PCCW Global has embraced SDN and NFV for its VPN and cloud offerings via a partnership with CENX.
The operator will use CENX’s Cortx Service Orchestrator to facilitate self-serve, on-demand connectivity.
Using an online portal integrated to PCCW Global’s OSS and BSS environments, customers can dynamically scale their bandwidth connectivity and cloud data center resources.
The move will allow PCCW Global to optimize its operations by orchestrating and assuring these data services over multi-carrier, multi-vendor networks in real-time.
“At PCCW Global, our goal is to provide our multinational customers with differentiated, superior-quality services, which can be deployed on-demand and easily managed,” said Bret Rehart, Chief Network Officer, PCCW Global.
“In order to make this happen, we needed a new real-time operations approach that could synchronize actions across our carrier partner networks and across multiple technologies, including SDN and NFV components.”
According to 451 Research’s report “Orchestration and OSS: Beauty, Meet Beast”, the move to SDN/NFV and the cloud, and the virtualization of the carrier network, is the trend most likely to result in an overhaul of carrier OSS.
“Operators are recognizing that NFV requires a dramatic change in their operations and they are embracing innovative solutions from vendors, whether new or incumbent, that can exploit the dynamic elasticity of NFV infrastructure, not be hindered by it,” 451 Research VP Jennifer Clark said.