The wireless industry's spotlight on moving to 5G is well documented, but many service providers and vendors like AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) are just as keen to take advantage of software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). AT&T has been the leading advocate of SDN and NFV, revealing that it plans to virtualize and control more than 75 percent of its network using a software-driven architecture by 2020. Monica Alleven, editor of FierceWirelessTech, chronicles the potential of NFV and SDN in a new special report. Read the full report here.