Operators Lead The Way To ICT Transformation

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Cloud services have quickly become a foundational part of IT infrastructure in terms of data, networks and applications. To achieve effective digital transformation and maximize value, operators need to have the right IT infrastructure in place and adopt pre-integrated cloud solutions that enables them to leverage their core assets. A key goal is to accelerate value monetization as the digital transformation journey of carriers evolves.

It requires strategic alliances with companies that can provide capabilities in cloud, storage and diversified computing power. Huawei offers those capabilities in the form of network-side devices, distributed cloud architecture (on-premises cloud + public cloud), unified storage resource pools and diversified compute power pre-integrated with core telecom applications. In this article, we look at how future-oriented IT infrastructure for operators can pave the way for success. We also explore the telco evolution from communications technology (CT) to include the diverse set of technological tools and resources of information communications technology (ICT).

Future-oriented IT infrastructure for carriers

According to research from Gartner, carriers around the world will increase their investments in cloud-based transformations at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27% in the next five years. Laying the foundation to hep carriers achieve intelligent digital transformation and IT infrastructure evolution, Huawei releases its future-oriented IT infrastructure architecture for the first time at MWC 2023.

Encompassing core telecom assets DNA (data, network, applications), this unified IT architecture will accelerate service innovation and optimize telecom operations by unleashing the benefits of connectivity. It will be implemented through three synergies: CT and IT, premises and online, software and hardware. In terms of data storage, key goals are to ensure operator efficiency, agility and security. In the same way that carriers need to provide enterprise customers with solutions that enable higher productivity, they also need to ensure data integrity by storing sensitive information locally, circumventing both the cloud and networks.

To answer this need, Huawei OneStorage supports continual storage evolution. It not only improves resource utilization efficiency, it also accelerates resource provisioning through the implementation of a unified storage resource pool. For example, Huawei storage achieved 20% space saving and 40% lower power consumption through engineering, material innovation and optimized algorithms. With multi-cloud-oriented storage infrastructure, Huawei accelerates carriers' intelligent digital transformation and grows together with more than 400 carriers worldwide including the emerging markets such as Indonesia, Kenya, Thailand, Turkey, etc.

The construction of a more efficient and agile ICT infrastructure supports the digital transformation efforts of carriers. These networks require three key elements: 1) capabilities for differentiated network experiences 2) flexible network resource scheduling and 3) fast service provisioning. Once in place, operators can leverage the unique strengths of the telecom industry and capitalize on the trends toward cloud adoption to increase the value of their networks and services. In turn, operators can take advantage of the new markets enabled by these technologies.

Huawei Cloud understands the needs of carriers

Huawei's intelligent IT foundation is based on a fully-collaborative distributed cloud and an all-scenario data pool. Huawei is the only ICT company in the world that has business in cloud, storage, and diversified computing power. To meet the demands for both cloud services and networks, the pre-integrated Huawei Cloud along with the Huawei transport network enables one-stop provisioning of cloud networks. Carriers can more easily monetize network assets and capitalize on their cloud transformation efforts.

To achieve deployment goals, they can take advantage of Huawei’s distributed cloud to flexibly provision telecom services on and off the cloud and meet the unique requirements of different applications, whether they’re core telecom solutions or newer, agile applications. For example, as operators expand network boundaries with the cloud and improve network value in the B2B market, they can ensure that these innovations benefit more customers. Huawei helps a carrier in France to deploy cloud native during IoT service. The service development and iteration period was shorten from two months to about two weeks, enabling agile service rollout. As a result, video service subscribers achieve an increase about 10%.
At the same time, operators can take advantage of networks as core assets and advance their own cloud transformation in a powerful and complementary way. Through accelerated investment monetization, differentiated network experiences, flexible scheduling and fast service provisioning, networks can meet the common requirements of carrier-based IT infrastructures.

Applications: Agile roll-out, fast iteration, elastic scaling

Huawei offers deployment capabilities in both cloud services and networks through the pre-integrated Huawei Cloud and Huawei transport network. For instance, the company’s cloud network premium package offers unified resource scheduling along with one-stop provisioning. Relying on end-to-end SLA assurance for its unified cloud-network, carriers can more effectively monetize their network assets. And while non-critical services are implemented in public cloud, Huawei has deployed distributed cloud to meet the data security and management needs of adaptive telecom service architectures.

Huawei is committed to investments in ICT, leveraging localized service capabilities worldwide to accelerate carriers’ digital transformation efforts and capitalize on the benefits of connectivity. For example, 90+ high-level cloud-based services are accessible locally with application deployments occurring online and offline. Huawei’s distributed cloud and intelligent IT foundation supports such versatile telecom service deployments. These innovations not only enable experiences for app users unlimited by geography, multi-cloud relays, and data traffic, they also foster collaborations where data can flow freely on or off the cloud.

Through increased CT and IT collaboration, software and hardware synergies and online/offline capabilities, carriers are in the best position to boost their intelligent digital transformation efforts, increase revenue, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and ultimately achieve new growth. The IT infrastructure architecture for carriers represents an evolutionary journey in which operators can leverage the unique strengths of the telecom industry and cloud transformation to reach these goals.

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This content is sponsored by Huawei.