GEC NEWS WIREEtisalat Group has launched a joint White Paper entitled “From Pipelines to Clouds – Etisalat`s Playbook” with Deloitte and Huawei that intends to share our lessons learned and our point of view on the road towards a cloud-native Telco, ultimately making a contribution to the telecommunication industry, as well as to indicate how all these technologies combined can elevate a Telcos’ capabilities to revamp their business.
The launch of the White Paper “From Pipelines to Clouds – Etisalat`s Playbook” is part of a collaboration made amongst the three companies for a joint innovation program focused around a playbook to how implement multiple exponential technologies that constitute a Digital Transformation journey through a technology perspective. The companies believe that a future Telco Cloud will require a different telecom networks` infrastructure and system architecture to address customers’ digital needs in order to deliver intelligent, quicker, more reliable value-added services.
Hatem Bamatraf, CTO at Etisalat Group said: “This new, opportunity-rich landscape calls for collaboration with diverse industry players focusing on open and agile operating and organizational models. Those who have yet to start this journey, must start now and respond boldly with the right strategy!”
“Network transformation should be considered as an opportunity to deploy an experience oriented agile network and operating model rather than an imperative compulsion to address short-term business challenges” says Peng Xiongji, President Etisalat Key Account Huawei Technologies.
“At Deloitte we believe that digital transformation is not only about technology, deep transformations might happen in Telcos at multiple dimensions in order to revamp their business.” says Pedro Tavares, Partner, Deloitte Portugal, and Leader of the Engineering Centre of Excellence (CoE).
The White Paper underlines the vision of Etisalat Group to harness its technological vision and key industry advances to provide innovative premium and differentiated service experiences for customers. The adaption of new architecture and processes outlined in White Paper will enable Etisalat Group to devise a practical road-map for the adaption of SDN and NFV technologies in addition to cutting edge techs such as MEC, AI, Machine Learning, 5G and so on.
