Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, in cooperation with Huawei, has finalized a large core network consolidation project in Jakarta, to further propel the operator's efforts towards the advancement of its mobile communication technologies. With a massive scale of over 100 million users and 26 core locations across Indonesia, the consolidation and transformation project took a time period of 14 months to complete.
The project is touted to significantly improve network experience for Indosat’s users across Indonesia, especially those living in rural and remote areas. Residents of Kalimantan will enjoy a faster average downlink speed by 15% while the average round trip time (RTT) will be reduced by 11% for Facebook usage.
Both Indosat and Huawei teams worked around the clock to conduct thorough analysis and reviews to determine corresponding solutions for the network consolidation project that had to adhere to “the first-time-right” philosophy.
By adopting telco cloud-native technology, Indosat and Huawei have commercialized both bare metal container and innovative dual-engine container solution, which supports large-scale commercial use of 5G core networks. The dual-engine container solution leverages cutting-edge technologies to manage both virtual machines (VMs) and containers in a unified infrastructure platform, that enables Indosat to seamlessly introduce containers through capacity expansion, significantly reducing the time needed for service rollout and reducing the time-to-market (TTM).
Desmond Cheung, Director and Chief Technology Officer, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison
We’re humbled to create another benchmark for the telecommunications industry. The core network consolidation project is a testament to our commitment to delivering a world-class digital experience to our customers. With the completion of this initiative, we believe we can consistently deliver a marvelous experience to our customers while paving the way towards our mission of connecting and empowering every Indonesian.
George Gao, President, Cloud Core Network Product Line, Huawei
Thanks to our close and in-depth cooperation, we are very pleased to witness a great achievement in completing such a large-scale and complex network consolidation in a short period of time. Huawei will continuously support Indosat to enhance network connectivity, accelerate service innovation, and create industry value in digital transformation, achieving greater business success.