Enea together with ten world-class vendors in a project led by Telenor, developed an innovative end-to-end automated deployment solution with 5G Standalone (SA) Core. The solution substantially accelerates the deployment time of a network slice from days to minutes, increasing the deployment speed by 70%.
The unique multi-vendor approach led by Telenor involved key network functions from Enea (Stratum Network Data Layer, Subscription Manager), as well as Oracle and Casa Systems. The purpose is to both reduce deployment time and to allow enterprises to order 5G network services dynamically and have a proven path to on-board their own application services via standard APIs.
The solution integrated an orchestration system from Nokia & Red Hat, security monitoring from Palo Alto Networks, and network monitoring from Emblasoft. The 5G SA core was connected with multiple radio access nodes from Huawei and Ericsson. All services ran on Red Hat OpenShift on Intel and was based on Nokia and HPE hardware.
‘The need for speed’ is the name of the game when telcos are moving rapidly towards cloud-native virtualized networks to speed up the deployment process. This will improve operational efficiency and scalability, critical for telcos to succeed in the years to come. The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform onboards services easily with playbooks whereas the Cloud Operations Manager onboards services described in helm charts. The innovative integration automates the deployment of 5G network services as well as the deployment of application services and value-added services like security functions or testing and validation tools.