A little bit of growth in the mobile sector will allow for the development of peripheral products, such as Viavi’s AIOps (AI-based Network Operations) platform, where the sales pitch is often simply “we are not Huawei, Nokia, or Ericsson.” A conversation with Viavi at the recent NetworkX conference about its AIOps product was a reminder of the selling power for vendors that are simply not the big three. The key is a slight rebound in the telecoms cycle, just enough to allow operators a bit of freedom to buy products outside of their core vendors and get some oversight on the performance of said core vendors. So goes part of the pitch for Viavi’s AI-powered OSS platform for multi-domain, multi-vendor…