This document summarizes key transformative technologies that will shape the telecom industry over the next decade, including 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. It explores how these technologies will automate processes and connect not just people but "things". The document then analyzes six specific technologies in more detail: cloud migration, software-defined networking, the Internet of Everything, ultra-fast optical networks, graphene replacements for silicon, and self-organizing networks. It concludes by discussing new computing architectures and the challenges of accelerating technological change.

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Book Review : Telco Global Connect Vol 5 : Transformative Telco Technologies
https://www.amazon.com/Telco-Global-Connect-Vol-Transformative/dp/1537586645
This book explores some of the transaformative technologies that will shape the Telcom industry
in the next decade.The massive build-out of the Internet and ultra-broadband networks will
connect not only people, but as well, digitized “things”, which will, in turn, lead to unprecedented
levels of automation. That future and the technologies are here with us now.
New technologies are creating a continuous cycle of innovation and disruption in the digital age.
These include 5G , artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotic process automation, big data
analytics, cloud computing, asset-sharing digital marketplaces,Blockchain and IoT etc .The
transformational impact of digital technologies governs how telecom companies try to monetize
their infrastructure investments and evolve their asset portfolios and business models.
This Book explores the strategic insights to enable Telcos leverage innovative technologies to
stay relevant and profitable in the next decade.With each technology there is a mind set that
ensures its successful and profitable deployment. Telco execs who misunderstand the essential
link between technology and mindset are doomed to wasting their infrastructure investments in
the forlon hope that if we build it they will come.
The Key Telco Transformative Technologies unpacked in this Book are:
Net Cloud #1 : Cloud Migration
Cloud offers a unique opportunity toTelcos to offer value added services like voice, video and
collaboration on cloud platforms. As Telcos design their cloud strategy, they must think on how
best to leverage their unique and trusted relationship with the consumer. They can monetise this

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relationship by offering competitive cloud-based services integrated in the devices supported by
hassle free billing and reliable network connectivity.
Net Soft # 2 : Softwaring Networks
We are seeing software-defined networking and software-defined storage starting to come into
the mainstream, joining software-defined servers—or what has traditionally been called
“virtualization As infrastructure starts to become more amorphous as to virtualized software
layers to help drive agility, managing all of the devices underneath becomes even more difficult.
It is decidedly non-trivial for a company in a non-tech traditional industry to start thinking and
acting like a software company.
Net Machine # 3 : Internet for Everything
Telcos are sitting on a gold mine of core capabilities and assets, critical for M2M success. In
addition to just network connectivity, they have outstanding expertise in large scale service
delivery with high reliability and global reach, plus an arsenal of partners for content, apps,
specialized solutions and services, integration, as well as terminal and module vendors.While the
price of devices has been steadily decreasing, mobile operators all over the world have been
driving growth in the M2M market over the past several years as we can see by rapidly increasing
numbers of M2M subscribers and higher revenues
Net Radio # 4 : Light Speed Data
Researchers at Aston University believe ultra-long cavity fibre lasers could deliver the
infrastructure and necessary information carrying capacity in optical networks to meet growing
worldwide demand for ever-higher communication bandwidth, with reduced cost and power
consumption per bit. Combining techniques from information theory, coding, advanced
modulation formats, digital signal processing and advanced photonic, they develop breakthrough
techniques to ensure that the underlying communications infrastructure can continue to meet
the growing demand for faster and more reliable global networks.
Net Mat # 5 : Replacing Silicon
As the mobile industry strives to maintain its pace of innovation, graphene has much to offer -
helping to solve many problems including flexibility, smart batteries and sensors. Graphene can
help to facilitate the next generation of mobile technology from chips and interconnects for data
communication to screens and casings. For example, the strong and flexible nature of graphene
makes flexible displays and bendable batteries possible and its excellent sensing ability can be
used in the next generation of wearable electronics and will help to provide the building blocks
for the internet of things.

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Net Intel # 6 : Cerebral Networks
Self-organizing networks (SON) are the attempt to simplify and speed up the planning,
configuration, management, optimization and healing of mobile communications networks. LTE
and LTE-Advanced-based networks are the first cellular technologies that will take advantage of
this enhancement. SON is embedded in different architectures including distributed, centralized
and hybrid, and is subdivided into three functional categories: self-configuration, self-optimization
and self-healing.
Post Scriptum : Future Shock Redux
We will see new, specialized computing architectures (neuromorphic, vision, hearing, no power)
dramatically changing how we can sense and understand the world. We predict that simple
cameras and mics will be replaced with depth cameras and directional audio in the next five
years. Just like smart TVs have all but replaced TVs, simple mics and cameras will be a thing of
the past. These sensing gains represent the end of data entry and the beginning of computing
that understands us, improves our senses, and creates anticipatory experiences.
The new age Telco exec needs to recognize “ that the faster pace of change demands—and
creates—a new kind of information system in society: a loop, rather than a ladder.
" Information must pulse through this loop at accelerating speeds, with the output of one group
becoming the input for many others, so that no group, however politically potent it may seem, can
independently set goals for the whole “
And that will pose the moral and ethical challenge of transformative technologies in the next 100
years...which we look into in the post scriptum.
"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
Alvin Toffler ( author of FUTURE SHOCK )