Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 55

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// the traditional BRAS, such as low resource utilisation, slow service provisioning and complicated O&M. ZTE launched the carrier- grade vBRAS, which echoes China Mobile’s proposal of innovative vBRAS based on C/U separated architecture. The Best New Edge and Access Solution Award went to ZTE CO Re-Architecting. To help operators utilise their prior investment www.intelligentcio.com by reusing the existing CO and equipment resources, ZTE proposed the CO Re- Architecting solution to reactivate the resources to meet the future 5G service requirements. ZTE CO Re-Architecting solution covers the three key elements of edge CO re-architecting, end-to-end dynamic service orchestration and CUPS- based vBRAS deployment. The solution can help operators save the network resource FEATURE: SDN by 40 to 60% while shortening the service provisioning time, significantly improving the O&M efficiency. ZTE cooperates with global major telcos and actively participates in standards organisations and open source communities, such as ETSI, 3GPP, ONAP, OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and CNCF, to jointly build up an open and win-win industrial ecosystem. n INTELLIGENTCIO 55