Huawei recently announced its telecom Cloud alliance with European mobile operator Telefonica. The cooperation covers the UNICA Infrastructure, SDN network and NFV.
The announcement was made at the Mobile World Congress 2014, Barcelona.
“The UNICA Infrastructure, SDN network and NFV lay basis for implementing Telefonica network transformation and they play a significant role in simplifying the infrastructure architecture, improving efficiency and reducing costs,” said Enrique Blanco Nadales, chief technology officer (CTO) of the Telefonica.
Huawei Distributed Cloud Data Center (DC) and the SDN network solution match Telefonica UNICA infrastructure architecture.
Technologies such as the cloud computing, NFV and SDN will enable telecom carriers to reduce costs, increase revenues, and improve service abilities to the greatest extent. Based on the UNICA infrastructure, Telefonica targets to explore a distributed cloud infrastructure upon the IT and CT network strategic transformation and construct a unified, coordinated and efficient ICT infrastructure.
At the booth in MWC 2014, Telefonica showed the UNICA infrastructure demonstration, which is end-to-end enabled by Huawei. As a typical Telco service over UNICA infrastructure, Huawei vIMS (virtual IMS) based voice and video services were demonstrated.
