Customer Success Story
Vodafone Turkey Prepares for Growth with Automated, Multivendor Data Center
Vodafone aims to become Turkey’s fastest-growing digital services company. The service provider is banking on 5G to drive economic impact, not only for its own business but for the whole country.
To prepare for growth, Vodafone Turkey automated operations of its corporate data center environment, enabling greater reliability, simplicity, and flexibility for its business applications and services.
Overview
| Company | Vodafone Turkey |
| Industry | Service Provider |
| Products used | Juniper Apstra, QFX5100, EX3400 |
| Region | EMEA |
Serves 25 million mobile subscribers and 1.2 million corporate customers.
Highest growth in service revenues within Vodafone Group
Prepare business for rapid 5G service growth
Automate corporate data centers to maximize reliability and simplify operations
Automating to meet digital demand
To prepare for growing digital demand, Vodafone set out to modernize its corporate data centers.
The data centers run business operations such as customer service, billing, finance, human resources, and sales and marketing. They also host operational support systems and business support systems (OSS/BSS) for the provider’s fixed, mobile, content, cloud, data center, and IoT services.
Moving from a legacy data center network architecture to a highly scalable, flexible IP fabric would support business growth and operational efficiency. Automating the data center with a multi-vendor solution would also enable Vodafone to break free of a single-vendor network.
Maximize data center reliability and simplify operations
Vodafone Turkey chose Juniper Apstra to simplify and facilitate data center lifecycle management. Despite a longstanding history with a single incumbent network vendor, Vodafone made a bold decision to add Juniper for data center switching to deliver greater scale and design flexibility.
Vodafone now uses Juniper Apstra to automate its multi-vendor network, maximizing reliability and simplifying operations across three data centers. Apstra software automates and validates the multi-vendor network design, deployment, and operations and provides a single source of truth, powerful analytics, and root cause identification across the mixed environment.
At the foundation, Juniper QFX Series Switches deliver a future-proof, scalable EVPN-VXLAN IP fabric with threat prevention capabilities in two data centers.
Freed from the grip of a single-vendor network
Apstra allows Vodafone Turkey to automate its data center network environment across the entire lifecycle.
The advantages of intent-based networking started with the design and deployment of the multi-vendor fabric. Instead of a painstaking manual approach, the network planning and engineering teams used Apstra blueprints to start with the outcomes they wanted and let Apstra configure a multi-vendor network.
Apstra continuously validates that the data center fabric is running as intended, ensuring that Vodafone’s enterprise applications run smoothly. Apstra proactively alerts the operations team to anomalies and manages network changes and maintenance.
Apstra empowers Vodafone to choose switches that best fit the intended data center designs. It’s no longer beholden to a single vendor’s architecture, CLI, or product roadmap, enabling greater possibilities for innovation.
The Products
Juniper Apstra
Intent-based networking software automates the entire network lifecycle, from design through everyday operations, across multivendor data centers with continuous validation, powerful analytics, and root-cause identification to assure reliability.
QFX5100
The QFX5100 line of top-of-rack 10/40GbE switches for the data center offers low latency, deployment versatility, and rich automation features. These switches provide universal building blocks for industry-standard architectures such as spine-and-leaf fabrics.
EX3400
The EX3400 line of Ethernet switches are a cost-effective solution for today’s most demanding converged data, voice, and video enterprise access networks.
Published July 2022