Finnish telecoms gear maker, Nokia Tuesday said its will supply its Digital Operations software, cloud infrastructure software and AirFrame servers to enhance the nationwide network of PLDT, the Philippines’ largest, fully integrated telecommunications company, and its wireless unit Smart Communications (Smart).
The suite
of solutions will also standardize PLDT and Smart’s virtualization environment
for multi-vendor applications. The deployment, which is already underway, will
allow PLDT and Smart’s integrated network to increase agility, flexibility and
reduce operating costs and time to market when deploying new consumer and
enterprise services, with the primary focus of significantly improving customer
experience, speed of delivery, and cost of production.
Nokia will
deploy its Digital Operations software to automate the round-trip lifecycle
management of network functions, as well as network-facing and customer-facing
services. Specifically, as PLDT and Smart evolve their integrated network from
physical to virtual form, the solution will manage two interrelated flows.
First, it will oversee the network function lifecycle from onboarding through
runtime to decommissioning. Then, it will facilitate the lifecycle from design
to deployment and assurance that orchestrates services and network slices across
the network. This will enable PLDT and Smart to drive efficiencies into their
operations processes while also becoming more agile to deliver innovative
market-facing services.
Nokia will
also standardize PLDT and Smart’s Network Function Virtualization
Infrastructure (NFVI) across the South Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao regions of
the Philippines, as the unified NFVI for the deployment of multiple vendors’
Virtualized Network Functions. Nokia will deploy applications, operations and
network management solutions across its NFVI cloud platform and IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) core.
Mario G.
Tamayo, Head of Technology at PLDT and Smart, said: “Our deployment of Nokia’s
software and infrastructure solutions have allowed us to tap into new levels of
agility, flexibility and efficiency as we add innovative new offerings to
complement our current market-leading consumer and enterprise services. This is
an essential part of our broad and all-encompassing effort to keep the
integrated PLDT and Smart network optimized and able to deliver the best
experience to all our customers.”
Raghav
Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia, said: “By automating
service, network and cloud operations, PLDT and Smart will not only be able to
drive cost-savings, but also increase customer satisfaction – two business
objectives that are typically challenging to do simultaneously but are possible
with the help of Nokia’s solutions.”
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