INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
Nokia prepares Ooredoo
Tunisia for 5G with cloud
mobile core project
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This will lead to the significant improvement
of phone calls, as they move from 2G/3G
networks to 4G, and eventually 5G.
The Nokia solution deployed as part of this
agreement by Ooredoo Tunisia include:
• Nokia AirGile cloud-native core, which
includes VoLTE and Packet Core products
• Nokia’s engineered Network Function
Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI), built
using Nokia AirFrame cloud infrastructure,
Nokia CloudBand cloud management
and orchestration stack
• Nokia Nuage Networks’ software-defined
networking (SDN)
Ooredoo Tunisia will
deploy the Nokia
AirGile cloud-native
core and services
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okia has announced that Ooredoo
Tunisia will deploy the Nokia AirGile
cloud-native core and services to
power its current 2G/3G/4G network in order
to prepare for the transition to 5G.
Ooredoo Tunisia has 8.8 million subscribers
and a 40% market share. Data use,
excluding voice-only subscribers, has more
than doubled over the last four years and is
expected to triple by 2025 – driven largely by
smartphone adoption and video usage, with
a fivefold increase since 2015.
The new virtualised core infrastructure will
harness the scalability, automation and agility
afforded with cloud-native network solutions
to reduce operational costs, boost the
responsiveness of the network to escalating
data and video demand, and speed the
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development of new services for the Tunisian
consumer and enterprise markets. The
cloud-native mobile core will make services
more affordable and responsive to demand,
in terms of both capacity and bringing
innovative services to subscribers faster.
As a part of Nokia’s end-to-end 5G offering,
Nokia’s cloud-native core solution is
essential to running a 5G network and can
be deployed in 4G networks today. The
cloudification network elements allow rapid
scaling in real-time to meet immediate
capacity demands for consumers and
enterprises, including time-sensitive services
for enterprise automation or support for
industrial Internet of things (IIoT) sensors
and devices, as well as innovative voice
services, such as voice over LTE (VoLTE) and
voice over broadband (VoBB).
Hatem Mestiri, CTO for Ooredoo Tunisia,
said: “Deploying the cloud-native mobile
core from Nokia is about preparing Ooredoo
to meet future customer demands.
“It will enable us to be more agile in our
response to their needs for everything
from video capacity to VoLTE services. And
it will enable us to offer them advanced
5G services such as support for industrial
automation and IoT as these exciting
technologies come to the Tunisian market.”
Pierre Chaume, Head of the North and
West Africa Market Unit at Nokia, added:
“Ooredoo Tunisia is a pioneer in North
Africa in moving its core network to the
cloud. It will streamline and automate its
operations, enable Ooredoo to use software
development to speed new services to
market, and make it far more responsive to
the needs of its consumer and enterprise
customers. By also preparing for the
transition to 5G, the steps that Ooredoo
Tunisia is taking to modernize its network
will ensure that it continues to lead in
the delivery of advanced services to the
Tunisian market.” n
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