[Jakarta, Indonesia, February 15, 2016] PT XL AXIATA TBK (XL) recently announced that Huawei has won the bid for its NFV EPC project. As Indonesia's Top3 mobile operator, XL will transform its cloud network architecture. Huawei’s NFV-based CloudEdge solution is tailored to XL’s transition requirements and will help XL build a cloud infrastructure network which is flexible, agile, and open.

With the largest population in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has 240 million people and a fiercely competitive market over 7 operators. In 2015, XL have commercial launched its LTE network, with the rapid growth of traffic and subscribers, XL becomes the Top3 local operator today. Under the background of increasing maturity of NFV technology, XL have developed the strategies of reconfigure and fully digitize its network for the ultimate user experience.

Huawei’s initiative in matching these transformation strategies has helped the CloudEdge solution gain approval as the winning bid. This NFV project will benefit XL in the following ways:

A more elastic network. Network capacity can be flexibly configured to different application scenarios. Together with deployment of functions on demand, network equipment deployment is now much more efficient.

More agile services. A unified integration, orchestration, and management platform lets operators assemble customized self-operating services with third-party applications. This flexibility facilitates expansion into vertical markets.

A more open pipeline: Opening and integrating cloud-based capabilities enables operators to innovate their business model with large data pipelines for win-win industry partnerships that include OTT providers.

As leading communication solutions provider, Huawei actively cooperates with various NFV standards organizations and industry partners. Huawei is a key promoter of NFV maturation and deployment. The recent Current Analysis survey ranked Huawei as the best NFV & SDN solutions provider for 2 years running and preferred supplier of equipment and services to 76% of telecom operators worldwide. Huawei has since built three open labs to develop multi-vendor integration validation capabilities, innovate our business with customers, partners, and industry organizations, and promote the construction of an open industry ecosystem. Huawei’s CloudEdge solution has completed extensive global POC testing and performed outstandingly in the market, winning 18 commercial contracts.

Huawei will join operators around the world as partner in facing the challenges of transforming MBB networks for ICT convergence into the envisioned MBB2020. With Huawei’s support, operators evolve their networks and transform their business.