The report provides several findings, including the following:

- Around 20% of the traction for network managed services comes from the manufacturing industry because of its reliance on high-performance networks to support critical operations such as supply chain management, inventory tracking, and automated production.

- Enterprises leverage generative AI to create network designs, configure network devices and firewall rules, automate observability processes, and manage incidents.

- Service providers are adopting a platform-led approach to deliver network managed services, integrating advanced AIOps capabilities. These capabilities enable enterprises to monitor network performance and optimize network operations.

- Within network modernization projects, nearly 75% of network service provider investments are dedicated to asset and talent development.

Helping companies transform their networks

Businesses are now looking to accelerate their digital transformation by leveraging multiple platforms and technologies. They need to deal with complex cloud solutions, virtualization trends, and IT infrastructure from many different providers. In this context, their network is key, as they accelerate towards 100% cloud-native and software-based networks and technology platforms that can truly underpin a change in the way they operate internally.

At Telefónica Global Solutions, we help businesses to navigate this often-complex ecosystem with our Managed Network Services offer. Our aim is to be vendor agnostic in order to simplify this ecosystem and be our customers’ trusted partner to lead the way in their digital transformation. Our expertise in the management of local accesses, the capillarity of our international network, our direct access to Cloud Service Providers and our integration capabilities allow us to lead our customers’ network evolutions. In this sense, Telefonica’s Dynamic Networksolution, based on Network as a Service (NaaS) principles, offers the opportunity to our customers to have greater flexibility, scalability, and reliability, implying lower costs and faster deployment and administration of network infrastructure.