The telecommunications industry is evolving at an unprecedented rate. In the past, it could easily take over a year to deliver a new communications service. Today, new services can be brought to market in under a month by web-scale and OTT competitors – and the cost of managing traditional telecom networks and resource cannibalizes investments in new service areas and stifles innovation. Next-generation network technologies, such as 5G are enabling new use cases that demand hyper automation.