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Diego Yu, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Strategy & Business Development Department, talks about the current status of telco cloud deployment, the edge computing applications it powers, and what telcos need to do to ensure interoperability.

The Layer123 Network Transformation Awards came together for the fifth time to give some credit to the people, teams and companies driving outstanding achievements in network building and keeping people connected. There were 16 winners in total – and we will profile some of the winners here, starting with a testbed controller from ETSI to help unleash the power of 6G.

Anuradha Udunawara from Sri Lanka Telecom gives a reality check for SDN and NFV - discussing the history and progress of the two initiatives so far, their current status, and where their relevance lies for network owners going forward.

Canadian firm Noviflow will officially announce the launch of the CyberMapper Aggregator, a next-generation network packet broker, at this year’s Layer123 World Congress – with the technology already deployed in a Tier-1 CSP network in North America.

Dutch carrier KPN is one of them. Having launched a carefully-planned SDN and NFV transformation programme in 2015, the past five years have seen great progress – and at the same time, highlighted the areas where a few calibrations may just be needed.

Software-defined networking has come a long way since the idea was floated at the turn of the decade.