How telcom could effect the cloud

Telecommunications providers could play an important and lucrative role in the burgeoning world of cloud computing by combining their natural advantages as network operators with a new wave of technological innovation. But as they are already behind in this race, they’ll need to move much faster than their current approach to technology evolution allows. The opportunity represented by cloud-based services (essentially network-based platforms provided as a service from a data center, though looser definitions include hosted offerings and software as a service) is potentially immense because, for starters, it increases the value of carrier networks in multiple ways and creates new roles (and revenues) for telecom service providers.

However, telcos could do much more than that thanks to some inherent advantages, according to Tom Nolle, president of CIMI, a consultancy. Their IP infrastructure could lend itself well to cloud services, at least compared to enterprise infrastructure. The highly componentized nature of telco operations software for the better part of the last decade gels well with cloud services because each software component can be treated like a hosted application, which  yields parallels in processing and performance, he said. Meanwhile, emerging telco technologies such as IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) and next-generation networks (NGN) service architectures are developing into logical service components that could also fit comfortably in cloud environments.

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