TELUS
“ WE HAVE AN IMPRESSIVELY LARGE FIBRE FOOTPRINT WHICH ENABLES US TO PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY HIGHWAYS FOR CUSTOMERS ”
ALI TIZGHADAM PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT / NETWORK SOFTWARISATION LEAD , TELUS
Commenting on TELUS strategic partnership with Red Hat , Tizghadam said they are one of the strongest providers of supported open source software particularly in cloudification .
“ Red Hat OpenStack edition has been the main operating system for our NFV on-premise infrastructure from the inception in 2016 and Red Hat OpenShift has also been extensively used within our infrastructure to provide part of containeras-a-service solutions for our tenants .”
Focus on an agile future TELUS is focused on delivering more products to help achieve their dream of connected society and connected citizens .
“ We will continue strengthening our 5G-oriented portfolio of services from a customers ' perspective and will invest on smart city initiatives , and IoT platforms . Internally , we derive more network softwarisation strategy with focus on leveraging learning-based techniques to move step-by-step towards realising the dream of having a self-driving network , and we try to get closer to becoming a platformoriented company with highest emphasis on reliability . This requires a detailed technology evolution roadmap . It will also require some culture changes along the way . For example , we have started to change our development practises towards adopting agile methodologies and from three years ago we focused more on embracing DevOps models for practises in this cultural journey .
“ We have faced challenges and opportunities that we will try to take advantage of . Agile is an adjective and requires the name qualifier , but for a long time we have been just using the term agile without any qualifier . The result is that we have focused more on the things that are between the common denominators of all agile methodologies for example , sprint planning ; this was necessary , but not sufficient . We should take this to the next level and introduce more focused changes for areas like agile software development , and agile capacity planning .
“ During the next 18 months we will continue to evolve based on the strategy of becoming a platform-oriented service provider and enable the creation of over-the-top applications and services . We will also continue contributing to standard bodies to make sure in next steps of evolution our view is heard more globally .”
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