Nokia, China Unicom conduct live trial of Virtualized Services Router for residential broadband services
April 25 2017 - 3:01AM
- Trial of Nokia Virtualized Service Router (VSR) is crucial to
China Unicom's initiative to transform its metro service edge
architecture to provide enhanced broadband services to residential
subscribers
- Upon completion of the project, the network will be able to add
new customers and launch services faster and more efficiently
Beijing, China - Nokia and China Unicom are conducting a live
trial in China Unicom's commercial network using the Nokia
Virtualized Services Router (VSR). The trial involves more than
5,000 residential subscribers and allows China Unicom to simplify
and accelerate the delivery of residential broadband using a new,
agile and flexible network which is based on virtualized network
functions (VNFs). The initial trial is being carried out in the
province of Shandong and will expand to the other parts of the
country over the next two years as it evolves to the next phase,
which will include delivery of IPTV services.
China Unicom is adopting Software Defined Networking (SDN) and
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to enhance efficiency,
agility, openness and scaling capabilities to evolve to a
cloud-ready network. The successful trial of the industry-proven
Nokia VSR will increase operational efficiency and enable faster
creation and delivery of new services. The trial uses the Nokia VSR
as a next-generation, virtualized Broadband Network Gateway (BNG)
for residential subscriber management functions and advanced
service capabilities. As part of its initiative to transform its
metro service edge, China Unicom plans to migrate massive BNG
services to the virtualized platform to leverage the opportunities
of the cloud era.
Sri Reddy, head of IP Routing and Packet Core business at
Nokia, said: "We are proud to be a part of China Unicom's
initiative to evolve its metro edge to a cloud-centric
architecture. The Nokia VSR provides delivery of broad and rich
virtualized IP edge applications with superior performance and
enhanced scalability. Upon completion of this network
transformation project, China Unicom will ensure increased
operational efficiency and deliver a superior customer experience
for its subscribers."
Overview of the solution used for trial:
- Nokia field-proven VSR delivers high performance and
flexibility for x86 server environments. The vBNG functionality on
Nokia VSR is based on Nokia Service Router Operating System (SR
OS).
- Nokia VSR delivers rich BNG service functions which enhance the
end-user experience, and high throughput, which is two-to-four
times more than the industry average.
- In addition to BNG functions, the Nokia VSR is used to deliver
additional functions, such as Network Address Translation (NAT) -
to facilitate the migration to IPv6
Did you know?
- Nokia's virtualized portfolio was analyzed by the European
Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), an international group
known for vendor-neutral network performance testing. The results
showed that Nokia continues to lead in Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV), setting a new industry benchmark for
outstanding performance, scalability and resiliency.
Resources:
- Web page: Virtualized Service Router
- Brochure: Virtualized Broadband Network Gateway
- Press release: Telefonica deploys Nokia Virtualized Service
Router in live network
- Press release: China Unicom expands partnership with Nokia for
high capacity metro core routers to cover 10 provinces
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