Case Study: Leading Telecommunications and Technology Company reduces provisioning time from weeks to seconds with Mirantis OpenStack

With OpenStack, Leading Asia Pacific Telecom Reduces Provisioning Time from Weeks to Seconds

A leading Global 500 telecommunications company in the Asia-Pacific region with 40,000 employees needed to modernize how it delivered network services across geographically distributed data centers. Historically provisioning a customer circuit took weeks and required manual work on switches, routers and cross-connects; rising cloud traffic and customer demand for on‑demand bandwidth made faster, more flexible provisioning essential.

The company implemented a Network-as-a-Service architecture using Mirantis OpenStack (with Mirantis integration services and a programmable Sonus network controller), exposing a network API and self‑service portal so customers can automate bandwidth and circuit requests. The result: port-to-port connections can be provisioned in about four seconds, user commitments dropped from 12 months to hourly increments, pricing is shown in real time, and features like just‑in‑time provisioning, granular SLAs and automatic failover are available across 10+ data centers in five countries and the U.S.