With the adoption of cloud technology, the firm needs robust monitoring tools to improve scalability while preserving service quality

To ensure that its subscribers receive the most reliable and highest quality mobile broadband experience during the transition to 5G, a global telecommunications service provider with more than 330m customers has upgraded its monitoring tools to the latest standards.

British multinational corporation Vodafone’s technological investment provides automated, real-time, end-to-end visibility of subscriber-level traffic across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. This improves overall network visibility while helping the firm to scale up its 5G network to deliver the quality of experience needed to compete for subscribers.

Specifically, the upgrade has four benefits for the firm:

  • Enables cost efficient monitoring at scale: Offloads and streamlines the management of real-time data flows to downstream systems
  • Adapts to new 5G technologies: Features network slice awareness and advanced correlation of 5G protocols across virtual and physical environments
  • Improves scalable orchestration: Uses Control and User Plane Separation methods for scalable orchestration across distributed 5G environments, enabling lower latency applications for a responsive experience
  • Enhanced 5G security:Offers robust security measures tailored for 5G networks, safeguarding infrastructure, and subscriber data

Said the firm’s Head of Digital & OSS, Simon Norton: “Vodafone is building scalable and innovative networks capable of managing more traffic, a larger number of services with greater complexity for business to consumer and business to business sectors,” which requires “automated and scalable visibility tools that are critical to improving the performance of our 5G network and… establish a future-proof, reliable, resilient, and secure network with highest possible end-user quality of experience.”

According to Recep Ozdag, Vice President and General Manager, Network Visibility Solutions, Keysight, the firm supplying the solution, the transition to 5G is reshaping the landscape for network operators like Vodafone, bringing unique challenges and opportunities. Such upgrades can enable operators to “dramatically reduce operational costs while ensuring the highest level of subscriber satisfaction in a secure robust 5G network.”