Nokia and Juniper Networks have expanded their partnership agreement to advance telco cloud for mobile broadband. The collaboration brings together Nokia’s Liquid Core service, including network function virtualization (NFV) and telco cloud management and orchestration, and the Juniper Networks MetaFabric data center architecture, including Contrail – Juniper’s network virtualization and cloud network automation service based on SDN. Nokia and Juniper’s bundled service, delivered through carrier-grade services, will provide operators with an open ecosystem telco cloud service, based on OpenStack, offering automated application deployment, software defined application connectivity and network management.
The telco cloud service from Nokia and Juniper Networks will be available later this year. Nokia will provide its Liquid Core application suites with the existing multi-platform software, which reutilizes all the investments previously done in localized/customized software functionalities. Liquid Core is implemented as virtualized network functions (for example, virtualized Mobile Management Entity (MME), virtualized IMS, virtualized Home Subscriber Server (HSS). Liquid Core also includes Nokia’s cloud-ready NetAct network management solution and Cloud Application Manager, which brings the required orchestration functions to build end-to-end services like voice over LTE (VoLTE) or evolved packet core (EPC) in the cloud.
The Juniper Networks MetaFabric architecture and Contrail SDN/NFV controller will enable operators to create a High-IQ mobile edge that is automated and scalable to support the creation of new services based on actionable intelligence.
In addition to the technology components, Nokia is also providing its services to help operators implement their own telco clouds and migrate existing telco services to cloud-based networks. Nokia provides a fully integrated telco cloud service comprised of Nokia’s Liquid Core virtualized network functions and management suite and Juniper’s OpenStack-based data center to mobile operators. The combined Nokia-Juniper solution is in line with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute Network Functions Virtualization (ETSI NFV) reference architecture.
