Disruptive innovation was top of mind at Mobile World Congress last week. Service providers are constantly exploring new ways to bring compelling service offers to their customers quickly. One of the challenges, however, is that many of these new services exist in their own technology and operational silos. This makes it difficult to move quickly and efficiently while delivering new services to consumers, operators, and enterprise customers on the global scale that often defines the complexity of the service provider world.

Many service providers are looking to cloud automated services to help. Imagine if service providers had the software and a ready-to-go programmable infrastructure that could help them easily create new services. What if they could launch new services in a fraction of the time and cost that it takes now? We recently showcased some solutions at MWC that are helping service providers balance delivering differentiated services faster with achieving operational efficiency through cloud automated services.

One of the innovations we highlighted at MWC is fundamental to the Working Group Two (WG2) platform. The WG2 platform includes Cisco