BT simplifies and improves service quality with agile network cloud

BT Group has embarked on a transformational journey to create a highly scalable and robust cloud core which can service the diverse needs of all its network applications across broadband, mobile and other mission critical services.

This Network Cloud has now scaled to accommodate many of BT’s key network centric applications and tens of millions of users without a huge scale up in staffing numbers and using a technology footprint which keeps space and power requirements as low as possible.

BT’s Network Cloud provides applications that underpin BT's U.K. consumer and business network services and emergency services. This demands a level of stability and robustness which is not typical of high availability DC deployments.

With support from Juniper, BT Network Cloud offers the high level of availability and performance demanded of a carrier’s core applications. Moving from dedicated compute platforms for each application to a shared infrastructure conserves and optimizes resources leading to better utilization and lower environmental impact.

BT Group’s mobile network, EE has been ambitious and aggressive in its use of cloud to ensure this critical business remains competitive and agile.

The network has currently migrated millions of mobile subscribers and is well on the way to successfully deploying all its mobile application infrastructure on a private cloud.

By leveraging Juniper’s professional services, BT Group has successfully completed the project on time and ensured that the challenging availability and performance targets of BT mobile network’s applications are met. BT Group relies on Juniper for software-defined networking (SDN), switching and firewall solutions for its network cloud.