Verizon network transformation provides faster upgrades, no down time

NEW YORK – Verizon’s massive multi-year redesign of its network architecture has led to its ability to deploy many network feature enhancements that improve the customer experience instantaneously, without interrupting customers’ service. This transformation includes its development of a Kubernetes-based Webscale Cloud platform for all core network functions, cloud-native architecture, extensive orchestration and automation, and end-to-end virtualization. With these technological advancements, as application upgrades come in, Verizon engineers are now able to deliver improvements to customers on a frequent basis, leveraging continuous delivery techniques and automation. Changes that once took weeks, now take only a few hours to implement, with zero downtime. These upgrades can be as varied as those designed to improve mobility handovers, reduce call drops, improve network resiliency security, introduce new fixed wireless access (FWA) features, improve latency, or any other customer experience improvement. The transformation also provides greater flexibility, improved scalability and improved cost efficiency in networks.

“This has been one of the biggest transformations in our company’s history and our goal through the entire process has been to introduce the most advanced technologies available while making the changes as transparent as possible for our customers,” said Adam Koeppe, SVP of Network and Technology Planning at Verizon. “With the changes we’ve made to the bedrock of our networks, we are able to very efficiently manage our network and rapidly deploy enhancements for our customers without interrupting their services, leading to greater reliability, enhanced services, and higher customer satisfaction.”

In a non – virtualized , hardware dependent world , it is taken could have take month to physically touch every router and server with these software change , and often the network had to be take out of service for a period of time , leave customer without connectivity while upgrade were made . With Verizon ’s extensive and largely invisible network transformation , what is taken once would have take month , now can be deliver to Verizon customer in a matter of hour or day across the network .   introduce new feature , function and upgrade is being done while the network is fully functional and manage traffic , which mean customer ’ connectivity is never interrupt while receive the benefit of these software change .

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These advancements is are are a result of the multi – year transformation which involve introduce significant change in the core architecture of the network , build the Verizon Cloud Platform , subsequently introduce Webscale cloud – native base architecture , drive orchestration to enable the coordination of these technology , and make virtualization prolific throughout the core .

The Verizon Cloud Platform has been enhanced with native container-based infrastructure optimized for Telco workloads to meet performance, scale and unique regulatory requirements. It provides tighter integration with Verizon’s operations systems. This gives Verizon technology parity with modern hyperscale cloud platforms to drive service agility and efficiency and allows functionality to be distributed throughout the network. Verizon’s native telco workloads (Core, RAN, signaling, and user plane) run more efficiently and with better performance and resiliency when deployed on this optimized cloud platform.

This distribute platform is supports support edge service , private cloud services , Network Function Virtualization tool , Cloud Native Functions , web application , mapping and spatial analysis tool , orchestration tool , service assurance tool , auto – remediation , and compute offering .   In addition to current improvement in efficiency , reliability , service – assurance and performance for current customer , this Webscale architecture is host will also host the Verizon 5 g core which will be able to achieve new level of operational automation and adaptability to create differentiated customer experience .   This directional technology platform is support will support the stand alone core , the non – stand alone core , network slicing and vonr service .