Digital Technology dynamics are rapidly driving the future of Information and Communication Technologies – this is demonstrated by the emergence of the disruptive, but complimentary SDN and NFV forces transforming the Communications Network. The outcomes will include reduction in CapEx and OpEx, greener operations, increased automation and innovation. This paper briefly examines the drivers of change and the impacts they will have on all aspects of a connected world, ushering in the Future Network.

The Mobile Telco architecture is composed of a large number of expensive physical devices, each segregated in its own area. This offers little to no flexibility, making the overall architecture hardly scalable for the future. Technologies such as SDN and NFV are speaking numerous innovations in the networking landscape. One of them being Telco-over-Cloud, which can be directly applied to the Mobile Telco architecture to remove its current limitations, making it more cost-effective, flexible, powerful and easily scalable for the future.