Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), one of Indonesia’s leading telcos, in cooperation with global ICT solution provider Huawei, has finalized a large core network consolidation project in Jakarta. The completion of this work represents a milestone in their extensive cooperation and further propels Indosat’s advancement and innovation in mobile communication technologies.This project, that covers more than 100 million users, was delivered within 14 months only, and is the first of its kind in the world.
The project significantly improves the network experience of Indosat’s users across Indonesia, especially those living in rural and remote areas. For instance, residents of Kalimantan will enjoy a faster average downlink speed of 15% while the average round trip time (RTT) will be reduced by 11% for Facebook usage. Meanwhile, according to data from Opensignal, residents of Central Java are already experiencing a 3.4% better performance while using the Internet for games and 7.2% for live videos.
Desmond Cheung, Director and Chief Technology Officer of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, said: “We’re humbled to create another benchmark for the telecommunications industry. The core network consolidation project is a testament to our commitment to delivering a world-class digital experience to our customers. With the completion of this initiative, we believe we can consistently deliver a marvelous experience to our customers while paving the way towards our mission of connecting and empowering every Indonesian.”
George Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, said: “Thanks to our close and in-depth cooperation, we are very pleased to witness a great achievement in completing such a large-scale and complex network consolidation in a short period of time. Huawei will continuously support Indosat to enhance network connectivity, accelerate service innovation, and create industry value in digital transformation, achieving greater business success.”
The project is a testament of both parties’ technological strengths, hard work, courage, determination, as well as team spirit, in tackling a multitude of challenges. As core network is most critical part of a mobile network, both Indosat and Huawei teams worked around the clock to conduct thorough analysis and review to determine corresponding solutions for network consolidation must adhere to “the first-time-right” philosophy. The teams defined key indicators for measuring network performance, user experience based on data analysis and test results. In addition, they formulated detailed operations and emergency plans to ensure operation precision and efficiency, network stability, as well as service continuity across 26 PS Core locations across Indonesia.
By adopting the leading telco cloud-native technology, Indosat and Huawei commercialize both bare metal container and innovative dual-engine container solution, which supports large-scale commercial use of 5G core networks. The dual-engine container solution leverages cutting-edge technologies to manage both virtual machines (VMs) and containers in a unified infrastructure platform, that enables Indosat seamlessly introduce containers through capacity expansion, significantly reducing the time needed for service rollout and reducing the time-to-market (TTM).
In the intelligent and digital era, Indosat has also increased its requirements for intelligence and ultra experience. Both Indosat and Huawei have collaborated to deploy future-proof core networks that can adapt to the 5G-A intelligent and hyper-distributed architecture. It meets current network needs and furthermore, paves the way for introducing 5G new features and services increasingly diversified for toC and toB users.
