with smarter tools and processes. Zero-touch provisioning reduces time and cost to deploy while increasing quality. A programmable infrastructure allows for progressive degrees of automation. Advanced telemetry and analytics combine with AI to pave the path to a self-healing network. Multi-layer visualization and orchestration give you full control to make the most of your assets.
5G, Edge Cloud, cybersecurity, IoT, and AI will radically transform users’ requirements, disrupting the way regional service providers do business.
New technologies are enabling regional providers to leapfrog established competitors through smarter network architectures that allow higher flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
To boost business, regional service providers are investing in areas such as:
Broadband network investments face unprecedented momentum. Business networks are being radically transformed. Mobile xHaul demand is surging with new cell sites to connect at much higher bandwidths. Opportunities for CSPs are everywhere, but it is crucial to invest wisely. Long-term investments like network infrastructure are especially risky in today’s rapidly changing environment, as platforms may quickly become obsolete.
To maximize the longevity of investments, CSPs need to future-proof network platforms, ensuring they can support new services and capabilities that will empower them to succeed amid shifting competition, demand, and requirements.
When selecting next-generation platforms, CSPs must maximize flexibility to support evolving requirements, prioritizing attributes such as:
New broadband and metro architectures, shifting workloads and traffic flows, the evolution of 5G, and growing virtualization are just a few of the trends reshaping the telecommunications market. CSPs must find new ways to monetize assets, differentiate, and position to thrive in the future. Let’s build this path together
The Adaptive Network
