Harmonization 2.0: How Open Source and Standards Bodies Are Driving Collaboration Across IT

March 14, 2018

Standards have played a major role in telecommunications technology adoption for many years, validating the commercial viability of new technologies, facilitating multi-vendor interoperability, improving product portability and essential product quality for customers, and expediting industry adoption and implementation of new technologies instead of wasting resources navigating between competing frameworks. Cloud-driven operational models have set the stage for a major paradigm shift for software to supersede hardware to offer agility, flexibility, automation, and openness. Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization are the catalysts for digital transformation that are disrupting the entire industry, and in 2018, most global network operators have developed transformation strategies based on open source SDN /NFV platforms.

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Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 100 development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 221,700 employees as of December 31, 2015, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

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