Vodafone has been talking a lot recently about its ambitious efforts to upgrade its ageing software platforms, digitalize manual operations, and hire a large inhouse workforce to do this. One step forward, announced last week, is to complete a software upgrade across its whole global transport network, spanning hundreds of millions of users in 28 countries and four continents. This network is crucial to Vodafone and its users, especially wholesale and enterprise customers that need to add new services and capacity on a global basis with just one action. It runs on optical fiber cables that are capable of carrying and directing up to 250Tbytes of data traffic at a time. It links tens of thousands of base stations across…