Carrier grade Telco-Cloud

The Telco service providers business is undergoing a fundamental shift, and operators are transforming their network to meet new business challenges. Biggest focus area for Telco Cloud is rapid time to market (TTM) for new services and reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO). Telco service providers are facing challenges from web and content providers because of agility and convergence of voice and data. Telco Cloud is transformation of traditional wireline, wireless, voice, text, data, and web etc. services to common compute cloud infrastructures. Cloud infrastructures can be set-up on-premise, off-premise or hybrid based upon service level agreements (SLA), security and maturity of services. Key component of Telco Cloud is IP Multimedia System (IMS) which provides convergence of voice, data, video, multimedia messaging etc. Designing and developing Telco Cloud, which meets criteria of “carrier grade”, is very important to gain confidence and comfort level of different stakeholders. This paper discusses design and deployment criteria for building high quality Telco Cloud.