The vendor has a slew of contracts in the Middle East, and central Europe; teams up with Qualcomm on high density Open vRAN
Turkcell has stepped up its network automation to improve VoLTE services using Mavenir’s technology. Turkcell is Turkey’s largest converged network operator with 20 million VoLTE subscribers. It will deploy Mavenir’s Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) automation framework.
Mavenir says the framework is based on open source components and “seamlessly integrates” with a customer-defined software delivery process, using Mavenir’s own APIs,
Further, the framework “supports Day 1 Initial Deployment and Day 2 life cycle management” of Turkcell’s IMS network functions (NFs) at scale across multiple clusters and multiple types of NFs according to the vendor.
Its GIT-based software delivery model promises version control with history and automatic traceability of current and past deployments, upgrades and rollbacks with enhanced security and validation through CD pipeline.
Automation’s business advantages
The automation is designed to reduces the time, the cost and the resource required to implement new software and features in the network. In turn this should translate into less time to market for new services and competitive advantage.
It will be used to improve Wi-Fi calling and SMS over IP (ToIP) as well as VoLTE services.
Professor Dr Vehbi Çağrı Güngör, Chief Network Technologies Officer at Turkcell, said, “Network operations tend to become more complex with the increasing release frequencies and network integrations. Applying these changes in accordance with CI/CD best practices is vital for more sustainable network operations. Our partnership with Mavenir catalyzed the lifecyle management of IMS network functions, and created an important milestone in our network automation journey.”
Brandon Larson, SVP, Cloud, AI & IMS at Mavenir, said: “…this new automation…will further streamline network operations for Turkcell as well as delivering notable savings on operational expenditure and reinforcing network quality for their customers.”
Core partnership with DT group
Slovak Telekom has chosen Mavenir’s containerised Converged Packet Core solution, making Mavenir its sole network core technology partner.
Mavenir already provides voice and messaging services for the Slovakian operator. Now it will deliver data services across the packet core domain for all the generations of mobile technologies, using Slovak Telekom’s private Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) cloud platform. Mavenir will also integrate cloud-native 5G standalone (SA) capabilities.
Mavenir previously announced it will roll out its Converged Packet Core solution DT group’s subsidiaries in the Czech Republic (T-Mobile Czech Republic) and in Hungary (Magyar Telekom).
Quick on campus
Mavenir’s Converged Packet Core is designed to accelerates the move to 5G and deployment of new enterprise applications and services that harness 5G, including low latency and network slicing. The vendor says its cloud-native architecture offers “easy scaling, hardware decoupling, agility, portability, and resilience across public, private, and hybrid clouds”.
According to the vendor, its approach is unique, uniting the macro and enterprise cores to encompass central deployment and additional remote locations or 5G core solutions implemented on-site.
Put another way, the network tech supports local breakout as require, leveraging Mavenir’s remote User Plane Function (UPF) to deploy campus solutions rapidly. Users’ data is transmitted directly to the UPF and made available to application servers to reduce latency and increase data security.
High density Open vRAN
Mavenir has teamed up with Qualcomm Technologies to deliver energy-efficient solutions for high-density cell site configurations to expand and improve 5G coverage and capacity in urban areas.
The ongoing collaboration leverages the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and Mavenir’s Open virtualised Radio Access Network (Open vRAN). The intention is to speed up operators’ adoption of cloud-native Open 5G networks for better scalability, sustainability, capacity and efficiency.
Lightening the load
The two say their joint solution offers more fronthaul port capacity and “substantially” reduces the use of the CPUs/core, and therefore their energy consumption. This makes them suitable for deployment at scale, such as for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA).
The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN acceleration card is a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express-based (PCIe-based) solution that offloads compute-intensive tasks from the CPU to the card. The solution is integrated via a standards-based financial-grade applications programming interface or FAPI.
The collaboration has demonstrated the integration of in-line acceleration, with the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN accelerator card and Mavenir’s cloud-native virtualised Distributed Unit (vDU) software solution in a live massive MIMO use case. This generated a capacity of 3Gbps in a multi-user environment.