TORONTO — Indian telecom service provider Vodafone Idea Ltd. (VIL) is piloting Toronto-based Optiva’s cloud-native Charging Engine solution on VIL’s Universal Cloud, making it the first telecom to deploy a data charging solution with cloud-native architecture, according to the news release.
“We are shifting 100% of our IT application stack onto the VIL Universal Cloud, the industry’s largest private cloud deployment,” said Vishant Vora, chief technology officer at VIL India, in the news release. “We chose Optiva’s cloud-native charging solution as one of the first applications to be hosted on the VIL Universal Cloud for the efficiencies it provides.”
The Optiva Charging Engine pilot on VIL’s Universal Cloud will cater to more than four million live subscribers and serve up more than 1,000 transaction units per second (TPS) traffic for online data charging, the news release says. Over the next several months, VIL will monitor the mission-critical business support system (BSS) application on its Universal private cloud. The pilot is designed as a two-step process: first on a Kubernetes-enabled VIL Universal private cloud that can be expanded to deploy across India, and then as an option for the future, the second step will be to deploy on a public cloud platform, the news release says. Kubernetes is an open source system for automating the deployment, management and scaling of containerized applications.
“VIL’s decision to move the IT infrastructure of one of the largest telcos in the world to the cloud is visionary. When we started this project, VIL was the first to see the advantage of moving this enterprise workload to the cloud,” said Danielle Royston, CEO of Optiva, in the release. “Our teams have collaborated flawlessly to execute and migrate to cloud-native technology while ensuring business continuity for one of the world’s largest customer bases. We are excited to continue our momentum to the cloud, potentially driving cost savings to Vodafone Idea.”
