Australian telecoms Telstra has deployed Nokia Orchestration Center to build a reusable platform ‘as a service’ enabling Telstra’s internal network domains faster time to market and an enhanced customer experience.
The rollout — in a global first deployment — allows Telstra to fulfill services in a more streamlined way by taking advantage of Nokia’s Unified Inventory solution; and providing discovery, reconciliation and ongoing synchronisation of network and service assets in near real-time.

Nokia said it also supports Telstra’s T25 ambition to find innovative ways to deliver AI and data automation across all network types with Virtual Domain Manager the first internal network domain to be onboarded onto the offering.

“Nokia Orchestration Center has helped us to build a true cloud-native, reusable and shared Platform-as-a-Sevice (PaaS) offering (also known as Domain Enabler as a Service) for our internal network domains,” Lakshmi Easuwaran, Group Owner Orchestration, Enablement and Shared Technologies at Telstra, said.

Hamdy Farid, Senior Vice President, Business Applications at Nokia, said: “Our Digital Operations Center software allows Telstra to leverage automation to manage complexity, improve operational efficiency and reduce time to market in offering new products and services.”