Telecom Argentina wins “Best Voice Virtualized Network” Award

[Amsterdam, Netherland, October 18, 2017] At the LTE Voice Summit 2017 in Amsterdam, Telecom Argentina was awarded “Best Voice Virtualized network” with its leading cloud core network. The award points to the recognition within the industry of Telecom Argentina’s innovation and practice in network virtualization.

Telecom Argentina representative (right) received the “Best Voice Virtualized Network” award

Telecom Argentina is the largest telecommunications provider for over 20 million subscribers in Latin America. In 2015, Telecom Argentina chose Huawei as its strategic partner to cloudify its traditional network and aims to use NFV technology to provide the best user experience, to improve O&M efficiency and shorten TTM. This collaboration project started in March 2016, and services were smoothly migrated to the cloud-based network. Now, the new cloud core network enables 20 million subscribers to enjoy cloud-based 2G, 3G, and 4G voice and data services which is the largest cloud core network over the globe. With the launch of cloud-based core network, Telecom Argentina has become the network transformation pioneer in Latin America. Empowered with advanced cloud technologies, Telecom Argentina provides diversified services to subscribers more efficiently. The DC-oriented infrastructure unleashes the potential in service innovation, helps Telecom Argentina gain a strategic advantage in a high competitive market, and lays the foundation for 5G development.

“With the cooperation of Huawei, Telecom Argentina has accomplished the aim of having its new Virtualized Mobile Core Network with the IMS included. This development started with an extensive discussion about NFV, went then throughout a proactive network PoC verification and finished at the end with the deployment of new data centers spread across the country and created in order to support the functionalities of three Control Plane points and eight User Plane points. The success is a consequence of Huawei´s leading technology and experience as well as of all efforts of the combined team. Comparing to legacy network, the new Virtualized Core has demonstrated improvements for both: resource utilization and O&M efficiency. It is working appropriately, and the end-user experience is exceeding the expectations. Based on high efficiency and agile cloud core networks technology provided by Huawei, Telecom Argentina, will be able to develop new and better services for customers, such as enterprise communication services and IOT operability among others.” Said Nestor Bergero, CTO at Telecom Argentina.