It’s time to open up the stack, says Nokia Joseph Martins Thu 27 May 2021 // 07:30 UTC Share Copy Sponsored It’s a cliché that the pandemic has changed the way we work forever, but it has certainly turned the spotlight on technologies, processes and practices that have reached the end of their useful life. It has also reinforced the central role of the network and the data center and cloud networks which experienced tremendous traffic demands as newly home-based workers and students piled on to their platform. “How we bring up the network, how we debug it, how we make sure those outages are minimised, all of that became so much more important, because we didn’t have the fallback of ‘you can always do a truck roll or replace a switch’,” says Nokia senior director of product management, Bruce Wallis.