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Connecting the Connected - Reference architecture for Telecommunications Industry

1.0 Introduction Sending a message from one place to another (telecommunication) has been a revolution since its inception. It helped people to save lives, win wars, make peace and many other things. After thousands of attempts, Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to send a message over a wire and that opened the door for the eventual over the air communication and finally we are in the age of satellite based communication (thanks to Sir. Arthur C. Clarke) which made it possible to connect people in far corners of the world within a whisker. Telecommunication (specifically mobile) technology has gone through several iterations (e.g. 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G) and the main focus point of that was to improve how information is exchanged across the network. As any other technology, telecommunication has gone beyond the need of message exchanges to data communications to video conferencing to shopping to financing and many more. You can absolutely do anything with the device (mobile phone) whic