Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 16 | Page 43

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION controlled to achieve interoperability and facilitate an open ecosystem to drive large- scale deployments. These capabilities provide flexible deployment options with virtualised network functions, as opposed to physical ones. This allows service providers to respond and scale their networks to rising demands, enabling them to optimise capacity utilisation, ease onboarding and upgrading of network functions, and www.intelligentcio.com AUTOMATION OF ULTRA-FAST ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES AND OPEN SOURCE HAS TRIGGERED THE DEMAND FOR NEW, CLOUD-BASED ARCHITECTURES AND HAS ALLOWED TELCOS TO RE- EXAMINE THEIR EXISTING NETWORKS. INTELLIGENTCIO 43