At the MWC 2014 (Mobile World Congress), Barcelona, Huawei and China Mobile showcased a virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) and virtual IMS using MANO (Management and Orchestration).
Both solutions are a part of Huawei CloudEdge solution designed to migrate operators to the Cloud and leverage Cloud value for mobile broadband.
Huawei says the majority of end-to-end infrastructure complexity resides at the network edge, due to operator’s need to support multiple legacy technologies. The service experiences differentiation that allows operators to distinguish product offerings from each other is largely located at the edge.
For this reason operators focus on reducing TCO by transforming network edge infrastructure to Cloud. Huawei CloudEdge solution builds on its SingleEPC solution and is a part of Huawei’s SoftCOM strategy for introducing advances in Cloud, NFV and SDN technologies into the global telecoms industry.
NFV, being cloud based, provides the opportunity to integrate network openness from day 1, creating revenue generation opportunities through M2M and mobile enterprise applications.
“Our demo with China Mobile reinforces Huawei’s commitment to the introduction of CloudEdge products and solutions with minimum disruption to operator’s background infrastructure,” said Jason Dai, president of Huawei CloudEdge.
Huawei is currently conducting more than 20 PoC (proof of concept) CloudEdge projects and is in trials with leading operators around the world, with a planned first commercial product in the third quarter of 2014.
