Modelling 5G services and AR for unmatched
closed-loop service assurance
QUEBEC CITY, May 14, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - EXFO Inc.
(NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF), the network test, monitoring and
analytics experts, announced its collaboration with AT&T, BT,
du Telecom, NTT, Orange, Verizon, Telecom Italia Mobile, Vodafone
Group, BearingPoint, CENX, Infosys and RIFT.io in the TM Forum
Blade Runner Catalyst project. Using modelling and TM Forum Open
Application Program Interfaces (APIs), this ambitious proof of
concept explores how 5G, augmented reality and multi-access edge
computing can deliver enterprise services end to end across
partners' networks. EXFO's role is to provide service assurance and
enable closed-loop automation.
The project, championed by a team of multinational
communications service providers and led by Vodafone
(www.vodafone.com), will demonstrate how shared service catalogues
and faster deployment of cloud services can help to facilitate
end-to-end, multi-operator closed-loop assurance and wholesale
enterprise billing and charging operations.
Other goals will be to orchestrate active monitoring of the
service chain across providers to demonstrate how EXFO uses probes
to detect service delivery problems and alert operators in real
time, and to orchestrate traffic generation to display how EXFO can
scale services up and down in closed-loop automation to ensure
quality of service.
"Modern cloud-based, software-defined networks will bring
a new era of unlimited data and IoT use cases," said Dimitris Symeonidis, Project Lead and Enterprise
Architect at Vodafone Group Services. "To successfully deliver
complex and innovative services, including augmented reality, we
need to enable a diverse partner ecosystem that works together
seamlessly. That's where 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC)
need to come together to deliver enterprise services across partner
networks, supported by closed-loop assurance and using industry
frameworks and standards."
"The service assurance model and architecture is going through a
drastic change as more and more services are being designed and
delivered by multiple providers under a single SOC and managed by a
single provider," said Claudio
Mazzuca, Vice-President, Systems and Analytics at EXFO. "We
are thrilled to participate in this cutting-edge POC that gives us
a glimpse into the not-so-distant future and demonstrates how
EXFO's powerful service assurance solutions can offer providers
what they need for a successful digital transformation."
About EXFO
EXFO develops smarter network test, monitoring and analytics
solutions for the world's leading communications service providers,
network equipment manufacturers and webscale companies. Since 1985,
we've worked side by side with our customers in the lab, field,
data center, boardroom and beyond to pioneer essential technology
and methods for each phase of the network lifecycle. Our portfolio
of test orchestration and real-time 3D analytics solutions turns
complex into simple and delivers business-critical insights from
the network, service and subscriber dimensions. Most importantly,
we help our customers flourish in a rapidly transforming industry
where "good enough" testing, monitoring and analytics just aren't
good enough anymore—they never were for us, anyway. For more
information, visit EXFO.com and follow us on the EXFO Blog.
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