Telcos need to shed their legacy infrastructure to make room for more innovative technologies and a best-in-class ecosystem. In contrast, a virtualized and containerized infrastructure supported by an open architecture gives service providers the flexibility to scale or switch out their solutions and vendors based on customer and market needs.
This will allow service providers to minimize their reliance on legacy hardware and, instead build agile, unified, best-in-class infrastructures which can be managed efficiently at scale.