UAE operator switches on its first live NFV telco cloud in Abu Dhabi.

July 13, 2016

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ABU DHABI -- Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecom, has activated its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi.

Amidst strong financial results, the latest project comes as part of the corporation’s continuous efforts for technological leadership in the region and worldwide. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack , a multi-vendor combination integrated for production for the first time ever globally.

Projects, proof of concepts and various experiments and tests to transform the corporation for the cloud era have started as early as 2013, with the telecom industry’s fostering and adoption of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), two enabling technologies commonly associated with smart cities, IoT and the upcoming 5G future.

Based on the open-source OpenStack cloud platform used by the likes of NASA, CERN and leading web companies, activations are currently in progress in more sites across the UAE. On top of this telco cloud, the Middle Eastern telecom operator targets to virtualize its infrastructure and services across its portfolios of data, communications and video, beginning with mobile services. The leap is meant to efficiently make telecom resources and services more fluid, automatic and open for innovation.

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