At the ongoing Mobile World Congress, Telstra and Cisco announced their intention to extend their strategic collaboration by giving Telstra’s domestic and global business customers a unified, on-demand suite of cloud and managed network services. The partnership will be based on Cisco’ Evolved Services Platform (ESP), a comprehensive virtualization and orchestration software platform for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to enable Telstra to rapidly launch new services and transform customer experiences.
Both the companies are looking to focus on four key areas to deliver virtualized managed network and cloud services based on an open architecture that covers unified customer and product experience across cloud, network and value-added services, improved speed to market with rapid product development, near real-time, dynamic and elastic provisioning of services and lastly operational efficiency and simplification.
Cisco is honored to work with Telstra. Using our collective breadth of innovation and capabilities, we are co-creating new solutions that will address key business challenges through a transformational architecture. Together, we intend to bring to market an open platform that will transform the customer experience and revolutionize the way cloud, network, and managed services are deployed, delivered and consumed.
Kate McKenzie, Chief Operations Officer, Telstra
While cloud and software services had turned traditional server, storage and application use and provisioning upside down, the network had remained fairly static when it came to service provisioning. In a nut shell, we want to transform our network services so they become instantaneous – purchased and provisioned in the same manner as cloud.
