Company Enriches Proven Orchestration Capabilities for Hybrid Virtual, Network and IT Services, and Provides Expertise to New ETSI Group Developing Open Source for NFV
HELSINKI, Finland—Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V) today announced that it has enriched Comptel FLOWONE, giving telecommunications operators the means to better manage digital service lifecycles and meet customer experience and market expectations forvirtualised service offerings.
The FLOWONE V solution, which runs on top of Comptel’s fulfillment stack, incorporates virtualised network function onboarding and service chaining, digital service design and orchestration, and dynamic, closed-loop service assurance. It allows operators to transform their current service delivery processes by connecting the cloud and physical resources (e.g. compute, storage, network) with business management processes and systems (e.g. customer care, billing, customer order management).
“Telcos must prepare themselves now to manage digital services and their lifecycles to secure their revenues for the future,” said Caroline Chappell, Practice Leader, Cloud & NFV, Heavy Reading. “They continue to be well-positioned as digital economy communications and connectivity providers, or they can step up and become service aggregators across partner ecosystems. But to be successful, they need to enable internal and external users to compose any kind of digital service in their portfolios, including network functionality expressed as digital services, into innovative and personalised products.”
“To properly address the business opportunity for digital services, operators have to be able to innovate, create, deliver and manage these services on-demand, accurately and in ways that are contextually relevant for Generation Cloud,” said Antti Koskela, Executive Vice President, Service Orchestration, Comptel. “A digital service management layer such as the one offered by FLOWONE V will help ensure telcos’ agility, as it supports the rapid ingestion of and the ability to compose and deploy digital services comprised of virtualised network functionality, IT applications and third-party content.”
Comptel Joins 22 Service Providers and Solution Vendors to Create a Global Open Source MANO (OSM) Community
OSM has been created under the umbrella of ETSI, and it is an operator-led community to meet the requirements of production NFV networks such as a common Information Model (IM) that has been defined, implemented and released in open source software.
Founding members of OSM include BT, Canonical, Intel, Mirantis, RIFT.io, Telefónica, Telekom Austria Group and Telenor, along with other initial participants such as Benu Networks, Brocade, Dell, Indra, Korea Telecom, Metaswitch, RADWare, Red Hat, Sandvine, SK Telecom, Sprint, Telmex, xFlow and 6WIND.
OSM’s project scope covers both resource and service orchestration to allow automated deployment and interconnection of all components, both for NFV network scenarios and the management of network service lifecycles.
“MANO is, at the same time, one of the key components and most controversial concepts in network virtualisation architecture. Telefónica has long been working from the point of view of innovation in its development,” said Antonio Elizondo, Head of Network Virtualisation Strategy and Technology, Global CTO Unit, Telefónica. “A first result and seed of OSM is OpenMANO, a highly functional framework pioneering the first open source NFV orchestration and management stack and currently a key component of Telefónica’s NFV Reference Lab. By joining this community, we aim to accelerate the development of MANO, while recognising the value of open source implementations of NFV and a need to harmonise efforts there.”
“In their transformation to become digital service providers, telcos have recognised the importance of vendor- and technology-neutral approaches towards service orchestration. The OSM initiative is valuable to explore, understand and define the role played by open source software and its point of demarcation with traditional software and best practices,” continued Koskela. “Comptel is proud to be associated with the project and will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in addressing the operational and network service management needs for telco services.”
Resources
- Learn more about the superhero capabilities of FLOWONE.
- To book a meeting with Comptel at Mobile World Congress, taking place 22-25 February in Barcelona, contact your account manager, send an email to [email protected] or visit the company in Hall 5 at Stand 5G40 during the event.
- Download a copy of the Heavy Reading research report, “Digital Service Lifecycle Management: How Communications Service Providers Can Play.”
- Connect with Comptel on its blog and on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Comptel Corporation
Life is digital moments. Comptel perfects these by transforming how you serve, meet and respond to the needs of “Generation Cloud” customers.
Our solutions allow you to innovate rich communications services instantly, master the orchestration of service and order flows, capture data-in-motion and refine your decision-making. We apply intelligence to reduce friction in your business.
Comptel has enabled the delivery of digital and communications services to more than 2 billion people. Every day, we care for more than 20% of all mobile usage data. Nearly 300 service providers across 90 countries have trusted us to perfect customers’ digital moments.
For more information, visit www.comptel.com.
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