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Netcracker 5G Operations Automation Unlocks New Business Value
Fujitsu is Making 5G Orchestration a Reality
Automating deployment and lifecycle management with Dell Bare Metal Orchestrator
Solve complexity and unleash innovation with Amdocs’ 5G SA hyperautomation
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An industry veteran, Atul is responsible for driving the company’s vision to evolve its current RAN architecture from a closed vertically integrated network ecosystem to one that is open, next-generation and multi-vendor programmable. Atul has worked with the Open RAN ecosystem, helping companies maintain pace as network technology evolved from 2G to 3G, 4G and 5G.
Atul Khanna
Director of Open Access Networks and Services, Amdocs
Diana Blass is the co-founder of Kurrant Insights, where she serves as the video director and lead reporter. The Kurrant Insights Smart City Video Platform is the place to discover the latest IoT and smart city projects and trends through short documentaries and exclusive roundtables with city managers and industry leaders, Learn more at KurrantInsights.com.
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Owner, Video Journalist, Kurrant Insights
Rapid digitization is disrupting the status quo of today’s communications markets. Constantly evolving customer needs and behaviors require service providers to adapt fast to deliver the outcomes that their customers expect. Building digital ecosystems, anticipating customer needs and delivering a digital-first customer experience will be essential for service providers to accelerate innovation, diversify into new markets and become the disruptors in the 5G era.
Netcracker is ready to help you innovate, disrupt and lead
Next-Generation Automation Enables Highly Differentiated 5G Experiences
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Starting with a distributed cloud, Studio provides a production-grade Kubernetes cloud platform for managing edge cloud infrastructure. Based on the open source StarlingX project, Studio compiles best-in-class open-source technology to deploy and manage distributed networks.
Analytics
Once a distributed cloud is deployed, Studio supports effective management of a distributed cloud system by consuming and processing data through machine-learning algorithms, to produce meaningful insights for decision-making. With full stack monitoring of the cloud infrastructure cluster and services, Studio collects, analyzes, and visualizes cloud behavioral data so you can keep your cloud up and optimized while reducing operational costs.
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Studio provides one platform to achieve complete end-to-end automation. Pick the applications you need from an app catalog, deploy them to a carrier-grade cloud platform, and orchestrate the resources needed for the applications simply, intuitively, and logically. Scale from a handful of nodes to thousands of nodes in a geographically dispersed distributed environment.
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Using a domain orchestration approach to enable closed-loop automation of the full lifecycle of applications, services and slices within each domain (core, transport and edge/RAN) and across multiple domains and multiple cloud platforms to maximize agility.
Executing services on demand with service intent using our dynamic service models and scalable choreography engine to maintain SLAs with zero-touch provisioning.
Combining orchestration, Digital OSS and AI/analytics for maximum automation to make dynamic 5G services on public and private networks a reality.
Netcracker 5G Operations Automation helps CSPs unlock the full potential of 5G by:
The emergence of 5G core, Open RAN and distributed multicloud infrastructure will drive new business opportunities with mission-critical services, differentiating slicing and innovative partnerships. However, realizing the true potential of 5G will require a new operational approach centered on agility, scale and intelligent automation.
Adopting a cloud-native architecture to leverage the full benefits of the cloud (using hyperscaler or telco cloud platforms) and implement services faster with DevOps automation.
Netcracker 5G Operations Automation is helping CSPs around the world expand their value in B2B/vertical markets by combining differentiating MEC applications with 5G core and Open RAN to bring digital experiences and unique business value to their customers.
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Realize the potential of 5G SA
5G Standalone (SA) gives service providers unparalleled granularity of control over their networks, making it possible to offer and monetize differentiated Quality of Experience, guaranteed SLAs and slice-based services - delivering the long-awaited 5G use cases. 5G SA also introduces unprecedented levels of complexity across multiple dimensions as well as the challenges of connecting agile services to a dynamic network. Managing this complexity, and realizing the full potential of 5G, requires not just automation, but hyperautomation. Amdocs Intelligent Networking Suite addresses these needs through an innovative and advanced service and network automation platform with a complete set of modular, flexible and open network service lifecycle management capabilities:
Smart, Efficient and Dynamic End-to-End 5G Network Slicing Management
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With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our 27,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.2 billion in fiscal 2020.
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Amdocs Helps Those Who Build the Future to Make it Amazing
End-to-end service orchestration with the ability to maintain service intent across multiple domains
AI-backed assurance, leveraging multiple data sources to power closed loop operations
Federated, real-time inventory providing accurate insights and visibility of dynamic networks and services across all domains and vendors
Amdocs Intelligent Networking Suite connects business requirements and digital engagement channels to the underlying network, as well as connecting services across the network from the device to the RAN, the edge, transport, core and into the cloud. Amdocs is helping service providers quickly and easily power whatever automation journeys they are on, whether its OSS modernization, digital-to-network automation, end-to-end service and network orchestration or 5G slice automation.
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New Approaches Address End-to-End Network and Service Orchestration (E2ENSO) Challenges
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Amdocs leverages its BSS and orchestration expertise to help operators monetize 5G network slicing
Open RAN enables multivendor solutions, which is not an option with today’s current RAN offers that are propriety solutions and do not allow CSPs to pick and choose which vendors they want to deploy for specific RAN functionality. Open RAN changes this, so CSPs have choice and control over their entire RAN architecture. The openness creates challenges, primarily the integration and operations of multivendor solutions. To help CSPs overcome these complexities and challenges, Dell Technologies is working with an Open RAN ecosystem of partners to bring to market validated solutions that help to simplify the transition to Open RAN.
Dell Technology provides the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era. We are ready to serve Communication Service Providers (CSPs) worldwide as they transition to an Open RAN architecture and roll out new 5G services. We offer the expertise, telecom solutions, and services to help CSPs transform their operations, modernize their networks and enhance their services portfolio. Dell Technologies is working with leading RAN vendors to build a modern, open network ecosystem to build out the next generation of Open RAN solutions.
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Dell Technology Provides Broadest and Most Innovative Technology
Building and maintaining a strong foundation for your telco cloud
Our end-to-end network solution and system integration services includes:
Large-scale deployment and managed services for MNOs to accelerate network innovation with Open RAN
Test automation depending upon the network of specific geography
Hardware and software vendor selection based on predefined criteria
Communications service providers’ next generation networks will disaggregate network functions from the underlying hardware, utilize cloud native architectures, and run-on industry-standard hardware. They will be designed to enable CSPs to select best of breed technologies from an emerging ecosystem of suppliers to meet unique customer demands while fostering competition that increases innovation and reduces costs. Much like the foundation of a building, these networks must be built on a strong foundation - a strong infrastructure foundation. This infrastructure foundation must automate discovery, deployment and life cycle management of hardware and software at scale to achieve the agility and efficiency required to meet operator goals for 5G. Dell Bare Metal Orchestrator is a software solution that does just that. It identifies bare metal servers and accelerates the deployment and lifecycle management of software for hundreds of thousands of servers distributed across tens of thousands of sites. It utilizes a declarative automation approach with programmable infrastructure to minimize configuration errors, reduce technical debt, and reliance on domain expertise. This enables operators to lower operating costs, accelerate service delivery and consistently meet SLAs. These capabilities are all available from Bare Metal Orchestrator’s API, CLI, or its unified user interface. This unified user interface also allows for telemetry and metering of resources to enhance service monitoring, management, and planning processes.
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Fujitsu are a global leader in technology and business solutions that transform organizations and the world around us. We have a long heritage of bringing innovation and expertise, continuously working to contribute to the growth of society and our customers.
At Fujitsu, we use technology to make happier lives
Bringing together the Open RAN ecosystem
Open, cloud-native architecture is key to success
The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Care is a PCIe inline accelerator card with concurrent Sub-6 GHz and mmWave baseband support which is designed to simplify 5G deployments by offering a turnkey solution for ease of deployment with O-RAN fronthaul and 5G NR layer 1 High (L1 High) processing. The PCIe card is designed to seamlessly plug into standard Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) servers to offload CPUs from latency-sensitive and compute-intensive 5G baseband functions such as demodulation, beamforming, channel coding, and Massive MIMO computation needed for high-capacity deployments. For use in public or private networks, this accelerator card aims to give carriers the ability to increase overall network capacity and fully realize the transformative potential of 5G.
The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card is designed to allow established and emerging infrastructure vendors to simplify network deployments and fast track the commercialization of virtualized infrastructure at scale. Our inline accelerator card is designed to significantly enhance virtualized network operators’ deployments by increasing performance, reducing the number of CPUs and cores required, and reducing power consumption to allow for enhanced user experiences to consumers. For more information on Qualcomm® 5G RAN Platforms, please visit https://www.qualcomm.com/products/5g
Network slicing. Deploying and operating end-to-end services is challenging enough. When you add dynamic network slices, it becomes even more complex.
Resource Allocation and Utilization. Distributed infrastructure needs optimal resource utilization to avoid overprovisioned silos for component services.
Complex life cycle management. DIYing your own automated service delivery and management frameworks with intelligent workflows can be incredibly hard. You must completely understand the nuances of services throughout 5G lifecycle management to be efficient and effective.
5G orchestration needs and capabilities look completely different for greenfield versus brownfield networks. Regardless of approach, there are several factors that must be considered:
Cloud Adoption: IT Infrastructure needs must be accurately forecasted, especially when many organizations have services that run across different clouds and datacenters.
Fujitsu’s Virtuora® Service Orchestrator (SO) addresses these challenges and more by combining choreography and orchestration to simplify, abstract and automate the modern network. No matter how a service is delivered, Virtuora SO is the key to delivering products and services that respond to individual customer behavior. This responsiveness is accomplished with a wide range of multidomain operations that are integrated and automated, with multiple resource domains overlaid with new technologies, enabling CSPs to minimize time to market while managing costs and complexity. Traditional orchestration functions within the construct of simple workflows, but Virtuora SO lays the foundation for much richer and valuable network event response. This is only accomplished by full-scale implementation of an open, digital architecture. The ability to function within an open architecture is what distinguishes Virtuora SO from other orchestration solutions.
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Does My Network Need Service Orchestration or Choreography? And Does it Really Matter?
Virtuora Service Orchestrator Solution Brief
Transforming the Network with Cloud Adoption: From the Edge to the Intelligent Core
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Terry is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered telecoms, technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. Sweeney has written extensively about security, cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. In addition to Light Reading, he has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Dark Reading, Network World, InformationWeek, Mobile Sports Report, and The IoT Integrator.
Terry Sweeney
Contributing Editor, Light Reading
Ron Porter is head of product marketing for Amdocs 5G, network and OSS solutions. He is part of Amdocs’ technology team covering the industry shift into the digital era of 5G, cloud and IoT and the wide opportunities that come with it. As a Communication Systems Engineer with an MBA in marketing and finance, and with over 15 years of experience in the telecom industry, Ron has a passion for bridging technological advancements with business opportunities that are driving the industry’s revolution.
Ron Porter
Head of Product Marketing, Amdocs
18+ years in the telecommunications infrastructure space with a wide-ranging background in design, architecture and operation of massively distributed networks and systems. Current areas of focus are cloud infrastructure product strategies, product development and solutions architecture.
Glen McGowan
Director Product Manager, Dell Technologies
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Rhonda Holloway is responsible for software solutions marketing for Fujitsu Network Communications. With over 25 years in high-tech, Rhonda has worked on multiple on-premises and cloud software solutions including network automation, systems management, supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management and database management in the original cloud—the mainframe. Rhonda is a member of the global marketing leadership team and a key strategist for the Fujitsu software portfolio.
Rhonda Holloway
Director, Network Automation Solution Marketing
Sue leads strategy and portfolio marketing at Netcracker responsible for defining the marketing strategy and executing marketing initiatives across Netcracker’s BSS/OSS and Orchestration portfolio. She brings over 20 years of experience in the telecoms industry, spanning a variety of leadership roles including product management, strategic planning, product marketing and technical sales. Her expertise encompasses a wide range of technologies including cloud, 5G, core networks and BSS/OSS with a strong focus on generating business growth. Sue has a Bachelor of Engineering honours degree in Electronic Engineering with Communications from the University of Sheffield in the U.K.
Susan White
Head of Strategy and Portfolio Marketing, Netcracker
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