By: Daria Batrakova

Emerging 5G networks create new opportunities for telecom providers to deliver services for enterprises and consumers at greater capacities, accelerated speeds, and lower latencies. In addition to enabling faster mobile and fixed wireless access, 5G networks also support cutting-edge technologies for Industrial IoT, AR and VR applications, AI and blockchain. Applications such as smart factory, E-agriculture, autonomous driving, AI-powered health diagnostics, and personal robot assistants are now a reality. And the proliferation will only accelerate: by 2020, Gartner predicts up to 20.4 billion IoT devices will be in service.

To meet customers’ demands for new services delivered quickly and without interruption, ICT service providers must have full visibility into network resources and control over networks of the future as they undergo digital transformation. To keep pace with 5G, backbone networks must be upgraded and properly managed to meet bandwidth and performance requirements.

Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are essential to support the evolution that is taking place in today’s network architectures. SDN uses mechanisms of control and user plane separation to define network resources programmatically. NFV allows far better network flexibility through the abstraction and partitioning of network resources into virtual elements.

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CloudSmartz is a challenger in the industry for Lifecycle Service and Customer Orchestration, enabling digital transformation for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) around the world.  We are considered an orchestrator-of-orchestrators – we act as an innovation enabler on the service-provider and customer-facing layer, which helps CSPs to operationalize and monetize their back-end technology infrastructure investments through our innovative microservice architecture.  Our mission is to help transform forward-thinking CSPs into next-generation, on-demand, customer-centric service providers. We seek out dynamic disruptive leaders who want to reimagine, innovate, and reinvent.  Gartner has recently named CloudSmartz as a 2018 Cool Vendor In Communications Service Provider Business Operations – and 451 Research shares that our solutions bridge the gap between the carrier's new virtualized SDN/NFV network and the carrier's OSS/BSS systems so the carrier can move from deploying a network to deploying services and generating revenue.  Our global offices around the worlds are proud to have been recently awarded, “Most Innovative Technology Provider” & “Innovations in Aggregation” by Pipeline Magazine – and as of 2019, Inc. 5000 named CloudSmartz one of America's Fastest-Growing Privately-Held Companies for Four Consecutive Years in a row (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

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Network as a Service (NaaS), like other cloud services, relies on virtualization technology. Network slices can be specifically configured to support certain use cases. Each use case receives a unique set of optimized resources and network topology—covering certain service level agreement-specified factors such as connectivity, speed, and capacity that all suit the needs of that application.

Mobile edge computing brings computational resources closer to the source—the network edge—and takes the burden of massive data processing (for IoT, AR/VR, and more) off the central office.

While physical, logical and virtual resources can be easily managed separately, ICT service providers often face challenges when it comes to managing them in unison. To effectively manage hybrid resources in today’s digital, IoT-enabled 5G world, implementing a unified network resource inventory solution is business-critical.

The Challenge  

With the addition of virtual components into the network, ICT service providers face the challenge of managing new, complex resource types. Unlike conventional resources and resource-facing services, hybrid resources like VNF, SD-WAN, network slicing, and mobile edge computing (MEC) must be managed across telco, IT, and data center domains (Figure 1 - next page).