Light Reading, Heavy Reading, and ATIS are excited to present the results of a study we executed in collaboration with our sponsors. We joined forces to explore the key factors that will empower the future network-enabled communications and cloud markets. Our survey examined the critical factors, both technological and market-related (new business models and market structures), driving theindustry into the next decade. It covered the core technologies underpinning the future roadmap of the communications industry that communications service provider (CSP) decision makers are most interested in understanding, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 5/6G mobile.