Telstra has also deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in Telstra’s commercial 5G network
Australian telco Telstra and Ericsson have deployed an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in Telstra’s commercial network using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory solutions.
In a release, the Swedish vendor noted that these capabilities enable Telstra to provide enterprise customers with new services that have the potential ability to deliver assured network characteristics such as throughput, latency and resilience required to support digitised operations and processes.
Telstra has also deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in Telstra’s commercial 5G network. The solution’s data localisation allows customers to take advantage of edge computing in virtual and hybrid 5G private network environments, according to the European vendor. Ericsson also said that the solution delivers efficient use of bandwidth, data security and low latency.
In order to pull together all of these 5G network capabilities and make them available to the enterprise, Cradlepoint has delivered its 5G enabled routers and adaptors powered by Cradlepoint Netcloud. Cradlepoint had been acquired by Ericsson in 2020.
“In the past it took a long time to deploy and scale new service constructs in our network. Now, with 5G’s service-based architecture combined with automation via network orchestration, we are able to work with our customers to imagine and deploy new differentiated services quickly and scale them economically. We have been working with Ericsson to bring these new innovations to our enterprise customers for several years and these latest World and Australian first capabilities are another example of this collaboration,” said Shailin Sehgal, executive of the product enablement technology unit at Telstra said.
Emilio Romeo, head of Ericsson, Australia and New Zealand, said: “Ericsson has developed its Orchestration and Local Packet Gateway solutions to help forward looking customers such as Telstra deliver sought-after enterprise services via automated network slicing and edge use cases. With many decades of close strategic partnership between Ericsson and Telstra, we are proud to have helped deliver these capabilities into Telstra’s commercial 5G network to achieve leading 5G service creation capabilities.”
Australian operator Telstra’s 5G network reached 77.5% of the country’s population as of the end of last year, the carrier’s CEO Andrew Penn previously said in a company’s earnings release.
Last year, the Australian carrier had secured 1000 megahertz of 26 GHz spectrum for mmWave 5G. Telstra already has mmWave sites live across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Goulburn and the Gold Coast.
The operator, which had launched 5G in May 2020, is currently using its spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band to provide 5G technology across Australia. Some of the cities in which Telstra offers its 5G service are Canberra, Central Coast, Brisbane, Sidney, Cairns, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Hamilton, Melbourne and Perth.
In May 2020, Telstra upgraded its 5G radio access network (RAN) coverage footprint across Australia, connecting a cloud-native 5G Core (5GC) network to handle new 5G standalone traffic. Telstra used equipment from Swedish vendor Ericsson for the network upgrade.
