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CASE STUDY | TELCO AND MEDIA
Inserting automation logic in a telco network
Challenge
Telco providers have to manage network infrastructures characterized by a high complexity due to the number of nodes, their different technology and the multitude of services, and therefore of data, which must be managed. Such a complex and articulated scenario has significant impacts on the provisioning and exercise costs of both the infrastructure and the services. For this reason, the evolution towards software defined networks that enable automation and orchestration logics of the network infrastructure is an inevitable strategic choice, aimed at making standard, controlled and fast the basic and advanced configuration (provisioning) and maintenance procedures.
A primary Italian telco operator has moved according to this line and with the support of Italtel has undertaken a long-term project for the inclusion of the automation logic of its network in the IP component. The project has a wide extension and is applied both to the more peripheral regional components distributed in the Italian territory and to the national backbone components.
Solution
The project mainly consists in the implementation of automated logics through dedicated platforms that act on the components of the IP and Transport network of the telco provider. These are software automata capable of performing coordinated and instantaneous operations on the various components of the network.
We have made our extensive skills in network infrastructures available to the telco operator to create a Network Automation solution that includes the implementation of:
- Network creation, modeling and configuration of new network nodes (physical and virtualized)
- Service creation, activation of IP services concerning the coordinated configuration of several network devices
- Smart operation, management and maintenance
More specifically, we have developed the use cases that automate the configuration process of new multi-technology network nodes, the onboarding of existing ones, and the configuration of L2VPN and L3VPN type services to create connections dedicated to business, consumer, radio accesses (antennas).