This live Q&A show was broadcast at the end of day one of The Cloud Native Telco Summit. TelecomTV’s Guy Daniels was joined by industry guest panellists for this question and answer session. Among the questions raised by our audience were:

• Is cloud native the best approach for every telco, irrespective of their size and geography?
• What are the key factors that are enabled by a cloud-native environment that contribute to revenue increases for a telco as opposed to cost reductions?
• Is it too late for cloud native to make improvements in the 5G era?
• Why is day-two support weak? Can you elaborate on the reasons and what vendors can do to help?
• Cloud native could remove the need for another major investment cycle and architecture upheaval that is surely due to come with 6G. Is cloud native really in a position to, perhaps, lead a radical new change and approach?
• Should telcos integrate their potential AI work and AI network transformation work with their cloud-native work? Are these two things that should be happening in parallel or should they be treated separately?

First Broadcast Live September 2024

Speakers

Beth Cohen

SDN Network Product Strategy, Verizon Business Group

Dr. Joan Triay

Manager and Network Architect, DOCOMO Communications Lab. Europe (DOCOMO Euro-Labs), Rapporteur, ETSI ISG NFV

Michele D’Agostino

Director of Product Management, Wind River 

Sidd Chenumolu

Head of Product Management, Software-Defined Edge Division, VMware by Broadcom