DTW26: How two TM Forum Catalysts hope to tidy telcos’ AI model muddle
Up till now, many telco deployments of AI agents have been loosely coordinated and delivered mere ‘bolt-on’ point solutions for isolated use-cases. Two TM Forum projects driven by the likes of Telstra, DT, Jio, and Vodafone aim to bring some order to the chaos by creating frameworks for model consumption and agent governance.
This article includes:
- Organisations: Accenture; Amazon Web Services; AT&T; Axiata Digital Labs; BT; China Mobile; Databricks; Dell; Deutsche Telekom; Ericsson; Globe Telecom; Huawei; Inspur; Jio; Lumen Technologies; Meta; MTN; MuleSoft; NetoAI; Omantel; Pegasystems; PwC; Tecnotree; Telstra; TM Forum; True; Vodafone; World Economic Forum; ZTE.
- Geographic: Australia; Copenhagen; India; Mumbai; Navi Mumbai.
- People: Andy Tiller; Guy Lupo.
- Themes: 5G network slicing; agent interoperability; agent-to-agent communications; agentic AI; AI agents; AI-native operations; AI value chain; autonomous networks; business support systems; control plane; cross-domain control loops; data products; enterprise architecture; governance framework; integration tax; intent-based model consumption; large language models; legacy systems; model-as-a-service; model sprawl; multi-vendor environments; network automation; Open Digital Architecture; ODA Canvas; operational support systems; policy-driven routing; reference implementation; runtime environment; sovereign AI; technical debt; token monetisation.
- Events: DTW Ignite.
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