BARCELONA, 2018-02-01 08:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Cisco Live - Over the next five years, strong growth in the number of mobile
users, business digitization demands, Internet of Things (IoT) connections and
mobile video consumption will place significant challenges on networks. The
increasing traffic has yet to show an equivalent growth in ARPU.
As service providers prepare for the next wave of network speed, extensive
architectural transformation involving programmability and automation will be
needed to support these capabilities and future innovations, including the
evolution of enterprise services, 5G, and IoT.
Orange knew it could reduce CapEx and OpEx by implementing new architectures on
platforms ready for mass-scale networking and by automating a large number of
tasks and operations. The company has taken the initiative to improve its
business efficiency by deploying the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO)
software platform to its current and future network as a foundation for
infrastructure programmability and automating method of procedure (MOP)
operations and customer-facing services.
As a key technology enabler, Cisco NSO will help Orange and its subsidiaries
realize new benefits, including:
-- Providing a highly efficient abstraction layer between network services and
the underlying infrastructure components, even in complex, heterogeneous
environments
-- Reducing service activation times from days to hours and dramatically
increasing TTM for critical service offerings
-- Automating its service lifecycles and reducing manual configuration steps
by as much as 90 percent across the spectrum of mobile and enterprise
networks, including zero-touch provisioning of network devices
-- Empowering Orange teams along their journey toward SDN and NFV through use
of an open, modern programmable platform
-- Reducing failed service activations and network issues by removing risk of
human error
"Cisco's model-driven approach to network automation and service orchestration
is enabling Orange to drastically speed delivery of services across our entire
lifecycles," said Christian Gacon, vice president, Wireline Networks and
Infrastructure, Orange. "Global deployment of Cisco NSO also provides uniform
configuration management tools and consumable network APIs for business
applications and customer self-service portals."
"Visionary service providers like Orange recognize the value network automation
and SDN offer to drive innovation in their markets," said Yves Padrines, vice
president, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco. "Cisco's network automation
software and product portfolio enables carriers to simplify their operations
through sophisticated data analysis and proactive control, helping them to
continue delivering superior customer experiences without interruption."
Cisco is leading the disruption in the industry with our technology innovations
in systems, silicon, optics, and security and our unrivalled expertise in
mass-scale networking, automation, optical, cable access, video, and mobility.
Together with our portfolio of professional services, we can enable service
providers and media and web companies to reduce cost and complexity, help
secure their networks, and grow revenue.
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