5G Americas Report Sees Many Challenges in Moving to Cloud Telecom World
Challenges remain as the wireless industry moves more deeply into the cloud, said a 5G Americas white paper released Thursday. “One of the key difficulties for at-large deployments of such distributed compute communications constructs, namely the distributed compute and communications…
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fabric (DCC-Fabric), is that today’s cloud and communications systems were designed to deliver services with less stringent requirements for which centralized hyperscale data centers were sufficient,” the paper said: “These systems, however, are challenged with the requirements of emerging applications and the workloads expected with more AI and data-driven solutions.” The paper outlines many of the challenges, including regulatory compliance, security and forecasting the costs. “One of the most pressing and obvious challenges is the coordination across industry players to create a common set of specifications and [application programming interfaces] to ensure proper interoperability,” the report said. “Security by default must be the standard, and the customer must take active measures if they need to disable the default protections,” it said. The report said costs are hard to forecast. “The Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report states that public cloud expenditure during 2021 was over budget by 13% on average. This is partly the result of the difficulty of forecasting usage. Providing users with better visibility into spending, and better prediction tools, will help them avoid surprises at the end of the month.”