www.enterpriseai.news, Aug. 05, 2020 –
The telecommunications sector is embracing enterprise technologies such as server virtualization via an emerging deployment model dubbed universal CPE, for customer premises equipment. CPE generally includes on-premise equipment such as routers, network switches and base stations as well as software-defined wide-area networks and Ethernet access devices.
For network vendors, universal CPE and related virtual networking appliances are an emerging market expected to top $1 billion by the end of 2022.
Telecom equipment vendors have taken notice, using network functions virtualization and related approaches to reduce the number of devices required to provision network services.