It'd be nice for enterprises, rather Digital Service Providers here, that they can wipe away existing apps entirely and start with whole new apps. I feel it more when it comes to laying out applications for 5G.
In 5G, in additions to the innovations in the radio network to support higher density of devices, the application side is going more software controlled, more programmable. Big vendors invest in creating their view of complete solutions, rather than investing on APIs and framework that can be learnt by DSP personnel and allowing them to code / deploy their own view point of solutions rapidly. TMForum's OpenAPI comes to the rescue but the adoption by the industry is slow to come.
Unless vendors of the OSS/BSS apps are ready to provide API's based on commonly used technologies (such as Java, Python,..) and adhering to open standards like TMForum's OpenAPI, vendors become inhibitors to the DSP's dream of new revenue recognition, rather than catalysts.
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