
A telco cloud digital service orchestration and management solution for unified mobile network operations and automation.
Vendor
Affirmed Networks
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UnityCloud Operations (UC Ops) is a comprehensive, full-stack solution designed for digital service orchestration and management within telco cloud environments. It offers a unified approach to operating mobile networks, incorporating modular capabilities for application monetization, vendor-agnostic automation, multi-domain operations, detailed observability, and cloud management. At its core, UC Ops focuses on service orchestration, management, and observability, enhanced by Big Data analytics, business intelligence, and a complete suite of CI/CD/CT tools to enable robust DevOps practices. This solution empowers operators to significantly simplify the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) of Any G network functions, irrespective of the underlying infrastructure. It supports multi-vendor environments, providing end-to-end visibility, dynamic service creation, and the monetization of new use cases to accelerate digital transformation. UC Ops aims to improve customer experience by reducing churn through industry-leading performance, ensure service reliability for critical use cases, and accelerate service velocity by enabling rapid deployment of new offerings. Key use cases include multicloud resource management, multivendor service automation for zero-touch operations, simplification of 5G and network edge evolution, and monetization of 5G services. The platform's functional overview includes an Application Catalog, Automation, Management & Observation tools, Cloud Optimization, DevOps & CI/CD/CT capabilities, and Analytics & BI. For 5G monetization, it allows rapid deployment of new service offerings and monetization of trending use cases through service activation, subscriber management, and network slicing. Benefits include reduced service complexity through a common platform, optimized edge deployment with a lightweight architecture, cloud-native design for public, private, or hybrid infrastructures, modern software delivery with automated integration and testing, 5G service automation for best-of-breed end-to-end stacks, and advanced observability for complete visibility down to the packet level. The underlying technologies include an Orchestrator for distributed automation, a Designer for model-based service creation, a Controller for network function lifecycle management, an Inventory & Portal for unified access, the UnityCloud Platform for event, metric, and trace management, and a CI/CD/CT pipeline for continuous integration, delivery, and testing.
Features & Benefits
- Unified Digital Service Orchestration: Provides a common platform for service orchestration, automation, and management across multi-domain and multi-vendor solutions, simplifying operations.
- Vendor-Agnostic Automation: Enables zero-touch automation of any network function across multi-vendor offerings.
- Advanced Observability: Offers complete visibility beyond traditional metrics, including subscriber trace data and native probe support for packet-level analysis.
- DevOps & CI/CD/CT Enablement: Leverages Big Data analytics, BI, and a comprehensive suite of tools to enable true DevOps capabilities for modern software delivery.
- 5G Monetization & Network Edge Evolution: Facilitates rapid deployment of 5G services, monetization of new use cases, and simplification of migration to next-generation network edge and mobile core technologies.