The impending rollout of 5G is disrupting many aspects of the telecoms infrastructure, not least the ways in which data is managed. The requirements of NFV, fundamental to 5G, for example, mean that operators are rapidly having to move to cloud-based stateless applications, while facing hugely increased expectations from their customers in terms of service delivery. At the same time, OTT players and new entrants to the market are capitalising on 5G’s promise of high speed and ultra-low latency to expand their service offerings, and are preparing to harvest all the data they can access in order to improve the customer experience and generate additional revenue.
