1、 Perspective Driving value from telecoms networks beyond CPaaS:the opportunity to revolutionize application delivery February 2023 Caroline Chappell Driving value from telecoms networks beyond CPaaS:the opportunity to revolutionize application delivery|i Analysys Mason Limited 2023 Contents Contents

2、 1.Executive summary 1 Unleashing 5G network features will create new revenue opportunities for an ecosystem of CSPs,enterprises and developers 1 The emerging Industry 4.0 ecosystem needs a network platform as a service 2 The NPaaS architecture is critical to achieving ecosystem goals 3 2.A good opp

3、ortunity to add new value to application delivery in a network-critical world 3 Developers are about to gain unprecedented access to network smarts,triggering the next wave of innovation 3 Immersive industrial and consumer applications will demand a new approach to connectivity that is developer-con

4、trolled 4 3.The potential for network APIs extends beyond the limits of CPaaS 6 CPaaS set an early precedent for developer access to network services but provides limited benefits to developers and CSPs 6 The NPaaS offers more value to the application ecosystem than is available through CPaaS 7 The

5、application ecosystem will benefit from a radically different way of deploying NPaaS 8 4.Key success factors for the NPaaS 9 The deployment of cloud-native 5G networks is a critical enabler of the NPaaS opportunity 9 The NPaaS platform must be architected differently from CPaaS platforms to support

6、the new use cases enabled by a cloud-native 5G network 9 5.Conclusion and recommendations 10 6.About the author 12 List of figures Figure 1.1:Network-enabled ecosystem driving Industry 4.0 use cases.2 Figure 2.1:In an industrial virtual world,every physical object or thing will have a computer-gener