Technology Magazine May 2020 | Page 145

be able to provision capacity on their network overseas dynamically via this capability as well .”
The third step is self-healing delivered through closed loop automation . This step will implement dynamic resolution of faults in the network or infrastructure by re-provisioning services then those faults occur . “ If you can provision new services with intent , then you can reprogram those services with intent when a fault condition occurs , a little like what happens today inside Data Centres when a server fault occurs , there the system automatically redesigns all of the workloads without the customers application knowing .

“ Nokia is a key partner of ours on our intercapital transmission network ”

— Vic McClelland , CTO , Vocus Group
“ Once we implement this step the Future State Platform can redesign the customers solution on the fly to meet customers requested SLAs and automatically fix problems ,” McClelland continues . “ To truly deliver fundamental changes in customer experience , telcos like us need to implement digitalization endto-end through the stack . So , that ’ s what we ’ ll be doing . We ’ ll be moving from a digital front end with manual steps in the back-end to a fully automated end-to-end digital stack .”
“ We have selected DGIT Systems to provide our Future State Ordering , Product Catalogue and Billing systems and Ciena Blue Planet orchestration platform to perform our infrastructure orchestration capability .”
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