Ooredoo Qatar’s 5G commercial services go live with Nokia cloud-native 5G core network
29 Luglio 2020 - 09:00AM
Ooredoo Qatar’s 5G commercial services go live with Nokia
cloud-native 5G core network
Press Release
Ooredoo Qatar’s 5G commercial services go live with
Nokia cloud-native 5G core network
- Nokia cloud-native 5G core network allows Ooredoo Qatar to
deliver a wide breadth of commercial 5G services to its retail and
enterprise users
- This milestone reaffirms Ooredoo Qatar’s commitment to
transforming network assets to cloud-native technology
29 July 2020
Espoo, Finland – Nokia has today announced that Ooredoo
Qatar has launched a Nokia-powered cloud-native core network for
commercial 5G services, allowing the operator to provide superior
mobile broadband services to its roughly two million subscribers in
Qatar.
The new core network facilitates automation for improved network
efficiency and streamlined network management. The transformation
of the core network also enables Ooredoo Qatar to bring new and
exciting use cases such as Industrial IOT (IIoT), Voice over
Broadband (VoBB), Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) to its
subscribers. Furthermore, Nokia’s equipment and professional
services will help Ooredoo Qatar to scale its network more
efficiently with automated operations and enhanced robustness.
5G technology demands a dynamic, agile, and easily scalable core
network, which can address the ever-increasing traffic without any
impact on the performance. The cloud-native core is essential to
meet the critical business objectives of 5G, including better
bandwidth and latency, the requirement of IoT, and providing new
and exciting services that go beyond the traditional offerings of
voice, broadband and messaging by service providers. Nokia AirFrame
data center hardware, CloudBand Application Manager, CBIS OpenStack
Software, Voice and Cloud Packet Core Virtual Network Functions,
and Nuage Networks Software Defined Networking solutions were all
included as key parts in upgrading Ooredoo Qatar's core
network.
More than 10 virtualized network functions (VNFs) are deployed
on the cloud platform, covering data, voice, subscriber management
registers and policy control enabling voice and data services. The
new cloud core network supports 5G Non-Standalone (NSA)
architecture and provides a smooth transition to a 5G Standalone
network architecture.
Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Chief Operating Officer at
Ooredoo Qatar, said: “We are delighted to reach this
milestone by launching the state-of-the-art cloud-native 5G core
network with Nokia for carrying 5G commercial services.
Collaboration with Nokia, a global technology leader, will help us
in providing low-latency, high-speed and content-rich services to
our subscribers. This project is testament to our commitment to
bringing the latest technology to our subscribers, in line with our
goal of complete customer satisfaction, and reiterates our
leadership position in the global 5G ecosystem.”
Henrique Vale, Vice President of Nokia Software for
Middle East and Africa, said: “The transformation of
Ooredoo Qatar’s legacy core network to a fully cloud-native 5G core
in a very short time frame demonstrates the strength of our
end-to-end portfolio and exceptional delivery expertise. Ooredoo
Qatar's new core network will enable it to bring innovative and the
latest use cases to its subscribers and also prepares the network
for providing scalable 5G commercial services."
Overview of the solution used for
deployment:
- Nokia AirFrame data center solution supports open-source
and enables full hyper-scale to extremely distributed capabilities
that will be necessary for future telco and IT networking and
service delivery.
- Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) include Mobile Core
for Voice, with Cloud Packet Core, Subscriber
Management Registers and Policy control on a cloud
platform.
- Nokia CloudBand allows service providers to host,
orchestrate, automate and manage Virtualized Network Functions
(VNFs) and services. It makes it easier for telcos to reduce time
to revenue for new services and use automation and optimization to
make network operations lean
- Nokia NetAct provides a consolidated view of multi-domain,
multi-technology networks, helping service providers in proactively
addressing any network-related issue
- Nuage Networks from Nokia SDN solutions enable telco cloud
network automation.
- Nokia Professional services ensured an efficient and timely
execution of the project
Resources:
- Web page: Nokia 5G Core
- Whitepaper: Unconstrained data center networks for the cloud
era
- Blog: What's central to the success of 5G? The core network of
course
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