Telefonica and Huawei have completed the phase II Prove of Concept (PoC) testing for the UNICA Infrastructure project.
This testing includes 188 test cases that cover the maintenance and operation of the Virtual Data Center, Software Defined Networking (SDN), cloud deployment of Telco services, and compliance of the OpenStack infrastructure. Huawei Virtual IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and value-added service (VAS) Cloud have been verified on the platform.
Huawei will demonstrate this at the Mobile World Congress MWC 2014, Barcelona.
Test results show that the UNICA Infrastructure can manage data centers distributed in various regions in a centralized manner, provide a unified virtual data center for efficient data sharing among internal departments or OBs, and rapidly provide telecom services and internal applications through the virtual data center.
UNICA Infrastructure facilitates Telefonica to build a unified, cooperated, and highly efficient next-generation ICT infrastructure, and supports network transforming.
With the development of telecom networks and information technologies, carriers are able to decrease costs, increase revenues, and improve service abilities to the greatest extent. The UNICA Infrastructure aims at establishing a general ICT infrastructure to deploy new network functions and service platforms in a standardized and multivendor way.
Huawei SoftCOM infrastructure integrates self-developed ICT technologies, such as the cloud operating system, SDN network, data center management and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). This infrastructure matches majority of the requirements of UNICA Infrastructure, and has passed all test cases of the phase II PoC testing.