Digital Twins in Telecoms: A Framework for Understanding the Opportunity and Ecosystem

"Digital twins have the potential to fundamentally change the ways in which operators interact with systems and with their customers, and this will open up new opportunities for vendors - but there are hurdles to overcome."

Telecoms operators and their business customers face significant challenges in efficiently managing networks, services and subscribers. The use of digital twins within the telecoms market can fundamentally transform the way that these goals are achieved, helping operators and their customers to achieve cost efficiencies, improve customer services and reduce their environmental impact.

This report provides a framework for understanding the market opportunity for telecoms-related digital twins, as well as a baseline for evaluating the future development of the market. It provides a technology taxonomy, a map of the vendor ecosystem and an analysis of operators' expectations and attitudes to digital twin deployment.

Questions answered:

• What is a digital twin in the context of the telecoms market and what are the different types of digital twin?
• Which of the main players in this market have telecoms-applicable digital twin solutions and what are the key attributes of each type of digital twin?
• Which elements of digital twins are missing from current solutions?
• What are the main use cases for digital twins in the telecoms industry?
• What barriers do players need to overcome to unlock the market's potential?

Who should read this report:

• Strategy, product marketing and marketing executives within the operational applications vendor community, who need to understand changes in customer requirements and how to evolve their products.
• Executives responsible for delivering environmental improvements, who need to understand how digital twin solutions are evolving and how this technology can help them to achieve energy and carbon reduction goals.
• Executives responsible for network, data-centre and service planning, who need to understand how digital twin solutions can help them to increase efficiency and improve performance.