2018 was hard work for the telecoms sector. NFV continued to be a hard slog and the race to 5G was on. But while telcos tried to solve problems in their usual thoughtful but slow way, IT raced ahead, using the cloud to jump complex technical problems and pave the way for a new cloud-based networking era.
#1: NFV WILL BE SUPERSEDED BY CLOUD BASED NETWORKING
NFV, which was designed around appliance virtualisation, will be replaced by Cloud-based Networking which has become a problem for telecoms and enterprise as cloud-native networking becomes the norm.
