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CIO OPINION
“
IN THE COMING
MONTHS,
OPERATORS MUST
ENSURE THEY
ARE EVOLVING
NETWORKS IN A
PROGRESSIVE
WAY, MAKING
THE MOST OF
NETWORK
AUTOMATION
TO CREATE
MORE FLEXIBLE
NETWORK
ARCHITECTURES
THAT CAN BE
RUN WITH
MINIMAL HUMAN
INTERVENTION.
world’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and
enabling advanced e-health, e-commerce,
e-learning, cloud robotics and more. If we
invest now, we can further strengthen our
infrastructure, economies and societies to
cope in the best way possible with whatever
challenges future decades may bring.
Despite the uncertainty ahead, there is
one thing we can be sure of – as we move
“
AS ADVANCED AS
OUR TECHNOLOGY
GETS, IT WILL ONLY
EVER BE AS GOOD
AS THE PEOPLE
CREATING AND
SUPPORTING IT.
towards a 5G world, our networks will
become even more critical to everyday life.
5G networks are likely to underpin practically
all critical functions of government and
industry. Ensuring resilience will be of the
utmost importance; it could quite literally be
a matter of life and death.
To support and enable this, we will need
to draw on the skills and efforts of the
extraordinary teams who have helped us
weather the current crisis – field engineers
and operations teams who have worked
24/7 to secure and strengthen our vital
infrastructure. We must thank our people and
invest in them, because as advanced as our
technology gets, it will only ever be as good as
the people creating and supporting it. •
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