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Evolution of Cloud in the Telecom Wholesale Market - Development Trends, Growth Opportunities and Case Studies

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  • 44 Pages
  • July 2023
  • Region: Global
  • GlobalData
  • ID: 5851809
This Global Outlook Report 'Evolution of Cloud in Telecom Wholesale' provides an assessment of cloud trends within the telecom wholesale segment.

Embracing Cloud within Telecom Wholesale will be mandatory in the future. This Global Outlook Report, 'Evolution of Cloud in Telecom Wholesale', provides analysis of cloud trends in telecom wholesale, and makes firm recommendations for incumbent telecom wholesalers to strategize for Cloud deployment.

The publisher's findings concluded that closer integration of cloud strategies will be mandatory in the successful delivery of future wholesale products and services.

In particular, the report provides:

  • An assessment of market trends in telecom wholesale, providing an update on wholesale providers' strategies and priorities with respect to portfolio and services.
  • Insights on the use of cloud solutions in telecom wholesale, examining the drivers for introduction and across what product areas.
  • Analysis on hypersaler and cloud platform provider strategies, and how traditional telcos should position themselves.
  • Presents discussions and recommendations on what incumbent telecom wholesale providers should do to become more cloud-enabled in telecom wholesale.
The analysis and findings in this report are based on a detailed assessment of wholesale provider strategies, backed up by qualitative executive interviews with senior leads in the wholesale segment. A number of case studies are presented, giving live examples within industry, encompassing traditional telecom wholesalers, hyperscalers, cloud platform providers, and data center providers.

Scope

  • The Global Outlook Report ‘Evolution of Cloud in Telecom Wholesale' concluded that for traditional telecom wholesalers to stay relevant in the future, they will need to increase innovation through cloud enabled wholesale services.
  • Consolidation and operational agility will be key for traditional telecom wholesalers, adapting to future cloud delivery models.
  • The study highlighted that traditional wholesale carriers in the main are still challenged in establishing how they should position their portfolio of services against disruptive and cloud providers in the ecosystem.

Reasons to Buy

This Global Outlook Report 'Evolution of Cloud in Telecom Wholesale' provides an assessment of cloud trends within the telecom wholesale segment; and provides an update of wholesaler portfolio strategies and priorities. In particular, the report provides:

  • Valuable insights and recommendations for traditional wholesale carriers on the critical considerations and strategic options for implementing cloud within wholesale.
  • The report's case studies provides real examples of market approaches, business models, and portfolio roadmaps in relation to cloud delivered products. Case studies are presented on incumbent carriers, cloud platform providers, hyperscalers, and data center providers.
  • The report also provides actionable recommendations for providers to consider when defining their cloud wholesale strategy.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary
Section 1: Introduction & Objectives
  • Introduction & Objectives
Section 2: The Global Wholesale Market Landscape
  • The Global Wholesale Market Continues to Maintain Momentum
  • Increased Threat of New Players in the Wholesale Ecosystem
  • Evolution of the Telecom Wholesale Ecosystem
  • The Wholesale Ecosystem: Reconfiguring the Traditional Wholesale Business
  • The Global Wholesale Market is Realigning to Demand
Section 3: Use of Cloud In Wholesale
  • Increased Telecom Business Unit Consolidation
  • Wholesale Infrastructure Development Trends - 2023 Update
  • Current Wholesale Portfolio and Growth Opportunities - 2023 Update
Section 4: Future Cloud Considerations In Wholesale
  • Cloud Enablement Across Telecoms, Including Wholesale
  • Cloud Considerations When Partnering with Hyperscalers
  • Telco and Hyperscaler Cloud Journey
Section 5: Case Studies
  • INCUMBENT CARRIER: Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier
  • INCUMBENT CARRIER: Telefónica Global Solutions
  • DATA CENTER: Equinix
  • CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS: MessageBird
  • CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS: Twilio
  • CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS: Vonage
  • HYPERSCALER: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Section 6: Key Findings and Recommendations
  • Key Conclusions
  • Key Recommendations
  • Appendix
  • Acronyms and Definitions
  • Companies Mentioned
List of Figures
Exhibit 1: REPORT METHODOLOGY
Exhibit 2: SAMPLE OF PLAYERS IN THE WHOLESALE ECOSYSTEM
Exhibit 3: THE WHOLESALE ECOSYSTEM - KEY PLAYER DYNAMICS
Exhibit 5: WHOLESALE PLAYERS’ INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND DRIVERS.
Exhibit 6: WHOLESALE PLAYERS’ PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Exhibit 7: TELCO CLOUD ACCELERATION
Exhibit 8: TELCO AREAS OF COSIDERATION WHEN PARTNERING WITH HYPERSCALERS
Exhibit 9: TELCO CLOUD HORIZON
Exhibit 10: HYPERSCALER MIGRATION RECOMMENDATIONS
Exhibit 11: GOOGLE CLOUD NATIVE FOR NETWORK FUNCTIONS EDGE
Exhibit 12: CLOUD-NATIVE PLATFORM FOR 5G CORE
Exhibit 13: TELEFÓNICA WAN2CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
Exhibit 14: TELEFÓNICA WAN2CLOUD TO THIRD-PARTY CLOUD
Exhibit 15: PLATFORM EQUINIX
Exhibit 4: DRIVERS FOR TELECOM CONSOLIDATION
Exhibit 16: EQUINIX BARE METAL-AS-A-SERVICE
Exhibit 17: EQUINIX METAL POPS CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ORANGE
Exhibit 18: MESSAGEBIRD FLOW BUILDER
Exhibit 19: TWILIO PHYSICAL HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
Exhibit 20: TWILIO INTERCONNECT PLATFORM
Exhibit 21: VONAGE COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM
Exhibit 22: CLOUD JOURNEY IN THE TELCO SEGMENT
Exhibit 23: CLOUD-NATIVE 5G CORE AND AWS SERVICES
Exhibit 24: 5G CHARACTERISTICS AND AWS FEATURE PARITY

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  • Alibaba
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Baidu
  • BICS
  • BT
  • Colt
  • Cisco
  • Coca-Cola
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • Equinix
  • Ericsson
  • Facebook
  • Fortinet
  • Google
  • GTT
  • iBasis
  • Juniper Networks
  • Liquid Telecom
  • MessageBird
  • Mobily
  • Microsoft
  • Nokia
  • Oracle
  • Orange
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • PCCW Global
  • PLDT
  • Rasa
  • SAP
  • SalesForce
  • ServiceNow
  • Sparkle
  • Saudi Telecom Company
  • Synverse
  • Tata Communications
  • Telefónica
  • Telstra Global
  • Tomia
  • Twilio
  • Uber
  • Verizon
  • Vonage
  • VMware
  • Vodafone
  • WhatsApp
  • Windstream
  • YaloChat
  • Zayo