TelecomTV: Deutsche Telekom’s Alex Choi on smashing silos and building federation

TelecomTV is the official news partner of TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series (DTWS), which runs from October 7 to November 12. In addition to our own coverage of the event on Inform, we will feature videos and article excerpts from TelecomTV journalists on Inform and in our Stay Informed weekly newsletter. The on-demand version of the session covered in this piece, called 'IT resilience and the migration dilemma', is available to watch on-demand now. Having bust out of their internal silos, telcos must also de-silo themselves to link up in federation with other like-minded operators to create a standard edge platform. With 5G, Edge and cloud native they have the technical capabilities to do well with the next generation network, they just need to focus on building a consistent, cross-telco unified platform, says Alex Choi, Senior Vice President Research and Technology Innovation, Deutsche Telekom, who spoke at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation Forum this month. “Ten years ago nobody was thinking about virtualizing, cloudifying or automating the network infrastructure, but today it’s the dominating trend,” says Alex. And the dominant issue within the dominant trend is probably ‘migration’. The ‘where are we going?’ question has been answered, the ‘how do we get there?’ problem is still very much alive. Read the full story on TelecomTV This DTWS session, sponsored by Amdocs, falls under the Forum’s Cloud Native IT & Agility theme and is available to watch now, on demand. You can watch the rest of Digital Transformation World Series content live and on demand now too! Not registered for DTWS yet? There’s still time. Join 12,000 of your peers online through November 12. CSPs receive complimentary passes. Sign up here.

• Telcos are taking great strides on next generation infrastructure
• But there’s much silo-smashing still to be done in critical areas, says Deutsche Telekom’s Alex Choi