Pragmatic Orange picks its way towards ‘high-value’ network autonomy

Anne Morris2025-06-20T10:02:00

Source: Freepik

DTW Ignite 25: Sofrecom’s Roberto Kung highlights the need to assess the business case and ROI before investing in increased autonomy, noting that “we don’t want to be Level 4 everywhere”.

This article includes:

Organisations: France Telecom; Huawei; KPN; Microsoft; Orange Group; Sofrecom; STL Partners; Telefónica Group; TM Forum.
Geographies: Africa; Côte d’Ivoire; Denmark; Europe; France; Senegal; Spain.
People: Emma Buckland; Monte Hong; Roberto Kung; Laurent Leboucher; Tim Prins; Ramon Romero.
Themes: 5G; 5G standalone (5G SA); Artificial intelligence (AI); Autonomous networks; Cloud; Cloud-native environments; Core networks; Data; Digital providers; Enterprise (B2B); Framework adaptation; Generative AI (GenAI); Hyperscalers; Innovation (R&D); Internal systems; Knowledge sharing; Level 4 autonomy; Level 5 autonomy; Network automation; Network monitoring; Network operations centre (NOC); Operational costs; Operations support systems (OSS); Platform development; Resilience; Return on investment (RoI); Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN); Submarine cables; Technology; Transformation.

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