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Laplane: Orange Has Cloud CoveredTT: The advantage of the new managed cloud service is that you'll be able to do business around the world and you are no longer constrained to the 29 countries in your current footprint? PL: The advantage of the public cloud is that you don't need to have a POP in each country. So the French and European customers that want to build their business in APAC can use this and then the next step would be to have a presence in the US to make sure that our western customers can rely on a seamless offering there. Next year we'll consider other geographies such as the Middle East and Western Africa, where we have a large presence. TT: How do you provide visibility from the private infrastructure and connect that view to the public cloud infrastructure? PL: Your question is really related to the hybrid cloud. The current situation is that a lot of people are talking about hybrid cloud, but in fact what is hybrid today? For some applications they are using private cloud and for some other application they are using public cloud. We have to create the right use cases where you really have a seamless offering between private and public clouds. The first use cases we're working on are kind of classic, but very important. One is related to backup and disaster recovery while the second is really about transferring your workload from the public cloud to your own private cloud for your own protection. In our roadmap, we are looking at a unique cloud management platform that will give visibility into what is going on your private cloud and on your public cloud. We don't have a current offering because on the private cloud we come from a world where we are using more enterprise IT types of solutions and those types of tools are not totally adapted to manage the public cloud today. Creating a single cloud management platform is on our roadmap and it should be a key differentiator in the market for showing our customers a single view on what they have on both [public and private] sides. TT: Is something like that available today by a vendor or another service provider? PL: Frankly, we don't think on the market today that there is a disruptive technology like this. A lot of IT companies have tried to create this. Creating a cloud management platform-as-a-service, multi-tenant, multi-customer view on the public and private cloud will be disruptive. I hope that we will be one of the companies that does this, and whoever does this will have a real differentiator in the market.
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In part two of this Q&A, the carrier's group head of network virtualization, SDN and NFV calls on vendors to move faster and lead the cloudification charge.
It's time to focus on cloudification instead, Fran Heeran, the group head of Network Virtualization, SDN and NFV at Vodafone, says.
5G must coexist with LTE, 3G and a host of technologies that will ride on top of it, says Arnaud Vamparys, Orange Network Labs' senior vice president for radio networks.
The OpenStack Foundation's Ildiko Vancsa suggests that 5G readiness means never abandoning telco applications and infrastructures once they're 'cloudy enough.'
IDC's John Delaney talks about how telecom CIOs are addressing the relationship between 5G, automation and virtualization, while cautioning that they might be forgetting the basics.
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Orange has been one of the leading proponents of SDN and NFV. In this Telco Transformation radio show, Orange's John Isch provides some perspective on his company's NFV/SDN journey.
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