Telstra expands deployment of Cisco NSO to bring next generation network automation capabilities across its IP and data
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BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Feb 27, 2017) - MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Over the
next five years, strong growth in the number of mobile users, smartphones, Internet of Things (IoT) connections and mobile video
consumption will place significant challenges on networks. As service providers prepare for the next wave of network speed,
extensive architectural transformation involving programmability and automation will be needed to support these capabilities and
future innovations including the evolution of enterprise services, 5G, and IoT.
In unveiling plans to build their network of the future, Australia's best mobile network Telstra is driving network innovation
to enhance resiliency; accelerate time to market; and support the evolution to 5G and IoT capabilities.
Telstra aims for its new network to be based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
Telstra is expanding Network Service Orchestration (NSO) automation across its Ethernet and IP platforms as a key technology
enabler to deliver this future network.
Deployed 12 months ago, Cisco's NSO technology has helped Telstra achieve a reduction in the provisioning time of equipment
for new services from hours to minutes. This has been done through the automation of network and customer service configuration
and turn-up testing of Ethernet and IP products that underpin a range of mobile and enterprise networks. This automation has also
reduced the amount of failed service activations and network issues, as the risk of human error is removed.
According to David Robertson, Telstra's Director for Network Transport & Routing Engineering, "NSO's model-driven approach to
network automation and service orchestration is enabling Telstra to improve network service outcomes for our customers. Our
deployment of NSO is providing our customers with new levels of quality services faster."
With its expansion of NSO, Telstra will enable uniform configuration management tools, innovative orchestrated assurance
capabilities and consumable network APIs for business applications and customer self-service portals.
"Leading service providers such as Telstra recognize the value network automation and SDN offers to help enable
competitiveness and innovation in their markets," said Charles Stucki, vice president and general manager of Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) Business Unit, Cisco. "Cisco's NSO technology is a key NFV solution that helps enable faster and more
flexible delivery of existing and new services. We are very active in our partnership with Telstra to help them achieve greater
automation, agility and scalability across the growing catalog of services that Telstra provides to their customers."
Cisco is building the simplified, automated and virtualized network platform of the future based on industry-leading software,
systems, silicon and services. This enables service providers, media and web companies worldwide to reduce costs, speed
time-to-market, secure their networks and sustain profitable growth.
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