How to build a telco in the cloud

Why arewe here?

Currently, telcos...

o … are seen merely as a wire-provider.

o … offer a few products, tightly coupled to their infrastructure.

o … aren't seen as tech-leaders in the cloud/software world.

o … need more than 1 year to launch new products.

o … deploy ad-hoc configs, creating snowflakes.

o … develop features based on big customer's needs.

X by Orange response

Our customers enjoy, with

no upfront costs, flexible,

online-managed solutions

that until now were

reserved for big

companies.

A software

company

within a telco

1st telco

commited

exclusively to SMEs

Big data is the

catalyst for

developing our

customers' bussiness

We've created

an integrated

multi-telco,

multi-prodcut

platform

We're cloud

based, for

fastest

delivery of new products

How we do it

We build with

expert

partners and

the

community: noturnkey

solutions.

Pure-techie

staff with

(Sec)DevOps

culture

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Hyperscalable

by design

Lean lifecycle:

we deliver a

true MVP and

evolve with the

customer

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What about non cloud-native components?

Some products cannot be modified: we lose vendor support.

Making their products cloud friendly is a challenge.

Win-win model: vendors understand this paradigm with a

collaboration model.

Topology aware

X by Orange facts

• Started operations in 9 months

• 6 different products in 4 areas:

• Privacy: XPrivacy, XSecurity, XProtection

• Digitalization: XMusic

• Collaboration: XUCom

• Connectivity: XFiber

• Disruptive SD-WAN proposal

• Being adopted by Orange SME branch

What's next

• Openshift 4

• Istio + Open Policy Agent

• Deploy more VCFs on Openshift

/XbyOrange

Thank you, community!

Public collaborations:

o OCP4 + Istio

o Contribution to Terraform modules

o Check Point Python Modules (SDK)

o Open Sourcing Ansible roles for Check Point

www.xbyorange.com

Thank you!

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