Juniper strikes deal to aid British Telecommunications' 5G network cloud roll-out

Juniper Networks has been chosen by British Telecommunications (BT) to deliver its Network Cloud infrastructure initiative. This deployment is believed to pave the way for BT’s Network Cloud roll-out - and also enable a more flexible, virtualized network infrastructure that can deliver the technology requirements of various lines of business for BT from a single platform.

BT is also expected to use Juniper's platform to create new and exciting converged services bringing mobile, Wi-Fi, and fixed network services together. Furthermore, with the implementation of the Network Cloud infrastructure, BT will be able to combine a range of currently discrete network functions and deploy them on a cloud infrastructure that is built to a common framework and shared across the organization, throughout the UK and globally.

These include services across BT’s voice, mobile core and radio/access, global services, ISP, TV and IT services, as well as a host of internal applications, thereby cutting operational expenditure and significantly simplifying operations throughout the organization.

This project will enable BT to implement a range of new applications and workloads and evolve the majority of its current ones including:

• Converged fixed and mobile services rollout to consumers and businesses.
• Faster time-to-market for network services ranging from internet access delivery to TV and business network functions
• Improved voice and video delivery and scalability.

To accomplish the evolution toward a more agile, virtualized network, BT is investing in a range of Juniper solutions across various tenants within the BT network, including:

• Dynamic end-to-end networking policy and control for telco cloud workloads using Contrail Networking
• Cloud operations management using AppFormix
• Highly scalable and flexible spine and leaf underlay fabric using the QFX Series