In the early days of network slicing, it was heavily associated with the mobile industry, and many concepts were developed by MNO-driven organizations like the NGMN Alliance. However, as with ETSI MEC – which morphed from Mobile to Multi-Access Edge Computing – it is now clear that these advanced network architectures can only deliver on their promises if they span fixed and mobile, wireline and wireless, and every network domain from transport to access to core. So, one of the first public commercial plans to deploy network slicing has come from Vodafone, but specifically as a way to enhance the business models for its converged operations in the Netherlands and Ireland. The company has talked up two plans since the…