The increasing role the hyperscalers are playing was evident, too, in the event’s programming: Adolfo Hernandez, vice president of global telco business at AWS was a keynote speaker on the first day; while Jon James, CEO at Danish national service provider Nuuday, gave a great presentation about how a telco IT migration to a public cloud platform, aided and abetted by Netcracker (and Azure, although he didn’t actually name the hyperscaler), was enabling his company to become a true digital service provider.
The hyperscalers weren’t the only ones on the show floor, signifying a shift in the sector. The trend towards non hardware-specific software and the cloud now also opens the door for other non-traditional companies to play a role in delivering the management, networking and orchestration technology tools that operators of all kinds need. As a result, telcos that are…
