“The Metaverse: What’s In It For Telcos?” by Arthur D. Little (ADL) examines how telcos can capture value by leveraging the metaverse. The Metaverse represents a significant new market for telcos, with early estimates putting the Metaverse opportunity at around $13 trillion by 2030.

VMware works with a broad ecosystem of RAN vendors to test and validate the interoperability of their solutions with VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN. It does this so that service providers do not have to. Instead, they can simply run and manage RAN functions from a variety of vendors on a platform that is built and optimised for the RAN.

71% of respondents expect to have implemented security measures for […]

Although the availability of APIs opens up new avenues of attack for malicious actors, there are a number of measures telcos can implement to protect their network. One third of respondents said they will implement network DDoS before commercial launch, while 28% plan to implement identity and access management systems and 22% next-generation firewalls (NG-FWs) before going live.