
Adoption of Microservices for the Telecom Industry. What Are the Advantages?

As consumer demands increase, telcos have to process requests in real-time. Also, the complexity of IT infrastructure is more than ever in the telecom industry. To boost service availability, telcos have to break the vast IT infrastructure into smaller units. By doing so, telcos can create autonomous constituents dedicated to different tasks. Many telecom operators have already adopted the microservices architecture to meet increasing customer demands. However, adopting a microservices architecture has its challenges for telecom operators. Telcos may require the support of new-age technologies to implement an effective microservices architecture. Read on to know more about the adoption of microservices architecture and its advantages.
Telecom operators have many products for their consumers. Telcos extend their products based on consumer demand and operational capabilities. There are many internal tasks to be completed by telcos for maintaining service availability. Telcos cannot execute all operational functions with a single IT system. To reduce the burden, telcos break down the complex IT system into smaller units. Each partition of the vast IT system is dedicated to a single task. By doing so, telcos can induce automation to each task quickly. Achieving automation for all services under a single IT system is trickier.
The microservices architecture is precisely the opposite of a monolithic architecture. Service management becomes much easier for a microservice architecture as compared to a monolithic architecture. As you know, it is easier to move a small stone than an enormous rock. With new business opportunities, telcos can extend their products easily via a microservices architecture. As the demand for digital transformation services and solutions is increasing, telcos need a microservices architecture more than ever in 2022. Extending new services in a monolithic architecture is a challenge. It is because new services can affect the existing services in a monolithic architecture. Contrary to a monolithic architecture, new services don’t affect existing ones in a microservices architecture.
By adopting a microservice architecture, telcos can witness an immediate enhancement in service availability and reliability. Some pros of microservices architecture for telcos are as follows:
As you can see, there are several pros to adopting microservices in the telecom industry. However, many telcos fail to adopt microservices effectively. It is because they don’t choose the right technology stack for adopting microservices. The main aim of microservices is to create autonomous and manageable units within the entire IT system. To induce automation within the microservices architecture, telcos have to leverage the power of AI/ML technologies. As per the recent trends, telcos are choosing AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) for adopting microservices.
Are you still stuck with network functions on community hardware? Well, it is time for telcos to switch to a cloud environment. Virtual network functions can be easily deployed as microservices in a cloud environment. You don’t have to worry about monitoring the network activity in a cloud environment. An AIOps-based analytics platform can help you monitor the microservices within a cloud environment.
Network event monitoring and fault detection become easy with AIOps. Any anomalous behaviour within the microservices architecture can be identified in real-time via an AIOps-based analytics platform. You may also have to look towards virtual desktop infrastructure solutions to adopt microservices effectively. With the aid of virtual machines and AIOps, telcos can achieve hyper-automation for the management of microservices. Adopt a microservices architecture right away!
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