Just when the telecommunications industry and its customers were progressing on their digital transformation journeys, the global COVID-19 pandemic increased the pressure on telecommunications carriers and other network service providers (NSPs) to deliver more services faster, everywhere. Luckily, these two driving forces complement each other. By leveraging software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructures, NSPs and major telcos, as part of the NSP ecosystem, gain the ability to deliver access to traditional telco services (e.g., MPLS networks) and a whole new set of virtual network services (e.g., SD-WAN, virtual cloud routing). And with programmable software delivery, they…The post Helping NSPs Deliver Services Faster, in More Locations appeared first on Interconnections - The Equinix Blog.