Bell Canada Reaches Milestone in Network 3.0 Vision with Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and Strategic Partnership w...
January 22 2018 - 5:00AM
Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), a leading provider of software and services to
communications and media companies, today announced that Bell,
Canada’s largest communications company, has successfully
implemented the first network automation use case in production
leveraging the Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform
(ONAP). As Bell’s strategic partner, Amdocs brings unparalleled
ONAP expertise and DevOps scrum team agility and delivery
capabilities with the goal of driving innovation faster and
reducing the cost of building and operating the data center of the
future.
With clear benefits such as a more elastic network and increased
business agility to be gained from taking advantage of network
functions virtualization (NFV), Bell is driving its network
transformation by leveraging the ONAP-based network service
orchestration (NSO) platform to introduce new services faster to
its enterprise and consumer customers. This includes automating its
data center tenant network provisioning on ONAP to automate the
operations of its data centers. Bell is focused on providing its
operations teams with tools to automate life cycle management of
both physical and virtual network functions, incident management
and service assurance.
Bell’s Network 3.0 transformation initiative includes
technology, process and people, with a strong emphasis on advancing
its DevOps journey. This involves building the team and talent to
support a cross-organizational DevOps model and creating a culture
of Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD). A
tangible outcome of this approach is Bell’s development of software
that serves as the foundation for ONAP Operations Manager (OOM),
which helps simplify deployments, reduce footprint and enable
continuous delivery. The software has been contributed to the open
source ONAP community to help others embrace ONAP.
“Bell is leading the industry in implementing open source based
on automation for NFV services,” said Petri Lyytikainen, Bell’s
Vice President, Network Strategy, Services and Management.
“Together with Amdocs, we are fostering a new partnership business
model to realize the benefits of the ONAP open source community. We
are co-developing on the ONAP platform, implementing services and
operationalizing the platform using continuous integration and
delivery methods to deliver services to market faster and meet the
unique needs of Bell’s customers. Amdocs, one of the co-authors of
the original ONAP code base, is in an excellent position to help
Bell deliver network automation that supports NFV and SDN.”
“Open source ONAP and programmable network models are going to
be competitive differentiators as networks become more fundamental
to the future digital society. Service providers that embrace this
disruption early with ONAP will be in a significantly stronger
position as networks evolve to become completely elastic, agile and
programmable,” said Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President for
Amdocs Technology. “First-mover advantage for ONAP will go to
carriers that establish the vital building blocks by developing
expertise in their organization around open source in networking
and agile development and by smartly leveraging an open and rich
eco-system.”
“We expect ONAP to be adopted as the industry standard for
network automation built with SDN and NFV,” said Arpit Joshipura,
General Manager of Networking and Orchestration at The Linux
Foundation. “The project has been endorsed by top global carriers
and a vendor eco-system representing more than half of all mobile
subscribers. It’s also a clear proof-point that the open source
path to standardization is the most viable solution to drive
agility and automation, and carriers can start immediately with
ONAP.”
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is a leading software and services provider to the
world’s most successful communications and media companies. As our
customers reinvent themselves, we enable their digital and network
transformation through innovative solutions, delivery expertise and
intelligent operations. Amdocs and its 25,000 employees serve
customers in over 85 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select
Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.9 billion in fiscal 2017. For more
information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
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fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 filed on December 11,
2017.
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