The State of Cloud-Native Adoption in Telecoms Operators' Mobile Networks

"Many operators are now comfortable deploying network functions in containers, but applying cloud-native lifecycle management for these network functions is still a challenge."

The scale of adoption of cloud-native network functions is growing in the mobile core domain, primarily driven by the deployment of 5G standalone (SA) cores. Operators are making further technological and organisational changes, such as breaking down operational silos and implementing GitOps-based automation, to ease the deployment and operations of - and to reap the most benefit from - their cloud-native networks.

This report provides

• data from Analysys Mason's primary research on the adoption of cloud-native networks
• insights into the technological and organisational progress that operators have made towards implementing cloud-native networks
• insights into adoption drivers and challenges for cloud-native networks
• insights into best practices for deploying cloud-native networks, which include adopting horizontal network cloud platforms and cloud-native/GitOps-based automation
• insights into how cloud-native networks can be evolved into AI-native networks.