In this episode, Joseph Attwood, Analyst, and Michelle Lam, Senior Analyst, discuss the need for telecoms operators to evolve their approach to network automation if they hope to achieve their autonomous networking goals.

They explore the two pathways that operators can follow to overcome the limitations of NFV MANO. The first of these pathways is to implement cloud-native automation based on Kubernetes’s orchestration capabilities and GitOps methodologies. The second is for operators to adapt their network automation as ETSI evolves its NFV MANO architecture to the new Telco Cloud MANO architecture.

Joseph and Michelle discuss the advantages and trade-offs of each pathway as well as which approach various operators are likely to adopt.

Read the related strategy report and article.