Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) on Monday said its Telco Cloud Management supports telecom operators to host their network functions on cloud-based infrastructure.
The new solution will be announced at the Mobile World Congress 2014 (MWC 2014) in Barcelona this month.
To support telecoms, the mobile equipment vendor is also extending its services to help operators prepare, implement and run their own telecom clouds and migrate existing telecom services to cloud-based networks.
In addition, the Telco Cloud Management solutions from NSN comply with ETSI NFV.
NSN in a statement said its Telco Cloud Management features the cloud-ready NetAct Operations Support System (OSS) for managing virtualized and non-virtualized network elements, and the new Cloud Application Manager for managing applications in the telco cloud.
The company said Cloud Application Manager automates many phases in a telco application’s life cycle from development to deployment, through to maintenance. It provides automated elasticity management of cloud resources to ensure the right network capacity is available to run applications, NSN said.
In line with its platform agnostic approach, NSN is is extending its relationship with HP, one of its IT platform providers, to the telco cloud. In addition to IT platform sourcing, the collaboration’s new scope includes integration services as well as joint telco cloud architectures and delivery models.
Telecom operators can benefit either by deploying a complete NSN-built telco cloud infrastructure or by integrating NSN telco cloud solutions on top of their operator clouds, based on the HP cloud platform.
NSN’s statement does not talk about specific quantifiable benefits to telecom operators. Besides NSN, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, etc. are also becoming aggressive in the cloud space.
