Just when the telecommunications industry and its customers were progressing on their digital transformation journeys, the global COVID-19 pandemic increased the pressure on telecommunications carriers and other network service providers (NSPs) to deliver more services faster, everywhere. Luckily, these two driving forces complement each other. By leveraging software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructures, NSPs and major telcos, as part of the NSP ecosystem, gain the ability to deliver access to traditional telco services (e.g., MPLS networks) and a whole new set of virtual network services (e.g., SD-WAN, virtual cloud routing). And with programmable software delivery, they can place these services where customers need them the most in less time and at less cost.

Prior to leveraging programmable SDN or virtual network functions (VNF) devices, NSPs were making huge CAPEX investments in networking hardware to deliver their services either regionally or globally. This required a great deal of 'on the ground resources' to deploy and provision network hardware, limiting reach and lengthening time to market. It also restricted the type of services NSPs could offer their customers due to any delays or high cost of ownership associated with getting physical networking equipment into a country, such as during the pandemic. SDN and VNF give network service providers the agility and flexibility to deliver a whole new set of services to their customers regionally and globally.

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