QUEBEC CITY — Telecom testing, monitoring and analytics solution provider EXFO Inc. announced today what it calls a “groundbreaking solution”, in collaboration with Intel, that enables 5G network operators to identify and correlate service degradation issues.
“This solution supports automation for cloud specific assurance regardless of whether faults originate in the network, service layers, or in the cloud-native network infrastructure,” explains a press release.
EXFO’s full-stack assurance solution “utilizes platform observability by Intel alongside EXFO’s existing adaptive service assurance (ASA) platform to close the visibility gap among cloud-native infrastructure and the network and service layers. In doing so, it provides complete visibility across the entire operational span of operator networks,” the release says.
“The solution enables operators to assess the operational state of the underpinning cloud-native infrastructure from the chip-level up, allowing faults to be isolated or correlated across all network domains. Together, the EXFO and Intel technology speeds up the time to resolution and eliminates domain-specific fault denial.”
The solution leverages Intel Xeon scalable processors, with built-in AI and NFV (network functions virtualization) accelerators, and Intel Platform Telemetry Insights, which “provide a granular view into the cloud-native infrastructure operations,” the release explains.
“It enables operators to ‘see’ right into the heart of the foundational platform infrastructure and assess operational metrics, including health, utilization, congestion, power consumption and configuration checks. By adopting CNCF’s OpenTelemetry project, Intel provides a standard implementation for the industry to benefit from infrastructure observability.”
“Network virtualization is an evolutionary path that began in 4G and is now firmly established in 5G. But managing service level agreements across virtual and physical domains is significantly more challenging, especially when the infrastructure is not always owned by the operator,” said Philippe Morin, EXFO’s CEO, in the press release.
“As part of our adaptive service assurance platform, EXFO’s full-stack assurance solution ensures that operators can detect, correlate and resolve faults wherever they originate, significantly reducing time to resolution,” Morin said.
“While service assurance in mobile networks is relatively well understood, the added dimension of cloud-native infrastructure provides a new challenge for most operators,” said Alex Quach, vice-president and general manager of Intel’s wireline and core network division.
“Given the ubiquitous adoption of solutions fueled by Intel Xeon processors in the core network, Intel Platform Telemetry Insights with OpenTelemetry and EXFO’s ASA platform provides the lens operators need to help deliver full service assurance across their network infrastructure.”
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