Aspire is part of NEC!
Together with long-term partners and clients, Aspire successfully finished SS7 firewall and IMS onboarding automation project within the planned timeframe and resources.
The work on the project scope was not without challenges. During the first part of the project, the Aspire lab in Dublin was used to mitigate the lack of access to the client lab which was not provided. The documentation was not complete, and coding was particularly difficult due to challenges with Open-Source MANO (OSM), which were overcome and fed back into the wider OSM community.
Despite all the challenges, the project team accomplished several key achievements:
The quality of the work performed transformed into tangible values for the clients. The automation of the onboarding process is allowing the clients to deploy a complete solution of SS7 firewall or IMS fixed in a few hours instead of manual deployments which are measured in months, which results in significant OPEX reduction and decreased “time to market” period. The developed code is infrastructure-independent, so the clients can use this code to deploy a solution on any cloud environment (OpenStack, AWS, Azure, VMware…), thus providing maximum flexibility in their future infrastructure evolution. And in the end, timely completion of onboarding automation activities is a prerequisite for a wider IMS migration program timeline.
We congratulate the members of the project team from all sides on the amazing work, professionalism, and technical skills applied during this engagement and wish them success in future projects!
