MWC, the telco industry’s annual February gathering in Barcelona, has evolved into an event where the technology world’s leading trends are on full display.From the adoption of artificial intelligence throughout the infrastructure all the way to the edge, to the integration of cloud platforms and innovative data management solutions, the telco community is entering a new paradigm where a confluence of technologies will shape its infrastructure future for years to come.“Everything has changed, because with AI you have these elephant workloads that cannot run on a single processor,” said Broadcom Inc

Bringing the cloud to telecommunications has been a lengthy process, but Amazon Web Services Inc. is collaborating with telephone companies to complete their transformation from connectivity providers to digital service providers.“We have 240 services built using thousands of [application programming interfaces], and all the developers see, all that our cloud users see, are APIs,” said Ishwar Parulkar (pictured), chief technology officer of telecom and edge cloud at AWS. “It’s a sea of APIs, and one piece that was missing was the connectivity piece. Now [developers] can … build applications that are network-aware