Elisa Automate, a business unit of Polystar, on Tuesday announced that Telefónica Group has been testing Elisa Automate’s automation solutions in its Global Transport SDN Network laboratory.
The automation of transport networks is essential to meet the demands of 5G and agile network and topology configuration. Legacy, manually-intensive processes are no longer fit for purpose and limit the ability of operators to deliver services efficiently and at the scale required. Elisa Automate solves this problem by offering a complete, real-time view of topology and inventory – across all network layers – that enables zero-touch automation and agile configuration.
Telefonica proposed a set of use cases to Elisa Automate in order to validate automation of network topology discovery, network expansion and service provisioning functions, using the standards-based transport network NBIs defined in Telefonica’s iFusion initiative.
Elisa Automate has deployed the automation solution in the cloud and it is fully integrated with a complex, multi-vendor and multi-layer environment. It enables Telefónica to create single, unified workflows that support service automation, end-to-end. The automation and real-time inventory management delivers considerable benefits. It supports automatic software updates in a complex cloud environment and allows significant time savings, enabling resources to be directed to more profitable activities.
Jesús Folgueira, Head of Transport and IP Networks (Global CTO Office)
The use of open standard interfaces enables the programming of the network with vendor-agnostic integrations, reducing the time-to-market of new functions and services.
Mikko Puuskari, Director of Business Operations in Elisa Automate
Our team’s world-renowned expertise in Machine Learning and AI automation for network operation has enabled the successful realisation of unlimited mobile data strategies and delivered preventative fault detection and resolution.
