
New Trends Digitalising Telco Industry
CIO Review APAC | Monday, December 05, 2022

The telco industry is entering a digital era with massive business digitalisation and they should focus on innovative developments to offer the best solutions in an ever-changing world to remain competitive in the future.
FREMONT, CA:Although the telecom and technology sectors have survived the pandemic, new macroeconomic challenges will impede growth in the coming years. The metaverse will be the centre of technological innovation and investment, with the push for standardisation. Telecom is one of the most dynamic industries and the driving force behind many new technologies. With the telecommunications industry continually evolving, it will witness several trends impacting its development.
Edge Orchestration Becoming Important
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Edge computing hosts and allows application execution at the edge of the network. It enables this using data collection, processing, storage, and analytics close to the locations where content is taken and produced by end-user devices like sensors, actuators, and controllers. Edge cloud brings the capabilities and benefits of cloud services closer to the user equipment and closer to the radio-enabled industrial devices and IIoT application functions in 5G.
The proximity of the edge cloud, combined with edge computing, provides benefits to user applications such as low latency, availability, and reliability, and the required performance for high bandwidth and latency sensitive uses such as IIoT, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and industry 4.0. Edge computing technology will rapidly expand as communication service providers (CSPs) deploy 5G networks with many central and distributed cloud-edge sites, with 5G monetisation as the prize.
To successfully deploy and manage various edge computing uses, services, and applications, CSPs and large companies will need to orchestrate resources across geographically distributed, small-footprint edge data centres. Such deployments will need an evolved level of intelligent context-aware automation and real-time network correlation, services, and application resources.
The edge cloud computing environment will advance, using the network as code, multi-cloud, open API exposure, and AI/ML with intent-driven orchestration. These building blocks will develop a converged framework at the network edge to meet a multitude of user demands delivered with high agility and lower operational cost. Therefore, edge orchestration is critical, and edge ecosystems will evolve to become an essential pillar of CSPs’ digital transformation journey, facilitating them to gain market relevance beyond connectivity.
Digital Twins to Guide Network Operations
In the telco world, a digital twin is a virtual representation of a network based on real-time data from multiple sources like ML data lakes, edge clouds, IoT devices, subscriber data, sensors, and more. The objective is to use simulation and machine learning to visualise and predict the impacts of different situations without having to implement them in physical networks.
With new trends, telecommunications will get into a massive business digitalisation. To remain competitive in the future, telcos should take the initiative and be innovative to offer the best solutions for this ever-changing world. As the world turns its focus towards 5G, the metaverse with 6G, WiFi 6, and edge computing, a more immersive ecosystem is likely to arise, and telecom companies will be key players.
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