Network API platform vendors: strategies for monetising 5G/CAMARA APIs
15 June 2023 | Research
Strategy report | PPTX and PDF (8 slides) | Private Networks| Cloud and AI Infrastructure
"Vendors with attractive network API platforms and compelling go-to-market strategies will have an extraordinary opportunity to aggregate network capabilities and make the network available as programmable infrastructure across operators and domains."
Vendors are scrambling to build a new generation of API platforms that aggregate network capabilities using standards-based APIs. Once aggregated, these capabilities will need to be exposed to developers through differentiated northbound APIs to make them easy for developers to consume. Vendors face a variety of commercial and technical challenges to bring such platforms to market, including the scale of the undertaking to expose entire networks to developers.
Information included in this report
- A summary of the network API platform opportunity
- A discussion of the challenges facing network API platform vendors as they enter this emerging market
- Solutions and recommendations for network API platform vendors
- A definition of the network API platform and its value chain.
Author
Gorkem Yigit
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