With 2018 just about fully in the rear-view mirror, it's time to take a look ahead to what 2019 has in store. FierceTelecom spoke to a number of top telecom executives for their predictions for next year. Here's what they had to say:
“2019 will be the year 5G really starts to gain momentum. Add in industry expansion of edge cloud, software-defined networks and AI, and businesses can begin planning to expand smart manufacturing, smart health, smart cities and smart IoT.”
- Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology and systems, AT&T Labs.
"SD-WAN at the application level. As more cloud apps talk to each other, exchanging secure data aligned to your corporate policies with more intelligent automation (what folks are calling AI) increasing its impact in the workplace. Increasing toward serverless and cloud functions starting to go big. This will start to expand real-time business telemetry into business processes where your business apps are streaming information in real time enabling a much more real-time approach to how enterprises do business enhancing customer experience at a new level."
- Neil McRae, chief architect, BT