Today, at Mobile World Congress (MWC), China Mobile, the GSMA and Huawei agreed to work together on a joint project to build an assessment framework for achieving carrier-grade Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) reliability for the telecommunication industry. The project aims to combine industry efforts to construct a scalable and comprehensive framework that will enable proactive, flexible and analytical network maintenance for telecoms operators. This will eliminate potential network risks and help to build a network with higher reliability, increased stability and better connectivity for the delivery of digital services.<\/p>\n
Difficulties can arise in locating network faults when complex network technologies are adopted, such as NFV networks, which can have a huge impact on services. To resolve this, operators are moving to proactive network maintenance to eliminate potential network risks and issues before user services are affected, improving efficiency and building a reliable network.<\/p>\n
Michele Zarri, Technical Director, GSMA, said: “There will be numerous business opportunities and challenges in the 5G era. However, Five-9s reliability is required for virtualized networks. The GSMA will work to define network requirements and formalize the assessment framework including metrics and measurements for achieving carrier-grade NFV reliability.”<\/p>\n
Lily Kong, NFV Project Manager of China Mobile, said: “Network quality and reliability are core defining principles for China Mobile. The evolution of network virtualization has introduced new challenges for carriers in building ultra-reliable network. There is a need to get the industry to team-up and jointly develop an assessment system to create higher efficiency and more intelligent network maintenance. “<\/p>\n
Zhao Yongjun, General Manager of Huawei Global Customer Support Service department, said: “Huawei manages over 1,500 communications networks globally and we are responsible to ensure secure and stable operation of these networks. Huawei will like to consolidate industry efforts to explore new digital technologies and carry out joint-innovation to create tomorrow\u2019s proactive intelligent network maintenance system, which will be real-time, intelligent perception, and, preventative measures to meet increasing ultra-reliable network requirements.”<\/p>\n
Carrier-grade NFV reliability is a critical aspect of the deployment of network virtualization in a mobile network environment and is in-line with the GSMA\u2019s 5G Network Virtualization project.<\/p>\n
On the next step, Gao Xiang, Director of Huawei Assurance and Management Service Market Management department, said: “By the end of the year, and with the support from industry-wide partners, China Mobile, the GSMA and Huawei will release requirements, an assessment framework and best practices for achieving carrier-grade NFV reliability for the telecommunication industry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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