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volunteer movement brings together team members , retirees , families , friends , customers , and fellow citizens to give back and make positive impacts in our communities .
“ One brilliant example is the activity initiated by our team members to make the sea plastic-free . They spent hundreds of hours to make sure our sea stayed clean . Planting trees is another popular activity on our days of giving ,” he said .
“NETWORKS SOFTWARISATION IS THE ART OF SEPARATING THE LIFE CYCLE OF SOFTWARE PIECES THAT ARE USED TO CREATE NETWORK FUNCTIONS , PROTOCOLS , AND SERVICES FROM THE HARDWARE ”
ALI TIZGHADAM PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT / NETWORK SOFTWARISATION LEAD , TELUS
Power of partnerships Tizghadam highlighted the importance of partners like Juniper Networks and Red Hat who he says both align to the strategy at TELUS .
Tizghadam pointed out one of their recent partnership activities with Juniper Networks is centred around test automation , specifically regression and conformance testing , which saves TELUS money on these time-consuming tasks and greatly improves time to market .
“ We have leveraged Juniper ' s NITA product , based on an open source which is called Robot and we are currently finalising knowledge transfer and the first phase of deployment . In this initial phase , there has been a piece of development that is done for us to provide custom APIs that we have asked to be consumed within TINNA applications .”
Tizghadam outlined how Juniper Networks has helped TELUS overcome some of their business challenges , especially regression test automation - which can sometimes take three to six months .
“ Test regression and test conformance have been among major sources of operation expenses for us . With the emergence of software-defined networking , the automation of test cases also started to come around . Our partnership with Juniper is exactly in this domain , we leveraged the Juniper test automation suite to address part of our regression test issues by automation .”
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