This year’s SCF market forecast report reflects some important trends in the industry. A return to cautious optimism after two years when we reduced our deployments outlook amid telecoms industry and macro-economic turmoil. And an ecosystem that is adapting more rapidly than ever to those economic changes, with a laser focus on lowering near-term barriers to at-scale roll-out, and on addressing new sources of demand, particularly global investment in critical infrastructure and in making national and industrial networks as resilient as possible.