Cloud & Virtualisation

Palestine Islamic Bank (PIB), the largest Islamic bank in Palestine, has chosen cloud-native, cloud-agnostic Temenos Infinity and Temenos T24 Transact to transform its banking systems and drive its digital transformation.

Nokia's 5G-ready AirScale Cloud RAN solution and controllers have been successfully deployed by Telenor Pakistan.

Versa Networks and BringCom Incorporated are deploying a joint solution to deliver Versa’s best-in-class SD-WAN capabilities to BringCom’s telecom managed service providers and SaaS platform operators in East and West Africa.

Huawei has selected Zain Group as a strategic partner in deploying its cloud services in Kuwait and across the Middle East and North Africa region.

Megaport and Orixcom have partnered to enable enterprises and carriers with facilities in the Middle East with direct access to leading Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

Israeli data security firm C-Data has selected CloudBlue’s digital commerce platform for its cloud services division.

Indian operator Idea Cellular is deploying Nokia’s cloud-native core technology in the country’s capital Delhi as it takes steps towards digitalisation to meet increasing data demand and mobile broadband growth.

Ukrainian operator lifecell has deployed the country’s first virtualised LTE core network, allowing it to deliver various next-generation mobile services.

Filipino operator Globe Telecom has partnered with Nuage Networks from Nokia to provide a nationwide SD-WAN service to both large enterprise customers and SMBs.

Nokia and China Mobile have signed an MoU to investigate the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to optimise future networks and enable the delivery of new Edge Cloud and 5G services.

Nokia and Vodafone Qatar are modernising Vodafone Qatar's core network using Nokia virtualised applications to meet growing high-quality voice and data demands of customers living in and visiting Qatar.

Vodafone India has deployed Nokia's cloud packet core to provide faster mobile broadband and enhance the scale and agility of its network for launching new services.

Jasco is working with Avaya to market and sell cloud-based communications solutions to businesses in Africa, focusing strongly on the Kenyan market.

Etisalat has selected NEC/Netcracker as the prime solution provider for its multivendor telecom cloud program.

Etisalat has implemented NEC/Netcracker's full-stack Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solution for the deployment of its residential virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE).

PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) has chosen the Nokia Cloud Packet Core solution to help meet rapid data growth in the Indonesian market.

Chilean market leader Telefónica Chile has selected Ericsson to virtualise its core network.

Angola Cables has become a Microsoft ExpressRoute partner to meet the needs of Africa-based organisations migrating business applications and IT infrastructures to the cloud and accelerating digital transformation on the continent.

Zain Iraq is upgrading its existing network using Ericsson’s virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) offering to meet the growing data demands of its customers in the region.

Orange Poland has implemented virtualised versions of Openet’s Policy Manager and Evolved Charging solutions.

Latin American telecoms provider Grupo Gtd has selected Netcracker solutions to enable its large-scale IT consolidation, transformation and network virtualisation program.

Nepal’s Ncell Axiata is increasing its collaboration efforts with Chinese vendor ZTE in the field of network virtualisation.

Tata Communications has launched three new nodes for its IZO Private Cloud service to support enterprises’ hybrid cloud adoption while ensuring regulatory compliance.

T-Systems and Huawei are bringing Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) to South Africa.

Carrier-neutral data centre and connectivity platform datamena has partnered with Epsilon to deploy the latter’s Infiny on-demand connectivity platform.

Omantel is partnering with Console Connect, marking the global direct connect solutions provider’s first Middle Eastern network partnership.

NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology have been selected by Globe Telecom to support its digital transformation initiative and lay the foundation for next-generation infrastructure, including virtualisation.

Microsoft East Africa and Liquid Telecom have joined forces to improve and accelerate the use of cloud services across Africa.

Fixed-line operator Hutchison Global Communications and PT Centrin Online Prima are launching a new cloud service in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has tapped Viptela and Inbox Business Technologies to deploy software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) infrastructures in Pakistan.

South African firm Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is deploying Ciena’s Blue Planet orchestration software to automate the delivery of Ethernet services across its multi-vendor network.