Huawei Helps Personal Argentina to Open ICT Cloudification Transformation

[Barcelona, Spain. February 22, 2016] Argentine mobile operator Personal has recently announced that Huawei’s CloudEdge solution is the exclusive winner of its Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) project. The success of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based solution reflects the practical stage that mainstream operators of Latin America have progressed to during their ICT architecture transformation.

Personal Argentina, is a leader mobile communication company in Argentina and Paraguay, with more than 22 million customers. With the gradual maturity and commercial verification, Personal hopes to modernize the traditional packet core network deeply by introducing cloudified architecture based on NFV and explore the evolution road to the next generation network: more agile and more open.

Huawei’s CloudEdge solution features cloudified NFV-based architecture and is tailored to Personal’s every demand – commercial or technical. According to the introduction, the implementation of this project will bring the following key changes to the Personal network:

More open and simple architecture: Through using Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) servers, the network function is realized by software and the architecture is more open and simple.

More agile service: The Time to Market (TTM) will be reduced from several months to several days by one key installation. The capacity enables scale-out and scale-in, and it can reduce the cost of the operators further.

As leading communication solutions provider, Huawei is an active participant in NFV standards organizations and promotion of NFV maturation and commercialization. The recent Current Analysis survey ranked Huawei the best NFV & SDN solutions provider by the world's major telecom operators for two years running. Huawei has since built three open labs to develop multi-vendor integration validation capabilities, innovate our business with customers, partners, and industry organizations, and promote the construction of an open industry ecosystem.

Huawei’s CloudEdge solution has completed extensive global Proof of Concept (POC) testing. Huawei has performed outstandingly in the market, winning 17 commercial contracts in addition to the ones with Personal. In 2016, Huawei will continue to help operators build their own agile, open, and flexible Mobile Broadband (MBB) network, promoting the positive development of global mobile industry.