For Communications Service Providers (CSPs), offering cloud-based services is the way forward for business expansion and revenue growth. Millions of people are picking up new applications and services with enthusiasm, in both their personal and professional lives. So, cloud-based services, with their rapidly increasing adoption rates, offer CSPs a once-in-a-generation opportunity to extend the scope of services they provide to create new value for customers and drive growth for their organizations. CSPs are perfectly positioned to take advantage of existing strengths, relationships and their established asset base of networks, systems, processes and other resources to deliver these services and applications to business and consumers, using cloud technology and business models.