India, Sept. 17 -- As capex tightens, commoditisation deepens, and hyperscalers chip away at traditional revenue streams, telcos are under mounting pressure to rethink their networks. Yet, as Prashant Ramesh Malkani, Country Head - Network Infrastructure APAC Market at Nokia India, tells Voice&data, this is also a moment of immense possibility.

There is untapped potential in edge computing, cloud and AI factories, FTTX, and fibre expansion through XGS-PON and 25G PON. Opportunities are emerging in quantum-resistant security and QKD, alongside architectural shifts such as disaggregation, open-source software (OSS) modernisation, IP softwarisation, and backend overhauls. The adoption of Full-Stack Disaggregated Networks (FSDN) is setting t...