The technical capability is here — provision-to-revenue in under 60 seconds, demonstrated live. But what does that actually mean for the business teams who have to operate around it? CFOs, CROs, billing leaders, and SLA managers all have new operating models to figure out. By Shawn Ennis • August 25, 2026 • 7 min read…

Your operations team knows SNMP, YANG, and MIB structures. The next generation of OSS engineering needs streaming graphs, AI correlation, and geospatial telemetry. The hiring profile has changed completely — and almost nobody is hiring for it yet. By Shawn Ennis • August 18, 2026 • 7 min read I’m going to make a prediction.…

Drones at a port are a great demo because they’re visual and physical. But the real addressable market for slice-aware operations is much larger. Five sectors — and the specific ephemeral services that unlock real revenue in each one. By Shawn Ennis • August 11, 2026 • 8 min read Every white paper needs an…

Take these to your next vendor meeting. Watch how they answer. The pattern of their answers will tell you more about whether their platform actually handles ephemeral services than any architectural slide deck ever could. By Shawn Ennis • August 4, 2026 • 8 min read I spend a fair amount of my week in…

It’s not because the network can’t handle it. It’s because nobody outside the CSP has to ask permission to operate it. The quiet revenue migration to adjacent providers is happening — and operational architecture is the lever that determines whether CSPs ever take that ground back. By Shawn Ennis•July 28, 2026 • 7 min read…

Every operator going to Copenhagen this June will see dozens of demos. Here’s why the slice-aware operations Catalyst with Wavelo, CGI, BT Group, and Rapax is the one that matters most for your 5G revenue roadmap. By Shawn Ennis•June 16, 2026 • 6 min read By the time you read this, the schedules are set,…