Cloud computing holds enormous potential for telecom service providers | Telephony Online

The opportunity represented by cloud-based services (essentially network-based platforms provided as a service from a data center, though looser definitions included hosted offerings and software as a service) is potentially immense because, for starters, it increases the value of carrier networks in multiple ways and creates new roles (and revenues) for telecom service providers. At minimum, clouds will greatly increase network traffic and utilization and thus transport revenues. And in physically delivering cloud-based services, telecom carriers have an opportunity to extract two revenue streams from the same function, charging end users for a given level of service quality and, at the other end, charging cloud service providers for a given level of service quality – an arrangement similar to that often discussed in the context of content delivery networks.

Cloud computing holds enormous potential for telecom service providers | Telephony Online