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All Luis Salvado articles

Network & Infra
We built the networks. Now we must teach them to think.

2026-05-20T10:00:00Z Featured submission from Luis Salvado Executive Chairman Celfocus

The operating model that built today’s telecom networks is no longer sufficient: complexity has outpaced human execution. Celfocus’s Executive Chairman Luis Salvado believes that the industry must shift from application-driven to intelligence-defined systems — or risk being outpaced by hyperscalers already treating networks as orchestrated software.