UAE-based telecommunications provider Etisalat Group collaborated with Huawei and Deloitte to launch a joint white paper titled 'From Pipelines to Clouds - Etisalat's Playbook' that intends to share lessons learned from Etisalat's road towards becoming a cloud-native telco.
"Cloud computing presents unique opportunities for Etisalat to attain sustainable growth in the emerging digital ecosystem," said Hatem Bamatraf, Chief Technology Officer at Etisalat Group.
"Our aim is to deliver a differentiated service experience to empower a digital and happier society."
The launch of the white paper is part of a collaboration made amongst the three companies for a joint innovation program focused around a playbook on how to implement multiple exponential technologies that constitute a digital transformation journey through a technology perspective.
The companies believe that a future Telco Cloud will require different telecom network infrastructure and system architecture to address customers' digital needs in order to deliver intelligent, quicker, more reliable value added services.
"Network transformation should be considered as an opportunity to deploy an experience oriented agile network and operating model rather than an imperative compulsion to address short-term business challenges," said Peng Xiongji, President Etisalat Key Account at Huawei Technologies.
The white paper underlines the vision of Etisalat Group to harness its technological vision and key industry advances to provide innovative premium and differentiated service experiences for customers.
The adaption of new architecture and processes outlined in the paper will enable Etisalat Group to devise a practical road-map for the adaption of SDN and NFV technologies in addition to cutting edge techs such as MEC, AI, Machine Learning, 5G and so on.
This will greatly assist Etisalat Group to reassure the path to the envisioned scenario of achieving a cost effective infrastructure which enables Etisalat to launch innovative products coped with future time to market.
The white paper is available for download: http://www.etisalat.com/en/about/profile/etisalat-white-papers.jsp
