Case Study: Telstra achieves network provisioning in seconds (down from weeks) with Mirantis OpenStack

Telstra builds the first pan-Asian Network-as-a-Service architecture for carrier and enterprises with incredible efficiency gains

Telstra, a leading Australian telecommunications and technology company operating in 23 countries with 36,000 employees, needed faster, more flexible network provisioning for carrier and enterprise customers. Its PEN group relied on manual, multi‑week processes to set up circuits across geographically dispersed data centers, causing latency and inefficiency as customers demanded on‑demand bandwidth and better performance for video, gaming, trading and other bandwidth‑intensive applications.

Telstra built PEN, the first pan‑Asian Network‑as‑a‑Service using Mirantis OpenStack (Fuel) and Mirantis integration, providing a self‑service API/portal and SDN control plane that lets customers provision port‑to‑port circuits in about four seconds and customize bandwidth, latency and duration with real‑time pricing. Deployed in 13 data centers across APAC and the US, the solution cut provisioning from 15–20 days to seconds, enabled hour‑long commitments, granular SLAs, automatic failover and more efficient monetization of WAN links.

Telstra

Jon Vestal

VP of Product Architecture