Airtel has reportedly completed the first phase of its open hybrid cloud network built. This was done in collaboration with IBM and Red Hat’s portfolio of hybrid cloud and cognitive enterprise capabilities.
According to Airtel, owing to this deployment, Airtel’s customers and ecosystem partners will have a flexible foundation to build and deploy innovative applications on the cloud network. In addition, they will also get enhanced performance, availability, automation and scaling, all the way from the core to the network edge.
The architecture will enable Airtel to manage communications across distributed network environments. Moreover, the open architecture enables Airtel to embrace open source radio access network (RAN) to improve interoperability for ecosystem partners using RAN equipment, it said.
As part of phase 1, IBM and Airtel have co-developed a single-click automated hybrid cloud design and deployment capability and light-touch operations. This will enable Airtel to rapidly improve network connectivity and accelerate its continued core network transformation.
