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Operators should & suppose to know many tips to succeed with cloud computing in telecom.
Fremont, CA: Cloud is a key element of modernizing telecom networks and services. But operators should know several tips to succeed with cloud computing in telecom.
Best practices telecom and cloud experts have been building for years:
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1. Clarify your business need: specify the goal you want to achieve from implementing cloud computing in your telecom company: reduce costs, enter new markets, improve customer experience, improve the time-to-market, etc.
2. Assemble a team of skilled experts: when you have a clearly defined goal, you need to find a team of skilled experts who will help you accomplish it. The best option is to partner with a dependable tech partner with experience in cloud migration and cloud-native development in telecom.
3. Conduct a Discovery Phase: shape business requirements, make a work breakdown structure, form a product backlog, estimate TCO and the profitability you will gain in the short term and the long run.
4. Decide on the cloud strategy: pick the best deployment model: public, private, or hybrid clouds, choose the most suitable approach: single cloud or multi-cloud, and settle on the cloud provider (s).
5. Create a clear migration plan: it should comprise your goals, timelines, cost estimates, services and technology, etc.
6. Choose a VNF migration strategy: define which network functions are required to stay as VMs and which can be re-architected as cloud-native microservices.
7. Assess and emphasize your apps, processes, and operations: learn app dependencies; categorize your apps into mission-critical applications, business-critical applications, customer-facing applications, and other non-critical apps; define operations that can be automated; simplify processes so that they consist of fewer steps.
8. Adopt microservices architecture: transform your monolith architecture into several loosely coupled microservices to quickly develop, test, and deploy new features and fixes without impacting other application components.
9. Use containers: Containers make it easy to move applications between environments while retaining full functionality. They also make it likely to build and run scalable applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds.
10. Leverage edge computing: edge computing is among the prime telecom trends. Telcos should use edge networks to reduce latency and improve network performance by bringing workloads closer to the users who are required to access them. As against the content delivery network (CDN), considered the predecessor of edge computing and only stores cached data, edge networks, by contrast, can adapt a wider array of functionality (they can store and process data in real-time) and device types.
11. Pick the right application migration method: re-host (lift and shift), re-platform (lift, tinker and shift), modernize, drop and shop, rewrite, retain.
12. Take care of your data: shift your data to the cloud cautiously, protecting the personal data of your customers; make use of your structured and unstructured data; apply statistical models as well as ML&AI to help businesses identify patterns, predict outcomes, allow fraud prevention, avoid equipment failures, etc.
13. Guarantee high-level security of your apps in the cloud: adopt the DevSecOps approach, make necessary configurations, and train others on how to maintain security in the cloud;
14. Use DevOps best practices: CI/CD, rolling updates, monitoring, alerting, unified logging, IaC, network load balancing, etc.
15. Monitor the results and improve costs: apply metrics and KPIs defined in the planning stage to see the benefits of the cloud and maintain and support the cloud to gain better results.
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