Published in Black Swan Telecom Journal by Dan Baker

The story of telecom network inventory is the decades-long, multi-billion-dollar quest to fix massive accuracy problems by patching together siloed systems with duct tape and chicken wire.

I’m not sure anyone has documented the actual money major telcos spent in the last 25 years to fix their inventory problems.  But we can get a good idea by looking at the money network integrators spent on inventory software.

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