Deployed 12 months ago, Cisco's NSO technology has helped Telstra achieve a reduction in the provisioning time of equipment for new services from hours to minutes. This has been done through the automation of network and customer service configuration and turn-up testing of Ethernet and IP products that underpin a range of mobile and enterprise networks. This automation has also reduced the amount of failed service activations and network issues, as the risk of human error is removed.
According to David Robertson, Telstra's Director for Network Transport & Routing Engineering, "NSO's model-driven approach to network automation and service orchestration is enabling Telstra to improve network service outcomes for our customers. Our deployment of NSO is providing our customers with new levels of quality services faster."
With its expansion of NSO, Telstra will enable uniform configuration management tools, innovative orchestrated assurance capabilities and consumable network APIs for business applications and customer self-service portals.
"Leading service providers such as Telstra recognize the value network automation and SDN offers to help enable competitiveness and innovation in their markets," said Charles Stucki, vice president and general manager of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Business Unit, Cisco. "Cisco's NSO technology is a key NFV solution that helps enable faster and more flexible delivery of existing and new services. We are very active in our partnership with Telstra to help them achieve greater automation, agility and scalability across the growing catalog of services that Telstra provides to their customers."
Cisco is building the simplified, automated and virtualized network platform of the future based on industry-leading software, systems, silicon and services. This enables service providers, media and web companies worldwide to reduce costs, speed time-to-market, secure their networks and sustain profitable growth.
