stc and Cisco announce that stc is expanding the use of cloud at an accelerated pace to maintain its competitive edge, foster innovation, and transform interactions with digital services. As stc continues its cloud journey, it is building on the current foundation for greater agility, security, efficiency, and innovation.
The collaboration with Cisco will be a key component to stc realising their ambitions for the 5G future. By pursuing a cloud-first approach and transforming their stacks into cloud-native architecture using the Cisco cloud platform, Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, full automation suite, and DevOps Digital pipeline, stc will be able to offer high quality and better telco applications while reducing the time to roll out new services. In addition, stc will be able to quickly integrate cloud-based apps and features targeted to specific customer segments.
stc’s cloud platform provides the automation for the virtual environment with management and operations capabilities to provide a complete yet open and vendor-agnostic platform backed by proven system integration capabilities and expertise in the telco market and poses higher requirements on platform efficiency, operation agility, and SLA reliability.
In the first phase, Cisco built the Telco Cloud infrastructure across stc datacentres to enable the delivery of telco services from a consistent horizontal platform, supporting an array of software and critical network applications.
This was designed to increase the speed of software upgrades and releases and automate processes through embedded features in the Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure, NFVI layer with key characteristics, including the efficient automation of CI, CD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery pipeline and automated lifecycle management operations of cloud-native functions over a managed software defined infrastructure.
Cisco CX played a central role start to finish, from providing architectural ownership and overall integration of the solution, to solution testing, delivery, and workload deployment, driving innovation in CI, CD-driven automated onboarding and providing a next generation assurance framework.
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