The combination of virtualized platforms and open APIs can revolutionize an operator’s enterprise and wholesale business. Virtualization and SDN allow capacity to be allocated, and charged-for, on a pay-as-you-go basis, and in future, to create ringfenced ‘slices’ of the network to be created for a company or service provider. Meanwhile, open APIs allow the customers to tap into the operator’s application programming interfaces to build new services and software which harness the capabilities of the network and drive new offerings. These twin trends are being employed by AT&T, Orange and other high profile operator projects to expand their enterprise and MVNO revenue streams, and now Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS) is also talking up its plans in these areas. At the…