Customer Background
The customer’s entire network of 2G/3G/4G/5G radio and core are from Huawei. The managed services are also provided by Huawei.
Challenges
Huawei being the single vendor providing the entire equipment as well as the managed services partner of STC. STC deployed the NFVi in 2014 and was running successfully. STC wanted to have a third-party evaluation of its NFVI Stack.
Our Solution
- VaporVM shared its core expertise with STC in evaluating the complete stack. Following are the attributes of the audit:
- Evaluate NFVI on multiple layers.
- Evaluate each component of NFVI stack.
- Compare each component of NFVI stack to leading solutions.
- Provide the best practices.
Results
VaporVM presented the critical insights to the customer, which will guide their future strategies. The analysis of best practices offered an overview of the industry’s shift towards openness and container orchestration, moving away from closed environments.