TMF Best Adoption of Frameworx Award Given to Huawei for IES Catalyst Program
[Dallas, US, November 26, 2015] The Infrastructure Enabling System (IES) catalyst program themed "utilizing future mode of operations (FMOs) to establish a model-driven hybrid business orchestration," a joint innovation of Huawei and leading telcos won the Best Adoption of Frameworx award at TMF Catalyst InFocus, a digitization-oriented catalyst program congress held by the TM Forum. The TM Forum is a global industrial organization devoted to digital business transformation, which gives its Best Adoption of Frameworx award to the catalyst program team that most effectively utilizes Frameworx best practices or standards to develop solutions for carriers' business problems.
The development of digital business has resulted in a sharp increase in data traffic, but capacity has often not been distributed when and where it is most needed. Carriers have had to figure out how to optimize physical network utilization, maximize efficiency, and tailor software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to traffic requirements to decide the best approach and pace for the evolution from CT to IT.
The catalyst program performed verifications in scenarios where traffic burst in densely populated areas, with many data applications hugely impacting a network in a short period of time. With end-to-end business orchestration capabilities, the model-driven IES automatically gives priority to a physical network to bear most of the traffic, and schedules the rest of the traffic to a virtual network for load sharing when the physical network is fully utilized. Different from the manual traffic limiting and distribution methods conventionally adopted by carriers, the IES reduced traffic loss, effectively enhanced network resource utilization, enables business self-healing and self-optimization, and significantly improves user experience.
"By giving the Best Adoption of Frameworx award to the IES joint innovation program, the TM Forum recognized of Huawei's devotion to future-oriented OSS solutions, and of our full engagement with carrier practices. We're inspired to make more efforts," MV OSS General Manager Xia Wenxin said, "In an era of digital economy, Huawei will pay special attention to carrier requirements on the transformation to digital operation, increase innovation investment and commercial deployment practices, and develop IES into a real-time and autonomous system. This will support carrier transformation in new industrial situations with real-time, automatic, smart, and open capabilities, and provide higher-quality services to customers."
The TMF catalyst program is devoted to facilitating cooperation among major carriers and vendors in key technologies in the digital era, such as digital operations, the Internet of Things, smart city, customer experience, and big data analysis. The program verifies solutions addressing carriers' urgent problems in business, operations and IT.
