{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Carrier 2.0","title":"Extensibility at Scale","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":556,"description":"Building one successful deployment proves a technology. Building a thousand proves a business.\nIn this episode of Carrier 2.0, Steve Saunders explores one of the communications industry's biggest challenges: how carriers turn successful deployments into repeatable, scalable growth.\nAs networks expand across customers, markets and jurisdictions, complexity can quickly become the enemy of scale. Different vendors, processes, regulations and operating models introduce friction at every stage. The answer isn't simply greater automation, it's designing architectures and processes that remove unnecessary complexity from the outset.\nDrawing on perspectives from across the industry, the episode examines why repeatability matters, how pilots can disguise the challenges of real-world deployment, and why moving AI from \"pilot purgatory\" to enterprise-wide adoption requires much more than a successful model. It also explores the principle of \"integrate once\", where stable interfaces allow networks to evolve without forcing customers to continually adapt alongside them.\nUltimately, Carrier 2.0 isn't built by repeating successful projects. It's built by creating platforms, capabilities and architectures that make every subsequent deployment simpler than the last.\nKey Talking Points\nComplexity Doesn't Scale\nWhy growth creates complexity unless carriers deliberately design it out through standardised architectures and repeatable processes.\nRepeatability Starts with Process\nHow consistent engineering, construction, quality and operational standards allow network deployments to expand without multiplying mistakes.\nArchitecture Determines Scale\nWhy expansion exposes weaknesses across vendors, software and operating models, and why the underlying architecture ultimately determines whether growth is sustainable.\nEscaping Pilot Purgatory\nWhy successful pilots don't necessarily translate into successful businesses, particularly when AI deployments encounter real-world differences in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2XrqCxof4jj7dZZ0ry0NZk8SuplZwQK_hNRJRua9sAE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NDMy/NmEzYTZkMzUwMzcx/ZWQyZTljMzY1MjYw/MjM2ZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}