Juniper : Telco Cloud

A Telco cloud is:

                  

Automated—Built as a series of virtualized objects, a Telco cloud is automated and

orchestrated to deliver network functions and capacity on demand. Rather than

the typical three-plus months required to order, install, and configure a traditional

network appliance, a Telco cloud can instantiate virtualized network elements on

industry-standard, carrier-grade compute platforms in a matter of minutes.

Scalable—A Telco cloud supports scale-up with some of the highest performance

routing and switching platforms available today, seamlessly combined with virtualized

network scalability that leverages cloud principles of scale-up/scale-out to adaptively

deliver capacity on demand. A Telco cloud can also scale down by employing smaller,

often virtualized network objects that can be pushed closer to the subscriber edge to

improve network responsiveness and deliver an improved customer experience.

Flexible—Traditionally, installing a new network function—particularly to generate

new revenues—faced a restrictive CapEx/OpEx/time hurdle, limiting new functionality.

With a Telco cloud, the network itself becomes a flexible service creation platform

that enables new capabilities to be instantiated as virtual objects into the network

with cloud network automation—all of which can be evaluated in a matter of minutes

and at a fraction of the cost and complexity of previous manual methods.