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away from dedicated hardware to shared commodity hardware . But the biggest cost saving has to come out of the fact that the whole level of automation stepwise is increased dramatically . This journey has a lot to do with transforming from hardware oriented solutions to software .”
“ Huawei and Cisco , for example , are our strategic vendors in the wire line environment . With Huawei , we launched a joint innovation and collaboration agreement which gives us full access to some of their R & D teams developing the next-gen wire line technology . Dell EMC VMware is strategic to us within our enterprise cloud . We made a strong investment in their technologies . Together with Ericson we build our telco cloud for VNF workloads . With them we have established a joint mobile group , bringing our wireless network to the next level .
“ Both consumers and enterprise customers expect our networks and services simply to work . All the time . “ To make this happen Swisscom has created a strategy and story to bring operations to the next level , based on three pillars : ON Device , Always ON and ON Demand . It is crucial that experience is measured and monitored as end users perceive it ( ON device ). They embrace multiple initiatives that focus not on theoretical KPIs and SLAs but on the perceived availability of services ( Always ON ). Moving to a software defined datacenter , adopting SDN , NFV and other cloud native technologies lays the basis to provide resources and capacity ON demand . And all this is accompanied by a huge shift towards DevOps .
Instead of resting on its laurels as a dominant force in the Swiss telecommunications market , Swisscom has taken a daring move to transform a significant portion of its operations . This is a move that will not only enable the company to keep ahead of the curve in perhaps the world ’ s most competitive telco markets , but will also allow it to save significant amounts of money from automation and future-proofing .
54 January 2017