Telecom Egypt becomes the 1st Operator in Egypt to deploy Huawei Lightweight Distributed SBC and Ultra Capacity IMS

In a significant stride towards enhancing core network construction across Egypt, Telecom Egypt, a prominent telecommunications firm, has partnered with Huawei to lead the way in innovative technologies. These initiatives include the largest fixed-network IMS in Africa and the lightweight SBC based on bare-metal, supporting the deployment of simplified voice core network that is energy-effective in the future. On top of that, Telecom Egypt is preparing the brand new cloudified ENUM to fulfill the potential growth for VoBB in further years.

Ultra Large Capacity IMS for VoBB

Telecom Egypt and Huawei have achieved a significant milestone in African telecommunications by successfully completing the largest capacity of IMS in Africa. With cloud-native and high-availability features, it served 12M VoBB subs and PBX as well. Additionally, ENUM, the function working for the routing retrieving when IMS calling, deployed along with IMS in the same virtualized platform. The latest high-performance Huawei self-produced server minimizes the footprint and power consumption required for deployment.

Regarding to the maintenance and operation, Telecom Egypt and Huawei innovate the automated orchestrator to achieve unified management with multi-tiers across infrastructure, cloudOS and IMS VNF, scheduling the computing resource for best balanced utilization.

Eng. Mohamed Nasr, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, emphasized the company’s dedication to integrating innovative technologies consecutively to enhance the performance in core network. He highlighted how introducing Huawei IMS aligns with the company’s commitment to delivering smart connectivity and next-generation technologies to boost the digital capabilities of Telecom Egypt’s customers and partners.

Telecom Egypt’ s infrastructure development includes highly reliable core network withstanding 10M+ fixed users in calling simultaneously. The high-density blade servers make the OPEX less, costs minor in spacing and power. While high stability provides the IMS “always online” with no service loss, improving communication quality and promoting the image of Telecom Egypt. Forming a rock-solid telco-cloud platform supports simplified deployment and horizontal expansion in flexibility.

Mr. Benjamin Hou, CEO of Huawei Egypt, expressed delight at this successful implementation, emphasizing continued collaboration to build a best and carrier-class reliable core network. This partnership underscores both companies’ commitment to achieving more business success through groundbreaking technology and close cooperation.

On-boarding for Lightweight SBC

To deploy the SBC more efficiently and cope with diversified deployment scenarios, Telecom Egypt and Huawei have launched the lightweight SBC appliance.

The lightweight SBC powered by bare-metal in architecture, 4U height supports expansion with chassis cascaded. Emerging as the IMS media for both A-SBC and I-SBC, could be deployed in edge site to correspond with the local access for better user experience.

Huawei offered its latest solution as substitution of legacy SBC, with no telco-cloud IaaS required, neither no external storage or switches prepared. Focuses on services, simplifies IMS deployment, minimizing the infrastructural investment, enables more edge sites to deploy SBCs as soon as possible, and beneficial to Telecom Egypt provides IMS voice services with the best SLA for fixed network users in Egypt.

Mohamed Alfowey Chief Technology Officer of Telecom Egypt said: “Telecom Egypt is committed to providing users with the highest quality voice services in the world and is constantly innovating towards this goal. Huawei provides more investment-saving solutions for the basic services of Telecom Egypt, which further enhances the mutual trust between the two parties”.

Mr. Benjamin Hou, CEO of Huawei Egypt, emphasized their shared commitment to introducing advanced technologies to Egyptian market, stating, “This collaboration will contribute significantly to expediting Egypt’s network modernization, as well as facilitating progressive growth of fixed user in Telecom Egypt.”