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- Select Open software vs Forked disguised in Service/Support wrap
- Reliance on vendor turnkey vs community or SI partner
- Management buying and preference on vendor reliance
- Pace of technology
- Cost efficiency
- Relationship with supplier's and supply chain models
Although the CSP community has gained experience to adopt and use open source based solutions in their cloud journey but by no means it could match both the scale and requirements as expected from 5G . Industry promotes innovation and thought leadership but not at the cost of lost business opportunity . In the 5G first wave and NFV journey there are so many examples where use of proprietary software catalyzes to gain market momentum as open source technology did not deliver production class services .
It is therefore very important to share End user community view point to define a step wise journey that supports both open source and early use of technology . One of the most optimal solution will be where we can select any solution and later on evolve to target architecture as per requirements and market maturity .
This paper is an effort from End user community to share insights on 5G delivery options to put technology to production .It addresses the requirements , use cases , use of ML/AI and current GAPS which can serve as a baseline for operators who are rolling out and transitioning to 5G Networks .
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking (LFN) to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community. EUAG is made of individuals from end user organizations, including telecommunications carriers, cable companies, network providers, and compute or storage service providers. In this paper we broadly refer to this group as CSPs. As the voice of end user, the EUAG supports the vision of Open source 5G and its adoption in the industry as well as contributes use cases and requirements to the project that deliver maximum value to the industry as a whole. The EUAG’s ONAP working group is the author of this paper, sharing views on the most important
considerations, opportunities, and impediments towards a seamless end user adoption of 5G .
//Saad (STC) Saad Ullah Sheikh
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