SINGAPORE, Aug. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Telcos in
Asia Pacific are actively
virtualizing their network architecture. A flurry of development
can be observed from open source communities, such as OPNFV and
ONAP, as well as from individual efforts by telcos. ABI
Research forecasts the network function virtualization (NFV)
market in Asia Pacific will grow
to $US9.24 billion in 2022.
Japan is the largest single market
within the Asia Pacific region,
constituting 25.7% of the total revenue. This is followed by
South Korea and China, at 22.7% and 14.6% respectively.
"Japan leads in the region, not
only because of the desire to design resilient and reliable
networks in preparation for future disaster threats, but also to
prepare for the 2020 Summer Olympics," said Lian Jye Su, Senior Analyst at ABI Research.
"South Korea and China are actively preparing for 5G, which
requires both cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) and Cloud Core
Networks. At the same time, the rest of the regions are actively
catching up. Tier Two telcos, like Banglalink and Ncell, are
currently deploying virtual subscriber data management
platforms."
The industry has long agreed that there is no single approach to
NFV and the latest market developments demonstrate just that. In
July 2017, SK Telecom launched
T-MANO, its own network function virtualization management and
orchestration (MANO) platform. This move is contrary to major
Chinese telcos, who opt to collaborate with large number of vendors
and other telcos in ONAP to develop a common MANO platform. Telcos
in China aim to become the
catalyst for the government "Made in China 2025" strategy. Through their NFV
initiatives, Chinese telcos can empower local industrial players
with new capabilities, such as multi-access edge computing, massive
machine type communications, dynamic cloud services and
vehicle-to-everything communications.
"That is why the recent NFV interoperability test between Cisco,
Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia are important. Such collaboration
allows telcos to truly embrace the multi-vendor NFV deployment and
benefit from the open source nature of NFV," concludes Su. "We
believe that virtualized network function onboarding,
interoperability testing, and lifecycle management are becoming the
new focus of the industry, as telcos seek to leverage the strengths
of different hardware and software vendors."
These findings are from ABI Research's NFV Case Studies in Asia
Pacific: Implementations and Impacts report. This report is part of
the company's Telco Cloud Platforms and Digital Transformation
research service, which includes research, data, and analyst
insights.
About ABI Research
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