Microsoft shows the approach of the construction of "Cloud of Communication Business Grade" -zdnet Japan
Microsoft revealed a strategy on September 28 to make Azure an attractive service for telecommunications business partners.The company explains more details about the Azure for Operators strategy.
Some industry watchers have begun to assume that Microsoft has announced the acquisition of two 5G -related companies (Metaswitch Networks and Affirmed Networks), and has begun to think that the company may be aiming to become a telecommunications business.board.
But Shawn Hakl, a partner of Azure Networking, says.
"We are trying to make destructive reforms in telecommunications carriers, and we are not trying to enter the business," said HAKL.He said in a recent phone interview that the acquisition of Metaswitch and Affirmed Networks was the main aim of acquiring solution architects to build a cloud of telecommunications carriers.
HAKL added, "What we have emphasized as a company. We are a platform company in the future.""We want to make Azure a recommended vendor for companies that require cloud workloads. How to handle the highly dispersed workloads needed by companies such as telecommunications companies.Having Azure as a common platform layer is extremely important in controlling management, DevOps, security, and orchestration. "
(Until he joined Microsoft in March 2020, he was a senior vise president in Verizon).
Microsoft already has many major telecommunications businesses as a partner.The telecommunications industry is also one of the major targets of the company.The company seems to have launched the Azure for Operators division as part of a recent reorganization.This is to strengthen support for new opportunities, such as 5G, virtual networking, and intelligent edges, along with technology such as "Azure Edge Zones".
The announcement of this day explains in detail how Microsoft is aiming for the market segment.According to the explanation, the company's hybrid approaches use it to reduce the cost of infrastructure and differentiate services.The company states that it will provide further support while evolving infrastructure and operations using technologies such as software definition networks (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), service -based architecture (NFV).
According to HAKL, communication operators use Microsoft services in three main forms.The three of them are Microsoft's career -grade clouds as platform layers, and on top of them, we procure VNF (virtual network function) and CNF (container network function) from Microsoft, and then on top of it.Operating your own network and purchasing various services from Microsoft.On top of that, telecommunications carriers will decide what services to customers as packages and what prices to cost.
これまでに、Vodafone、T-Mobile、Verizon Business、Deutsche Telekom、Telefonica、AT&T、Telstra、NTTなどがMicrosoftの通信事業者パートナー、顧客となっている。
This article edited an article from overseas CBS Interactive by Asahi Interactive for Japan.
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