BARCELONA, Spain, March 3, 2023 (Archyde.com) /PRNewswire/ – At Huawei’s IT Infrastructure Transformation Forum during MWC Barcelona 2023, David Chen, Director of Huawei Carrier IT Marketing and Solution Sales, presented the future-oriented target reference structure for carrier IT infrastructures. Through the collaboration between communication technology (CT) and information technology (IT) – online and on-site – as well as software and hardware, the structure supports the development of Huawei and its customers from CT to ICT. Chen explained that intelligent, reliable, efficient and collaborative IT infrastructure can expand the scope for operators’ network infrastructure monetization, accelerate their digital transformation and facilitate their growth.
According to third-party research, global operators’ primary services grew by about 4% from 2021 to 2022, while innovative services such as IoT, cloud and smart home grew by over 10%. The wave of digital transformation offers new opportunities for telecom operators. The boom in digital services is prompting telecom operators to quickly move into the new area of integrated digital services. An IDC report shows that the average growth rate of global telecom operators’ investments in digital transformation reached a staggering 17% between 2021 and 2025. Telcos could leverage their strengths in telecom equipment to go digital. The digital transformation has already entered a new phase, characterized by huge amounts of data, high computing power and strong intelligence, so better IT infrastructure is required for operators.
Chen also stressed that IT infrastructure must come first in digital transformation. Data, networks and applications (or DNA) are at the heart of the operator and thus the key to digital transformation. Therefore, increasing investment in IT infrastructure can make monetization of these assets more efficient and unlock more value. The operators have built up a large and complex IT infrastructure over the last few decades and need a target architecture as a reference for the future.
An operator’s IT structure consists of four layers: physical resources, platform technologies, industry capabilities and digital products. The future-oriented target reference structure for IT infrastructures presented at MWC2023 focuses on the layers of physical resources and platform technology. It is a comprehensive solution that includes distributed clouds (local clouds, public clouds, and edge clouds), a unified storage resource pool (high-performance resource pool and massive resource pool), and diversified computing. This structure is characterized by the cooperation between CT and IT, online and on-site as well as software and hardware. This allows for maximum protection of existing IT infrastructure investments during cloud migration, while leveraging IT investments to accelerate monetization of CT assets.
- Collaboration between CT and IT: The next-generation IT infrastructure is already integrated into the network equipment. It supports the unified, end-to-end planning and management of cloud and network resources and enables the provision of services for customers from a single source. In addition, this IT infrastructure is pre-integrated with core telecom applications such as Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operations Support Systems (OSS), which significantly improves service delivery efficiency and reduces operational costs.
- Online and on-premises collaboration: Applications can be deployed flexibly and efficiently across distributed clouds (public clouds and local clouds). In addition, data can be efficiently managed across public clouds, on-premises clouds, and on-premises storage facilities, ensuring data security, maximizing the value of data, and improving service operation efficiency.
- Software and hardware collaboration: As the IT infrastructure structure evolves, it is necessary to ensure that existing storage and network devices and other hardware can be integrated into the new structure to protect existing investments, reduce the need for application and data migration and improve both reliability and efficiency of deployment.
Huawei has been working with operators for more than 30 years. With its expertise in the telecom industry and operator IT infrastructure transformation, and experience in successfully supporting the IT infrastructure transformation of more than 140 operators, Huawei is able to help operators move away from CT vendors to become ICT providers.
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