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Unleashing the power of cloud-network

convergence with smart operation system


W A NG GU I RO NG , M AN A G IN G DI R E CT O R OF T H E T E CH NO LOG Y I NN OV A TI ON
D E P A R TM E NT , C HI N A T EL EC OM

The new generation of digital information infrastructure is the


foundation supporting the development of the digital economy,
which determines the height, breadth, and depth of the digital
world.
Cloud-network convergence is the essential feature of new digital information
infrastructure. It breaks the boundary between cloud and network, and
promotes them from independent development to comprehensive integration.
The cloud-network operation system is an important part of the cloud-
network convergence architecture, and it is also the key to unlocking the value
of cloud-network convergence. China Telecom was an industry leader when it
came to promoting the concept of cloud-network convergence and actively
developed it, and it strives to build a cloud-based, decoupled, integrated,
automatic and intelligent new-generation cloud-network operation system.
China Telecom pays great attention to the technical research, and
continuously optimizes cloud-network intelligent and agile operation
capabilities. China Telecom continuously enhances the end-to-end intelligence
level of cloud and network operation to ensure customer experience.

The value of smart operation system for cloud-network convergence


The cloud-network operation system is a system for unified control, operation
and management of cloud and network resources. It can shield the difference
of underlying hardware between cloud and network, and abstract the unified
capabilities and services to support the real-time, on-demand, and dynamic
deployment of business system. Smart refers to the self-adaptation, self-
learning, self-correction, and self-optimization of cloud-network convergence
through the application of big data, AI and other technologies.

The smart cloud-network operation system is the key to release the value of
cloud-network convergence, and enable the digital transformation and
upgrading of industry activities. First, the smart cloud-network operation
system manages and dispatches the basic resources of the cloud and network,

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and supports the digital platforms of various industries. It is the key to realize
the integrated supply, integrated operation and integrated service of digital
information infrastructure. Secondly, the smart cloud-network operation
system helps operators simplify the service deployment, enhances the
network's self-service, self-provisioning, and self-assurance capabilities, and
provides customers in vertical industries with a zero-waiting, zero-contact,
and zero-fault experience. In a true sense, "leaving complexity to suppliers
and bringing simplicity to customers".

Key feature and development trends of smart operation system


The smart cloud-network operation system includes the following key
technologies: The first is cloud and network orchestration technology,
focusing on building cloud and network integrated resource and service
scheduling capabilities, and building flexible design and orchestration of
capabilities in a large-scale heterogeneous cloud and network environment. It
can support the dynamic arrangement and scheduling of various computing
ability and network resources. The second is cloud-network digital twins
capability, focusing on digital twins such as multi-modal cloud-network
dynamic perception, intelligent autonomous processing of physical
differences, digital characterization of all elements of “cloud-network
security”, and the dynamic evolution of cloud-network digital twins. The third
is the self-controllable intention autonomy capability, which aims to tackle
key technologies such as cloud network and future network multi-scenario
business intention analysis, cross-domain and cross-professional end-to-end
cloud network operation, and heterogeneous multi-vendor network element
intention execution.

China Telecom’s best practice in smart operation system


China Telecom is actively building a smart cloud-network operation system.
At present, it has the basic cloud and network resource management
capability. It has realized end-to-end automatic service provisioning, and has
increased the service efficiency by 4 times. The order delivery success rate is
in the top level. At the same time, key technologies such as AI-based business
automation deployment and digital twins are applied to cloud-based 5GC, in
order to realize the automation of the whole process of 5G network slicing
deployment, order acceptance and provisioning. The deployment time was
decreased from one month to several hours. China Telecom has upgraded the
network smart level from L2.1 to L3.0 according to the TM Forum standard. In
2022, China Telecom plans to further promote the online design,

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orchestration, and full service of the entire network, realizing the
comprehensive integration of cloud and network data, and the visibility. It will
greatly improve the level of end-to-end automation.

Conclusion
We hope that under the organization of TM Forum, international operators
will take cloudification, decoupling, integration, automation, and intelligence
as the target characteristics, and comprehensively cooperate to promote the
development of the smart cloud-network operation system, and truly realize
the value of cloud and network infrastructure in the wave of digital
transformation and upgrading.

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