Nokia announced a dedicated global Cloud Design Center and the extension of its cloud wise services expertise, to simplify the design, delivery and management of multi-vendor cloud networks by mobile operators.
Shift to cloud can lead to agile and flexible networks for telecom operators, and Nokia claims to offer its expertise in network design and systems integration as well as its cloud partnership ecosystem, from its new Cloud Design Center in Fleet in the United Kingdom.
“Telecom operator migration to software-mediated technologies delivered within cloud-centric environments is a radical change from the way networks have been architected and provisioned historically, and this shift requires new competencies and support models,” said Chris Antlitz, telecom senior analyst, Technology Business Research.
Nokia will offer Prime Integration Services, and will work as the single point of contact in a development and operations (DevOps) based approach.
Nokia will design and build open, standardized multi-vendor cloud networks designed to meet carrier specific needs.
Nokia will showcase these features at the Design Center in Fleet, on an integrated multi-vendor IT and telecom cloud platform to test, validate and demonstrate new services.
The delivery of the cloud will be managed at various regional centers.
Nokia’s cloud wise care services will feature:
# Care software validation and testing services meeting operator network environment specifications to ensure maintenance of network quality, without affecting users during upgrades.
# Cloud monitoring services offer network monitoring, analytics and troubleshooting from the Nokia Global Delivery Centers or by offering cloud ‘expert as a service’ directly at the user location.
Also available will be the extended Cloud Transformation Consulting Service for a virtualized network offering a structured end-to-end cloud transformation to prepare operators for the evolution to 5G and IoT.
“The level of complexity in an operator’s network is increasing as new technology, services and software are introduced,” said Deepak Harie, head, Systems Integration Services, Nokia.
Nokia had earlier this year completed its $16.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
It revealed a single CloudBand software portfolio joining the Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand platform with Nokia Cloud Applications Manager and Cloud Network Director products. It was a part of the strategy to enable network operators to use network-functions virtualization (NFV) technologies.
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