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- The Telco Operator may own and/or have partnerships and network connections to utilize multiple Clouds
- for network services, IT workloads, external subscribers
- On Prem Private - Own (Operator deployed and managed),
- Open source; Operator or Vendor deployed and managed | OpenStack or Kubernetes based
- Vendor developed; Operator or Vendor deployed and managed | Examples: Azure on Prem, VMWare, Packet, Nokia, Ericsson, etc.
- On Prem Public: Commercial Cloud service hosted at Operator location but for both Operator and Public use | Example: AWS Wavelength
- Outsourced Private: hosting outsourced; hosting can be at a Commercial Cloud Service | Examples: Equinix, AWS, etc.
- (Outsourced) Public: Commercial Cloud Service | Examples: AWS, Azure, VMWare, etc.
- Each Telco Cloud Each EnCloud consists of multiple interconnected Regions
- An EnCloud A Telco Cloud Region may connect to multiple regions of another EnCloud another Telco Cloud (large capacity networks)
- An EnCloud A Telco Cloud also consists of interconnected local sites (multiple hierarchies are possible scenarios)
- An EnCloudA Telco Cloud's local site may connect to multiple Regions within that EnCloud that Telco Cloud or another EnCloudTelco Cloud
- A Telco Cloud An EnCloud also consists of a large number of interconnected edge nodes
- Edge nodes may be impermanent
- An EnCloudA Telco Cloud's Edge node may connect to multiple local sites within that EnCloud that Telco Cloud or another EnCloudTelco Cloud; an Edge node may rarely connect to an EnCloud an Telco Cloud Region