Open Fiber Chooses Italtel for Network Automation

Milan (ots/PRNewswire) -

Italtel, operating in a temporary group of companies led by
Maticmind, has created a team of excellence for the highly innovative
project

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Italtel, alongside Maticmind, today announced it completed a
pioneering network automation project to automatically configure
network services for Open Fiber, the wholesale-only FTTH Italian
operator, which expects to reach around 19 million property units in
Italy with FTTH ultra-broadband in the upcoming years.

Open Fiber has chosen the innovative Cisco Network Services
Orchestrator (NSO) platform to automate and simplify its massive
operations and provide services in a faster and easier way through
network automation. The deployment will allow it to add, modify and
delete services automatically without interrupting the overall
service and will guarantee real-time activations.

Italtel, which was the first company in Italy to be certified on
Cisco NSO technology, designed Open Fiber IP Backbone and has been
playing an essential role in analyzing Open Fiber's needs, designing
network services and the related automation leveraging on the
programmable Cisco NSO platform. The platform operates on all network
layers, ranging from access to IP and Optical transport one.

"Open Fiber is now able to deliver wholesale services on a very
large scale, significantly reducing the time-to-market of new
services and minimizing the configuration errors," said Domenico
Angotti, Head of Engineering at Open Fiber. "Cisco's Network
Orchestrator greatly supports us for the end-to-end operation of the
equipment and the supervision of the activation cycles, allowing to
mainly focus our effort on developing innovative customer services,
thus increasing efficiency and reducing complexity and operating
costs. We are particularly satisfied with this and what has been
achieved with the valuable contribution of Italtel and Maticmind in
terms of professional competence, response and commitment to the
common objectives of the project."

The project of the network automation has developed automated
workflows that capture the work order from the Customer Relations
Manager (CRM) and activate it in a heterogeneous multi-vendor
network, consisting of FTTH access, IP and Optical Transport Network.

"For this project, which is particularly complex due to the
heterogeneity of the network, Italtel has drawn on its undisputed
strength, which is the ability to make different technologies
interact with each other," said Paolo Allegra, Head of
Product/Solution Unit Infrastructure Integration at Italtel. "We
have dedicated a specific task force to design the IP Backbone,
network services and automation activities on the innovative Cisco
NSO technology, of which we are certified providers."

The NSO-based network orchestration project is part of the broader
network automation program which, by using Software Defined Network
(SDN) and in the future NFV-MANO (Network Functions Virtualization
Management and Orchestration) paradigms, defines the infrastructure
of the virtualized network, which is managed by a special
orchestration platform (NFVO).

Open Fiber is the first wholesale operator in Italy - and one of
the few in the world - to use NSO throughout the chain of
configuration and activation of the service (CRM, Order Manager,
Resource Facing System, Network).

Italtel is a multinational company that operates in the ICT sector
with a strong focus on innovation. Together with Exprivia, which
recently acquired Italtel's controlling shareholding, it constitutes
a new large Italian ICT group that intends to be a leader in digital
transformation. More
(http://www.italtel.com/it/about/about-italtel/)

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