Cloud & Virtualisation

A significant announcement from one of India’s big three operators has seen Bharti Airtel agree a multi-year, strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Bharti Airtel has selected Ribbon Communications’ 5G-Native Neptune platform to enhance its mobile backhaul transport capabilities.

Bharti Airtel has selected Nokia’s CloudBand-based software products for its VoLTE (Voice over LTE) network in India.

Major Latin American and Caribbean-focused telecommunications group Liberty Latin America (LLA) has announced that it has selected Ericsson for a major network evolution drive involving virtualisation of its core networks.

New TITAN.IUM Platform Provides Performance and Scale for 5G while Ensuring Network and Service Evolution from 3G & 4G.

BHD Leon, a leading bank in the Dominican Republic, is implementing Temenos Transact as part of its digital transformation program.

SatADSL and YahClick have partnered to expand connectivity across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Turkcell, the leading mobile network operator in Turkey with around 34 million subscribers, has selected Mavenir, a cloud-native network software provider, to deploy its cloud-native, network functions virtualization (NFV)-based IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) solution.

Sri Lankan operator Lanka Bell is partnering with Route Mobile to boost its offering with additional cloud-based solutions.

Turkcell has selected Mavenir to test and deploy OpenRAN vRAN within its home market.

MTN has selected Tecnotree as its strategic partner for Digital Transformation across Africa and the Middle East.

Telefonica has launched an IP Network Fusion Project for digital network transformation in the Chilean market.

Mavenir has deployed its cloud-native, converged IMS solution for both T-Mobile Czech Republic (TMCZ) and Slovak Telekom (ST).

CMC Networks and Neutrona Networks are expanding their SD-WAN and cloud network services for customers doing business in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Gulf Bridge International (GBI) and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will support regional cloud adoption amongst key organisations in the region.

Ooredoo Tunisia is deploying the Nokia AirGile cloud-native core and services to power its current 2G/3G/4G network in order to prepare for the transition to 5G.

Vodafone Idea is transforming its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based ‘Universal Cloud’ using solutions from Red Hat.

Vodafone Idea is expanding its Network as a Platform agreement with Mavenir, enabling a distributed presence across all the major industrial, commercial, and services clusters in India.

Nokia’s Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution has been picked up by two major cloud/digital service providers active in the Middle East.

Seaborn Networks and EdgeUno are launching managed cloud and data centre services in Latin America in an expansion of their partnership.

Vodafone is using technology from Parallel Wireless to deploy macro OpenRAN pilots in Turkey and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of an initiative to reduce deployment and maintenance costs for RAN platforms.

ORIS Telekom is deploying Epsilon’s SDN (software-defined networking) platform Infiny in Turkey.

Indonesia’s XL Axiata is deploying the amdocsONE consumer experience and monetisation solution under a multi-year managed digital transformation agreement.

Telkom Indonesia is implementing Synchronoss’ Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to simplify its business processes and enhance customer interactions and the customer journey across all communications channels.

TIM Brasil is aiming to virtualise its data centres by the end of 2021 using Nokia AirFrame servers featuring new, second generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Following the recent inauguration of their advanced Tier III AngoNAP data centre facility in Fortaleza, Brazil, Angola Cables has announced that it has launched Angola Cables Cloud Service to the African market.

Georgian telecoms provider MagtiCom has chosen Sicap's Cloud-based Device Management Centre (DMC) to replace its existing platform.

VOD Communications is adding Ribbon’s Network Edge Orchestration to its distribution portfolio in Southern Africa.

Odine Solutions and Versa Networks have partnered to deploy an SD-WAN core in Turkcell’s network to serve the operator’s corporate customers.

Ooredoo Algeria is deploying Nokia Cloud Mobile Gateway to transform its network for next generation broadband services.

Vodafone Egypt is implementing Nokia’s cloud-based Subscriber Data Management (SDM) solution to offer innovative services to its 4G customers.

Amdocs has expanded its strategic partnership with Telefonica to advance the operator’s digital transformation initiatives in Argentina and Chile.