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NFV and SDN – The Key to Service Delivery Transformation for CSPs

July 1, 2017

As the disintermediation of value chains continues apace in the digital era, communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide confront rising customer churn, increasing pricing pressures, and declining prots. Growing competition from agile over-the-top (OTT) service providers, alongside rapid commercialization of several disruptive technologies, are triggering unprecedented changes in consumer behavior. This has resulted in sharp declines in revenues generated from operator’s mainstream offerings – voice and messaging services.

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