Telco like Telstra wants service API gateways

The Australian operator's grand plan is to get rid of as much spaghetti as possible, replacing it with something more akin to lasagne (see the Telstra slide below). Under a project called NaaS 2020, it has started a major clean-up of its business and operational support systems (B/OSS) and has thrown its considerable weight behind the TM Forum's open APIs initiative as an answer to the problem of growing service complexity.

On the left, spaghetti -- on the right, lasagne. (We didn't ask about the rigatoni...)

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