| What? | SaaS delivery |
| Full or partial CAPEX model, with upfront investment to cover the delivered assets. | Either full OPEX model or a hybrid CAPEX + OPEX for on premise deployments. | CAPEX or OPEX model? | Only OPEX model with no upfront fees related to software or infrastructure. |
| Fully customizable and configurable, but may require additional services to do so. | Customizable within the capabilities of the infrastructure, requires additional services. | Customizability of solution? | Supports a limited number of pre-tested configuration options. |
| Separately purchased and planned. Visible to the customer with maintenance windows. | Both infrastructure and applications software upgrades need to be separately planned. | Upgrade and maintenance? | Transparent and part of the subscription. Not based on separate customer schedule. |
| Integration to own monitoring tools and backend for custom experience. | Possibility of integration into operator own tools or public cloud provided tools. | Monitoring and visibility? | Fully secure and private visibility via service provided dashboards and tooling. |
| Perpetual or Term licensing models | Term or subscription license for applications, usually subscription model for infrastructure. | Supported licensing models? | Subscription ONLY model with Pay as You Grow support based on actual usage. |
| Integration of the system products and peripherals via published standard APIs | Integration of public cloud, on premise parts, applications and infrastructure required. | Integration and services? | CSP own network integration to the ready system via published standard APIs. |
| Telco Grade SLAs with reserved high availability and guaranteed failover times. | Separate SLAs for the public cloud infrastructure and the applications. | Service level agreements? | SLA level defined as part of the purchased subscription (from no HA to Telco SLAs) |
| Responsibility of the CSP, Nokia delivers application software and infrastructure HW. | Chosen by CSP and public cloud vendor, Nokia can provide advice. | Location of deployments? | Chosen by Nokia based on SLAs requested by and agreed with the customer. |
| Defined as part of the contract as the sum of delivered hardware, software and services. | Depends on the combined cost of the infrastructure and the application software. | Total Cost of Ownership? | Cannot be directly compared as the models and provided services are different. |
