Enea structure: source Enea Enea and Telenor are developing a proof of concept (PoC) for the much sought after multi-vendor 5G core. So far it’s going very well, according to Oliver Korfmacher, VP of Technology at Enea The telecoms industry - both equipment vendors and telcos - are facing a huge change to their basic assumption-set in the wake of what now seems like a sudden shift - towards disaggregation and away from the integrated soup to nuts vendor model. We all know what has happened - the US-China conflict over Huawei effectively saw three major global vendors reduced to two (at least for most of Europe and North America) and it laid bare the shaky foundations of the world’s utterly crucial telecoms infrastructure. If one vendor’s technology were to be compromised by an cyber attack or (heaven forbid) go down with a major and nearly unfixable problem the whole technological “sucker could go down," to slightly misquote President George W Bush’s assessment of the prospects for the US financial sector in the wake of the Lehman brothers collapse.